| Crazy Good: An Alejandro Jodorowsky
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More Hollywood Icon Films at the Aero Theatre!
When New York filmmaker Jonas Mekas programmed an eccentric Western called EL
TOPO in a 1970 avant-garde film festival, an original new voice in international
cinema was introduced. A unique blend of mysticism, violence and heavily symbolic images,
EL TOPO captivated the counterculture and announced its Chilean-born director,
Alejandro Jodorowsky, as a filmmaker of immense talent and vision. More ambitious and
audacious epics followed - THE HOLY MOUNTAIN and SANTA SANGRE not only
delivered on the promise of Jodorowsky's breakthrough, they exceeded all the high
expectations EL TOPO generated. These films, as well as Jodorowsky's charming and
little-seen debut film FANDO AND LIS, will be screened at the Egyptian in all their
surrealistic big-screen splendor.
Saturday, January 15 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: SANTA SANGRE, 1989, MGM Repertory, 121 min. The work of
film ringmaster and enfant terrible Alejandro Jodorowsky is something to behold. Tonight,
a screening of his phantasmagorical horror film, SANTA SANGRE. Combining elements at once
beautiful, grotesque and erotic, SANTA SANGRE is something akin to Fellini remaking both
PSYCHO and NIGHTMARE ALLEY as one single, glorious fever dream of a thriller. If you
haven’t seen it, do not miss out! [35mm] Trailer
FANDO AND LIS, 1968, Cannon Film Distributors, 93
min. Alejandro Jodorowsky's debut feature is a stylish and playful tale of a doomed young
couple. Here the director's usual preoccupations are wed to a conventional love story, and
as a result FANDO AND LIS offers a more lighthearted draw than much of his later work. In
Spanish with English subtitles. [DVD] Trailer | Buy Tickets Discussion between films with composer Simon Boswell (SANTA SANGRE, SHALLOW GRAVE).
Sunday, January 16 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: EL
TOPO, 1970, ABKCO Music and Records, 125 min. Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky. A
mysterious man (played by Jodorowsky) rides through the desert on a mission of vengeance
and spiritual rebirth in this one-of-a-kind cult Western filled with surrealistic
digressions. References to philosophy and religion abound, along with phallic symbols,
characters with physical deformities, and more outrageous imagery! In Spanish with English
subtitles. [35mm] Trailer
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, 1973, ABKCO Music and
Records, 114 min. Alejandro Jodorowsky tells another story of one man's spiritual quest:
this time the character is a thief who travels to the titular holy mountain to find a
group of alleged "immortals." Jodorowsky adds a layer of self-conscious irony to
the proceedings, constantly drawing the audience's attention to the artifice of the
filmmaking in sequences that expose the mechanisms of the special effects or show
characters bleeding blue instead of red. In Spanish with English subtitles. [35mm]
Discussion between films with THE HOLY MOUNTAIN producer Robert
Taicher (schedule permitting). Trailer
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