Jodorowsky's Dune (Collector's Edition w/ BD, DVD & Book) [France]

[dan8885]

Release date: December 5, 2016
Purchase links: Amazon FR - FNAC - Blaq Out
Price: €29.99 (Amazon - FNAC) - €28.90 (Blaq Out)
Note: Limited to 2500 copies, includes BD, DVD, Book, Poster and 4 Artcards

Spoiler: Description & Special Features

Google Translator from French to English:

COLLECTOR BR / DVD / BOOK (limited to 2,500 copies)

Bonus Blu-ray:
Interview with Frank Pavich, director of the film
Interview with Norman Spinrad, author of science fiction
Interview with Numa Sadoul, BD specialist and close to Moebius
Interview with Marc Toullec, film critic (exclusive Blu-ray)
"H. R. Giger: Wizard of fantastic art" - documentary about the Swiss artist (exclusive Blu-ray)
68 minutes of additional scenes (exclusive Blu-ray)

Bonus DVD:
Interview with Frank Pavich, director of the film
Interview with Norman Spinrad, author of science fiction
Interview with Numa Sadoul, BD specialist and close to Moebius

Book with exclusive archival documents, texts of Alejandro Jodorowsky, HR Giger ... and drawings by 20 international artists designed especially for this edition, around the Frank Herbert's book universe and / or the draft Jodorowsky . Here you can find the work of Alexis Ziritt, Antoine Carrion, B-gnet, Ben Stenbeck, Bill Sienkiewicz, Charles Glaubitz, David Mack, José Ladrönn Laurent Bourlaud, Lorenzo De Felici, Matthias Lehmann, Nick Sheehy, Paul Pope, Pauline Aubry Pierre La Police, Tanxxx, Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Witko and
Zoran Janjetov

Technical Information:
BLU-RAY: REGION B 1080p24 • • 1:25
DVD: • ZONE 2 PAL • 1:22
• COLOR IMAGE SIZE 1.78
VO 2.0 / 5.1 • Sub-titles FRENCH

Released in 1965, "Dune", Frank Herbert's book, is a worldwide success and became the science fiction book more sold in the world.
In 1975, the French producer Michel Seydoux offers Alejandro Jodorowsky a very ambitious adaptation of "Dune", cinema. The latter, already director of cult films "El Topo" and "The Holy Mountain", agrees.
He gathers his "warriors" art, including Jean (Moebius) Giraud, Dan O'Bannon, Hans-Rudi Giger and Chris Foss who will be all the cinematic adventures of science fiction of the end of the century (Star Wars, Alien , Blade Runner, Total Recall, etc.).
The cast met Mick Jagger, Orson Welles, Salvador Dali, or David Carradine Amanda Lear, but also his young son Brontis Jodorowsky, Pink Floyd and Magma agree to sign the soundtrack ...
The production team search 5 million to finalize the budget and is facing the fear of Hollywood studios who fear temperament Jodorowsky ...
"Jodorowsky's Dune" tells the extraordinary story of the ghost film that was to be "the greatest film in the history of film" and forever change the face of the 7th art.

 

[dan8885]

Studio Blaq Out says on their Facebook regarding the book:
"It is being finalized but it should be around 120 pages, nearly 50% balanced texts / 50% iconography."

Artwork is taken from Kilian Eng's Mondo print

 

[dan8885]

@PunkNinja @C.C. 95 @martinouchou @Noodles @harry @TobinFrost @comICS-soon @Sigill

 

[C.C. 95]

Thanks for the tag @dan8885 !
It's a nice package!

 

[PunkNinja]

Thx @dan8885 looks like a great edition.

 

[harry]

Thanks @dan8885 . The package looks great

 

[dan8885]

I've asked Blaq Out about Audio and Subtitles:

Hello Daniel,

Thank you for your message !
Unfortunately there is only French subtitles on our release. And I'd say the documentary is 75% English/25% French.

Best regards,
Mathieu

 

[hal9000b]

Oh No. With englisch Subs this release would be awesome.

 

[Sigill]

Thanks @dan8885, looks very nice!

 

[Futurhythm]

Jodorowsky is my god.

If only ABKCO would fork out for a new master of El Topo and The Holy Mountain.

 

[C.C. 95]

I truly believe that if Jodorowsky had made Dune, it would have been the biggest trainwreck of all time. His ideas were ridiculous. Entertaining to listen to - but straight up, bad ideas. Of course the fact that he never read the book, was always an issue to start with!

 

[bigrob]

need this for my dune collection

 

[Futurhythm]

I truly believe that if Jodorowsky had made Dune, it would have been the biggest trainwreck of all time. His ideas were ridiculous. Entertaining to listen to - but straight up, bad ideas. Of course the fact that he never read the book, was always an issue to start with!

If Jodorowsky had his DUNE made, we'd be living in a very different world. His ideas are ridiculous yes, but bad is not a word I'd use. This guy filmed birds flying out of bullet wounds and a toad reenactment of the conquistadors invading the Aztecs all without CGI. Mick Jagger lighting a blunt with a burning butterfly -- I'd give anything to see his ideas on film.

 

[C.C. 95]

If Jodorowsky had his DUNE made, we'd be living in a very different world. .

Seriously?!
He has made some interesting films (actually, just 3, really) with some good imagery...But they are very much a product of the 70's and drug use. I get that you really like him, but for 99% of cinephiles he probably doesn't even crack the top 30 on the best directors of all time list.
And saying that if he made DUNE "we would be living in a very different world", wins you a seat in the hyperbole hall of fame.

 

[jayce20]

notice there is a 5 € voucher from FNAC.com should grab 1

what kind of blu ray edition will it be ? digibook/pack ? coz due to the book I don't know

 

[jim 80]

Real shame about the lack of English subs. I'm a bit torn now as I would like this edition. Hmm.

 

[Futurhythm]

Seriously?!
He has made some interesting films (actually, just 3, really) with some good imagery...But they are very much a product of the 70's and drug use. I get that you really like him, but for 99% of cinephiles he probably doesn't even crack the top 30 on the best directors of all time list.
And saying that if he made DUNE "we would be living in a very different world", wins you a seat in the hyperbole hall of fame.

To pass his stuff off as simply being a product of its time or drug use is a major understatement. While I'm not personally invested in mysticism or the occult, everything he does is pulled from and informed by an insanely rich knowledge of these things. A lot of his work is also largely informed by his life growing up in Chile, what was happening there at the time, and his eventual apprenticeship under Marcel Marceau. He's a filmmaker who has no problems explaining what he's put on the screen either, e.g. the commentary he did for The Holy Mountain is basically him telling you what everything means and where it comes from.

While I don't think he's a particularly good director from a technical standpoint, it's all about his imagination and what he's willing to put on camera. I do like El Topo and Holy Mountain, but I don't think they're actually good films outside of the imagery, and nobody can say they aren't interesting. However, Fando y Lis, Santa Sangre, and The Dance of Reality are absolutely fine films that prove his filmmaking chops.

You can't deny that the crew he assembled to work on DUNE ultimately made huge impacts on films and pop culture itself. Some of these people would probably never have gone into movies if he didn't get them together in the first place. I don't think it's hyperbole at all to say if he had his DUNE made, the world would be very different. What if we got Jodorowsky's Dune instead of Star Wars? What if Star Wars never got made and Friedkin's Sorcerer became a thing?

 

[C.C. 95]

To pass his stuff off as simply being a product of its time or drug use is a major understatement. While I'm not personally invested in mysticism or the occult, everything he does is pulled from and informed by an insanely rich knowledge of these things. A lot of his work is also largely informed by his life growing up in Chile, what was happening there at the time, and his eventual apprenticeship under Marcel Marceau. He's a filmmaker who has no problems explaining what he's put on the screen either, e.g. the commentary he did for The Holy Mountain is basically him telling you what everything means and where it comes from.

While I don't think he's a particularly good director from a technical standpoint, it's all about his imagination and what he's willing to put on camera. I do like El Topo and Holy Mountain, but I don't think they're actually good films outside of the imagery, and nobody can say they aren't interesting. However, Fando y Lis, Santa Sangre, and The Dance of Reality are absolutely fine films that prove his filmmaking chops.

You can't deny that the crew he assembled to work on DUNE ultimately made huge impacts on films and pop culture itself. Some of these people would probably never have gone into movies if he didn't get them together in the first place. I don't think it's hyperbole at all to say if he had his DUNE made, the world would be very different. What if we got Jodorowsky's Dune instead of Star Wars? What if Star Wars never got made and Friedkin's Sorcerer became a thing?

I totally agree that he is a director that has amde make films with beautiful, beguiling images.
But when you say "What if we got Jodorowsky's Dune instead of Star Wars? What if Star Wars never got made and Friedkin's Sorcerer became a thing?" Well, we can play that "what if" game all day long with anybody and any film.
If David Lynch doesn't make DUNE and it fails, does he do BLUE VELVET?
And, I really hate the argument people make that he is responsible for other movies. HR Giger, Moebius, Dan O'Bannon, and Douglas Trumbull were all very well know artists at that time within the industry. Jodorowsky did not "discover" anybody. And he cannot claim any influence in ALIEN. It is pure conjecture that his ideas for DUNE had any influence on anybody.
But, I think the documentary does a real disservice to the viewer by having uberfan (and uberwank) Nicholas Winding Refn host this feast, continually talking about the film as an unproduced "Classic".
Roger Ebert who was huge fan of Jodorowsky even said of the film:
"chains of influence are impossible to verify, and there are times when you may feel as though (director) Pavich is straining to make the project seem as important to cinema history as it was to Jodorowsky and company. Equally specious is the film's Lewbowski-like insistence that Jodorowsky's ideas were so mind-blowing that studio suits just couldn't handle them, man (it seems more likely that they thought the picture was too long and expensive to be that weird)."
It is a very entertaining doc, but the insistence that his DUNE is a "lost masterpiece" is just silly.
All one needs to do is watch the documentary to hear his ridiculous, outlandish ideas.
A film that is 24 hours long? The audience should do drugs before watching it? A budget of a gazillion dollars? It really was an attempt to make the most expensive, trippy "groovy" hippy movie.
And I don't think Jodorowsky would refute that.
But....he does have a great imagination. Sante Sangre, and Holy Mountain should be required viewing for any cinephile.
I just believe that over the years, Jodorowsky and friends have let DUNE become a legend in their own minds. It really, and honestly, sounds AWFUL.
Of course, We could do this with any unmade film. Maybe Paul Verhoeven's CRUSADE would have been the greatest masterpiece. Or John Milius' KING CONAN. Or James Cameron's SPIDERMAN.
Or Kubrick's NAPOLEON.
It's all speculation.

 

[Futurhythm]

I totally agree that he is a director that has amde make films with beautiful, beguiling images.
But when you say "What if we got Jodorowsky's Dune instead of Star Wars? What if Star Wars never got made and Friedkin's Sorcerer became a thing?" Well, we can play that "what if" game all day long with anybody and any film.
If David Lynch doesn't make DUNE and it fails, does he do BLUE VELVET?
And, I really hate the argument people make that he is responsible for other movies. HR Giger, Moebius, Dan O'Bannon, and Douglas Trumbull were all very well know artists at that time within the industry. Jodorowsky did not "discover" anybody. And he cannot claim any influence in ALIEN. It is pure conjecture that his ideas for DUNE had any influence on anybody.
But, I think the documentary does a real disservice to the viewer by having uberfan (and uberwank) Nicholas Winding Refn host this feast, continually talking about the film as an unproduced "Classic".
Roger Ebert who was huge fan of Jodorowsky even said of the film:
"chains of influence are impossible to verify, and there are times when you may feel as though (director) Pavich is straining to make the project seem as important to cinema history as it was to Jodorowsky and company. Equally specious is the film's Lewbowski-like insistence that Jodorowsky's ideas were so mind-blowing that studio suits just couldn't handle them, man (it seems more likely that they thought the picture was too long and expensive to be that weird)."
It is a very entertaining doc, but the insistence that his DUNE is a "lost masterpiece" is just silly.
All one needs to do is watch the documentary to hear his ridiculous, outlandish ideas.
A film that is 24 hours long? The audience should do drugs before watching it? A budget of a gazillion dollars? It really was an attempt to make the most expensive, trippy "groovy" hippy movie.
And I don't think Jodorowsky would refute that.
But....he does have a great imagination. Sante Sangre, and Holy Mountain should be required viewing for any cinephile.
I just believe that over the years, Jodorowsky and friends have let DUNE become a legend in their own minds. It really, and honestly, sounds AWFUL.
Of course, We could do this with any unmade film. Maybe Paul Verhoeven's CRUSADE would have been the greatest masterpiece. Or John Milius' KING CONAN. Or James Cameron's SPIDERMAN.
Or Kubrick's NAPOLEON.
It's all speculation.

You hit the nail on the head with speculation. But that's exactly why I think this unmade movie in particular has managed to hit such mythical status whether they made a doco about it or not. It's pretty much the ultimate what if, and it's that speculation that makes it so fascinating. It all comes down to the idea and the story of and behind the movie. The film's production history is a good story already, add to that Jodorowsky's penchant for storytelling and being as entertaining and tangible with the truth, and you've got this enduring legend. As much effort as he spent trying to make the movie, the same amount or maybe even more was then spent subsequently on keeping this thing alive, even though it was never made.

The other thing of course is that all this fits within the whole big bang of Star Wars and the end of New Hollywood which to this day we still feel the effects.

I don't disagree that Jodorowsky didn't discover Giger et al., but I think it's the idea of getting these people to work on a movie is what he's taking credit for. The problem is all these people have such distinct sensibilities you can't say what was rehashed from work they did on DUNE and what wasn't. All part of the myth I guess.

 

[C.C. 95]

You hit the nail on the head with speculation. But that's exactly why I think this unmade movie in particular has managed to hit such mythical status whether they made a doco about it or not. It's pretty much the ultimate what if, and it's that speculation that makes it so fascinating. It all comes down to the idea and the story of and behind the movie. The film's production history is a good story already, add to that Jodorowsky's penchant for storytelling and being as entertaining and tangible with the truth, and you've got this enduring legend. As much effort as he spent trying to make the movie, the same amount or maybe even more was then spent subsequently on keeping this thing alive, even though it was never made.

The other thing of course is that all this fits within the whole big bang of Star Wars and the end of New Hollywood which to this day we still feel the effects.

I don't disagree that Jodorowsky didn't discover Giger et al., but I think it's the idea of getting these people to work on a movie is what he's taking credit for. The problem is all these people have such distinct sensibilities you can't say what was rehashed from work they did on DUNE and what wasn't. All part of the myth I guess.

I agree that it is a whale of a tale!
I mean, I certainly would not turn down the opportunity to have a look at the compendious tome that contained the script and art. (In the documentary it loks like gigantic!).
But, I as a cinephile, I enjoy all the tales of productions gone wrong. (From Orson Welle's Magnificent Ambersons to Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote).