Alejandro Jodorowsky Collection (BluRay)

Synopsis

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. (Arrow Video)

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

New 4K restorations of Fando y Lis, El Topo and The Holy Mountain approved by Alejandro Jodorowsky • Blu-ray premiere of Jodorowsky’s new film Psychomagic • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations • Original 1.0 mono audio and optional 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio • Newly translated • English, Spanish and French subtitles • Six collector’s postcards • Double-sided fold-out poster • Limited edition 80-page hardbound book featuring new writing on the films by Virginie Sélavy, Michael Atkinson, Bilge Ebiri, Mark Pilkington and archival articles • Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly designed artwork by Matt Griffin

FANDO Y LIS: Audio commentary by Alejandro Jodorowsky • Jodorowsky Remembers Fando y Lis, new interview filmed in Paris • Newly filmed introduction with Richard Peña, Professor of Film Studies at Columbia University • La Cravate, Jodorowsky’s compellingly surreal 1957 adaptation of Thomas Mann’s The Transposed Heads • La Constellation Jodorowsky, Louis Mouchet’s feature-length documentary featuring interviews with Jean ‘Mobieus’ Giraud and Peter Gabriel • Trailer • Image galleries

EL TOPO: Film presentation in both 1.85:1 and 1.33:1 original theatrical aspect ratios for the first time • Audio commentary by Alejandro Jodorowsky • Jodorowsky Remembers El Topo, new interview • Newly filmed introduction with Richard Peña • A Conversation with The Son of El Topo, a newly filmed, extensive interview with Brontis Jodorowsky who stars in El Topo • The Father of Midnight Movies, an archival interview with Jodorowsky filmed in 2007 • Original trailer • Image galleries• El Topo Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD

THE HOLY MOUNTAIN: Audio commentary by Alejandro Jodorowsky • Jodorowsky Remembers The Holy Mountain, new interview • Newly filmed introduction with Richard Peña • 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 • The A to Z of The Holy Mountain, a new video essay by writer Ben Cobb • Deleted scenes with director’s commentary • The Tarot, a short film in which Jodorowsky explains the secrets of the cards • Original trailer • Image galleries • The Holy Mountain Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD

PSYCHOMAGIC, A HEALING ART: Blu-ray premiere of Jodorowsky’s new film • Original trailer

• Region B
• Studio: Arrow Video
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