Alejandro Jodorowsky

ztoical

After reading the thread about the moderation on this forum and not being able to discus the films you want I decided to post a thread about my favorite film director Alejandro Jodorowsky. First to see if anyone else on the board likes/hates his work and to try and introduce his work to those who haven't seen it.

Jodorowsky doesn't have a lot of movie credits to his name as he works outside of the "movie industry machine". His second film is the one that got him noticed 1970's El Topo as John Lennon and Yoko Ono helped get it into cinemas in the states. He was working on making a movie version of Dune which would have featured Orson Welles, Salvador Dalí, and Mick Jagger, with design by H.R. Giger and Jean Giraud (Mœbius) which sadly never made it to the screen.

In 1973 Lennon and Ono financed The Holy Mountain, a piece I won't describe as a film as it is more like a trip - if you've never taken drugs see this picture as its pretty close to doing drugs without having to actually take them. Jodorowsky is big into the ocult, tarot, religion, faith, and visual imagery and all his work is packed full of images that have several meanings - its like seeing a moving painting.

His 1989 film Santa Sangre was the closest he came to making a movie with a liner plot. For the longest time you couldn't get his work on dvd [the odd pirate VHS on ebay but that was it] due to an ownership dispute with the films distributor. But last May they released all of his films on DVD and I whole heatedly encourage people to see them. I don't care if you don't enjoy them, thats good, come back and say why you didn't enjoy, I just want people to see his work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyW_F-2zMZs

nacho libre

"a piece I won't describe as a film as it is more like a trip - if you've never taken drugs see this picture as its pretty close to doing drugs without having to actually take them."

That's exactly what i was thinking when i saw the film for the first time.

There is a word that is often overused nowadays but usage of it to describe people like Alejandro Jodorowsky is valid..

I'm looking forward to seeing his new film King Shot!

Otis Driftwood

Have only seen El Topo and that was quite a few years ago on BBC2.Strange doesnt even come close to describing it.Still playing around with buying the box-set but I have my reservations.

ztoical

nacho libre wrote: »

I'm looking forward to seeing his new film King Shot!

I hope it gets made, he has had so many films that sounded great but never made it out of pre-production due to money falling through and what not. I was really disappointed when Son of El topo didn't happen.

ztoical

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

footage from an animated feature based on L'incal, a comic book series created by Jodorowsky and Moebius, that sadly was never finished.