Sight & Sound April 2024

Denis Villeneuve on Dune: Part Two and doing justice to Frank Herbert’s grand vision Plus: Radu Jude on Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World – Maestro and composers in film – Robot Dreams and children’s cinema – Sean Price Williams and Nick Pinkerton on The Sweet East – Louise Brooks and G.W. Pabst

“What makes Dune so interesting is Frank Herbert’s level of sophistication and detail, how he describes every last element of each ecosystem, all the different flora and fauna, the tiny, perfectly realised details of every different culture. Especially the Fremen culture of the desert, all their different techniques of survival in that environment – it’s all so beautiful and poetic. But you have to just surf on the top of that, just give a glimpse of it; there’s no way to bring all that to the screen.”

— Denis Villeneuve, speaking to S&S for our cover feature