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[proximoception]

10(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.

Comments

[tdaschel.livejournal.com]

.. story goes that Jodorowsky saw a rough cut of The Last Movie, then lectured Dennis Hopper about how it was too "Hollywood," too linear.

Hopper took his advice to heart.

and thus we have the .. Cocaine of the Sierra Madre that is .. The Last Movie.

ps/ you might actually *enjoy* Santa Sangre (1989), a lovely film (in its own way ..) !

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Parts of it. But the elephant.