“You are seven years old. You are a man. Bury your first toy and your mother’s picture.”
Alejandro Jodorowsky: 4K Restoration Collection
will be available on September 18th. The deluxe box set by Abkco will include the surrealist filmmaker’s latest Psychomagic, A Healing Art, along with 4K restorations of El Topo, The Holy Mountain, and Fando Y Lis.
Loaded with extras and ephemera, the box set features a 78-page book
with photos and essays, a set of art cards together with four
Blu-ray discs, and two CDs housed in a high-quality case. Check Out this ‘Unboxing’ Video:
Psychomagic, A Healing Art will be available as part of Abkco Films’ Alejandro Jodorowsky: 4K Restoration Collection, due to release on September 18, 2020. This deluxe box set also includes The Maestro’s films Fando y Lis, El Topo, and The Holy Mountain, each meticulously restored in 4K on Blu-ray, along with...
Alejandro Jodorowsky: 4K Restoration Collection
will be available on September 18th. The deluxe box set by Abkco will include the surrealist filmmaker’s latest Psychomagic, A Healing Art, along with 4K restorations of El Topo, The Holy Mountain, and Fando Y Lis.
Loaded with extras and ephemera, the box set features a 78-page book
with photos and essays, a set of art cards together with four
Blu-ray discs, and two CDs housed in a high-quality case. Check Out this ‘Unboxing’ Video:
Psychomagic, A Healing Art will be available as part of Abkco Films’ Alejandro Jodorowsky: 4K Restoration Collection, due to release on September 18, 2020. This deluxe box set also includes The Maestro’s films Fando y Lis, El Topo, and The Holy Mountain, each meticulously restored in 4K on Blu-ray, along with...
- 8/20/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
While Alejandro Jodorowsky has never colored inside the lines, he has made movies that approximate some version of commercial appeal, such as his midnight-movie classics “The Holy Mountain” and “El Topo.” That’s not the case for his new documentary, “Psychomagic, a Healing Art” a kind of “avant-garde infomercial” that presents the highly unconventional form of trauma therapy he pioneered in the late 1970s, which draws upon everything from shamanism to Carl Jung. Rejecting the premises of common techniques like psychoanalysis and talk therapy, Jodorowsky compels his subjects to engage in performative exercises, which he calls “actions,” that defy description and are meant to exorcise familial demons. In this film, some of those activities include one subject being buried alive up to his neck and having a plastic helmet placed over his head as vultures feed off raw meat all around him. In other sequences, a man is asked to...
- 8/13/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
A producer on Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “Endless Poetry” is fighting to reclaim a $200,000 loan repayment as part of an ongoing legal dispute with the cult filmmaker’s Satori Films banner.
A Paris tribunal has directed Satori Films to pay Amir Abbas Nokhasteh, an executive producer on “Endless Poetry,” almost $200,000 in repayment of a loan from the producer that was used to make the 2016 film.
A March 2020 court order from the Judicial Tribunal of Paris, seen by Variety, required Satori Films to pay a provisional sum of $193,484.01 as repayment of a $200,000 loan on the film, plus $3,563 in legal costs. However, Satori Films, of which Jodorowsky owns 94%, filed for voluntary liquidation on July 23, according to filings on France’s Infogreffe registry, seen by Variety.
“I’m not looking for sympathy at all. It is more about shedding a light on something that is happening,” Nokhasteh tells Variety.
The origins of the dispute stretch back to 2015 when Jodorowsky,...
A Paris tribunal has directed Satori Films to pay Amir Abbas Nokhasteh, an executive producer on “Endless Poetry,” almost $200,000 in repayment of a loan from the producer that was used to make the 2016 film.
A March 2020 court order from the Judicial Tribunal of Paris, seen by Variety, required Satori Films to pay a provisional sum of $193,484.01 as repayment of a $200,000 loan on the film, plus $3,563 in legal costs. However, Satori Films, of which Jodorowsky owns 94%, filed for voluntary liquidation on July 23, according to filings on France’s Infogreffe registry, seen by Variety.
“I’m not looking for sympathy at all. It is more about shedding a light on something that is happening,” Nokhasteh tells Variety.
The origins of the dispute stretch back to 2015 when Jodorowsky,...
- 8/7/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
With the psychedelic zaniness of “El Topo” and “The Holy Mountain,” Chilean-born director Alejandro Jodorowsky invented the concept of the midnight movie, but even the filmmaker’s most outrageous gambles weren’t weird-for-weirdness’ sake. His filmmaking matches its trippier elements with sensitive, even sensual, qualities, so it’s unsurprising that a director keen on burrowing inside his audience’s mind also fancies himself a therapist.
“Psychomagic, A Healing Art” is a wandering non-fiction collage of the shamanic service Jodorowsky has offered tortured souls for decades and allows the 91-year-old to make the case for his strange services. The result is , a dreamlike chronicle of human suffering for which Jodorowsky offers a wild solution on par with his craziest filmmaking conceits.
Jodorowsky has appeared in his own stories before, guiding audiences through autobiographical dramas “The Dance of Reality” and “Endless Poetry,” but in “Psychomagic” he’s less storyteller, more interdimensional reality show host.
“Psychomagic, A Healing Art” is a wandering non-fiction collage of the shamanic service Jodorowsky has offered tortured souls for decades and allows the 91-year-old to make the case for his strange services. The result is , a dreamlike chronicle of human suffering for which Jodorowsky offers a wild solution on par with his craziest filmmaking conceits.
Jodorowsky has appeared in his own stories before, guiding audiences through autobiographical dramas “The Dance of Reality” and “Endless Poetry,” but in “Psychomagic” he’s less storyteller, more interdimensional reality show host.
- 8/5/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
“When I decided to invent an art to heal, I jumped out of my prison as if out of an ivory tower, and entered the pain of the world,” Alejandro Jodorowsky begins in this never-before-seen clip from his upcoming documentary Psychomagic, A Healing Art. The film which will be released on Alamo on Demand Aug. 7, explores the director’s theory of trauma therapy, using performance art to offset psychic suffering real world acts of confrontation.
The 91-year old father of the “midnight movie,” is not only behind the camera but also featured as the subject in Psychomagic, A Healing Art. “I used a humble set of Tarot cards as an instrument,” he says in the clip. “I did not read the future but the present. When I began to read the present of people, the problems of family fell onto me.”
From there taught reason to speak the language of dreams.
The 91-year old father of the “midnight movie,” is not only behind the camera but also featured as the subject in Psychomagic, A Healing Art. “I used a humble set of Tarot cards as an instrument,” he says in the clip. “I did not read the future but the present. When I began to read the present of people, the problems of family fell onto me.”
From there taught reason to speak the language of dreams.
- 8/5/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
While many who read The Playlist regularly probably have heard the name Alejandro Jodorowsky quite a few times before, as the Chilean filmmaker is one of the most interesting figures in film history, with his one-of-a-kind surrealist style. However, as we see in his new feature, “Psychomagic, A Healing Art,” the filmmaker is still creating features but has turned his focus to more therapeutic work—the type of therapy you could only expect from the filmmaker behind “The Holy Mountain.”
In honor of the upcoming release of ‘Psychomagic,’ we’re thrilled to offer our reader an exclusive look at the film with a new clip showing the very interesting ways that Jodorowsky is helping people.
Continue reading ‘Psychomagic’ Exclusive Clip: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Latest Shows How Burying Yourself Alive Is Therapeutic at The Playlist.
In honor of the upcoming release of ‘Psychomagic,’ we’re thrilled to offer our reader an exclusive look at the film with a new clip showing the very interesting ways that Jodorowsky is helping people.
Continue reading ‘Psychomagic’ Exclusive Clip: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Latest Shows How Burying Yourself Alive Is Therapeutic at The Playlist.
- 8/3/2020
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Turning 91 earlier this year, surrealist master Alejandro Jodorowsky is continuing to stay busy after a rather prolific last decade. His latest film, Psychomagic, A Healing Art, is a documentary that takes a look at his dedication to a specific process of therapy to heal suffering around him. Coming from Abkco Films, the film will be premiering on Alamo on Demand on August 7, preceded by a retrospective of the Chilean-French director’s work.
His new film draws, as the official synopsis states, “from a life-long study of philosophy, psychology, ethnology, and world religions, from Freud to shamans, from Kabbalah to Gurdjieff, and everything in between, Jodorowsky’s films have dealt with the individual quest for redemption and enlightenment, the protagonist facing bizarre and provocative challenges that lead to personal catharsis.”
Fans of the director will also get another treat. On August 21, a new Jodorowsky box set will be released as well,...
His new film draws, as the official synopsis states, “from a life-long study of philosophy, psychology, ethnology, and world religions, from Freud to shamans, from Kabbalah to Gurdjieff, and everything in between, Jodorowsky’s films have dealt with the individual quest for redemption and enlightenment, the protagonist facing bizarre and provocative challenges that lead to personal catharsis.”
Fans of the director will also get another treat. On August 21, a new Jodorowsky box set will be released as well,...
- 6/25/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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