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Apr. 27th, 2013 09:09 am10(ish). The Holy Mountain
Scattered semi-independent reactions:
- It makes sense that this movie exists.
- It fills a hole in my sense of the Seventies.
- May Jodorowsky find himself before a jury of animals.
- For some reason I thought this movie would be like Merhige's abysmal Begotten, avoided it.
- Which it might have been with an El Topo budget.
- But instead someone gave Jodorowsky Cremaster money.
- Fascinating how much one can agree with something and remain unmoved.
- Fascinating too how you can merely like that a certain kind of project was carried out.
- As I'm glad to have watched it but wish I hadn't had to watch it to get that gladness.
- Whereas I am glad about nothing about Cremaster.
- Which is now robbed even of its title of discovering a new form of failure.
- Aguirre and Heart of Glass do what El Topo and Holy Mountain wish to do.
- And yet Jodorowsky wins at excess, beats probably everyone ever.
- And excess would seem to be part of that wish to do.
- Proving less is more even when the topic is all things.
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- Adding: Looks like Lennon and wife gave him that Cremaster money.
- Also Lennon sings backup on and cowrote Bowie's Fame, I heard recently - who knew?
- Looks like the novel by Daumal it was partly plagiarizing inspired some Varo paintings, including the one Pynchon directly describes in Crying.
Scattered semi-independent reactions:
- It makes sense that this movie exists.
- It fills a hole in my sense of the Seventies.
- May Jodorowsky find himself before a jury of animals.
- For some reason I thought this movie would be like Merhige's abysmal Begotten, avoided it.
- Which it might have been with an El Topo budget.
- But instead someone gave Jodorowsky Cremaster money.
- Fascinating how much one can agree with something and remain unmoved.
- Fascinating too how you can merely like that a certain kind of project was carried out.
- As I'm glad to have watched it but wish I hadn't had to watch it to get that gladness.
- Whereas I am glad about nothing about Cremaster.
- Which is now robbed even of its title of discovering a new form of failure.
- Aguirre and Heart of Glass do what El Topo and Holy Mountain wish to do.
- And yet Jodorowsky wins at excess, beats probably everyone ever.
- And excess would seem to be part of that wish to do.
- Proving less is more even when the topic is all things.
*
- Adding: Looks like Lennon and wife gave him that Cremaster money.
- Also Lennon sings backup on and cowrote Bowie's Fame, I heard recently - who knew?
- Looks like the novel by Daumal it was partly plagiarizing inspired some Varo paintings, including the one Pynchon directly describes in Crying.
