Arrakishead

Earliest known poster for Arrakishead.

Arrakishead is a 1984 surrealist science fiction horror allegory film about a dispossessed aristocrat who is left to care for his melange-addicted child in a barren desert landscape.

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  Eraserhead Nevsky is a 1938 Soviet surrealist allegory film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and David Lynch. It depicts the attempted invasion of desolate industrial landscape in the 13th century by a man in space moving levers, and his defeat by Prince Eraserhead, known popularly as Eraserhead Nevsky.

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  Spiceman is a 1984 American science fiction romance drama film directed by John Carpenter and David Lynch. It tells the story of a relationship between recently widowed Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen) and a quasi-corporeal Spacing Guild navigator (Jeff Bridges) who has come to Arrakis in response to prescient drug vision.

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  Arrakis Drive is an epic surrealist neo-noir space opera mystery film written and directed by David Lynch, and starring Kyle MacLachlan, Naomi Watts, Francesca Annis, Justin Theroux, and Laura Harring.

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  My Dinner With Atreides is a 1981 science fiction comedy-drama film about a disbarred Spacing Guild navigator turned restauranteur (Wallace Shawn) and a wealthy investor (Leto Atreides). The film's dialogue covers topics such as experimental drugs, the nature of Arrakis, and contrasts Wally's modest humanism with Leto's dynastic ambitions.

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  Return of the Eraserhead is a 1983 surrealist science fiction horror allegory film about a Jedi Knight (Luke Skywalker) who struggles to rescue his father (Darth Vader) from a grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial light and magic landscape.

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  Escape From Salusa Secundus is a science fiction dystopian action drama film directed by John Carpenter and Denis Villeneuve.

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  Mangerhead is a 1977 Christmas film written and directed by David Lynch.

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  Willy Wonka and the Elephant Man is an American drama film starring Gene Wilder and John Hurt.

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  Water for Elephant Men is an American drama film starring Reese Witherspoon and John Hurt.

Fiction cross-reference

• Arrakis Drive
• Eraserhead Nevsky
• Escape From Salusa Secundus
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Mangerhead
• My Dinner With Atreides
• Return of the Eraserhead
• Scooby-Dune
• Spiceman
• The Man in the Blue Velvet

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Gnomon Chronicles (nonfiction)

Categories

• Category:Dune (1984 film) (nonfiction)
• Category:Eraserhead (nonfiction)

External links

• Dune (5/9) Movie CLIP - Sandworm Attack (1984) @ YouTube
• Dune (1984 film) @ Wikipedia
• Spice melange Dune intro @ YouTube
• The Spacing Guild Demands Details from the Emperor of the Known Universe @ YouTube
• Dune (1984) • La litania Bene Gesserit @ YouTube
• Traveling Without Moving @ YouTube
• Dune Spice Mining @ YouTube
• He who controls the spice controls the universe @ YouTube
• Taste the spice high @ YouTube
• Heart plug scene @ YouTube
• Shadout Mapes - deleted scene @ YouTube
• Harkonnen attack the palace@ YouTube
• Riding the Sandworm @ YouTube
• Patrick Stewart as Gurney Halleck ATOMICS!? @ YouTube
• Paul Muad'Dib vs Feyd Rautha @ YouTube
• Alia the avenger @ YouTube
• Dune (1984) - Alia scene @ YouTube
• Dune (1984) Fav quotes and scenes @ YouTube

• Patrick Stewart on meeting Sting on Dune @ YouTube

• Eraserhead @ Wikipedia
• Eraserhead - trailer @ YouTube
• Oh, you are sick! @ YouTube

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