Performance

Dune (1984)

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David Lynch’s *Dune* (1984) brings Frank Herbert’s desert-planet saga to the screen as a dense blend of court intrigue, prophecy, and ecological dread, framed through baroque production design and a large ensemble cast. The score, led by Toto with an additional contribution from Brian Eno, treats space opera like arena rock and ambient ritual, an unusual pairing that shapes the film’s tone as much as its images. Now screening at MoMA, it sits in New York’s long tradition of repertory revival, where ambitious studio-era experiments are reconsidered in public. Its critical legacy remains divided, but its sonic and visual ideas continue to echo in later science fiction.