The year 2014 is proving to be something of an unlikely renaissance for 85-year-old surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, who was the central subject of a documentary detailing his vision of a collapsed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, and now sees the release of his first film in more than two decades, The Dance of Reality. A deeply personal and characteristically weird curated trip through his recreated adolescence, this one-of-a-kind period piece is swollen with mythology, metaphor (political and social), visual poetry… and elliptical tedium. It’s the definition of a niche appeal offering, but the film’s amazing technical orchestration no doubt marks it as the work of a true cineaste. For the full, original review, from ShockYa, click here. (Abkco Films, unrated, 130 minutes)