With 'Dune,' Denis Villeneuve has made Hollywood's definitive post-9/11 epic
With the new 2021 movie, director Denis Villeneuve turns the novel's meditations on race, culture and colonialism into riveting and undeniable cinema.
A misguided military invasion of foreign lands. A brutal insurgency. Religious and tribal warfare. The beauty and brutality of the desert. A literal "Clash of Civilizations."
The new film adaptation of the 1965 novel has been marketed and hailed as an epic film, shot in IMAX and designed as a feast for the senses. But beyond its visual grandeur, this is a film that also leans into the novel's sweeping, heady ideas. Author Frank Herbert had ecological, political and cultural crises on his mind when he crafted in the early 1960s – and all those philosophical layers are why the novel was long considered a text too dense, inhospitable and
