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THE WORLDS OF DUNE ★★★★★
Film journalist Tom Huddleston hails Frank Herbert’s Dune as ‘probably the most widely read sci-fi novel in history… without doubt the most influential’. Here, he deepdives into the landmark tome’s own influences (from Shakespeare’s Macbeth to T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom). With Huddleston glossing over the movies by David Lynch and Denis Villeneuve (and Jodorowsky’s aborted adaptation), this scrupulously researched effort is very much geared to those eager to unpick the original text’s daunting density. JAMES MOTTRAM
STUDIO GHIBLI
★★★★★
Updated to include The Boy and the Heron, this fourth edition of Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc’s beginner’s guide covers everything from the early work of the studio’s two figureheads (Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata) to other projects and coproductions, alongside brisk overviews of every Ghibli release and the themes that bind them. Keen followers of animation won’t find anything too surprising here, but for those new to Ghibli – and the box-office numbers for Miyazaki’s latest suggest there will be a few – this is a good place to start.
CHRIS SCHILLING