DP/30 Sneak Peek; John Boorman on ZARDOZ

[@DragonPop64]

If some joker somehow got this re-released in theaters world wide...that would be so strange and spectacular. The world needs Zardoz

[@lukethelightbringer3809]

Zardoz a story of indoctrination, genetic engineering, cults, death, life, mystery, insight and transformation, none of which makes sense to those so long dead that they have forgotten life, what it looks like, feels like, what is necessary to create it and fuel it. An understanding of life and death, an alchemical masterpiece.

[@mojorising9969]

My all time top 5 favorites. The introduction still blows my mind.

[@squatch545]

I am a 'brutal'. One of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time. A cult classic. Zardoz just came out on Blu-ray on Feb 24th.

[@bruceojard]

The Blu-ray isn't due out until at least April 14th.

[@squatch545]

Bruce Ojard Thanks. They must have pushed the release date back. I was going by this: thesupernaughts.com/dvdblu-ray/dvdblu-ray-releases-24-february-2015/

[@bruceojard]

Joe Smith Here's the best place for news about the Blu-ray release I've found: forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=249438

[@Andrew_Hillis]

I would like to see a much longer interview with John Boorman about Zardoz ! ! !👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@davidpoland7404]

I love Boorman and could have spent 2 hours, easy.

[@zardoz7900]

My favorite director. Zardoz and Excalibur. Classic.

[@CosmicClaire99]

A friend took me to see this in the late seventies and gave me a handful of magic mushrooms as we went in. What a movie!

[@dougelick8397]

I'm pretty sure that the experience would have been exactly the same w/o those mushrooms.

[@CosmicClaire99]

LOL! @@dougelick8397

[@Praetor_Fenix420]

When I try to explain this movie to people at parties, they usually think I am joking or high.

[@Retro-Future-Land]

+Praetor_Fenix420 It's a hard film to explain unless you get into about 3-4 different philosophies / genres. Very intelligent film before films were about 'entertainment'.

[@tessierashpoolmg7776]

Watch Ryder I have always felt that Zardoz simply went over the heads of most people even though it's an entertainment of high quality. The casting is brilliant, Connery is a bit stiff but overall marvelous. I simply adore the notion of the Apathetics. I think it is so densely packed with creativity that it's a punch in the head if one isn't prepared.

[@fatlegsdaffy9133]

Ive had the same issue. Ppl dont believe me.

[@CosmicClaire99]

I'm really glad to read this thread. I remember trying to explain it to someone at a party about forty years ago and he kept saying 'But what is it about?' I thought he was dumb! I still think he was dumb, but now I realise he's not alone ;-)

[@stevekuenstler554]

John Boorman speaks to you...

[@Andrew_Hillis]

ZARDOZ IS A GREAT FILM AND HIGHLY UNDERRATED ! ! !👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@securityrobot]

We've all been used, and re-used and amused!

[@marshalkrieg2664]

The critics are wrong. This is a very great and important film.

[@mrzero27]

How could he not have watched it since it was made - he did a commentary on the DVD. (?)

[@kraakar]

the work of a genius

[@jonathanmelia]

Stumbled on a short story by Borges called THE IMMORTAL, about a medieval warrior who penetrates a desert tribe of cave-dwellers who can’t die, and are all bored out of their minds. A possible source...?

[@KingfisherTalkingPictures]

Wouldn’t surprise me. Both brilliant minds. And have you noticed you never see both of them in the same room at the same time?

[@themadmattster9647]

One of the best films ever made 😊

[@TheGodParticle]

With a little help from AI this could actually happen in 2 to 3 hundred years time. I loved the movie.

[@rooftopcat1785]

Zardoz glided over success and landed on cult classic.

[@wahahaisused]

PRAISE BE TO ZARDOZ

[@StarCrusher.]

Oh hell yes

[@bruceojard]

Boorman claims in this that he hadn't seen the film "in 45 years or something," yet he did an audio commentary for the (standard) DVD release.

[@julesf.meloborges811]

If you made the movie, it's hard to forget.

[@SeanHenderson]

I never really hated this movie, I think in the present time have actually given this a credence in this film both in its scope and it's world making. I think that this movie refuses to hold the viewers hand! Explaining away the world as it exists! I wonder if in the distant future in which the movie was based on, 2293 what will they think of this unintentional classic. I never would ridicule a bold vision like this. Even though I don't understand it!

[@heliopolis]

Zardoz is nuts, but I love it. Just read John Boorman's Emerald Forest diary. He's as great a writer of books as he is a director.

[@starcrib]

a frighting tale , oddly grotesque and still somehow relevent in our controlled Mark Zuckerburg World ..who by the way, is the new Zardoz.

[@malorcelineserge2910]

Wizard of Oz

[@urbanopuga5811]

Clasic film zardoz sean connery zeta

[@johnclay7644]

good intervirew.

[@ruimiguelgarrido]

Too bad they didn't ask him about the meaning of the film. Most people don't have a clue, and the reviewers going around here on YT certainly don't. It's one of the deepest, most important films ever. I'm sure his answer to that question would be... institutional and creative, if not "rich in irony, and most satyrical". Yet it would still be one worth listening to.

[@mrcat3493]

“When I see the film now I’m astonished at my hubris in making this extraordinary farrago.” John Boorman - DVD commentary

[@ruimiguelgarrido]

@@mrcat3493 Witty and unattached. Thanks for this.

[@gbordenflanagan]

Like the original Blade Runner, and much of the original Star Trek, Zardoz is very bad as entertainment (excruciatingly boring for most of it) but is elevated to something special on the strength of its ideas. Profound, genuinely, even as it’s laughably silly. One of the worst and best movies ever made. And boy Charlotte Rampling was beautiful.

[@plasticweapon]

your taste in women and movies is horrible.

[@cesarzpontu8886]

Blade Runner and Zardoz are boring?

[@fredo1070]

What was he thinking, I know there were plenty of drugs in the 60s, but a hairy Sean Connery in a orange nappy?

[@bobsbigboy_]

Shut up

[@edinscot56789]

Don't do drugs. Drugs are bad mmkay

[@blacbraun]

Restoring Zardoz is like using a duster to touch up your latest shit and make it look pretty.