Alejandro Jodorowsky - Interview at ICA London (December 2002)

An interesting and amusing interview with Chilean surrealist filmmaker, Alejandro Jodorowsky  (Fando and Lis, El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre) recorded at the ICA, London in December 2002 after a screening of Santa Sangre.

Santa Sangre (1989) by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Santa Sangre is a 1989 Mexican-Italian surrealist cult film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and written by Claudio Argento, Roberto Leoni and Jodorowsky. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.



































To download the original motion picture soundtrack click here
You can watch the trailer and film in segments below or follow these links to download the 2-Disc Special Edition:
Disc 1: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7
Disc 2: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7

For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_sangre

























This is a deleted scene from SANTA SANGRE with Alexandro Jodorowsky with director commentary over top.

Alejandro Jodorowsky's unrealized version of Frank Herbert's, DUNE

Poster for the unrealized Alejandro Jodorowsky version of Frank Herbert's, DUNE which would have starred Salvador Dali as the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV (with a reported salary of $100,000 an hour), Orson Welles as the Baron Harkonnen, Charlotte Rampling as Lady Jessica, and Jodorowski himself as Duke Leto Atreides. Brontis Jodorowsky (his son) would've played Paul Atreides. Other actors would've included Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Alain Delon, Hervé Villechaize and Mick Jagger. Jodorowski organized Harkonnen visualizations by H.R. Giger, costumes by Moebius (Bladerunner, The Abyss, Tron, The Fifth Element), effects by Dan O'Bannon (who later wrote Alien), spaceship designs by Chris Foss and music by Pink Floyd, Magma, Henry Cow and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Dali and Jodorowsky quarreled over money, and just as the storyboards, designs, and script were finished, the financial backing dried up. Frank Herbert travelled to Europe in 1976 to find that $2 million of the $9.5 million budget had already been spent in pre-production, and that Jodorowsky's script would result in a 14-hour movie ("It was the size of a phonebook", Herbert later recalled). Jodorowsky took creative liberties with the source material, but Herbert said that he and Jodorowsky had an amicable relationship. The rights for filming were sold once more, this time to Dino de Laurentiis. Although Jodorowsky was embittered by the experience, he stated that the Dune project changed his life.

References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky
and http://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowsky.asp

Tusk (1980) by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Tusk (French title "Poo Lorn L'Elephant") is a 1980 film directed by cult film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky and written by Nicholas Niciphor . It is based on the novel Poo Lorn L'Elephant by Reginald Campbell.

In 1980, Alejandro Jodorowsky premiered his children's fable "Tusk", shot in India. Taken from Reginald Campbell's novel "Poo Lorn of the Elephants," the film explores the soul-mate relationship between a young British woman living in India and a highly prized elephant. The film exhibited little of the director's outlandish visual style and was never given wide release. Jodorowsky has since disowned the film.

References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusk_%28film%29

TUSK (In French with Spanish subtitles):