‘Dune’: Denis Villeneuve and Rebecca Ferguson on the Sci-Fi Epic’s Weighty Themes and Plans for ‘Part Two’

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‘Dune’: Denis Villeneuve and Rebecca Ferguson on the Sci-Fi Epic’s Weighty Themes and Plans for ‘Part Two’
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For “Dune” filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi epic is not only “still relevant” in 2021, but “more relevant today than it was when it was wr…

Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies to God in song. The blessed thing took nearly half a century to come out because director Sydney Pollack failed to sync the image with the sound.

Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies to God in song. The blessed thing took nearly half a century to come out because director Sydney Pollack failed to sync the image with the sound.

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