Alejandro Jodorowsky Collection (Arrow)

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The Alejandro Jodorowsky Collection Blu-ray

Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of world cinema’s most fabled iconoclasts. Often venerated as the ultimate cult film director, the Chilean artist shot to prominence as a 1970s counter-cultural icon thanks to the masterful movies presented on this collection: Fando y Lis, El Topo and The Holy Mountain. These extraordinary films, presented here alongside his stunning new film Psychomagic, bedazzled audiences with their unique aesthetic, contrasting violence and beauty; the sublime and the sacrilegious; the mystical and the macabre...

Jodorowsky’s first feature, Fando y Lis, tells of young Fando and his paraplegic sweetheart Lis’s journey through a series of surreal scenarios to find the enchanted city of Tar. An ‘acid-western’ packed with vivid imagery, El Topo stars Jodorowsky as a master-gunfighter who duels with four sharp-shooting adversaries on his journey across a desert dreamscape. In The Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky plays The Alchemist, a guru who guides a troupe of pilgrims on a quest to ascend the Holy Mountain in search of spiritual enlightenment. Jodorowsky’s new cinematic experience, Psychomagic, A Healing Art, explores the directors’ radical therapeutic work.

Influential, controversial and endlessly fascinating, Jodorowsky’s surreal masterpieces are presented here in stunning new 4K restorations, accompanied with a wealth of illuminating extras, and new writing.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

New 4K restorations of Fando y Lis, El Topo and The Holy Mountain approved by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Blu-ray premiere of Jodorowsky’s new film Psychomagic
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations
Original 1.0 mono audio and optional 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio
Newly translated English, Spanish and French subtitles
Six collector’s postcards
Double-sided fold-out poster
Limited edition 80-page hardbound book featuring new writing on the films by Virginie Sélavy, Michael Atkinson, Bilge Ebiri, Mark Pilkington and archival articles
Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly designed artwork by Matt Griffin

FANDO Y LIS

Audio commentary by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Jodorowsky Remembers Fando y Lis, new interview filmed in Paris
Newly filmed introduction with Richard Peña, Professor of Film Studies at Columbia University
La Cravate, Jodorowsky’s compellingly surreal 1957 adaptation of Thomas Mann’s The Transposed Heads
La Constellation Jodorowsky, Louis Mouchet’s feature-length documentary featuring interviews with Jean ‘Mobieus’ Giraud and Peter Gabriel
Trailer
Image galleries

EL TOPO

Film presentation in both 1.85:1 and 1.33:1 original theatrical aspect ratios for the first time
Audio commentary by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Jodorowsky Remembers El Topo, new interview
Newly filmed introduction with Richard Peña
A Conversation with The Son of El Topo, a newly filmed, extensive interview with Brontis Jodorowsky who stars in El Topo
The Father of Midnight Movies, an archival interview with Jodorowsky filmed in 2007
Original trailer
Image galleries
El Topo Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD

THE HOLY MOUNTAIN

Audio commentary by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Jodorowsky Remembers The Holy Mountain, new interview
Newly filmed introduction with Richard Peña
Pablo Leder: Jodorowsky’s Right Hand Man, Jodorowsky’s personal assistant remembers acting in El Topo and The Holy Mountain and his time spent with the director
The A to Z of The Holy Mountain, a new video essay by writer Ben Cobb
Deleted scenes with director’s commentary
The Tarot, a short film in which Jodorowsky explains the secrets of the cards
Original trailer
Image galleries
The Holy Mountain Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD

PSYCHOMAGIC, A HEALING ART

Blu-ray premiere of Jodorowsky’s new film
Original trailer