A LE boxset of surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's films is coming, including remastered El Topo and The Holy Mountain. Coming in May.
ABKCO Films and Anchor Bay Entertainment have just announced a pair of titles that we've been waiting for on DVD since Day One of this format... El Topo and The Holy Mountain! No kidding! Anchor Bay will release a special limited edition collector's box set, The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, on DVD on 5/1 (SRP $49.98). The set will contain El Topo, The Holy Mountain and Fando Y Lis on DVD, fully restored and remastered from new HD transfers in anamorphic widescreen video, with Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 audio (El Topo is 125 minutes in Spanish, The Holy Mountain is 114 minutes in English, Fando Y Lis is 93 minutes in Spanish). The box set will also include 2 music CDs containing the soundtracks for El Topo and The Holy Mountain, as well as a DVD of Jodorowsky's never-before-released first film, La Cravate. El Topo and The Holy Mountain will also be available separately (SRP $24.98 each).
The El Topo DVD will contain audio commentary by the director, the original theatrical trailer (with English voice-over), a 2006 on-camera interview with the director as well as an exclusive new interview, a photo gallery and original script excerpts. The Holy Mountain DVD will include audio commentary with the director, deleted scenes with commentary, the original theatrical trailer (with English voice-over), the Tarot short with commentary, a restoration process short, restoration credits, a photo gallery and original script excerpts. Fando Y Lis will include audio commentary with the director and the La Constellation Jodorowsky documentary. Subtitles on the discs will be available in English, French, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
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I haven't seen either film for obvious reasons (not out on easily accessible/affordable DVDs), but they sound absolutely mad. I've been waiting for this for a while. Should go along nicely with Twin Peaks season 2, which should be out roughly a few weeks before.
“El Topo”, A Mexican existentialist Western made in 1970 by Alejandro Jodorowsky. The first half of the film involves a gunslinger who has to defeat four master gunmen. After the woman whom he was travelling with shoots him, a group of physically deformed people save him, and we go on to act two of the film. He is revived by the deformed people and decides to leave his violent past behind and help them dig a tunnel through the cave they live in and to freedom, away from the violent town that hates them and wants to kill them.
It’s just plain odd, but not as odd as Jodorowsky’s next film. “The Holy Mountain” is beyond description. Essentially it’s a montage of surrealistic moments. I learnt two things from this film. One, if you see Christ walking around the city, don’t make a mould from him and make hundreds of plaster copies of him. He gets mighty pissed off at that. Two, human excrement can be turned into gold (literally).
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“El Topo”, A Mexican existentialist Western made in 1970 by Alejandro Jodorowsky. The first half of the film involves a gunslinger who has to defeat four master gunmen. After the woman whom he was travelling with shoots him, a group of physically deformed people save him, and we go on to act two of the film. He is revived by the deformed people and decides to leave his violent past behind and help them dig a tunnel through the cave they live in and to freedom, away from the violent town that hates them and wants to kill them.
It’s just plain odd, but not as odd as Jodorowsky’s next film. “The Holy Mountain” is beyond description. Essentially it’s a montage of surrealistic moments. I learnt two things from this film. One, if you see Christ walking around the city, don’t make a mould from him and make hundreds of plaster copies of him. He gets mighty pissed off at that. Two, human excrement can be turned into gold (literally).
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