Performance

Dune (1984 film)

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David Lynch’s 1984 *Dune*, now screening at MoMA, adapts Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel into a dense space opera of prophecy, empire, and ecological scarcity centered on the desert planet Arrakis and its contested spice economy. Shot largely in Mexico City, it pairs an unusually broad ensemble cast with a Toto score touched by Brian Eno. In New York, the film’s afterlife has been shaped less by its initial reception than by repertory revivals and museum contexts that treat it as a case study in ambitious, imperfect adaptation. Its most telling quality is its refusal to simplify a complicated world.