Alejandro Jodorowsky

The Holy Mountain

The Horse Hospital (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

Friday 27th November Doors 7:30pm £5 The Holy Mountain Screenplay : Alejandro Jodorowsky Cinematography : Raphael Corkidi Director : Alejandro...

Yeasayer: "Ambling Alp" (Video)

prefixmag (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

Initial word on Yeasayer’s forthcoming Odd Blood is that it’s much poppier than their debut, although they are unlikely to court pop kids with this video for “Ambling Alp.” The track has been given an appropriately strange video by director Radical Friend, the joint name shared by filmmakers Kirby McClure and Julia Grigorian. The clip resembles a ‘70s prog rock album...

Adopted man claims Charles Manson is his father

Technoccult (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

An man who was adopted as a child made contact with his biological mothers who told that his father is Charles Manson. The article, in the ever trustworthy Sun, doesn’t mention anything about DNA evidence or any other corroboration but the guy DOES look like Manson. Sun: I traced my dad… and discovered he is Charles [...] Related posts: Image of Charles Manson made up of barcodes of books...

On the Road with Floating World:

Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009

It's time for another installment of On the Road with Floating World, in which Floating World Comics proprietor Jason Leivian handpicks a few comics recommendations for musicians playing in town. Swing by Floating World (20 NW 5th) during the week of the show, name-drop this post, get 10% off recommended titles. Here's Jason with tonight's recommendations! Recommendations for Nitzer Ebb playing w/Unter...

Lennon, Manson and me: the psychedelic cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky

{ feuilleton } (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009

Lennon, Manson and me: the psychedelic cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky

Lennon, Manson and me: the psychedelic cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009

The El Topo and Holy Mountain director thrilled the 1970s counter-culture. Now his crazed visions are turning on everyone from Santigold to Kasabian Eyebrows, hopes and ceremonially lit bongs were all raised earlier this year with the news that Alejandro Jodorowsky was finally making another movie. The high priest of head-trip cinema, Jodorowsky blew the collective mind of the counter-culture with...

Alejandro Jodorowsky Gets Funding for Dream Project ‘Abel Cain’

Technoccult (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

In May it was announced that Jodorowsky was going to work with acclaimed director David Lynch on King Shot which was described as a “metaphysical spaghetti western.” Though he hasn’t exactly been relevant in contemporary filmmaking over the past two decades, it looks like his work with Lynch has paid off as Quiet Earth [...] Related posts: David Lynch making new films with Herzog,...

Jodorowsky/ Montandon @ The Horse Hospital

the hackneyist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

Open to public Sat 7th – Sat 28th Nov Private View Fri 6th Nov : Limited Availability - Contact Guerrilla Zoo for Tickets The premiere of a new series of collaborative artworks by cult film maker Alejandro Jodorowsky and artist Pascale Montandon. Pen and inks by Alejandro and watercolours by Pascale, covering various themes; Love, Violence, Spritiuality, Psychomagik / Psychogenology, Tarot,...

Alejandro Jodorowsky Gets Funding for Dream Project 'Abel Cain'

FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009

Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky is a diverse artist with an eclectic background that includes being a scholar, playwright, composer, actor, comic book writer, historian and psychotherapist. The man is a chameleon. In May it was announced that Jodorowsky was going to work with acclaimed director David Lynch on King Shot which was described as a "metaphysical spaghetti western." Though...

Gorilla Theatre Debuts

Monkeys In The News (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009

A little bit of link love, only because I am a big Jodorowsky fan: Exclusively for Guerrilla Zoo, and the first time in London, a play written and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Starring his son, actor Brontis Jodorowsky in a solo theatrical monologue inspired "Report to an Academy" by Franz Kafka. A lone gorilla’s solitary struggle to reach acceptance by humanity. Its story to obtain...

Jodorowsky’s Dune And The Greatest Films Never Made

The Quietus | All Articles (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009

Leo Lonergan looks at the history of Alejandro Jodorowsky's ill-fated _Dune_ project. Images from Chris Foss' original sketches for the film.

Who killed cult movies?

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009

If we're looking for suspects in the death of cult, Quentin Tarantino has to be up there. He has previous – he didn't even pay his late fees at Amsterdam's famous cult video shop A week ago I was in Amsterdam, a charming city among whose more celebrated attractions lies the Cult Videotheek . Nestled by a canal, its suitably poky interior plays host to a vast array of strange and wonderful DVDs...

Good Advice + 2 Douchebags

<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009

Jacques Derrida Alejandro Jodorowsky 2 Douchebags

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune

IanVisits (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009

Sci-fi fans will be familiar with the novels by Frank Herbert, starting with Dune and leading onto several others – along with the later David Lynch movie and more recent TV series. What many are less aware of is that the David Lynch film was the second attempt to make the lengthy novel into a film. Surrealist [...]

Alejandro Jodorowsky's ‘Dune’: An exhibition of a film of a book that never was

Super Punch (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009

Alejandro Jodorowsky's ‘Dune’: An exhibition of a film of a book that never was is currently on display at The Drawing Room in London: Alejandro Jodorowsky's ‘Dune’: An exhibition of a film of a book that never was takes as its departure point the cult Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s attempted 1976 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel...

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