The Holy Mountain

The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, The Holy Mountain is a sprawling phantasmagoria of sacrilegious visual excess and existential yearning.Jodorowsky's most ambitious film sees the director himself play The Alchemist, a guru who guides a troupe of pilgrims, each representing a planet of the Solar System, on a magical quest to Lotus Island where they must ascend the Holy Mountain in search of spiritual enlightenment.The Holy Mountain is presented here newly restored in 4K with a selection of informative new interviews and extras which provide unprecedented insight into this momentous film.Please note that due to licensing restrictions, we can only ship this product to the UK and Ireland.Special Features:New 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative approved by Alejandro JodorowskyHigh Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentationUncompressed mono 1.0 LPCM audio and 5.1 DTS-HD Master AudioNewly translated English, Spanish and French subtitlesAudio commentary by Alejandro JodorowskyJodorowsky Remembers The Holy Mountain, a new interview filmed in ParisNewly filmed introduction with Richard Peña, Professor of Film Studies at Columbia UniversityPablo Leder: Jodorowsky's Right Hand Man, Jodorowsky's personal assistant remembers acting in El Topo and The Holy Mountain and his time spent with the directorThe A to Z of The Holy Mountain, a new video essay by writer Ben CobbDeleted scenes with director's commentaryThe Tarot, a short film in which Jodorowsky explains the secrets of the cardsOriginal trailerImage galleries