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Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
Director: Frank Pavich
Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michel Seydoux, H.R. Giger
Genre: Documentary
Why would anyone want to spend 90 minutes watching a documentary film about an ecliptic director's failed attempt to make a colossal 15 hour movie out of Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel Dune?
Because it's darn entertaining!
Alejandro Jodorowsky director of El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain (1973) is the subject matter. He's quite the character too. Call him a dreamer, call him a visionary or call him an ex hippie kook. If he had his way, his film Dune, would have changed the world...or so he says.
Back in the early 1970s Jodorowsky acquired the rights to Frank Herbert's novel. The director then set out to change cinema and people's spiritual vision of the world with a meta-religious opus. The planned movie was close to being made too. The script was completed and a huge storyboard book with every single scene and camera shot sketched out, was done. Sets were designed by Giger, the artist who did the creature in Alien.
Jodorowsky went as far as hiring actors. And what a group he hired! Mick Jagger, David Carradine, Gloria Swanson, Salvador Dali and Orson Welles. With Pink Floyd doing the music.
So what happened? You need to watch the film to find out. But don't worry, you will be entertained as you learn a lot about the film making process.
Director: Frank Pavich
Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michel Seydoux, H.R. Giger
Genre: Documentary
Why would anyone want to spend 90 minutes watching a documentary film about an ecliptic director's failed attempt to make a colossal 15 hour movie out of Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel Dune?
Because it's darn entertaining!
Alejandro Jodorowsky director of El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain (1973) is the subject matter. He's quite the character too. Call him a dreamer, call him a visionary or call him an ex hippie kook. If he had his way, his film Dune, would have changed the world...or so he says.
Back in the early 1970s Jodorowsky acquired the rights to Frank Herbert's novel. The director then set out to change cinema and people's spiritual vision of the world with a meta-religious opus. The planned movie was close to being made too. The script was completed and a huge storyboard book with every single scene and camera shot sketched out, was done. Sets were designed by Giger, the artist who did the creature in Alien.
Jodorowsky went as far as hiring actors. And what a group he hired! Mick Jagger, David Carradine, Gloria Swanson, Salvador Dali and Orson Welles. With Pink Floyd doing the music.
So what happened? You need to watch the film to find out. But don't worry, you will be entertained as you learn a lot about the film making process.