Performance

Dune

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David Lynch’s *Dune* (1984) returns to the big screen at the Museum of Modern Art, where New York’s film culture often revisits ambitious studio experiments alongside canonized classics. Adapted from Frank Herbert’s novel, it follows Paul Atreides as dynastic power, prophecy, and ecology collide on the desert planet Arrakis, where the “spice” governs politics and survival. Lynch’s version compresses dense mythology into bold, sometimes unruly images, a choice that has kept the film in debate for decades. In a city built on competing visions, its contradictions remain part of the point.