1973 was a prettygood yearfor films. You’ve gotThe Exorcist,Soylent Green, my second favourite Bond filmLive and Let Die,among many other amazing films. Most importantly, you’ve gotThe Holy Mountain, directed by the one and only Alejandro Jodorowsky. I’m going to borrow a synopsisfrom ...
During his performance at the Barclay's Center In Brooklyn, New York, on November 19, 2013, Kanye West expressed that Alejandro Jodorowsky’s film The Holy Mountain (1973) was an important touchstone for the design of the tour. The Holy Mountain is about a Christ-like figure who wanders th...
How to watch: Oxygen is now streaming on Netflix. 13. The Wonder Credit: Christopher Barr / Netflix The Wonder is a wholly engrossing period mystery about a young girl from a small, 19th-century Irish town who claims to not have eaten for four months, surviving purely on holy "manna."...
One of the most active and most dangerous volcanoes of Indonesia: Merapi meaning "the one who makes fire", is a feared but also venerated holy mountain looming over the city of Yogyakarta, capital of Central Java. Quake Reports Read user reports of people who felt an earthquake in the last...
This flat, eye-catching plateau is a sky-high recreational area that has attracted more than 31 million visitors since the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway opened in 1929. While the cars rising to 2,510 feet rotate to show off picturesque Cape Town, the mountain's rich biodiversity is the top...
Yet if you really watch her in “The Sound of Music,” you’ll see that Julie Andrews has her own sublime and saintly incandescence. The whole movie makes goodness into something larger-than-life. Yes, it turns the true story of the Von Trapp Family Singers into the squarest of romantic...
1983: Dio, 'Holy Diver' After impressive yet brief runs with Rainbow and Black Sabbath, Ronnie James Dio pulled off the hat trick with the Dio band, making his entrance with the vaunted ‘Holy Diver.’ The title track and the synth-charged “Rainbow in the Dark” are the obvious standou...
The year began with angry protests against the violence ofA Clockwork OrangeandStraw Dogs, both released in late 1971. At the same time, Americans paid well over $125 million to watch a three-hour testimony to the glories of gangsterdom. ...
"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD And to the House of the God of Jacob, Is Christianity doomed to minority status throughout history? That He may teach us about His ways And that we may walk in His paths." For from Zion will go forth the Law Even the Word of the...
During his performance at the Barclay's Center In Brooklyn, New York, on November 19, 2013, Kanye West expressed that Alejandro Jodorowsky’s film The Holy Mountain (1973) was an important touchstone for the design of the tour. The Holy Mountain is about a Christ-like figure who wanders th...