Mysticism

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Antichrist - Gigola - King Shot
three upcoming movies
Lars von Trier, one of my all time favorite directors, is currently working on Antichrist, a film starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. He wrote and directed it and he's expected to show it at this years Cannes Festival which is sometime in May.

In the village of filmdom Lars' films fly far above the fray. Dancer In The Dark is my favorite one of his.

Trailer

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And Gigola has just started in early 2009 and is taken from a steamy novel by Laure Charpentier.

The plot: George, a young woman loses herself in the nightlife of 1960s-era Paris after the suicide of her female lover, and eventually becomes a gigolo catering to women.

It stars the toxic Asia Argento and the smoldering Anne Parillaud, Marisa Berenson, and Tchéky Karyo.

Asia Argento is so enigmatic -- wow! Many of her characters remind me of a younger version of myself, I hesitate to add. I saw her again in Transvylvania a few nights ago.
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She's also working on Alejandro Jodorowsky's King Shot, that's been in production for-ev-er.

Keep churning the good stuff out. We'll be waiting.

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Psychomagic

Another Thing I Wanted To Tell You

"I had to invent another technique. Psychomagic." said Director Alejandro Jodorowsky on tarot reading.

More on Jodo and his tarot reading in the Spring 2009 AnOther magazine.

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Werner Herzog and David Lynch

David Lynch making new films with Herzog, Jodorowsky

Werner Herzog and David Lynch are teaming for "My Son, My Son," a horror-tinged murder drama based on a true story.

Herzog and his longtime assistant director Herbert Golder co-wrote "Son," loosely based on the true story of a San Diego man who acts out a Sophocles play in his mind and kills his mother with a sword. The low-budget feature will flash back and forth from the murder scene to the disturbed man's story. A guerrilla-style digital video shoot on Coronado Island is tentatively set for March.

In a separate development, Lynch's Absurda production company has attached Asia Argento and Udo Kier to star with Nick Nolte in Alejandro Jodorowsky's metaphysical gangster movie "King Shot."

Marilyn Manson is touted to appear as a prophet in the "Sin City"-style film, which producer Eric Bassett said has enough sex and violence to guarantee an NC-17 rating.

Lynch is executive producing both projects, and Absurda is repping their sales rights in the Cannes market.

"Son" is produced by Eric Bassett, who also is producing "King" with his Absurda colleague Norm Hill and Clavis Films' Simon Shandor.

Herzog, repped by Gersh, is having a busy 2008. He was set to film "Son" in the summer but postponed it to direct Nicolas Cage in a remake of Abel Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant" starting in July. In the fall, he will shoot the Victorian-era drama "The Piano Tuner" for Focus Features.

All kinds of good film news! [via], link

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The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky

Welcome to the bizarre universe of Alejandro Jodorowsky, a monstrous talent whose alchemical insights and sublime freak-outs epitomize an era of rare cinematic enlightenment-- provocative and psychedelic on a grand scale.

Thanks to the end of a bitter 30-year feud, the deranged, gruesome films of Jodorowsky have finally been released. (The films we've previously seen have been poor quality bootlegs.)

Amazon has a May 1, shipping date for this DVD package with El Topo, Fando Y Lis, and The Holy Mountain. It also includes a DVD of Jodorowsky's never-before-released first film, La Cravate and the La Constellation Jodorowsky doc and more interviews, scripts and such.

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UPDATE: From the For What It's Worth department -- Jodorowsky just sent Twitch Films 4 storyboards (3 black and white and 1 colored) for his new movie "King Shot". Nick Nolte and Marilyn Manson will star in this movie, being said to be a "metaphysical spaghetti gangster film".

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El Topo Soundtrack

The god that hangs over all weird movies is Alejandro Jodorowsky, a director whose work is so consistently weird and offbeat you can guarantee it will never be claimed by the mainstream. The personality of Jodorowsky himself hangs over and is inseparable from his films, he seems to exude the physical electricity and magnetism of a cult leader, while his biography is impossible to differentiate from his self-aggrandizing. His films are designed not as entertainment but as mystical, transcendental experiences.

Nicely researched post about El Topo and the soundtrack from the movie at the Dinosaur Gardens website. Listed are 7 songs in mp3 format. link. You will also find the soundtrack to the Holy Mountain film.

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Jodorowsky : “Peace Is Yours.”

"You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold", Alejandro Jodorowsky explains in his film The Holy Mountain. Because Jodorowsky the alchemist uses his work as an athanor. The initiation is made up of films (Fando & Lys, El Topo, Santa Sangre...), of strip cartoons (L’Incal, created with Moebius, La Caste des Métabarrons, created with Giménez...), of books and of the Tarot.

”...Peace can be true, we have evidence of it... The evidence - here it is - you see here we have a miracle. Look at the pleasure that this cat has in communicating with a human being. I’m not his master, I’m only a human being. It could take exactly the same pleasure with you. Do you want to see? Take the cat...You see... Stroke it... Here it is, it’s yours. Peace is yours.”

Alexandro Jodorowsky indeed dispenses the philosophy of the Tarot each Wednesday in a Parisian cafe, just to help those who suffer. The poet sows the seeds of consciousness. This interview took place a few minutes before one of these readings.

I like that he's seen petting a cat, writing poetry, and giving tarot readings. Sure helps to put a more normal face on this amazing director of very bizarre films.

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Weekend Webtrail

New article on Chilean-born director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who is best known for his psychedelic, violent movies (El Topo, The Holy Mountain), but he has also been, at one time or another during his 75 years on Earth, the mime protégé of Marcel Marceau, a surrealist performance artist, an esoteric comic-book author, and a tarot card reader. He recently spoke about "Psychomagic," a healing practice developed by Jodorowsky that "uses the language of the subconscious to undo our deepest knots, phobias, fixations, and obsessions." more »

Keith Richards and Johnny Depp hire CREEM hacks to polish first draft of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Treasures Of The Lost Abyss? more »

How to use a hand puppet to get dates. Hey, guys, you may have been doing it all wrong. Link via jwalk

Watch Me Turn 30 - is a photo documented blog that's nicely executed.

James Lee Burke - One of my favorite authors with a new article in January Magazine. more »

Pool betting on Dylan's setlists. 60 Minutes interview Sunday night was good. link

Haiku For You
I've been abducted
And replaced by a geezer
Though she wears my clothes

Today's Quote
One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. ~Nietzsche

Finally. My server was down over the weekend to move from MA to NY and is due to be up and running today by noon.

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