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Alejandro Jodorowsky.
The 84-year-old Chilean is the subject of Frank Pavich’s documentary “Jodorowsky’s Dune.”
BERLIN – The cult, octogenarian director Alejandro Jodorowsky
will get the first-ever retrospective of his work at this year’s Munich
International Film Festival. Munich will also show Jordorwsky’s latest,
The Dance of Reality, and autobiographical drama about his
childhood in 1930s Chile. The film, which premiered in the Directors’
Fortnight sidebar in Cannes, is Jororowsky’s first feature since the
fantasy drama The Rainbow Thief in 1990.
Jodorowsky is credited by many for creating the Midnight Movies phenomenon with the bloody, surreal Western El Topo (1970). The film’s success led John Lennon to put up $1 million towards Jodorowsky’s project, the similarly trippy The Holy Mountain, a success in France, though not so globally. His attempt to do a big budget adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic Dune (in 1974, a decade before David Lynch’s poorly received version) ended in disaster. The story of the film that might have been is told in Frank Pavich’s new documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune, which also premiered in Cannes and will screen in Munich as part of the retrospective.
Munich will screen all of Jodorowsky’s movies, from his first short La Cravate (1957) and debut feature Fando and Lis: Tar Babies (1968) as well as the drama Tusk (1980) and the horror film Santa Sangre (1989).
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, who cites Jodorowsky as one of his greatest inspirations, will also attend Munich with his Cannes competition entry Only God Forgives. Refn dedicated Only God Forgives to Jodorowsky and has said he is working on a feature adaptation of the cult director's dystopian comic series The Incal. Both Refn and Jodorowsky will take part in Munich’s "Filmmakers Live" public discussion on June 29th.
Jodorowsky is credited by many for creating the Midnight Movies phenomenon with the bloody, surreal Western El Topo (1970). The film’s success led John Lennon to put up $1 million towards Jodorowsky’s project, the similarly trippy The Holy Mountain, a success in France, though not so globally. His attempt to do a big budget adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic Dune (in 1974, a decade before David Lynch’s poorly received version) ended in disaster. The story of the film that might have been is told in Frank Pavich’s new documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune, which also premiered in Cannes and will screen in Munich as part of the retrospective.
Munich will screen all of Jodorowsky’s movies, from his first short La Cravate (1957) and debut feature Fando and Lis: Tar Babies (1968) as well as the drama Tusk (1980) and the horror film Santa Sangre (1989).
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, who cites Jodorowsky as one of his greatest inspirations, will also attend Munich with his Cannes competition entry Only God Forgives. Refn dedicated Only God Forgives to Jodorowsky and has said he is working on a feature adaptation of the cult director's dystopian comic series The Incal. Both Refn and Jodorowsky will take part in Munich’s "Filmmakers Live" public discussion on June 29th.
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