The most influential film that never existed.

• Author: Krayewski, Ed
• Position: Briefly Noted - Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune - Brief article

"When you make a picture, you must not respect the novel," filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky says in Jodorowsky's Dune, a documentary that chronicles his failed attempt in the 1970s to adapt Frank Herbert's classic science-fiction novel.

Jodorowsky's Dune shows how the director assembled a team of artists he described as "spiritual warriors" to make a movie he hoped would be "messianic." They produced a screenplay, with storyboards and designs, fora 12-hour-plus film. It began with a long shot that covered the universe and ended with the...