Jan 11, 2020 · In the latest in our series of essays defending the indefensible novelist David Llewellyn pens a love letter to David Lynch’s much-maligned movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s iconic fantasy novel, Dune.

Jan 17, 2025 · Enrique Ramirez remembers the work of filmmaker and visual artist David Lynch, who passed away this week. His work includes Dune, Twin Peaks, and other films with strong architectural qualities.

Oct 20, 2021 · David Lynch doesn’t talk about Dune much anymore, but the 1984 film once threatened to define him.

Feb 1, 2014 · David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Dune is an ambitious, sprawling, messy work of visual art.

Jan 16, 2025 · All afternoon David Lynch has been tinkering with Dune —the $40-million extravaganza he’s directing for Dino De Laurentiis—but now he’s cadged a few seconds alone in his office,...

Oct 26, 2024 · Two months after the Oscar ceremony, during which Lynch walked the red carpet for the first time, the American was chosen as the director of Dune, a film that, in the early 1980s, had one of the largest production budgets in cinema history.

Jan 18, 2025 · David Lynch on the set of Dune. Nancy Moran/Sygma/Getty Images That was a question foremost on this author's mind while crafting the 2023 book A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch's Dune – An ...

Jan 18, 2025 · David Lynch's experience adapting Dune for the big screen, coupled with the film's box office performance, forever impacted how he approached his art.

Lynch’s career thus far reads like a film student’s fancy: an avant-garde feature made for $20,000; then a modestly budgeted ($5 million), no-star commercial movie, in black and white, that earned good reviews, a decent box office take, and Oscar nominations for best picture and director; and now a $50-million epic that is dividing the critics and luring fantasy fans.

Dec 17, 2024 · Four decades ago, David Lynch delivered the first cinematic adaptation of Dune to the big screen. But is this film a failure or an underrated sci-fi classic?