Film - Feature | January 24 | 7 p.m. | BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND
PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE Sponsor: BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM
ARCHIVE Lynch turned down the chance to direct Return of the Jedi to
adapt Frank Herberts legendary science fiction novel about
interplanetary palace intrigues and warring clans. Flamboyant producer
Dino De Laurentiis hoped for an audience-friendly franchise like Star
Wars, but wound up with a baffling, dreamlike missive from the
Lynchian subconscious, where language is merely a sound effect,
doublings and mirrorings are rampant, and plot is subsumed by
spectacularly distracting set designs. Now popular with eighties
nostalgists (a leather-clad Sting! Toto on the soundtrack!) and at
least one philosopher, Dune represents what could have been for Lynch,
and for science fiction cinema. Event contact: CA,
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