If you are into critically analyzing films, there can be very few movies as attractive as Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013). It is a documentary based on Alejandro Jodorowsky’s failed attempt to adapt ...

In 1974, cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky set out to make a film of the science fiction novel "Dune," with music by Pink Floyd, a cast that included Mick Jagger, and the goal of letting the ...

In the mid-1970s, fresh off the success of the surprisingly profitable cult films El Topo and The Holy Mountain, director Alejandro Jodorowsky set out to film Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel Dune.

In the mid-70s Alejandro Jodorowsky attempted to bring Frank Herbert's classic science fiction ... but Jodorowsky's version of Dune was never filmed. The documentary’s director Frank Pavich ...

The most perfect works of art are those suspended between conception and realization, the ones that seize you up with how great they’re gonna be. (Well, those and Busby Berkeley numbers ...

From the Beach Boys' Smile to Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon, the history of popular culture is filled with legendary projects left unrealized or unfinished by artists whose ambition finally exceeded ...

Scott Simon spoke to Frank Pavich about Jodorowsky's Dune, his new documentary about filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's failed 1970s attempt to make an adaptation of the bestselling sci-fi novel.

Indulging one of film history’s more entertaining 'what might have been' stories, first-timer Frank Pavich delivers his own mind-blowing cult movie. The year was 1974. After almost ...

Denis Villeneuve and David Lynch brought Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel to the big screen in 2021 and 1984, respectively, while Ridley Scott and Alejandro Jodorowsky also made their own efforts that ...

The documentary’s underlying conceit says that if Jodorowsky had only succeeded in making Dune, he might have changed the course of film history by establishing the blockbuster as something ...