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 El Topo (DVD)
Description: Genre: War & Western - Western / Actors: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mara Lorenzio ... / DVD released 14 May, 2007 at Tartan ... more  El Topo (DVD) ... Video / Features of the DVD: Full Screen, PALNewest Review: ... bandits El Topo fights are genuinely funny. And our hero certainly strikes an imposing figure, clad all in black with a naked ... more ... little boy riding pillion on his horse. Wonderful moments include the showdown scene involving a balloon, and the bandits forcing monks into sexual servitude. This is great stuff, and still holds up very well.
The second part of the film certainly ramps up the weirdness. The four master gunfighters are progressively weirder. The highlight might well be the composite gunman formed of a man with no legs strapped to the back of a man with no arms, but I’m also very fond of the wizened old fellow who can catch bullets ...more |
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El Topo (DVD): Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream... (1096 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 22.04.07 (Very useful, 211 readings)
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(This is a review of just the film, although – finally! – there’s a Jodorowsky box set coming out on DVD very soon.) This is a legendary cult film. Made in 1971 in Mexico by uber-weirdo Alejandro Jodorowsky, it was unavailable for years because of a vicious argument between the director and the film’s distributor (former Beatles manager Allen Klein). The BBC showed it about ten years ago, but now it’s been fully restored (along with its equally loopy companion piece, the Holy Mountain) and is available once again. It was recently shown at the NFT, followed by a genuinely amazing discussion with the director (very sprightly at 78). When I first saw El Topo I ...
Spaghetti Eastern (644 words)
by eraserhead - written on 12.03.02 (Very useful, 355 readings)
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'See the naked young Franciscans whipped with cactus. See the bandit leader disemboweled. See the priest ride into the sunset with a midget and her newborn baby. What it all means isn't exactly clear, but you won't forget it.' -- original tagline from El Topo The cult Chilean film maker Alejandro Jodorowsky may have suffered from lunatitis for much of his life, but the resulting character and works are fascinating. Stamping out his ego with wellies, his films, made and unmade, are some of the most powerful, disturbing and memorable singular visions of all time. Itsmadlairk. Born in 1930 in Iquique, Chile, Jodorowsky's career ...
