Films Of Alejandro Jodorowsky, The

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John Lennon championed him, Dennis Hopper used him and Marilyn Manson loves him. Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of cinema's most controversial and influential filmmakers. In 1968, his scandalous debut "Fando Y Lis" caused a riot in Mexico. His ultra-violent underground hit "El Topo" dragged the hippy generation into the '70s, single-handedly invented the American Midnight Movie phenomenon and transformed its creator into a counterculture icon. With "The Holy Mountain," his pop-alchemical follow-up, Jodorowsky tore apart the very fabric of film. After 35 years in the wilderness, the maverick visionary is back to shock and bedazzle audiences all over again. - (Ben Cob, "Anarchy And Alchemy: The Films Of Alejandro Jodorowsky"). Collection includes: "Fando Y Lis" - Banned in Mexico, a permanent cause celebre, surrealist 'fabulador' Alejandro Jodorowsky's unique career began with this bizarre tale of corrupted innocence, sadomasochistic love and unattainable paradise. Created from hazy memories of the controversial Fernando Arrabal play he staged in Paris, Jodorowsky's sublime freak-out follows impotent Fando (Sergio Kleiner) and his paraplegic sweetheart Lis (Diana Mariscal) searching for the enchanted city of Tar where spiritual ecstasy resides. The astonishing road trip takes them through urban rubble, scalding deserts, treacherous mountains, their own pasts and close encounters with the weirdest kind in Jodorowsky's seminal, signature work of startling provocation and incendiary art. "El Topo" - It was the landmark cult film that began the whole Midnight Movie phenomena of the counterculture crazy 1970s. "El Topo" was the most talked about, most controversial quasi-Western head trip ever made, transforming the way risk-taking audiences, seeking mainstream Hollywood alternatives, watched edgy underground films.