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Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Psychomagic, A Healing Art to Premiere on Alamo On Demand

Chilean master cult filmmaker, and father of the “midnight movie,” Alejandro Jodorowsky’s latest film  Psychomagic, A Healing Art  will premiere in the U.S. and Canada on August 7 through an exclusive arrangement with Alamo Drafthouse‘s new VOD platform, Alamo On Demand. Jodorowsky made two surreal classics in films of the 1970s, the spiritual western epic El Topo (1970), and The Holy Mountain (1973), which was partly funded by John Lennon. The Holy Mountain sparked controversy at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival due to its sacrilegious imagery. It also established Jodorowsky as an auteur of Surrealist Cinema. The documentary-form avant-garde movie…
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AMC and Alamo Drafthouse Close Theaters Amid Coronavirus Concerns

AMC, the largest movie theater chain in the U.S., is shutting down for six to 12 weeks, starting today, March 17, according to Variety. Alamo Drafthouse and Regal Theaters, the second-largest movie theater chain in America, also announced they will be closing theaters. “All AMC theatres are temporarily closed in accordance with local, state and federal guidelines,” the chain said a statement top of its official website. “They will re-open when those guidelines allow.” AMC tweeted a reminder that their “AMC Stubs A-List memberships will be paused automatically during the time AMC theatres are closed.” The closures come after theaters…
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