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Fando & Lis--first directorial vision of Jadoworsky (forgive my spelling, I don't have time to check). Freakily intriguing stuff, in anticipation of his later work which I'm dying to see now that it's been rereleased. Check out the documentary that comes with it...Jadoworsky is a pretty charismatic fellow.
On the Fando & Lis DVD is a documentary on Jodorowsky by Louis Mouchet, entitled: La Constellation Jodorowsky. Mouchet asks Jodorowsky a potpourri of questions about his films, philosophy, art etc. He begins the interview with Jodorowsky with the simple, but spellbinding inquisition, "Who are you?", to which Jodorowsky replies with a tale involving the Emperor of China. Jodorowsky states that when we can define ourselves we cease to be.
He shares with us his thoughts and definitions of his lifelong quest for knowledge and the unknown, and his exploits into the panic movement in France, and how he avoided the lynching by the audience at the premiere of Fando and Lis.
There are also interviews with his associates, Fernando Arrabal, Marcel Marceau, Jean Giraud and the musician Peter Gabriel. We learn of his plans of the project of Dune, which fell through and was later made by David Lynch. There is also an interesting and amusing look at Jodorowsky as an orator in a class of students, in which Mouchet is invited to join in. It is a fascinating and enlightening look at the life and works of this creative and artistic guru.
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the director found himself fleeing for his life at the film festival where the feature first premiered. finally He had to be whisked away in a limo, which was heavily bombarded by stones thrown by the angry mob. However, the film's controversy didn't stop there. In fact, the film was banned from Mexico by the government, and Jodorowsky himself was nearly deported for the madness the film had created.
Jodorowsky also directed Tusk in 1978, and The Rainbow Thief in 1990. The two films are dissimilar to his other films. Jodorowsky was restricted while making them and he has since disowned them, saying that those films look like they were directed by someone else.
"Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles." - Alexandro Jodorowsky
"I ask of film what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs." - Alexandro Jodorowsky
"I don't live in France, I live in myself." - Alexandro Jodorowsky
Transgressive filmmaker.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono financed his hyper-profane 1973 film The Holy Mountain.
Attempted to adapt Frank Herbert's Dune to film with the art direction of H. R. Giger and featuring Salvador Dali as the Emperor.
Has produced occultist comic books based on his tarot research with comic book artist Jean Giraud.
Studied as a mime with Marcel Marceau.
"Comics are novels. Tarot is poetry."
edit- the real irony is that if you look at this film now it is really tame compared to what's come out since then.
Unlike most genre parodies, the storyline had characters you could care about and wasn't at all predictable. I'd love to see what Pegg/Wright will come up with next.
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(i am now more curious than enthusiastic 