3rd April 2025 at 3:40am
★★★★★(details)
This is the best movie I've seen this year.
Jodorowsky's ill-fated Dune film adaptation was in some ways a boondoggle. It spent more than $1 million (in 1970's dollars) in pre-production alone, and was theorized to be 14 hours in length. Jodorowsky convinced Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles, and Mick Jagger to be in the movie. He also assembled the "dream team" of effects folks - Giger (his first time working in film), O'Bannon, Chris Foss, and Giraud ("Mœbius") - who all later worked on Alien.
This is a great look at Jodorowsky the director and his efforts to make the greatest film of all time.