Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, which is due out next year, looks as if it might have one of the all-time great casts. The Oscar-nominated Timothée Chalamet is its star; the supporting actors include ...

Frank Pavich is the director of “Jodorowsky’s Dune,” a documentary about the Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s attempt to film a version of “Dune” in the mid-1970s. I was ...

Director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s doomed attempts to bring Frank Herbert’s novel Dune to the screen are the stuff of movie legend. In seeking to adapt Herbert’s sprawling sci-fi fantasy ...

‘Jodorowsky’s Dune’ chronicles a director’s determination to film his vision of the saga, one that would have included Mick Jagger and Gloria Swanson. By Alissa Wilkinson This week sees ...

Jodorowsky’s Dune. Dir. Frank Pavich; feat. Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michel Seydoux, H.R. Giger, Chris Foss, Brontis Jodorowsky (PG-13) ★★★★ (out of 5 stars) ...

Top: Pirate Ship, From Jodorowsky’s Dune. Harkonnen’s flagship, From Jodorowsky’s Dune. Spice transport, from Dune. Emperor’s palace, from Dune. Guild Tug, from Dune. Breaking the Light ...

Alejandro Jodorowsky is the avant-garde filmmaker behind cult classics like El Topo and The Holy Mountain, and in 1975 he began work on a surrealistic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune.His ...

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune is one of the greatest sci-fi films never made. A 12-hour-long journey meant to replicate the sensation of taking LSD; a radical, diverging adaptation of Frank ...

A new film of the classic sci-fi novel is due in 2020, but will it match up to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surreal and legendary vision? Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, which is due out next year, looks ...

As crafty as this was, Dune was getting expensive, and in late 1975, Jodorowsky and Seydoux flew to Los Angeles to secure the final $5 million they needed before the film could go into production.