Comments on: Jodorowsky on DVD

By: Eroom Nala

Eroom Nala — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:40:47 +0000

Santa Sangre is the only one of Jodorowsky’s films I’ve actually seen. On TV rather than the big screen unfortunately.
Really looking forward to finally being able to see these 3 though.

:-)

By: John

John — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:58:04 +0000

God yeah, the Dune movie! Would have been incredible if he could have pulled it off. Salvador Dali as the Emperor, Moebius and Giger doing the designs, music by Pink Floyd… In the Jodo documentary they talk to Moebius about it and he shows the storyboards. He storyboarded the entire film so on a shot by shot level it certainly would have worked. Instead we got Alien, so all wasn’t entirely lost.

As well as his first three films, Santa Sangre is highly recommended and also very easy to find.

By: Rossignol

Rossignol — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:35:26 +0000

The link i left out: http://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowsky.asp

By: Rossignol

Rossignol — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:34:29 +0000

I’ve yet to see any Jodorowsky films, although I loved reading about his designs for a Dune film.

The Metabarons as a film would be fine lunacy.

By: John

John — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:47:33 +0000

Yeah, he’s an amazing guy. Also directed plays in Mexico and was part of the Panic Movement in Paris with Fernando Arrabal and Roland Topor. The films are far more visceral and intense than his comic scripts.

“The Panic Movement performed theatrical events designed to be shocking, as a response to surrealism becoming petite bourgeoisie and to release destructive energies in search of peace and beauty. One four-hour performance known as Sacramental Melodrama was staged in May 1965 at the Paris Festival of Free Expression. The “happening” starred Jodorowsky dressed in motorcyclist leather and featured him slitting the throats of two geese, taping two snakes to his chest and having himself stripped and whipped. Other scenes included a staged murder of a rabbi, a crucified chicken, a giant vagina giving birth to Jodorowsky, naked women covered in honey and the throwing of live turtles into the audience.”

By: Nathalie

Nathalie — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:25:31 +0000

That’s interesting because, as much as I like his written work – novels or scenarii for various comics strips artists – I never knew he was also producing films as well.