Still from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘The Dance of Reality’ (2013) (all images copyright Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky, 2013) I had a list of questions scribbled into my notebook and my voice recorder ...

From the Beach Boys' Smile to Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon, the history of popular culture is filled with legendary projects left unrealized or unfinished by artists whose ambition finally exceeded ...

In the mid-1970s, fresh off the success of the surprisingly profitable cult films El Topo and The Holy Mountain, director Alejandro Jodorowsky set out to film Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel Dune.

A scandal when it was first released in 1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky's prototypical midnight movie The Holy Mountain is a follow-up to El Topo. Both films are screening through Grand Illusion this ...

(The Dance of Reality opens on Friday, June 20, at The Grand Illusion.) A thread of autobiography winds through all of his films, but The Dance of Reality gets to the heart of the matter by recounting ...

Variously described as a writer, director, actor, producer, mime, composer, comic book writer and (believe it or not) psychotherapist, Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky is almost too preposterous ...

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean-French filmmaker known for his avant-garde, surreal cult cinema classics like Santa Sangre and The Holy Mountain. His son, Adan, is also a filmmaker (as well as an ...

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TORONTO (Reuters) - In 1974, cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky set out to make a film of the science fiction novel "Dune," with music by Pink Floyd, a cast that included Mick Jagger, and the goal of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alejandro Jodorowsky has never believed in artistic borders. “No art is superior to another,” he told me when we spoke recently, ...

The documentary's underlying conceit says that if Jodorowsky had only succeeded in making Dune, he might have changed the course of film history by establishing the blockbuster as something grounded ...