The Movie: Dune (1984)
What Is It?: David
Lynch’s worst film is still worth watching because the idea of such a
surrealist handling a space opera is fascinating and so very wrong. Yet the
film rewards repeated viewings, its garbled plot making a little more sense
each time, its excellent cast (Kyle Maclachlan, Kenneth MacMillan, Francesca
Anis, Jürgen Prochnow, Everett McGill, Max Von Sydow, etc.) affording some very
good performances, and its Lynchian grotesqueries jumping off the screen more
and more.
Why Today?: On
this day in 1941, Jürgen Prochnow is
born.
