Alejandro Jodorowsky - Film-making career

Alejandro Jodorowsky (born February 7, 1929, in Tocopilla, Chile to Ashkenazi Jewish parents) is an actor, director, producer, composer, mime, comic book writer and psychotherapist. He is particularly known for having directed a handful of esoteric, surreal and shocking films, and for having written several comic books. The revered cult filmmaker once stated, "I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs." He is also a New Age spiritualist, and one of the world's leading researchers of the Tarot. Jodorowsk ...

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His films El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain (1973) are regarded as cult classics. Neither film is currently available on DVD in the United States because of disputes over ownership with Allen Klein (note: settled in 2004), though bootleg copies are occasionally circulated and both El Topo and The Holy Mountain are (illegally) available on DVD in Italy. His first feature length film, Fando y Lis, is available on DVD in the US and is infamous for inciting a full scale riot at its premiere in the Acapulco Film Festival. There ...

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In 1962 he created the Panic Movement, together with Roland Topor and Fernando Arrabal. He has also worked with famous artists such as Marcel Marceau, Maurice Chevalier, H.R. Giger, Dan O'Bannon, Jean Giraud (Mœbius). John Lennon was a fan of Jodorowsky's work, and had a hand in taking his films to venues in the U.S. On December 3, 2005, he officiated at the non-denominational marriage ceremony of friend Marilyn Manson and Heather Sweet (stage name: Dita Von Teese) at ...

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Jodorowsky is the writer of several science fiction comic book series, all set in the same universe, including The caste of the Metabarons, Technopriests, Incal, and Megalex. Many ideas and concepts devised by Jodorowsky from his planned adaptation of Dune (which he would have only loosely based upon Frank Herbert's original novel) later turned up in the Metabarons comic books, which also contain many references to Dune in general. He particularly collaborates with Mœbius and Humanoids Publishing. All the science fiction graphic novels authored by Jodorowsky are set in the ...

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