JODOROWSKY’S DUNE Special Screenings

1974 was to be a breakout year for cult film icon Alejandro Jodorowsky. He had burst onto the international scene with the first “midnight movies” – mystical EL TOPO followed by surreal sensation THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, both acclaimed in the pantheon of alternative cinema. Now, it was time for his masterpiece. Having secured rights to Frank Herbert’s sci-fi tome “Dune,” he would unleash a revolutionary vision upon an unsuspecting world – or so he thought. Chronicling one of the lost legends of cinephilia, director Frank Pavich has exhaustively researched and lovingly assembled the surviving troupe of warriors who worked on Jodorowsky’s project to recount the story of one of the greatest films never made. Vividly revealing the timelessness of passion and the tragedy of unrealized ideas, often in the enigmatic auteur’s own words, JODOROWSKY’S DUNE stands as a testament to the spirit of artistic pursuit and a love letter to total cinema.