Alejandro Jodorowsky is a film maker, most famous for his mystical cult classics "El Topo" and "The Holy Mountain." Throughout his 60 year career in the world of film and theatre, he has followed a path of spiritual enlightenment that has had an apparent influence on all his works
In 1962, he i
A graduate of the film programme at Toronto's Ryerson University (where he studied with avant garde filmmaker R. Bruce Elder, among others,) Bruce McDonald is a fan favourite in the world of independent Canadian film. His career actually began in high school, including one film that made $100 at a sc
In a time when much of American Independent Cinema falls on a spectrum with self-satisfied irony on one end and unabashed sentimentality on the other, David Gordon Green defies type. Orienting from the mantra “If I ever make anything clever, you can shoot me,” Green rose to prominence with emotio
After Goebbels made him an offer he couldn't refuse without unpleasant repercussions, celebrated German director Fritz Lang fled the new Nazi regime rather than supervise National Socialist Party motion pictures. Lang, a member-in-good-standing of the German Gothic school of Expressionist cinema, cut