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.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 4 August 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link
Jodo answering people's requests for help on twitter is one of my favorite things ever
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
Can that Orson Welles story possibly be true? It's hilarious, but... really?
― jmm, Sunday, 2 November 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
such a lively character (84 year-old Jodorowsky), his conviction (enthusiasm, bitterness etc.) is so apparent, it's really inspiring.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 2 November 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
"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.
― xelab, Monday, 3 November 2014 00:17 (nine years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Monday, 3 November 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
lynch's dune is a mess
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
A great mess
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 02:15 (nine years ago) link
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.
― rabatment of the rectangle (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 28 February 2015 02:27 (nine years ago) link
"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.― xelab, Sunday, November 2, 2014 6:17 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― xelab, Sunday, November 2, 2014 6:17 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 28 February 2015 09:14 (nine years ago) link
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 dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 28 February 2015 09:16 (nine years ago) link
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
― boretanic snoremaster (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 March 2015 01:59 (nine years ago) link
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.
― boretanic snoremaster (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 March 2015 02:01 (nine years ago) link
The Jodorowsky's Dune documentary, that is. Also sorry I'm a shitty photographer.
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/0420Baron20Harkonnen_zpsany9csfa.jpg
― boretanic snoremaster (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 March 2015 02:03 (nine years ago) link
Wow v cool
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 1 March 2015 02:30 (nine years ago) link
hot
― I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 1 March 2015 05:15 (nine years ago) link
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/1420Thufir20Hawatt_zpssnthzkb1.jpg
― boretanic snoremaster (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 March 2015 09:54 (nine years ago) link
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/1220Bene20Gesserit20Mother_zpsberqbw8b.jpg
― boretanic snoremaster (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 March 2015 09:56 (nine years ago) link
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/1820Sardaukar_zpsdmwc3wgi.jpg
― boretanic snoremaster (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 March 2015 09:57 (nine years ago) link
I doubt this stuff is directly related to Jodo's DUNE. It doesn't look like his own drawings (as in "Fabulas Panicas") and dude had top tier illustrators/artists on his team. This looks more like Mingering Mike!
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 1 March 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
Oh wait! GOTT -these accompanied the actual film script?
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 1 March 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
Yeah it's bizarre. The script is titled DUNE by Alejandro Jodorowsky, and the customer who brought it in is a reliable guy and says he got it in the 70s... it's a mystery. But I love it.
― boretanic snoremaster (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 March 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
The book is bound, btw, but the illustrations look like they were originally in a 3-hole binder and are on a different stock than the typed script.
― boretanic snoremaster (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 March 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
Wow. Make a PDF of that script, please!!
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 1 March 2015 15:15 (nine years ago) link
That is pretty amazing! Wow!
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 1 March 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link
That would be Dali as Emperor of the Galaxy.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 1 March 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
put it on eBay for $2,000 and see what happens
― I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 1 March 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
I really don't know much about Jodorowsky's films or other writing but both The Incal and The Technopriests are fantastic comic novels.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 06:30 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, scan that thing at the highest rez you can, then list it on eBay for laughs
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 07:52 (nine years ago) link
We're listing it for the guy who brought it in, so it'll be interesting to see how that goes. I'm going to at least try to photograph all of the plates, if I can I'll scan it. Don't want it to disappear into some dude's library forever...
― Jawn DWYCK (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 08:16 (nine years ago) link
So these dog aliens land on a planet and
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-033_zpstlbnz3ba.jpghttp://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-034_zpseqvgcmgm.jpghttp://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-035_zpswyaxqnn5.jpghttp://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-036_zpszbmjuloi.jpghttp://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-037_zpsfft6hja2.jpghttp://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-038_zpsc2osl6gf.jpghttp://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-039_zpst8dzqots.jpghttp://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-041_zpsouwvvfvm.jpghttp://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah201/ohnoitsjodo/Dogmen/Jodo-040_zpsknrqmoko.jpg
Scanning this thing is a pain in the ass btw.
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 13 March 2015 12:44 (nine years ago) link
Wtf?! Crazy
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 13 March 2015 13:09 (nine years ago) link
When George Harrison learned this company, Apple, was going to produce my film The Holy Mountain on John Lennon’s recommendation, he asked to read the script. Then he expressed a desire to play the lead role, that of the thief. Dressed completely in white, he received me in his elegant suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York. He offered me some melon juice with cinnamon and congratulated me on the script. He said that he was prepared to play the role on condition that we cut one scene, which he read aloud: “At an octagonal sink, next to a veritable hippopotamus, the alchemist bathes the thief, turns him over on his back, his buttocks facing the camera, and rubs soap over his anus.”
With an amiable grin, he said, “It’s quite out of the question for me to expose my anus in public.”
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 13 March 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
Those script pages are even worse than the pix. Just started reading Dune; doubtimg there's anything so room-temperature-IQ middle school in this novel (hope not)
― dow, Friday, 13 March 2015 14:19 (nine years ago) link
The dog pages are the ones I'm referring to.
― dow, Friday, 13 March 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
haha, those pages are amazing. Don't think I've ever seen any of his script or if it is even out there at all for people to see. He truly did not care about or even know about the details of the Frank Herbert book. One of the biggest problems with the David Lynch version is how slavishly he tries to mimic the style of the novel with all of the unnecessary internal monologues. Jodorowsky, on the other hand, seems to have decided to just make up his own story from scratch.
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Friday, 13 March 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link
GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, would you mind if I posted those pictures on my tumblr? I have a lot of both Dune and Jodorowsky stuff on there.
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Thursday, 19 March 2015 14:11 (nine years ago) link
Sure, man. Cool Tumblr btw!
We're starting the auction next Tuesday. I'll post some more scans from it sometime soon, including the crazy "Oh, yes this is definitely Jodorowsky" section where Jessica gets pregnant with Paul.
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
Please don't post ALL of them, though, if you don't mind.
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
I've had Holy Mountain on my memory stick waiting to be watched for the last couple of months. not sure what prompted me to get a load of his stuff a few months ago. But just not been getting around to watching anything until today.So I finally got to see that Holy Mountain today and it is weird isn't it? Not sure how self consciously.You can see the influence of things like Un Chien Andalou and L'Age D'Or in it.
I do love those hats they have though I think I might go for a lower crown on them if I got one.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 19 March 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
find his recent campaign to put his films up on vimeo for free endearingly insane (distributor for Dance of Reality is already blocking it, so now Jodo says he's putting up Santa Sangre next lol)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 March 2015 22:56 (nine years ago) link
Dammit, I really want to see Dance Of Reality. Doubting a region 2 release.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 23 March 2015 23:56 (nine years ago) link
Looks like its still up on vimeo
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 01:28 (nine years ago) link
Cant find his Vimeo channel.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 27 March 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
Noticed by Dangerous Minds.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/sketches_for_jodorowskys_dune_i
― nickn, Monday, 30 March 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
Cool! BTW my laptop died so unless and until I can figure out if the drive is readable that's probably the only stuff that'll be around. I'm extremely annoyed - spent days scanning that thing. But hopefully it can be salvaged.
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 02:03 (nine years ago) link
Artificial Eye are finally doing a region 2 of Dance Of Reality
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 19 June 2015 09:49 (eight years ago) link