From the Beach Boys' Smile to Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon, the history of popular culture is filled with legendary projects left unrealized or unfinished by artists whose ambition finally exceeded ...

Still from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘The Dance of Reality’ (2013) (all images copyright Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky, 2013) I had a list of questions scribbled into my notebook and my voice recorder ...

In the mid-1970s, fresh off the success of the surprisingly profitable cult films El Topo and The Holy Mountain, director Alejandro Jodorowsky set out to film Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel Dune.

A scandal when it was first released in 1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky's prototypical midnight movie The Holy Mountain is a follow-up to El Topo. Both films are screening through Grand Illusion this ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - In 1974, cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky set out to make a film of the science fiction novel "Dune," with music by Pink Floyd, a cast that included Mick Jagger, and the goal of ...

Variously described as a writer, director, actor, producer, mime, composer, comic book writer and (believe it or not) psychotherapist, Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky is almost too preposterous ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

The documentary's underlying conceit says that if Jodorowsky had only succeeded in making Dune, he might have changed the course of film history by establishing the blockbuster as something grounded ...