Description:
Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of world cinema’s most fabled iconoclasts. Often venerated as the ultimate cult film director, the Chilean artist shot to prominence as a 1970s counter-cultural icon thanks to the masterful movies presented on this collection: Fando y Lis, El Topo and The Holy Mountain. These extraordinary films, presented here alongside his stunning new film Psychomagic, bedazzled audiences with their unique aesthetic, contrasting violence and beauty; the sublime and the sacrilegious; the mystical and the macabre...
Jodorowsky’s first feature, Fando y Lis, tells of young Fando and his paraplegic sweetheart Lis’s journey through a series of surreal scenarios to find the enchanted city of Tar. An ‘acid-western’ packed with vivid imagery, El Topo stars Jodorowsky as a master-gunfighter who duels with four sharp-shooting adversaries on his journey across a desert dreamscape. In The Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky plays The Alchemist, a guru who guides a troupe of pilgrims on a quest to ascend the Holy Mountain in search of spiritual enlightenment. Jodorowsky’s new cinematic experience, Psychomagic, A Healing Art, explores the directors’ radical therapeutic work.
Influential, controversial and endlessly fascinating, Jodorowsky’s surreal masterpieces are presented here in stunning new 4K restorations, accompanied with a wealth of illuminating extras, and new writing.
Details
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Production Year: 1968
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Running Time: 93 / 125 / 114 / 100
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Number of Discs: 6
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Language: Spanish/English
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Subtitles: English/English SDH
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Audio: Mono 1.0 / 5.1
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 / 1.37:1 / 2.35:1 / 1.85:1
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Colour: B&W / Colour
LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
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New 4K restorations of Fando y Lis, El Topo and The Holy Mountain approved by Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Blu-ray premiere of Jodorowsky’s new film Psychomagic
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High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations
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Original 1.0 mono audio and optional 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio
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Newly translated English, Spanish and French subtitles
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Six collector’s postcards
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Double-sided fold-out poster
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Limited edition 80-page hardbound book featuring new writing on the films by Virginie Sélavy, Michael Atkinson, Bilge Ebiri, Mark Pilkington and archival articles
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Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly designed artwork by Matt Griffin
FANDO Y LIS
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Audio commentary by Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Jodorowsky Remembers Fando y Lis, new interview filmed in Paris
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Newly filmed introduction with Richard Peña, Professor of Film Studies at Columbia University
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La Cravate, Jodorowsky’s compellingly surreal 1957 adaptation of Thomas Mann’s The Transposed Heads
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La Constellation Jodorowsky, Louis Mouchet’s feature-length documentary featuring interviews with Jean ‘Mobieus’ Giraud and Peter Gabriel
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Trailer
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Image galleries
EL TOPO
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Film presentation in both 1.85:1 and 1.33:1 original theatrical aspect ratios for the first time
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Audio commentary by Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Jodorowsky Remembers El Topo, new interview
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Newly filmed introduction with Richard Peña
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A Conversation with The Son of El Topo, a newly filmed, extensive interview with Brontis Jodorowsky who stars in El Topo
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The Father of Midnight Movies, an archival interview with Jodorowsky filmed in 2007
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Original trailer
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Image galleries
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El Topo Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN
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Audio commentary by Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Jodorowsky Remembers The Holy Mountain, new interview
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Newly filmed introduction with Richard Peña
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Pablo Leder: Jodorowsky’s Right Hand Man, Jodorowsky’s personal assistant remembers acting in El Topo and The Holy Mountain and his time spent with the director
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The A to Z of The Holy Mountain, a new video essay by writer Ben Cobb
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Deleted scenes with director’s commentary
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The Tarot, a short film in which Jodorowsky explains the secrets of the cards
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Original trailer
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Image galleries
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The Holy Mountain Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD
PSYCHOMAGIC, A HEALING ART
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Blu-ray premiere of Jodorowsky’s new film
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Original trailer