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El Topo (Spanish: [el ˈto.po], "The Mole") is a 1970 Mexican acid Western film written, scored, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Judeo-Christian symbolism and Eastern philosophy , the film is about El Topo—a violent ...
Apr 15, 1971 · El Topo: Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. With Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta, Alfonso Arau. A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
Jul 18, 2020 · Pre-order Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo 4K Restoration now on DVD and Blu-ray: https://abkco.lnk.to/eltopo El Topo has been newly restored in stunning 4K from original 35mm...
Jul 23, 2020 · El Topo was the original ‘midnight movie’, and inspired the sub-genre of the ‘acid western’, writes Larushka Ivan-Zadeh. New York, 1971. It’s somewhere around 1am and John Lennon is ...
Feb 12, 2013 · Original 1970 trailer for EL TOPO, from the renowned filmmaker and father of the midnight movie, Alejandro Jodorowsky. Famously, John Lennon and Yoko Ono di...
Official trailer for the 4K UHD release of Alejandro Jodorowsky's cult western, El Topo.
A black-clad gunfighter (Alejandro Jodorowsky) embarks on a symbolic quest in an Old West version of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Oct 6, 2007 · Alejandro Jodorowsky. A man in black rides the desert vastness of Mexico with a naked child in front of him on the saddle. Three hee-hawing gunmen appear from out of hiding, laughing that they have been sent to kill him. The man carefully places the child behind him on the saddle.
“El Topo” is a picaresque journey past the principal myths and symbols of human culture, shot in the style of an incredibly bloody, violent Italian Western. People are going to it for all sorts of reasons.
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
