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The Films Of Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo / La Constellation Jodorowsky): (2 disc set) (1970) |
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A landmark film that spawned a genre and defined the way a generation watched underground cinema. Championed by John Lennon El Topo started the 'midnight movies' phenomenon in 1970. Classic Americana and avant-garde European cinema sensibilities meet Zen Buddhism and the Bible as master gunfighter and cosmic mystic El Topo (played by Alejandro Jodorowsky) must defeat his four sharp-shooting rivals on an increasingly bizarre path to allegorical self-enlightenment and surreal resurrection.
La Constellation Jodorowsky is Louis Mouchet's expansive documentary on the cult director, poet, agitator and spiritual teacher. Produced in 1994, this documentary shines a light on the man behind some of the most important and surreal films of the last century.
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El topo
DR Y
26 January 2010
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You've got to be into film history of the 1970s to find this very accessible or appealing. The imagery, colour and texture are its strengths. Its plot is a weird blend of hero quest, gratuitous shoot em out violence, the catholic inflected christ story with girl on girl action, witchy vixen subplot. It is broadly shapeless in plot set in an expected stereotypic mexican/colonial but hallucinogenic landscape. Classic jodorowsky.
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