Written, directed, scored by and starring Jodorowsky, “El Topo” was an ultraviolent Western with a potent mix of Eastern spirituality and European art house surrealism. From a poster on the wall behind his desk stared a younger, wild-eyed and frizzy-haired version of Jodorowsky as the black-leather-clad gunfighter with no name who is reborn as a kind of avenging Buddha in his 1970 cult classic, “El Topo.” “When I’m not creating something, I get bored, I despair,” he said. Jodorowsky was already thinking about his next film project. They steal from you, it’s something alive!’ ” If they’re not interested, they delete you. “My son Adan told me: ‘Look, this is the literature of the future. He’d spent the day writing poetry and, in his role as a spiritual guru, tweeting tarot-card readings and “psychomagical” advice to his nearly one million followers. I visited him two days after the premiere in his professorial apartment near the Place de la Bastille, a book-and-plant-filled domain he shares with his third wife, Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky, who is 43 years his junior. Jodorowsky is now 85, but he remains spry and intense.

For a man whose life has been defined by cosmic ambitions, the honor seemed almost expected. In September, on the day of the Paris premiere of “The Dance of Reality,” his first movie in 23 years, Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Chilean-born filmmaker, learned that he was now an asteroid - 261690 Jodorowsky - as the International Astronomical Union had named a three-mile-wide chunk of rock orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.

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