I'd comment, but I'm too busy orgasming. Go read it yourself.

http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/absurda-lynch-herzog-jodorowski/

I'm actually excited to see what Jodorowsky might come up with. And hopefully, having production help from Lynch can speed it along. Santa Sangre - which I think is the last film Jodorowsky wrote and directed - is one of my favourite films.

Herzog is indeed great, and it will be nice to have him return to low-budget after Rescue Dawn (which I still need to see).

Maybe Absurda in a few years time will become the United Artists of the 21st century.

"What credit card do you want to put that on?"
"Caash, prease."

So, um, what all do you suppose this 60's documentary mentioned at the end is about?  *cough* rhetorically *cough*

My Son My Son What Have Ye Done is due out 2010 and stars Chloe Sevigny and Willem Dafoe.

David Lynch making new films with Herzog, Jodorowsky

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Sean Gandert

on May 19, 2008 8:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

QUOTE- A "Lynch-esque documentary," (as if he could direct any other kind),

This author wrote this as a love letter to Booth

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

Another Jodorwosky-Lynch connection some of you might not know about:

 WIKIPEDIA:

Dune

In December 1974, a French consortium, lead by Jean-Paul Gibon, who was the executive producer of Caméra One, purchased the movie rights for Frank Herbert's Dune from Arthur P. Jacobs estate. After Jacobs' failed attempt to make a film version with David Lean as the directer, Jodorowsky was brought on to write and direct the project.

[edit] Writing

Jodorowsky wrote a screenplay for Dune in the early 70's; he has stated that he started writing before he even read the book. The film would have taken great liberties with Frank Herbert's text, including changing many of the characters and story, making Leto Atreides a eunuch, making the spice melange a blue sponge-like substance and completely changing the ending. It's been noted that Herbert openly despised these concepts.

Jodorowsky's "Seven Samurai"

During the early process of pre-production. Jodorowsky assembled a group he called "His Seven Samurai", which were essential to the film's production.

Michel Seydoux

A young Parisian millionaire who was to finance and produce the film.

Jean 'Moebius' Giraud

The French comic book artist created over 3,000 pieces of artwork, including storyboarding the entire script.

Chris Foss

The English draughtsman was hired to design the ships and vehicles for the film.

HR Giger

The Swiss painter was hired to design the Harkonnen homeworld after Salvador Dali showed Alejandro Jodorowsky a HR Giger catalogue.

Dan O'Bannon

After his success with Dark Star, he was to produced the special effects for Jodorowsky's Dune. He moved to Paris for 6 months to work with Eurocitel, a French Special Effects company. He returned to the USA around Christmas 1975 looking for VistaVision equipment when he received word that the Dune project had been cancelled. Alejandro Jodorowsky had originally wanted Douglas Trumbull, who had done the Special Effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Silent Running, but the two did not get alone with each other.

Pink Floyd

The group met with Alejandro Jodorowsky in Abbey Road Studios, London and agreed to make almost all the music for Dune. It's also been said that Magma was also involved in the score. It was Jodorowsky's idea to use different bands for each planet, creating its own feel and atmosphere.

Salvador Dali

The Spanish painter agreed to play the role of Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV for $100,000 an hour and only spend an hour on the film set a day.

[edit] Casting

As well as wanting Salvador Dali to play the Emperor, Alejandro Jodorowsky had other plans for the casting. Originally he wanted to play Leto Atreides himself, but changed his mind when he decided he'd be too busy with the rest of the movie, in Paris he met David Carradine who was interested in the role. For the role of Paul Atreides, he cast his son Brontis Jodorowsky. Jodorowsky wanted Charlotte Rampling for Lady Jessica, but she turned the role down, citing that she wanted to two or three commercial films. Orson Welles was set to play the Baron Harkonnen and Gloria Swanson was to play the Benne Geserit Reverend Mother.

[edit] Demise

When funding for the film evaporated, Jodorowsky claimed it was sabotaged by the major studios in Hollywood because it was too French, a strange claim considering that Jodorowsky, while a naturalized citizen of France, has never identified with any particular country or culture (although the funding and his producer, Jerome Seydoux, were French). Many people close to the project claim that the set designs later turned up in Star Wars. Several of the people working on Jodorowsky's version of Dune later worked on Alien with elements (specifically those designed by Giger) similar to that of the failed Dune project. Whatever the opinions, Jodorowsky was the person who persuaded artist Mœbius to begin drawing science fiction at the beginning of the seventies, instead of "limiting himself to the Western genre." That decision triggered a "domino effect," which led to a massive revolution in science fiction design on both sides of the Atlantic. Director Ridley Scott credits the influence of a few French artists of that time for his decision to bring science fiction to the screen. In the early 1980s, David Lynch would later make the first film adaptation of Dune.

Jodorowsky's Dune is one of the great unmade films of all time. Perhaps it's a good thing that it never got made, so it can stay as a beautiful dream which reality could never live up to.

i think they are using it in the sense that film=movie, not film=celluloid.
i can not wait until "my son, my son". i agree with Evenreven, im glad he's returning(at least thats what it seems to be) to his grittier style, instead of the more mainstream "rescue dawn". but i still encourage you to watch it, only the beginning and the end feel a bit out of place in a herzog film. the middle is much more like his previous jungle films, "aguirre" and "fitzcarraldo". and i do believe the scene where deiter is shot down is the first time herzog has used a studio and not a location(the rest of the film was shot on location). but i could be wrong. whats interesting is that the film was produced independently by gibraltar films, and MGM only picked up the distribution right for the DVD. so technically, it was still an independent film.

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)