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Courtney Shea

01 Denis Villeneuve FILMMAKER FORGET STREAMING. THIS BLOCKBUSTER DIRECTOR WANTS TO SAVE THE SILVER SCREEN. Dune is Denis Villeneuve’s love letter to the big screen. The movie’s sweeping landscapes and colossal creatures are such that shrinking the size of the canvas would be like taking a battle-axe to Villeneuve’s giant-sandworm-sized ambition. Then along came a pandemic to do just that. Dune: Part One arrived in October of 2021 as part of “Project Popcorn,” an experiment by WarnerMedia in which the studio released all of its features simultaneously on HBO Max. It was a way to grow the new streaming service while appeasing COVIDwary audiences—but to Villeneuve, it was an unacceptable affront. And so the 55-year-old director did what any uncompromising, overprotective but also fundamentally Canadian artist would do: he wrote…

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