Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nobody felt the pain of adapting “Dune” more than Jodorowsky, whose infamous production attempt In the 1970s is detailed in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the psychedelic zaniness of “El Topo” and “The Holy Mountain,” Chilean-born director Alejandro Jodorowsky invented the ...

Though Jodorowsky hadn’t read Frank Herbert’s immense sci-fi novel, he had heard from friends that it was amazing. More importantly, its story of faraway worlds, messiah figures and a “spice” that ...

Was it “the greatest movie never made” or a pipe dream doomed from the start? The idea of hiring Chilean surrealist and midnight-movie god Alejandro Jodorowsky of “El Topo” fame to mount a big-budget ...

Missing, believed lost, Alejandro Jodorowsky rolls into Cannes like a conquering hero. He has a room at the Croisette and a film in the directors' fortnight – a rambunctious sidebar away from the ...

Director Frank Pavich explains how the trippy and artful masterpiece would have changed the course of Hollywood blockbusters forever. By Chris O'Falt It’s hard to imagine any producer today watching ...

Until about a year ago, most people had written off Alejandro Jodorowsky as a figure of the past — the wild-eyed cult filmmaker behind such midnight movie classics as “El Topo” and “The Holy Mountain” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the film industry, arts, and the creative economy for Forbes Then it all fell apart. Funding disappeared when Jodorowsky ...

Jodorowsky’s Dune. Just the title is evocative. Combining one of cinema’s noted visionaries (or madmen, depending on who you ask) with one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written, even ...

Frank Pavich’s enjoyable documentary revisits a legendary unmade 1970s project by cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky. By Stephen Dalton A long time ago in a galaxy far away, the maverick Chilean-born ...