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 ...

Alejandro Jodowrowsky has enjoyed quite an eclectic career over the decades, developing a reputation as an avant-garde filmmaker, an accomplished comic book writer and the man who nearly brought Dune ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At its most heightened state of geek arousal, Frank Pavich's Jodorowsky's Dune imagines an alternate pop-cultural universe where an unmade movie changed everything. Had Alejandro Jodorowsky, the ...

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 ...

One of the big attractions at the Melbourne International Film Festival this year is Frank Pavich’s documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013). The film retells the story of cult Chilean director Alejandro ...

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 ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...