The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (Fando y Lis / El Topo / The Holy Mountain)
by Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Actor: Alejandro JodorowskyDirector: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Brand: STARZ/SPHE
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Published)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 333 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (Fando y Lis / El Topo / The Holy Mountain)
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Summary: 4 Stars
I received this box set a few days ago and just finished watching all the films. I've heard Jodorowsky's name thrown around on message board threads about weird, surrealist art films but I hadn't gotten around to seeing his. I've seen movies from Fellini and Lynch, so I am more open to unconventional stuff (I have yet to see the works of Arrabal and Bu?uel). However, I must say that from what I've seen so far, Jodorowsky is in a category of his own, in that his films don't look like any others and at the same time are both original and enjoyable.
With the 4 films included ( La Cravate, Fando Y Lis, El Topo, The Holy Mountain) the two soundtracks (El Topo, The Holy Mountain), the extras and the 90 minute documentary, this box set is a really good deal. My only wish is that "Santa Sangre" be included instead of "La Cravate", which I feel isn't indicative of his artistic prowess but enjoyable nonetheless. If you're into films that don't follow the typical, overused and overkilled plot lines and pacing but instead--films about odd, allegorical and symbolic odysseys rich with surreal and absurd imagery, then check out Jodorowsky's films.
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Summary of The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (Fando y Lis / El Topo / The Holy Mountain)
Among the extras included in this collector's box is previously unseen footage, a feature on the restoration process, an exclusive interview with Jodorowsky, optional director commentary tracks, subtitles, two special CDs of the films' soundtracks and a separate DVD of the first film ever made by Jodorowsky, La Cravate.
EL TOPO:
-Original theatrical trailer- English V.O.
-2006 on camera interview with Jodorowsky (Language English/English subtitles)
-Photo Gallery/Original script excerpts
-Exclusive interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN
- Deleted scenes with director commentary (Language: Spanish with optional EN, SP, FR & BR PORT subtitles)
- Original theatrical trailer -English V.O
- The Tarot short with director commentary (Language: Spanish with optional EN, SP, FR & BR PORT subtitles)
- Restoration process short (Original Language English)
- Photo Gallery / Original Script excerpts
- Restoration Credits
FANDO Y LIS
-La Constellation Jodorowsky documentary
-Original language French and English Stereo
TWO AUDIO CDS
- El Topo soundtrack
- The Holy Mountain soundtrack
How can so much mysticism be contained in a simple DVD box set? The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky is a divine collection of the director's early films, restored and ready for repeated viewings. For it does take several viewings to imbue Jodorowky's invented archetypes with personal meaning and to familiarize oneself with his avant-garde approach to communicating artistic concepts. In this box, El Topo and Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky's stories of spiritual journeys through barren deserts, are paired with Fando Y Lis and La Cravate, a never before seen gem from the 1950s. This alone justifies the box set. La Cravate is a Technicolor tale of a man whose sadistic girfriend urges him to visit the head shop to shop for a new head. Miming his way through rows of living human heads, and trying several on with the help of a shop manager skilled in stitching skin, this Frankensteinian story establishes Jodorowsky's affinity for pitting effusive love against cruelty for maximum tension between involved characters. Fando Y Lis, on the other hand, is an early version of the later two masterpieces, about a couple whose quest for an imaginary land in the future, called Tar, introduces them to wizened forest masters, wild packs of women bowling, and enlightened drag queens. Filmed in black and white, Fando Y Lis proves that Jodorowsky's radical use of color in El Topo and Holy Mountain is no simple trope. Here, he relies more heavily on dramatic physical action, including miming and a paraplegic protagonist who is wheeled around in a wagon by her lover.
The box set contains the film soundtracks, director commentaries, and several interviews with Jodorowsky, including the documentary, La Constellation, in which he discusses his reliance on intuition, the notion of absurdism versus mystery, and his infamous usage of violence, which he eloquently explains as creative violence versus the destructive. Though this talented director refuses the claim that he is a mystic, it becomes clear in watching this body of work that he is achieving the sublime in a visually transcendental fashion. --Trinie Dalton
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