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Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky (; born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean and French avant-garde filmmaker. Known for his films '' El Topo'' (1970), '' The Holy Mountain'' (1973) and '' Santa Sangre'' (1989), Jodorowsky has been "venerated by cult cinema enthusiasts" for his work which "is filled with violently surreal images and a hybrid blend of mysticism and religious provocation". Dropping out of college, he became involved in theater and in particular mime, working as a clown before founding his own theater troupe, the ''Teatro Mimico'', in 1947. Moving to Paris in the early 1950s, Jodorowsky studied traditional mime under Étienne Decroux, and put his miming skills to use in the silent film ''Les têtes interverties'' (1957), directed with Saul Gilbert and Ruth Michelly. From 1960 onwards he divided his time between Mexico City and Paris, where he co-founded Panic Movement, a surrealist performance art collective that staged violent and shocking theatrical events. In 1966 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dance Of Reality
''The Dance of Reality'' () is a 2013 Chilean- French semi-autobiographical musical fantasy drama film written, produced, and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, starring Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, and Jeremias Herskovits. It is Alejandro Jodorowsky's first film in 23 years. The film screened at Directors' Fortnight during the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The film is based on an earlier work by Jodorowsky first published in Spanish under the title ''La danza de la realidad: Psicomagia y psicochamanismo'' (2001). Plot Young Alejandro (Jeremías Herskovits) lives with his Jewish-Ukrainian parents Jaime ( Brontis Jodorowsky) and Sara ( Pamela Flores) in Tocopilla, Chile. Jaime is a communist who worships Stalin and raises his son with great severity. Sara sings rather than talks throughout the film, and believes Alejandro to be the reincarnation of her father because of his long blonde hair. Irritated by his wife's delusional views of their son and angered by Alejandro's behav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Sangre
''Santa Sangre'' () is a 1989 surrealist psychological horror film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and written by Jodorowsky along with Claudio Argento and Roberto Leoni. It stars Axel Jodorowsky, Adán Jodorowsky, Teo Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Thelma Tixou, and Guy Stockwell. An international co-production of Mexico and Italy, the film is set in Mexico, and tells the story of Fenix, a boy who grew up in a circus and his struggle with childhood trauma. It is included in ''Empire'' magazine's 2008 list of the 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. Plot The film starts with a naked figure sitting in a tree in a mental asylum. Nurses come out to him, to try to coax him off of his perch, using a plate of raw fish to persuade him to come down. As the nurses get him to put on some overalls, it is shown that he has a tattoo of a phoenix on his chest. Years ago, Fenix spent his time performing as a "child magician" in a circus run by his father Orgo, the knife-thrower, and his mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Jodorowsky
Alma Jodorowsky (born 26 September 1991) is a French actress, singer, and fashion model. Early life Alma Jodorowsky was born on September 26, 1991 in Paris. Her father Brontis Jodorowsky is the son of Chilean-French filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky. Jodorowsky attended the in Aix-en-Provence and the in Paris. 2011 she attended a three months workshop at the New York Film Academy. Career Jodorowsky works in television and films, as well as in the fashion industry. She is also the lead vocalist and songwriter of Burning Peacocks, a Paris-based pop band. Acting Jodorowsky's first acting job was at age fourteen in a French TV movie called ''Gaspard le Bandit'', set during the Ancien Régime. She made her big-screen debut as Estelle in the French and American movie ''Eyes Find Eyes'', then in the French comedy ''Sea, No Sex and Sun''. In 2013, Jodorowsky played a supporting role in Abdellatif Kechiche's romantic drama ''Blue Is the Warmest Colour'', winner of the Palme d'Or at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brontis Jodorowsky
Brontis Jodorowsky (born 27 October 1962) is a Mexican-French actor and theatre director. Personal life Brontis Jodorowsky was born on October 27, 1962 in Mexico. He is the son of Chilean-French writer, director, and actor Alejandro Jodorowsky and French actress Bernadette Landru. His daughter, the actress Alma Jodorowsky, was born in France. Career Jodorowsky had his first film experience as a prominent role in his father's 1970 film ''El Topo''. When he was 12 years old, his father cast him in a planned film adaptation of ''Dune'' by Frank Herbert. He was trained to play the part of the novel's protagonist, Paul Atreides. He had been taught by Jean-Pierre Vignau, a famous French coach in Japanese jujitsu, karate, judo, aikido, and also knives, knife and Sword, sword combat. His training was intensive: 6 hours a day, seven days a week over a period of two years until the film project was shelved. In the documentary Jodorowsky's Dune, ''Jodorowsky's Dune'' Brontis described ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Holy Mountain (1973 Film)
''The Holy Mountain'' () is a 1973 Mexican surrealist film directed, written, produced, co-scored, co-edited by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky, who also participated as a set designer and costume designer on the film. Following Jodorowsky's underground hit ''El Topo'' (1970), acclaimed by both John Lennon and George Harrison, the film was produced by the Beatles manager Allen Klein of ABKCO Music and Records. John Lennon and Yoko Ono put up production money. It was shown at various international film festivals in 1973, including Cannes, and limited screenings in New York and San Francisco. Plot A man (later identified as the thief), representing The Fool tarot card, lies in the desert with flies covering his face. He is befriended by a footless, handless dwarf representing the Five of Swords, and the pair travel into the city where they make money entertaining tourists. Because the thief resembles Jesus Christ in appearance, some locals—a nun and three warriors—cast an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Topo
''El Topo'' (, "The Mole") is a 1970 Mexican acid Western film written, scored, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Judeo-Christian symbolism and Eastern philosophy, the film is about El Topo—a violent, black-clad gunfighter played by Jodorowsky—and his quest for enlightenment. Plot El Topo is traveling through a desert on horseback with his naked young son, Hijo. After they come across a town whose people, horses and livestock have been slaughtered, El Topo hunts down and kills the perpetrators and their leader, a fat balding Colonel. El Topo leaves his son to the monks of the settlement's mission and rides off with a woman whom the Colonel had kept as a slave. After turning bitter water sweet by stirring it with a branch, El Topo names the woman Marah. In need of food and water, El Topo spaces Marah's feet apart and digs up eggs from the sand beneath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dune (novel)
''Dune'' is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials (1963–64 novel ''Dune World'' and 1965 novel ''Prophet of Dune'') in '' Analog'' magazine. It tied with Roger Zelazny's '' This Immortal'' for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966. It is the first installment of the ''Dune Chronicles''. It is one of the world's best-selling science fiction novels. ''Dune'' is set in the distant future in a feudal interstellar society, descended from terrestrial humans, in which various noble houses control planetary fiefs. It tells the story of young Paul Atreides, whose family reluctantly accepts the stewardship of the planet Arrakis. While the planet is an inhospitable and sparsely populated desert wasteland, it is the only source of melange or "spice", an enormously valuable drug that extends life and enhances mental abilities. Melange is also necessary for space ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dune (Jodorowsky Film)
''Dune'' is a 1965 Epic (genre), epic science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials (1963–64 novel ''Dune World'' and 1965 novel ''Prophet of Dune'') in ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Analog'' magazine. It tied with Roger Zelazny's ''This Immortal'' for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966. It is the first installment of the Dune (franchise), ''Dune Chronicles''. It is one of the world's best-selling science fiction novels. ''Dune'' is set in the distant future in a Feudalism, feudal interstellar society, descended from terrestrial humans, in which various noble houses control planetary fiefs. It tells the story of young Paul Atreides, whose family reluctantly accepts the stewardship of the planet Arrakis. While the planet is an inhospitable and sparsely populated desert wasteland, it is the only source of melange (fictional drug), melange or "spice", an enormously valu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adán Jodorowsky
Adán Jodorowsky or Adanowsky (born 29 October 1979) is a French-Mexican musician, director and actor. Biography Jodorowsky is the son of the Chilean-born French filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky and Mexican actress Valérie Trumblay, brother to Brontis Jodorowsky and Axel Jodorowsky and the uncle of Alma Jodorowsky. He has appeared in seven films to date. As an actor, he won the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in 1989 for his role as young Fénix in ''Santa Sangre'', one of his father's more renowned films. On 30 October 2006 he released his first solo album, ''Étoile Éternelle'', as "Adanowsky", and his first single, "L'idole" (meaning "the idol") which was also released in Spanish as "El Ídolo"; the song is about a waiter who wants all the attention and dreams of becoming famous and an idol. In 2007 he featured as an actor in the Julie Delpy's movie ''2 Days In Paris''. In 2008, he released his second album, ''El Ídolo'' and had a big success in man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Jodorowsky
Axel Cristóbal Jodorowsky (24 July 1965 – 15 September 2022), also known as Cristóbal Jodorowsky, was a Mexican-French actor, writer, painter, playwright, trainer, and tarologist. He was the son of the Chilean-French film and theater director Alejandro Jodorowsky and French actress Valérie Trumblay, brother to Brontis Jodorowsky and Adán Jodorowsky, and the uncle of Alma Jodorowsky. Career Axel was best known for his performance as Fenix in his father's 1989 avant-garde horror film ''Santa Sangre'', for which he was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actor The Saturn Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films to honor performances in the genre across film, television, and video. The Saturn Awards were devised by historian Dr. Dona ..., and the documentary about psychoshamanism ''Quantum Men'', directed by Carlos Serrano Azcona. References External links * 1965 births 2022 deaths Mexi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panic Movement
Panic Movement () was an art collective formed by Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky (; born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean and French Experimental film, avant-garde filmmaker. Known for his films ''El Topo'' (1970), ''The Holy Mountain (1973 film), The Holy Mountain'' (1973) and ''Santa Sangre'' ..., and Roland Topor in Paris in 1962. Inspired by and named after the god Pan (mythology), Pan, and influenced by Luis Buñuel and Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty, the group concentrated on chaotic and surreal performance art, as a response to surrealism becoming mainstream. The movement's violent theatrical events were designed to be shocking, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tusk (1980 Film)
''Tusk'' ( French title: ''Poo Lorn L'Elephant'') is a 1980 French drama film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and written by Nicholas Niciphor. The screenplay concerns a young English girl and an Indian elephant who share a common destiny. It is based on the 1935 novel ''Poo Lorn of the Elephants'' by Reginald Campbell. In a 2016 interview published by Sight & Sound, Jodorowsky shared his thoughts on Tusk: "For me, ''Tusk'' is a film as valuable as ''El Topo'', only it is for children. What we have seen so far is an incomplete cut. But the producer, a crook like all filmmakers, declared bankruptcy, got the money in his pocket and fled, leaving the installation unfinished. I am still to this day fighting for the rights and the final cut, remastering and resubmission." Cast * Cyrielle Clair as Elise * Anton Diffring as John Morrison * Serge Merlin as Greyson * Christopher Mitchum as Richard Cairn * Michel Peyrelon as Shakley References External links * * Bracken, Mike"T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
