Alejandro Jodorowsky

Our friend had really been talking it up, and I was worried that there was no way it could be as good as he claimed, but it was truly astonishing. Wackadoo, weird, wild, conspiracy theory, anti-religion, quasi-mystical nuttiness with a multimillion dollar budget. Total classic.

I used to have his e-mail address and I thought of maybe interviewing him for a time there but somewhere I heard he´s a real dick or something along those lines and then I lost the address and I cried and I cried. I waited far too long. Regret!

And yes, The Holy Mountain is the best cinematic acid trip eva!

The only movies of his you need to watch:
Fando Y Lis
El Topo
The Holy Mountain
Santa Sangre

great news:
new movie,produced by david lynch

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892411/

long shot amirite

talking baot this in another thread previously i think.

http://i44.tinypic.com/w8rszd.jpg

We're Facebook buddies now!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187679/

http://thesonsofeltopo.com/

“I liked Lady Gaga’s meat dress. It was funny. But I did that first in my Panic performance. Maybe she has seen what I’ve done – I don’t know. I like to think her song Alejandro was written for me. Her music is interesting. It’s interesting because it’s very free. But it has no meaning because what she’s singing has no hope. It is without hope. It’s only about revolution, which isn’t enough. We need a re-evolution right now, not a revolution. We need something new. Lady Gaga has a lot of energy and that is fantastic, but she is using old Surrealist images.

http://www.anothermag.com/current/view/1022/Alejandro_Jodorowsky_on_Lady_Gaga__Surrealism

lol @ I like to think her song Alejandro was written for me.

has anyone read his psychomagic book? is it worth reading for someone who has already drunk the jodo kool-aid, so to speak?

it is great. read it.

even if you haven't drunk the kool aid, it is jam-packed with jaw-dropping stories/anecdotes

just got his tarot book based upon your rec, love it

They didn’t like science fiction or rock music or… let’s not make a list: the Surrealists didn’t like anything!

lol

Could have sworn I mentioned this, but I guess not: blu-rays of El Topo and Holy Mountain coming out in a couple of weeks.

Dune doc

Wow, I wonder if they have any period footage or production art or anything? Or if it's just a bunch of talking heads? Will definitely watch either way.

there is a ton of production art out there. dunno about footage.

http://tarotica.blogspot.com/2009/06/dead-rabbitsor-much-perfection-is.html

Jodorowsky writes, again in his book El Topo:

"When I wanted to do the rape scene, I explained to [Mara Lorenzio] that I was going to hit her and rape her. There was no emotional relationship between us, because I had put a clause in all the women's contracts stating that they would not make love with the director. We had never talked to each other. I knew nothing about her. We went to the desert with two other people: the photographer and a technician. No one else. I said, 'I'm not going to rehearse. There will be only one take because it will be impossible to repeat. Roll the cameras only when I signal you to.' Then I told her, 'Pain does not hurt. Hit me.' And she hit me. I said, 'Harder.' And she started to hit me very hard, hard enough to break a rib...I ached for a week. After she had hit me long enough and hard enough to tire her, I said, 'Now it's my turn. Roll the cameras.' And I really...I really...I really raped her. And she screamed."

he says a bunch of shit like that in the dvd commentary too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Za7PlknnTw

nobody anticipating? or is there a thread for this I missed?

anticipating! still haven't seen his last one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rainbow_Thief

Jodorowsky's Dune documentary coming soon

excited

also for Dune doc!!

I've still never seen The Rainbow Thief, either, but I bought that boxed set that came out a few years ago (El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Fando y Lis and some short films, plus the soundtracks to El Topo and The Holy Mountain), and I got the recent DVD of Santa Sangre too. Would love to interview Jodorowsky.

he's disowned the Rainbow Thief fwiw, dunno if its worth watching

I feel pretty safe skipping TRT, and also that children's movie about elephants that he did. But yes, I'm super pumped for this as well!

is there an english language version of the trailer anywher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rtrd1FewUFA

this just came up on my Facebook feed lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rtrd1FewUFA

ok, PROBABLY NSFW since it won't embed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDxjkKDZLlo

want to see this so bad.

want someone to finish making jodo's dune.

I feel like this can't be anything but a disappointment, since it's just gonna dredge up feelings of wishing it had been made

some dune projects have begun, then been abandoned, over the past few years. i realize it's a very hard story to convert into a film, but so was the lord of the rings trilogy, and that was done very well.

I like the Lynch version fine, altho obviously its totally different than what Jodo would've done with it

you mean the theatrically-released version or the "director's cut"? i hear they're very different.

I was just reading about the propsed soundtrack for this thing, supposedly going to be split into thirds with Henry Cow, Pink Floyd and Magma.

you mean the theatrically-released version or the "director's cut"? i hear they're very different.

both

I don't recall any major differences tbh

I feel like this can't be anything but a disappointment, since it's just gonna dredge up feelings of wishing it had been made

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this

never seen this poster art before

http://i.imgur.com/Z7cBVFp.jpg

I've been reading a lot of The Incal comic reprints lately. They have all been excellent so far.

Don't know what you're getting at but if there's other threads I have to read I'll leave it.

http://www.tor.com/2017/05/02/jodorowskys-dune-didnt-get-made-for-a-reason-and-we-should-all-be-grateful/

Partially about his claim that he raped the actress in El Topo.

Also, see his tweet in the comments.

Is anybody in this thread in possession of the alleged screenplay?

I had the same reaction to the documentary as the author of the tor.com article. Went in expecting to be fascinated as per other people’s recommendations, but about halfway through something inside snapped, the emperor had no clothes, and it made me furious.

The Island Of Dr Moreau documentary is waaaayyy better but I still think the Dune one is worth a go.

I think his other films have their moments (especially Holy Mountain) but Santa Sangre and Dance Of Reality are the only ones I love.

Still haven't seen Endless Poetry

Holy Mountain > Santa Sangre > El Topo

I've never seen Tusk, The Dance of Reality or Endless Poetry (or Fando y Lis, though I own the Anchor Bay box set that has it).

I really like The Dance of Reality. Has more heart than his other films, while still being batshit crazy.

It's funny how the world's caught up to Jod - not just all the music videos and even fashion photo shoots that have stolen from The Holy Mountain over the years, but the fact that there are probably a half dozen telenovelas crazier than Santa Sangre by now.

I'm guessing ST Vincent was referencing him?

Got a link? I don't really know her work.

https://www.discogs.com/St-Vincent-St-Vincent/master/657709

hey TKGE can you email me again and put your address in the body of the email?

whoops forgot i could email you through here sorry everyone

there's a song called "huey newton" on that St Vincent album, I always figured the cover as a ref to the famous photo of him

So those script scans upthread from march 2015 (Alejandro Jodorowsky) ...

In March 2015 a script, an apparent early draft of Dune written by Jodorowsky, appeared on eBay. When asked on Twitter about it Jodorowsky replied: "Es un falso guión con un dibujo idiota." ("It is a fake script with an idiot drawing.")

https://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowskys-dune-uncovered

Oh wait... In August 2018 however, official copies of the Jodorowsky's Dune script were sent out to backers of Jodorowsky's "Psychomagic, an art that heals" project on Ulule (https://www.ulule.com/jodorowsky/), and this script is almost identical to the "fake" script.

The real deal, yours for around 30,000 euros (estimated):

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6345488

2.7 million euros!

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/22/film-storyboards-for-doomed-1970s-version-of-dune-sell-for-266m?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Whoa

like everything else related to Dune, if you didnt get it before the remake came out, you are going to be paying a lot more for it now..

(goes to ebay, searches for Bruce Pennington cover of GEOD and then faints.)

This is a book of original art by Moebius & HR Giger. Did Christies really think it would fetch only $35K?

Oops – should have read to the end (1 of 10-20 copies). Yeah, $3M is something.

A big chunk of that book is available online in decent scans. The storyboards are great. I think there's no way a quarter of that version of Dune as seen in the sboards would've made it onscreen.

‘The Holy Mountain’ is way more preposterous and lurid than even films like Fellini’s ‘Satyricon’ or Pasolini’s ‘Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom’

It is the ultimate 1973 film

of the experimental films from that era, though, I liked Kenneth Anger's 'Lucifer Rising' (1972) and its Bobby Beausoleil score

still haven't seen Pink Narcissus (1971)

There were regular double bills of El Topo and The Holy Mountain in Toronto for many years while they were being kept out of distribution in the States by Allen Klein. Apparently it was a contractual requirement for them to be shown together; I watched them both on the same night and that was WAY too much Jodorowsky at once.
I just saw Santa Sangre recently, with no particular expectations, and was really pleasantly surprised. For a filmmaker who I tend to think of as having a narrow range of effects (doing one particular thing very well), there was a lot of humour and emotional depth to the story that was entirely compatible with the usual grotesquerie. The Dance of Reality, which I saw a few years ago, was soulful in the same way, but I had supposed that that was a recent development in his style, related to the film being autobiographical. I'd probably rank him above Fellini now.

he doesn't even come close to Fellini

Love Jodo for the most part but no way he even touches Fellini as a filmmaker.

Fantastic Planet would be my 1973 experimental pick.

The comparison of the two came to mind because of the circus milieu of Santa Sangre. My personal view on Fellini is that he peaked early with I Vitelloni, and got bigger not better.

Sante Sangre is included in my Kanopy subscription, I will watch it

Wish there were more films like it. Bit of a shame it isn't as well known as El Topo and Holy Mountain

Santa Sangre is free (with ads) on Tubi if anyone needs to see it.

I bought the bluray of it last year from Mr Bongo who issued it.
https://www.mrbongo.com/collections/film/products/santa-sangre

i finally saw Holy Mountain, last night, in a small room. the colors were bright, the sounds were loud. i thought all the scenes with the fool carrying his replica around were so good. climbing that giant tower, then the alchemist descending the staircase in the slowest of realtime motion. at the end, the alchemist sending the fool home with the woman and chimpanzee who have been following him, before he can reach the top of the mountain. lots to think about.

i wish i were a little more versed in all the symbolism that permeates the film. for example, i recognized these symbols when they appeared and thought it was from the i ching,

https://i.imgur.com/4JcA7v9.png

but they're from something else in taoism, the eight trigrams, and represent Heaven and Earth

https://i.imgur.com/C6kfw7n.png

i might do some internet hunting and see if i can find a shot-by-shot breakdown of the symbolism throughout the movie. would like to watch El Topo soon as well! also, are his 21st century films good?

I like The Dance of Reality, Endless Poetry is a decent sequel but not as good.

i think the new ones were supposed to be a part of a 5-film autobiographical series? i wonder if that's been abandoned or if the scripts/screenplays are somewhat developed

really want to track down the Incal, as well

I think Santa Sangre and Dance Of Reality are his best

Maybe I posted on another thread, I got the incal a couple of christmases ago. It was abysmal.

He's been paired with some truly stunning comic artists. His plots are nonsense, but I'm willing to roll with it and enjoy the art.

I gave up on The Incal pretty early. Moebius was not fully operational and I think even Jodorowsky was disappointed in his work there.

Santa Sangre is great, an ultra-lurid telenovela-style horror movie. But it's a regular movie-movie, with a plot and whatnot, not a pure yank-your-brain-out-your-ass shotgun blast of symbolism like The Holy Mountain. I don't think any movie on earth is like The Holy Mountain, really.

I will not stand for this nonsense Incal talk. Moebius "not fully operational"?!? As opposed to...?

I think all his famous comics from before that had better artwork. I wasn't that impressed by his art on Madwoman Of The Sacred Heart either

Incal is 3rd tier Moebius in my view