Still from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘The Dance of Reality’ (2013) (all images copyright Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky, 2013) I had a list of questions scribbled into my notebook and my voice recorder ...

From the Beach Boys' Smile to Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon, the history of popular culture is filled with legendary projects left unrealized or unfinished by artists whose ambition finally exceeded ...

In the mid-1970s, fresh off the success of the surprisingly profitable cult films El Topo and The Holy Mountain, director Alejandro Jodorowsky set out to film Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel Dune.

There are filmmakers. There are auteurs. Then there is Alejandro Jodorowsky. No other movie director has shown such spirit open to creativity while holding such disdain for the commercialization of ...

Cult film legend Alejandro Jodorowsky burst on to the art film world in the late 1960s with a style of cinema that offended audience members and frustrated film programmers. His debut film Fando and ...

A scandal when it was first released in 1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky's prototypical midnight movie The Holy Mountain is a follow-up to El Topo. Both films are screening through Grand Illusion this ...

(The Dance of Reality opens on Friday, June 20, at The Grand Illusion.) A thread of autobiography winds through all of his films, but The Dance of Reality gets to the heart of the matter by recounting ...

Variously described as a writer, director, actor, producer, mime, composer, comic book writer and (believe it or not) psychotherapist, Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky is almost too preposterous ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - In 1974, cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky set out to make a film of the science fiction novel "Dune," with music by Pink Floyd, a cast that included Mick Jagger, and the goal of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alejandro Jodorowsky has never believed in artistic borders. “No art is superior to another,” he told me when we spoke recently, ...

Aled Owen is a writer and filmmaker born in Carmarthen, Wales. He acted onstage from a young age and even won third place in 2012's Britain's Got Talent as part of Only Boys Aloud, a traditional Welsh ...