Three films from Italy, one posthumous offering from Solveig Anspach and plenty of robust, yet familiar "Quinzaine" faces figure among the eighteen selections announced...
Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....
Endless Poetry
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Writer: Alejandro Jodrowsky
Chilean auteur Alejandro Jodorowsky has been incredibly productive since breaking his twenty-three year hiatus in filmmaking with 2013’s The...
Resurrecting Sci-fi Legend: Pavich Taps Alejandro
Frank Herbert's epic novel Dune has been a sci-fi benchmark since it's original release back in 1965, and since,...
#31. Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Dance of Reality
Gist: Alejandro Jodorowsky has published 23 novels, but it’s his autobiography that the 84 year-old Chilean director has...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.