Pavich makes great use of the legendary and massive Dune flipbook Jodorowsky touted around Hollywood in the mid-'70s.

| Aug 31, 2018

Pavich shows us many images from the storyboard, and even treats some to a simple form of animation to suggest how the movie might have looked.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 4, 2015

The phantom film is, by its nature, always rich with possibilities.

| Original Score: 3.5.5 | Sep 12, 2014

Frank Pavich's new documentary on the obsessive Chilean surrealist's projected epic masterwork is very nearly as marvelous as "Jodo"'s adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel might have been.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2014

This documentary version of Jodorowsky's "Dune" is probably more entertaining than what Hollywood would have done to it, with a clearer message: Our lives are like sands though an hourglass, so dream the impossible dream.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 8, 2014

A deeply moving testament to single-minded, indefatigable commitment of creative vision and to an almost spiritual ability to let that vision go, thereby allowing it to exist in the world in an entirely unexpected form.

| May 1, 2014

Jodorowsky is a mesmerizing presence in director Frank Pavich's engrossing picture. He was 84 when much of it was shot.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 24, 2014

What an extraordinary dream it could have been.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 18, 2014

It leaves you wondering about how many artists are working on such wild dreams these days, and hoping it's more than you think.

| Original Score: B | Apr 17, 2014

It's an outstanding combination of genius and missed opportunities.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 10, 2014

The best way to watch this movie is as an account of an eccentric visionary maverick who could not be stopped or influenced by reason ...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 4, 2014

We get an idea of what could have been via the colossal illustrated screenplay still lovingly held by Jodorowsky, who is every bit the dreamer in his 80s that he was in his youth.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 3, 2014

Is Alejandro Jodorowsky's "Dune" the most influential movie never made?

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 3, 2014

Frank Savich's diverting documentary lets the 85-year-old filmmaker revisit a saga from the mid-'70s: his stellar two-year failure to adapt Frank Herbert's Dune for the screen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 27, 2014

A great seminar on creativity.

Full Review | Mar 27, 2014

His stories feature an impressive roster of would-be collaborators (Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, H.R. Geiger, and Pink Floyd), and some of the set pieces he describes sound pretty neat.

| Mar 27, 2014

"Jodorowsky's Dune" is a lovely little tribute to a major league "What if?"

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 27, 2014

The best parts of Jodorowsky's Dune explain just how a mad genius like Jodorowsky almost made the impossible possible, just by declaring it to be so.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2014

A fascinating and depressing documentary about a visionary director and his impossible dream.

| Mar 24, 2014

Pavich is clearly in awe of Jodorowsky (who wouldn't be?), but he still treads a fine line between buying the director's notions of a spiritual quest at face value and soberly detailing said journey's particulars.

| Mar 23, 2014