Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean-French filmmaker, playwright, actor, author and comics writer. A hero of the underground film circuit, he is best known for his violently surreal avant-garde films, including cult classics Fando y Lis (1967), the acid western El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain (1973). Jodorowsky’s “psychoshamanism” spiritual system borrows from his interests in alchemy, the tarot, Zen Buddhism and shamanism. He was born on this day in 1929.
wow. kind of weird that his movies Tusk and The Rainbow Thief (starring peter o’toole, omar sharif, and christopher lee!) have not been released in the US. wtf.
also, i’m dying to learn more about his failed Dune movie http://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowsky/
and suprised to find that his Metabarons comic book was adapted into a RPG. was it a popular RPG?
Yes, all of that! I want to see these bizarre things. Plus there is Jodorowsky’s unrealized film King Shot, which had David Lynch and Marilyn Manson attached. Canceled due to lack of funding, like most weird cinema that demands a larger budget. I’m fascinated that some of these avant-garde films ever found enough money to exist in the first place. At least La Danza de la Realidad is in post-production; it’s about Jodorowsky’s childhood in Chile.