El Topo
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Silva, Ignacio Martínez España, Eliseo Gardea Saucedo
Year: 1970
Runtime: 125 mins.
Synopsis: It was the landmark cult film that began the whole Midnight Movie phenomena of the counterculture crazy 1970s. El Topo was the most talked about, most controversial quasi-Western head trip ever made, transforming the way risk-taking audiences, seeking mainstream Hollywood alternatives, watched edgy underground films. Classic Americana and avant-garde European cinema sensibilities meet Zen Buddhism and the Bible as master gunfighter and cosmic mystic El Topo (played by writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky) must defeat his four sharp-shooting rivals on an ever- increasingly bizarre path to allegorical self- enlightenment and surreal resurrection. (from Anchor Bay)
DVD: Anchor Bay
Official Website: None
Reviews: Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
All Movie Guide (Lucia Bozzola)
Video: None
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