#denis villenueve

[emiliosandozsequence]

dune part two (2024) dir. denis villenueve / inbred by ethel cain

#dune #duneedit #ethel cain #alia atreides #paul atreides #saint alia of the knife #paulalia #paul x alia #alia x paul #denis villenueve #mine #mww #dww #comparative #comparatives #web weave #web weaves #web weaving #web weavings #timothee chalamet #jessica atreides #rebecca ferguson #dune pt 2 #anya taylor joy #dune part two #dune part 2

[thatfraudcassandra]

30 days of film: Alphabet

Favorite P movie

Past Lives (2023)

Prisoners (2013)

Promising Young Woman (2020)

#film #films #movies #movies i’ve seen #movie list #faves #past lives #celine song #prisoners #denis villenueve #promising young woman #emerald fennell

[studiotriggerfan397]

Dune (aka Dune: Part One) by Denis Villeneuve.

The first of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert.

I urge you to see this movie.  

I loved it and admire it.

#dune #dune: part one #denis villenueve #frank herbert

[framerate24]

Jump They Say/Dune

The more I watch Mark Romanek‘s video for David Bowie’s Jump They Say the more I think he – or a director with a similar visual esthetic – should have directed Dune because there’s something really interesting going on with that video, a subtle unease and weirdness that the most recent reboot could have used. That being said, there’s more than enough oddness in David Lynch’s 1984 version for ten…

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#David Bowie #Denis Villenueve #Dune #Jump They Say #Mark Romanek

[moviecriticseanpatrick-blog]

#Dune #Timothee Chalamet #Oscar Isaac #Jason Mamoa #Josh Brolin #Denis Villenueve #movies #film #movie review #movie #film review #movie critic #film critic #film criticism #movie criticism #Frank Herbert #frank herbert #dune movie #dune #paul atreides

[grimalives]

literally me bc every time i mention piter de vries my friends are like ‘who’s that’

#we r all dune fans as well .. i blame denis villenueve

[cryptidghost]

man. I watched dune part 2 today and. I have so many critiques.

#denis villenueve i love you but #man...somethings up here #dune part 2 #spoilers in the comments

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

memory is a strange thing

Monica Reyes/John Doggett | post 9x08 Hellbound | for @fortes-fortuna-iogurtum | vignette; 723 words | tagging @taleasoldastime-andspace and @cosmicmulder :)

She has done all this before.

She knows it like she knows the back of her hand or the cool tap of her ring against the balcony railing. The smoke in the back of her throat is familiar, the only thing she could think of to still the shaking of her hands. Maybe it’s just to occupy them, really, but either way, it’s comforting even though it shouldn’t be, with shaking hands and smoke in her airway and the memory playing on loop in her brain of Van Allen confirming and condemning her to failure. 

Monica has admittedly never given much thought to reincarnation. As a concept, it fascinates her — the way fate and freedom hold hands, how much will always remain the same in each individual life — but she’s never considered how it could apply to her. She thinks if she looked over her shoulder she might see a premonition of the life to come, so she just takes a long drag of her cigarette and holds it in her lungs, burning, for as long as she can. She wonders if she always has been and always will be a smoker; she’s tried to stop often enough and never fully succeeded, and that’s just this one life. 

Behind her, the door slides open and she doesn’t even turn. “You left your front door unlocked,” says John, and she huffs out a little smoky cloud into the night air.

“I know.”

“You really shouldn’t do that, you know. Crime rate here’s not as bad as New York, but still.” 

Monica shrugs. “I guess I’m still not used to being back up here,” she says. “I left it unlocked for you,” she adds.

He goes quiet, she can feel him watching her. “You knew I’d be coming over here?” He asks it, she thinks, as if he knows it’s true. “What is that, one of your premonitions?”

If the question weren’t a little too on the nose tonight, Monica might laugh at the blunt wonder in John’s voice. She just shakes her head. “I just figured you might stop by. Hoped it, maybe.” 

“You doing okay?” He asks, like she knew he would. It’s the same way she checks after him after a hard case, or after Mexico. 

Instead of answering the question, she says his name. “John, if you found out that… you’ve done all this before,” and she gestures vaguely with her cigarette, leaving a thin trail of smoke in the air encompassing them, “That everything, your life, the results of it, might be circular… would that change the choices you made?” 

She thinks of him reliving the pain of losing Luke and of the time he told her he’s afraid that he could have done more; thinks of herself trying to explain how she knew about these murders. There’s always a question of what could be changed. How much can be saved, or lost, in just one small decision. What could she have done to stop Van Allen, and what would it have meant for her? She won’t ask what could have been done to save Luke; even if John second-guesses, at least she can be sure for him.

He leans on the railing beside her, tightly-wound and silent in thought. She wonders if he’s making the same connections that she is and a part of her hopes he isn’t. It’s still a little too raw, but then, maybe it always will be. She lifts the cigarette to her mouth again, but his hand stops her and she lets go of it as easily as she’d pulled it from the box earlier. For the first time since he walked in through her unlocked front door, she meets John’s eyes. 

“There might be a few things I’d do different,” he says quietly. For a moment it’s almost like they’re holding hands. “But even if I knew where it all ended on the way, I think I have to embrace it. Only way to live with yourself, you know?” 

Monica thinks she does. She isn’t sure if he’s talking more about himself or her, or maybe both of them. There’s a fleeting moment where she feels that in some incongruously incompatible way, they understand each other.

He slips his hand from hers and tosses the cigarette three stories from her balcony. 

#for an audience of three but hey #something like this has been in my head for so long tbh #it’s like. monica stress-smoking. making hellbound a little bit more like the field where i died. #but without stealing the weight and importance of tfwid from mulder and scully #bc tfwid was something VERY personal and it feels wrong to just take that #plus it’s different with john and monica. not only is the plot of hellbound different but the way they think of it all is SO different #than how scully and mulder deal with it all in tfwid. tfwid is a bit heavier and more personal #hellbound is an exploration of monica’s character by putting her in a stressful personally connected situation #idk just. thoughts. she lets go of the cigarette and he drops it off the balcony. #admittedly idek if monica has a balcony or what story her apartment is but it Feels Right ya know? feels like she would have a balcony #it’s about the vibes tbh #also yes some of this is yoinked from arrival (2016) dir. denis villenueve bc listen. john doggett *handshsake meme* louise banks #so i took a bit of dialogue from arrival and changed it a bit to fit and that’s also where the title came from :) #Lu writes #txf #the x files #txf s9 #monica reyes #john doggett #johnmon #drr #john/monica #idk i’m just using all the tags dshgfdshgf

[madmag94]

Blade Runner 2049 is so good

I watched Blade Runner 2049 for the first time a few days ago, and first of all its so godamn good. Such a good expansion on the original movie for the modern day. Villeneuve is a genius and I love his work.

But I really want to think about the characters of K and Joi for a bit here, because I think when I first watched the movie I came to a partial conclusion that I think I’ve only just completed as a though, and I really wanna share it. We’ll start with K

(Fair Warning, SPOILERS AHEAD)

(First of all, Ryan Goslings performance is stellar. Its always worth remembering that he’s not just a pretty face, he’s a genuinely talented actor)

So K spends the whole movie basically battling internalized bigotry. He spends the whole movie seeking to ease his own discomfort with his identity as a replicant, first by strict obedience to the humans in the film, and then by his own feeling of specialness at being born and thus “having a soul”. By the end of the movie, he has to abandon these notions and come to terms with being a replicant, and define himself on those terms. But before that, he seeks to live within the constraints of the system applied to him by fulfilling his duty and consuming products which make him feel fulfilled, namely Joi.

K is a man trapped within a capitalist system which oppresses him, assuaging his own internalized bigotry and self loathing with obedience and consumption.

But this reading, which I had after I finished the movie the first time, has its issues. Namely that of...

Joi

The reading I listed above reduced Joi to an artifact of false consciousness, something meant to make K feel better about his oppression in society. But that doesn’t really work with how Joi actually acts throughout the movie. In part she is, I think that’s the role she serves in K’s life at the beginning of the movie. But she’s also the first character to push K to self actualize and self determine, she encourages him to be more than he is, and she herself is constantly striving to be more then she is. By escaping the limits of the arm, by naming K, by trying to contrive a way in which she and K can have sex, she’s constantly striving to create a meaningful existence, despite the boundaries of her existence. 

And ultimately, that’s what K has to do. He can’t live within the small enclosure that society has laid out for him, he can’t pretend to be something he’s not and find solace in some false feeling of being special. He has to take what he is, embrace it, and create meaning and value within that.

And ultimately, isn’t that all any of us can do

#blade runner #blade runner 2049 #ana de armas #ryan gosling #rick deckard #k #joi #deni villenueve #cinema #movies #2049 #cyberpunk

[richdadpoor]

Denis Villeneuve Still Wants to Make a Dune Messiah Movie

Screenshot: Warner Bros. Speaking to Empire, Denis Villeneuve has said that “there are words on paper,” for a third Dune film. He’s been talking about continuing the story beyond Dune: Part Two since 2021, but this is the first time he’s said anything further on the subject. Spoilers of the Week April 24-29 Villeneuve said to Empire, “If I succeed in making a trilogy, that would be the dream.”…

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#Arrakis #Chani #Culture #Denis Villeneuve #Duncan Idaho #Dune #Entertainment #Frank Herbert #Gizmodo #Military fiction #Paul Atreides #Soft science fiction #Space opera #Villenueve

[vaultlucy]

paul atreides and feyd-rautha harkonnen

dune: part two, dir. denis villenueve // dune, frank hubert // the illustrated dune, illustrations by john schoenherr // kerri maniscalco // the double in gothic fiction, alex heath // kittos epoiesen // dune: part one, dir. denis villenueve // fire & blood, george r.r. martin

#anyways #this all started from the schoenherr illustrations #made 85% of this hours after i left the theater #paul atreides #feyd rautha #feyd x paul #feydpaul #paul x feyd #paulfeyd #feyd rautha harkonnen #comparatives #dune comparatives #web weaving #doubles #john schoenherr #duneedit #dune #dune part two #dune part 2 #*dune #*

[emiliosandozsequence]

dune part two (2024) dir. denis villenueve / children of god, mary doria russell

#dune #duneedit #dune part two #paul atreides #timothee chalamet #dune part 2 #dune pt 2 #mine #mww #dww #tsww #denis villenueve #mary doria russell #the sparrow #children of god #comparative #comparatives #web weave #web weaves #web weaving #web weavings #do u see my vision?? #hlavin kitheri x paul atreides are the same character. to me.

[reuels]

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) dir. Denis Villenueve

#blade runner #blade runner 2049 #ryan gosling #denis villeneuve #ana de armas #stills #film #film stills #caps #screencaps #screenshots #filmmaking #filmedit #cinema #movie stills #movie #movies #dailyworldcinema #cinemaspam #cinephile

[dailyflicks]

DUNE: Part Two (2023) dir. Denis Villenueve

#dune #dune part two #dune 2 #zendaya #timothee chamalet #filmedit #filmgifs #cinematv #cinemapix #useraurore #usersha #2020s #action #by ines #*

[toc-the-elder]

Okay no I need to talk about this.

Dune was just fucking perfect. I rewatched Part One in 4K last night and just saw Part Two in IMAX.

The cinematography was just absolutely stunning. Every single frame was breathtakingly beautiful and incredibly purposeful. The score was so intense and I adore it. Very Blade Runner 2049 in the desert. Just an overwhelming wall of sound.

And the violence seems so much more brutal and visceral this time around. Working within a PG-13 rating is difficult when your universe so heavily involves sword fighting, but the editing, choreography, sound design, and occasional splatter of blood really sold a sense of brutality that the oddly bloodless Part One lacked. My friend was surprised to find out it was a PG-13 after we left the cinema. I suspect that Part One was tamed to better fit a PG-13 rating, but they felt more comfortable in Part Two.

The visual design was stunning. Geidi Prime during the day was a highlight of the film. The stark black and white lighting and the insane scale of the structures on screen literally took my breath away.

And they cut all the stuff that annoyed me in the books. Like I am so glad they cut certain younger characters to give more of a fitting arc to our already established cast. And they really leant into the theme that Paul's quest for power is not an aspirational thing. The music and the cinematography never let you believe it's anything other that a cautionary tale.

Just holy shit.

Denis Villenueve does not miss.

My favourite director of all time just gave me a perfect adaption of one of my favourite books and I am so fucking happy. It was not what I expected, but everything I wanted.

#dune part 2 #dune #dune part two #denis villeneuve #dune spoilers

[chalamet-chalamet]

“Timothée was a leading man. He was one of my closest allies on this movie and he had this whole movie on his shoulder. He did a tremendous amount of work and he was absolutely focused. I love how Timothée welcomed all the other actors like Austin, Florence-he was already a friend with Florence-and Zendaya. He had the ability to create that communal feeling so there was a lot of levity and calm on set. I love Timothée.”

-Denis Villenueve gushing about Timothée Chalamet

TikTok credit to etalkctv

#timothee chalamet #so lovely #denis villeneuve #dune #dune part two #dune part 2 #March 8 #timothée chalamet