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En Bellas Artes Concierto
Product Group: Video
Studio: Rmm Records
ISBN: B00000126Q
EAN: 0602828203733
UPC: 602828203733
VHS Tape
Original Release Date: 1996-12-17
Theatrical Release Date: 1996-12-17
Release Date: 1996-12-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
SKU: 07060102
Condition: New New
Comments: New VHS tape.. No rental or library stickers. Original cardboard case still in new shrink wrap.
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com
How can so much mysticism be contained in a simple DVD box set? The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky is a divine collection of the director's early films, restored and ready for repeated viewings. For it does take several viewings to imbue Jodorowky's invented archetypes with personal meaning and to familiarize oneself with his avant-garde approach to communicating artistic concepts. In this box, El Topo and Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky's stories of spiritual journeys through barren deserts, are paired with Fando Y Lis and La Cravate, a never before seen gem from the 1950s. This alone justifies the box set. La Cravate is a Technicolor tale of a man whose sadistic girfriend urges him to visit the head shop to shop for a new head. Miming his way through rows of living human heads, and trying several on with the help of a shop manager skilled in stitching skin, this Frankensteinian story establishes Jodorowsky's affinity for pitting effusive love against cruelty for maximum tension between involved characters. Fando Y Lis, on the other hand, is an early version of the later two masterpieces, about a couple whose quest for an imaginary land in the future, called Tar, introduces them to wizened forest masters, wild packs of women bowling, and enlightened drag queens. Filmed in black and white, Fando Y Lis proves that Jodorowsky's radical use of color in El Topo and Holy Mountain is no simple trope. Here, he relies more heavily on dramatic physical action, including miming and a paraplegic protagonist who is wheeled around in a wagon by her lover. The box set contains the film soundtracks, director commentaries, and several interviews with Jodorowsky, including the documentary, La Constellation, in which he discusses his reliance on intuition, the notion of absurdism versus mystery, and his infamous usage of violence, which he eloquently explains as creative violence versus the destructive. Though this talented director refuses the claim that he is a mystic, it becomes clear in watching this body of work that he is achieving the sublime in a visually transcendental fashion. --Trinie Dalton
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Customer Reviews
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Best Movies EVER!!!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-11-11
These are insightful movies but not boreing movies. They look a little old, but not much. Watch them, you are going to like them.
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From out of the depths
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-08-08
Rescued at long last from inaccessibility, "El Topo" lives up to its reputation as one of the great idiosyncratic "art films" of all time, filled with amazing -- even astonishing -- imagery and enhanced by the director's own haunting musical score. A tour de force for Alejandro Jodorowsky and a genuine must for anyone who enjoys adventurous, maverick moviemaking. Once seen, NEVER FORGOTTEN.
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Youll never expect
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-07-04
whats coming next in these movies which is why there so great!
youll be surprised and amazed. these films are incredulous.
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Real art
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-07-02
The Holy Mountain is really the only movie you need to see (and I mean among all films ever made). El Topo and Fando y Lis are almost variations on or preperations for the Holy Mountain, but they are still worth seeing in their own rite. I wouldn't recommend this entire box set unless you are a die hard Jodorowsky fan or a surreal film buff. If you are a surreal film buff I recommend you lower your dose of movies and start engaging with the world more. The cd's are kind of useless, but in general you get more than you pay for with this box set, so if you must buy it you won't be disappointed. Jodorowsky is a rare and genuine artist.
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Amazing - truly visionary
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-06-21
If you are looking for a CGI'd Bruce Willis to rapel through a skylight to rescue Julia Roberts with Chandler from Friends as a witty sidekick - I stongly suggest you find another collection to buy. Jodorowsky outwierds the wierdest, but the incredible technical excellence keeps these features quite watchable. There is no doubt that these are low budget "head" movies, but the director has a true vision and he sticks with it. Jordorwsky seems to want to communicate and interact with the audience, but he doesnt seem condecending the way some art house films can be. The Holy Mountain is more of a collection of vignettes, while El Topo follows a definate narrative. A new favorite of mine.
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