Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, February 14, 2014 11:43 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.

Love the Dark Star mention in the Dune doc.

just saw the doc, it's great. inspirational, even.

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/04/30/kurt-stenzel-the-score-to-jodorowskys-dune/

Interview with the dude who did the analog synth score

score was great! film in general was p fun, not a ton of new stuff I didn't know but nice to see all the players reminiscing and some of the animatics were pretty cool.

Rad movie. Best parts were Jodo's stories about trying to recruit Dali and his reaction to seeing the David Lynch "Dune" but the whole thing was delightful.

Jodo answering people's requests for help on twitter is one of my favorite things ever

I guess I'll need to buy those expensive imports of Dance Of Reality and Dune documentary and hope they don't look crap on my DVD player.

Can that Orson Welles story possibly be true? It's hilarious, but... really?

such a lively character (84 year-old Jodorowsky), his conviction (enthusiasm, bitterness etc.) is so apparent, it's really inspiring.

"Such a lively character" He is like a perfect composite of all the worst aspects of every pretentious bore you could meet in a lifetime and his movies are childish fucking idiotic garbage.

I've no doubt his Dune would have been a royal mess. I get the impression Jodorowsky has a lot of interest in the visual, stylistic, and iconographic potentialities in Dune, but he hardly talks about the story at all.

lynch's dune is a mess

A great mess

So uh... a customer brought in an old, illustrated/storyboarded script for Jodorowsky's Dune. I'm going to try to get photos of the illustrations because they're kind of awesome. Don't know who did them - doesn't look like Moebius or anything. This doesn't look exactly like the book in the documentary, btw.

"Such a lively character" He is like a perfect composite of all the worst aspects of every pretentious bore you could meet in a lifetime and his movies are childish fucking idiotic garbage.

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that's harsh. i have to admit he comes across as really charming in the documentary about his abortive attempt at "dune", but i still couldn't help thinking "if this movie ever got made, it would be terrible." i kind of like some of jodorowsky's films, but they're essentially kitsch.

he has really clean veneers these days

although interestingly i think the david lynch dune has the same essential problem as i imagine a jodorowsky dune would have. lynch doesn't seem very engaged in the complex story and it comes across as incoherent, so it's really just one stunning visual after another with not much to anchor them.

i still enjoy watching it, though, almost as an art installation rather than a narrative.

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/39988623-d34d-43c7-b496-0b512bdc8d8d_zpsg1tvtadr.jpg

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/0320Emperor_zpselrmvpjd.jpg

Like, I have no idea who drew these. They may actually be early sketches by someone connected to Jodorowsky himself. They don't have the finished look of the things I've seen in the movie.

The Jodorowsky's Dune documentary, that is. Also sorry I'm a shitty photographer.

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/0420Baron20Harkonnen_zpsany9csfa.jpg

Wow v cool

hot

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/1420Thufir20Hawatt_zpssnthzkb1.jpg

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