FREE ON YOUTUBE Alejandro Jodorowsky - The Rainbow Thief

I've found a whole new job: Find free streams on YouTube. In good quality. Mostly it works with movies where the rights are free. Often those that aren't available on DVD from us. So I can add youtube streams to our selection of the film art bar Fitzcarraldo. A nice side effect: Obscurities like Jodorowsky's Rainbow Thief get completely new attention!  Have fun with it! FREE ON YOUTUBE Who could have predicted that Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky would make a comeback in 2015? There are two new DVDs of him on the shelf; the documentary about his most ambitious (and failed) project "Dune" and "The Dance Of Reality". Now he added: "Endless Poetry" - Jodorowsky about Jodorowsky. But who remembers this Jodorowsky movie? The Rainbow Thief was finished in 1990 and was only shown in France a few years later. Big names await us: Christopher Lee plays the stingy millionaire Rudolf, whose death the whole family longs for. After a night with the Rainbow Girls he suffers a stroke and falls into a coma. The stingy nephew Meleagre (Peter O'Toole) was appointed sole heir by Rudolf. Now the relatives do everything they can to have him declared crazy. Meleagre decides to go underground, into the sewage system, and to stay there until Rudolf awakes. He gets help from the crook Dima (Omar Sharif), who hopes for an adequate reward. Jodorowsky got involved in a commissioned work with The Rainbow Thief and suffered a collateral damage, which he probably still remembered well from his flop "Tusk" (1980). Like then, the artistic direction slipped away from him, it's hard to tell how much Jodorowsky is actually in The Rainbow Thief? Jodorowsky retired resignedly from the film business - until today! The Rainbow Thief disappeared into oblivion and is probably only known to die-hard fanatics. But - Oh miracle! - we can now experience the director's cut of the film and have to give justice to the work afterwards. Jodorowsky's vision would have more than deserved a big audience! The plot only serves as a framework for crazy and fairy-tale ideas. Everything takes place in a surreal city that is ruled by misery during the day, but turns into a fairground at night. Dima is the king of this world with his always new ideas to get money. He has a strange friendship with the eccentric Meleagre. Especially successful: the dialogues with the dog doll Chronos! Christopher Lee's performance is far too short, introducing the plot and suggesting depth (which Jodorowski's direction doesn't necessarily allow). All of this is realized with a visual impact that reveals that the Chilean has been given a big budget. Cameraman Ronnie Taylor (Tommy) compensates for some ambiguities in Jodorowski's characters. In the baroque theater some things remain a bit unmotivated and the finale seems like a coincidence to me, so suddenly it breaks over us. It's time to complete Jodorowsky: Dune is available as a documentary, Tusk can be streamed in our catalogue Features Movies, the restored Jodorowsky version of The Rainbow Thief is waiting in our video store (or as a free stream)