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(Jodorowsky's Dune is now playing at Sundance Cinemas.)

Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky is best known by film nerds for 1970's El Topo and 1973's The Holy Mountain, two bizarre films assembled from cinematic non sequiturs and intense manipulation of Jungian concepts. In the mid-1970s, Jodorowsky and producer Michel Seydoux set out to produce an adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel Dune. The movie never happened, but film nerds still drool over the possibilities. Jodorowsky's Dune relates the story of the film's preproduction, and it's got to be the giddiest, most inspiring movie about moviemaking since Ed Wood.

The centerpiece of the documentary is Jodorowsky himself. In interviews, the director, who is well into his 80s, comes across as a kind of cross between Stan Lee and Stanley Kubrick...

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