New Documentary to Go Inside "Jodorowsky's Dune"

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New Documentary to Go Inside "Jodorowsky's Dune"

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A long time ago, Alejandro Jodorowsky tried to make the greatest movie of all time. It was an adaptation of Frank Herbert"˜s "Dune,"and he was ready to employ Salvador Dali, Douglas Trumbull, Michel Seydoux and Pink Floyd amongst then-unknown names like Moebius, Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger. For a variety of reasons, some bordering on hearsay (many claim Jodorowsky was wholly dismissive of the source), the film fell apart, leaving movie lovers to imagine "what-if,"even if the picture was eventually made by David Lynch and a significantly less colorful group of collaborators.

In "Jodorowsky's Dune,"director Frank Pavich intends to get to the bottom of the proposed film and why it fell apart. The doc, half-completed, is currently looking for distribution at Cannes, though interviews with Jodorowsky, Giger and others have already been recorded. They've also released a promo video, obtained by TwitchFilm, which should whet your appetite for what Pavich has in store"”check it out below.

We hope this is the beginning of a Jodorowsky renaissance. His collaboration with David Lynch's Absurda Films, "King Shot,"sought financing at Cannes in 2009, but the project was eventually canceled. And we have no idea what happened with "Abelcain,"the long-rumored sequel to "El Topo"that supposedly secured a budget in the fall that same year. It's just as well, considering Jodo hasn't been behind the camera since 1990's "The Rainbow Thief"(which he has since disowned), but we do recommend the excellent two-disc "Santa Sangre"DVD put out earlier this year by the good folks at Severin Films.

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