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Alejandro Jodorowsky  

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Director / Screenwriter / Actor / Composer / Production Designer / Producer
1929 -
Born February 7, Tocopilla, Chile
Key Production Country: Mexico 
Key Genres: Surrealist Film, Avant-garde/Experimental, Satire
Key Collaborators: Rafael Corkidi (Cinematographer), Roberto Viskin (Producer)
Recommended: The Holy Mountain (1973)
Worth a Look: Santa Sangre (1989)
Approach with Caution: Fando y Lis (1968), El Topo (1971)
Links: [ IMDB ] [ TCMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Wikipedia ] [ The Symbol Grows: Alejandro Jodorowsky ] [ Alejandro Jodorowsky: Father of the Midnight Movie ] [ Premiere Interview ] [ Fortean Times Interview (2007) ] [ 5MTL Interview ]
Books: [ Anarchy and Alchemy: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (Persistence of Vision) ] [ Psicomagia ] [ The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Creator of El Topo ]
DVD's: [ Amazon ]
1,000 Greatest Films: El Topo (1971)
 
The Holy Mountain (1973)Santa Sangre (1989)Fando y Lis (1968)El Topo (1971)
 
     
  "Filmmaking for him is only one means of exploration: he has also directed avant-garde theater and written plays and books, as well as numerous comic scripts for the French artists Moebius. With merely seven films under his belt, three of which are first-rate cult classics, he has left an indelible mark on world cinema... Spiritual themes are embodied in often shocking imagery of blood, nudity, skinned and gutted animals, real cripples, and psychiatric patients." - Dejan Ognjanovic (501 Movie Directors, 2007)  
     
  "Alejandro Jodorowsky became, for a brief moment in 1970-71, the darling of the New York countercultural cognoscenti with El Topo. He wrote, directed, scored and starred in the movie, which is equal parts Sergio Leone-style Western, grisly biblical rewrite and Federico Felliniesque freak show." - Jessica Winter (The Rough Guide to Film, 2007)  
     
  "Born in 1929 in Chile to Russian-Jewish immigrants who owned a dry-goods store, Alejandro Jodorowsky seems an unlikely candidate to become one of the godfathers of the American midnight-movie scene. But essentially every turn in his career has been unlikely, a career that has found Jodorowsky taking on the roles of director, screenwriter, author, actor, cartoonist, editor, artist, composer, mime, guru, mystic, and tireless self-promoter." - Keith Phipps (All Movie Guide)  
     
  "Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles." - Alejandro Jodorowsky  
     
 

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