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With the sad passing of a true icon of cinema in David Lynch, this previously scheduled screening now becomes an unintended tribute to one of the great directors of all time. Despite being Lynch's second most successful film at the box office (his highest earner was The Elephant Man) 1984's Dune was seen as a box office bomb and remains (easily) one of Lynch's most underappreciated works and is still (incredibly given his back catalogue) one of his most misunderstood. 

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It's true to say Dune is the David Lynch movie that most exceeds the master filmmaker's own grasp, but perhaps for this very reason it may well be his most revealing, and one of the most 'Lynchian' of all his works. Based on the previously thought 'unfilmable' novel Dune by Frank Herbert that modern cinema goers now know so well thanks to the Denis Villeneuve, Timothée Chalamet led productions of recent years, Lynch's version is an altogether different animal from the book and other adaptations.

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Built for the big screen Dune is a masterpiece of epic and eccentric gothic production design, a true feast for the eyes, with even the less well aged special effects oozing (sometimes literally) charm.  It also features an out of this world all-star cast that ranges from Twin Peaks cast members like Kyle MacLachlan, Everett McGill, and Jack Nance, as well as Blue Velvet cast like Dean Stockwell and Brad Dourif mixed in with a stunning array of talent that includes Bergman regular Max Von Sydow, Blade Runner's Sean Young, and Das Boot's Jürgen Prochnow. Hell, even Sting turns up (in some outrageously small and weird leather underpants) all offering some of the most wonderfully memorable and 'Lynchian' line readings in cinema history.

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Despite the film's initial reception, in 2025, Dune's concoction of sights and sounds, all capped with an epic soundtrack from Brian Eno and Toto, remains an undeniably mesmerising experience that shows one of cinema's true iconoclasts attempting and perhaps 'failing' to redefine the blockbuster Sci Fi movie. Oh but what beauty there is in the failing, Dune is a swirling dream of a movie that thrills, confounds, entertains and catches the viewer repeatedly off-guard. We urge you to see or re-visit this fascinating, beguiling ride that we think contains a true epic masterpiece lurking just below the surface like a giant Sandworm in the deserts of Arrakis. Come celebrate this legend of cinema in all his eccentricity let loose with $40 million dollars ($121 million in today's money) with this special 4K restoration screening on Saturday March 1st. ​​​​​