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An extended version of Mark Pilkington's interview with celluloid sorcerer <a href="http://www.forteantimes.com/features/interviews/532/alejandro_jodorowsky.html" target="_blank">Alejandro Jodorowsky</a> is now online at the <a href="http://www.forteantimes.com/features/interviews/532/alejandro_jodorowsky.html" target="_blank">Fortean Times</a> site:

<em>A legless gunslinger crosses the desert atop an armless man’s shoulders; a thirsty hippo quenches itself at the fountain of youth; the invisible man wrestles an enormous anaconda in a mobile pharmacy: every great Jodorowsky film confronts the viewer with a riotous cavalcade of symbols drawn from the collective unconscious. Or at least the collective unconscious as imagined by Jodorowsky…</em>

<em>These days, aged 77, he’s busy writing and directing plays, writing comic books, performing his Psychomagikal healings, reading tarot cards in a Paris café and, when I caught up with him, promoting the new, extremely welcome, box set of his first three films: <em>Fando y Lis </em>(1967), <em>El Topo</em> (1970) and <em>The Holy Mountain</em> (1973).</em>

<em>Given the brief window of time available, and the fact that there’s plenty of information about his career available elsewhere, I tried to steer conversation – as much as it is possible to steer a conversation with Jodorowsky – in other directions…</em>

Read  it at <a href="http://www.forteantimes.com/features/interviews/532/alejandro_jodorowsky.html" target="_blank">Fortean Times.com</a>