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The 'Dune' that never was
With "Jodorowsky's Dune," filmmaker Frank Pavich makes an impassioned and relatively convincing case that the film in question — an adaptation of Frank Herbert's science-fiction novel by avant garde Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky — might be the greatest movie never made.
Unlike its subject, "Jodorowsky's Dune" is surprisingly conventional as a documentary. It resorts to a wearying number of talking heads to relate a story that turns out to be as cautionary as it is compelling.
None of the film's narrators is as captivating as Jodorowsky himself, who at 85 still shows youthful, contagious exuberance and undaunted belief.
The DVD/ Blu-ray release (Sony, $41) includes deleted scenes.
Washington Post
Colin Covert says: Frank Pavich's documentary paints a tantalizing picture of the movie that might have been. Jodorowsky had assembled a supergroup of true believers (Mick Jagger, Orson Welles, Pink Floyd) for his "Dune." Ultimately the project failed to launch, but his war stories are never less than inspirational.
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TV antenna gets streamlined
The RCA ultra-thin indoor antenna ($70, www. rcaaudiovideo.com) receives local HD and digital TV broadcasts but looks nothing like those old intrusive rabbit-ear antennas atop the family TV decades ago. Instead, it's an 11- by 13-inch flat antenna that you mount on a window within 12 feet of the TV — only because the cable attached is 12 feet long.
