Jodorowsky's Dune

While this film is a fairly marvellous documentary, how it effects you is largely down to what you already know, and also what you remember of the 70s.I had heard rumours about an original attempt to create Dune (something similar happened to LotR) but didn't know it was an attempt by a mad Svengali who hired some of the greatest talent available.

I couldn't resist the urge to paraphrase the Tenacious D lyric for this review's title, cause I can't imagine anything more fitting.I watched this documentary in anticipation of Denis Villeneuve's Dune, trying to better understand why adapting Dune in film has been such a challenge.

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a well known charlatan and scammer, a self help guru anda a creator of a form of therapy known as "psycho - magic" witch is of course a total fraud. Have been said that (and you can check it for yourself if you dont believe me), my guess is he conned a lot of people in the 70s for the making of this movie.

If you've ever dreamed of making a movie, this story is the dream. Except, despite Chilean-French filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's epic drive and commitment to make "Dune", the sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert, a reality, Hollywood could not bend to allow the film to go ahead.

"Jodorowsky's Dune" is a Documentary in which we watch Alejandro Jodorowsky talking about making the best movie of all time which is also his dream. He shows also how much work has been done and how many people had already worked for it.

"Visionary" is the most misused term in film circles of late, thrown around by idiots who wouldn't know a D.W.

Jodorowsky's dune was one of the most ambitious ideas ever, not the documentary I'm reviewing, but this documentary's subject matter, Alejandro Jodorowsky's adaptation of dune which was never finished. Jodorowsky's dune was no ordinary adaptation of a novel either, it was undeniably one of the most ambitious, creative ideas ever conceived.

Before watching Jodorowsky's Dune I have seen only 2 movies from the director however instead of a feeling of lack I appreciated the other movie footage and background on Jodorowsky's life and works. It isn't mostly what about but how Jodorowsky talks during the movie that shows the ways of how a great mind functions.

This is the only movie I watched twice at the True/False film festival in Columbia, Missouri in 2014. I am a fan of Frank Herbert's Dune and was pulled into the epic mythos of this 1970s film that never was.