The Surreal World of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Sweet talks to the Chilean French director and gets a take on his occult, drug filled and violently psychedelic world from critics Larushka Ivan Zadeh and Adam Scovell. Jodorowksy's 1973 surrealist fantasy film The Holy Mountain certificate 18 (the rating specifies that it contains strong bloody violence) has been re-released in cinemas in a 4K restoration and is being screened around the UK including events coming up at Tyneside Cinema, the ICA in London. The Alejandro Jodorowsky Collection is released on blu-ray 30th March 2020.
Adam Scovell is the author of books including How Pale the Winter Has Made Us, Mothlight and Folk Horror. He writes for Sight and Sound. Larushak Ivan-Zadeh is Chief Film Critic for the Metro newspaper.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
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| 0:41.4 | And this show coming up, well, it's about one of the most mind-bendingly strange talents in cinema. |
| 0:47.7 | Alejandro Jodorovsky. |
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| 0:56.5 | An American capitalist, a Russian tax advisor and a breathtaking heist. |
| 1:02.2 | You're saying fraudsters have stolen more than quarter of a billion dollars from the Russian state. |
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| 1:29.1 | Why are you telling my story? |
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| 1:38.0 | Are you ready for this? Are you sure? |
| 1:40.7 | Ah! |
| 1:43.6 | Ah! Ah! Are you sure? |
| 1:55.8 | I have to ask, because how can I put this? |
| 1:58.8 | I really, really like weird things. |
| 2:01.9 | And when I look at the film was made by the subject of this edition of Three Thinking, I think, did he really do that? Did he actually go somewhere, build this |
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