John W. wrote:I saw Holy Mountain -- it was interesting... there were parts that bored me and other parts that I thought were really engaging. I liked the ending, where you see all the cameras and the whole film's just basically a joke. I think it's worth checking out if you can stomach it... kind of gross in parts. I haven't seen anything else by the guy.

Thx for the spoiler warning...

Mr. Binary wrote:

John W. wrote:I saw Holy Mountain -- it was interesting... there were parts that bored me and other parts that I thought were really engaging. I liked the ending, where you see all the cameras and the whole film's just basically a joke. I think it's worth checking out if you can stomach it... kind of gross in parts. I haven't seen anything else by the guy.

Thx for the spoiler warning...

Don't you worry, there's plenty else going on in that flick.

El Topo has long been one of my favorite movies. I was quite excited to see the new box set when it was in the pipeline, as one of my friends works for the company that put it together. He said he's talked to Jodo a few times in recent months and he apparently speaks and acts exactly how you think he would.

I've got the Holy Mountain sdtk if anyone wants to hear it. Jodo is credited with performing and writing everything on it, as far as I know. Maybe I'll upload it to the sendspace thread if there is interest.

slowriot wrote:El Topo has long been one of my favorite movies. I was quite excited to see the new box set when it was in the pipeline, as one of my friends works for the company that put it together. He said he's talked to Jodo a few times in recent months and he apparently speaks and acts exactly how you think he would.

I've got the Holy Mountain sdtk if anyone wants to hear it. Jodo is credited with performing and writing everything on it, as far as I know. Maybe I'll upload it to the sendspace thread if there is interest.

As a bonus feature, a version of Fando and Lis that I rented, has a mid 90's interview/documentry of Jodorowsky. Very good.

i dont have idea of what to vote. only saw holy mountain and i also thought it was 'interesting'. but that´s it. it seems like he overuses shocking stuff just for the sake of it a la david lynch . it seems like everybody in the world loves that kind of stuff escept me and a few others.
i will watch another of his films and judge.

Picked up the box set of his films. I cannot stress enough that it is worth every penny. 2 soundtracks, 3 films, one previously unreleased short film, a 90-minute interview, commentary on all films...for $44.99. Now that's a bargain!

The DVDs really bring the images to life. Say what you want about his "intent" and the "meaning" or whatever, the man can fucking pick a shot. The colors and the scope. Intense.

$33.49 on Amazon!

Have the box set...you get a CD soundtrack to both El Topo and the Holy Mountain in the bargain. Both are worth having. He's doing graphic novels now that are pretty interesting. Santa Sengre is another great film of his but not in the box set.

You can check out some of the artwork and storyboards for the Dune movie he was working on. There's a link on his Wikipedia page. I think it would have been a damn sight better than the Lynch version, and I like David Lynch.

His films are maddening and he loses a few points with me simply for being a favorite among a really pretensious set of snotty film geek dickheads.

His films are maddening because they're really dull for long stretches, and you're just about to shut them off and write the guy off as an overrated cunt when something happens that just keeps you nailed in, and you keep watching through another dull stretch, the cycle repeats, etc. etc.

Has anybody seen Tusk? I know that Odd Obsession has a copy of it but Brian has said he'll only rent it to people who ask for it specifically and, even then, he hates doing it because it's such a poor, nth generation copy of it.

Oh well..either way, I'll say Not Crap. I mean...he's tedious, but he's at least interesting.

There´s a Jodorowsky festival that´s running for two weeks at an arts center close to my home. I just watched Tusk (having never seen anything of his before), it was certainly not good (and it was a terrible VHS-to-DVD copy to boot), but I´ll take IMDB´s readers word that it´s his worst and go back tomorrow for Holy Mountain.