El Topo // Alejandro Jodorowsky February 2, 2007
Seattle, Washington 98105
A fave of John Lennon and catalyst of the Midnight Movie phenomenon!
EL TOPO
New 35mm Print!
FRI, FEB 2 – THURS, FEB 8
DAILY: 630pm & 845pm
plus FRI & SAT 11pm and SAT & SUN: 4pm
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky / 1970, Mexico / Color, 35mm / 125min.
An outlaw, El Topo, challenges the invincible Four Masters of the Desert for the love of a woman. He defeats them, achieving a higher level of consciousness until his woman betrays him. Starting a new existence as a holy man, El Topo undertakes the liberation of a community of outcasts.
“An extravagant hodgepodge of hand-me-down surrealism, mysticism, Italian westerns, theater of cruelty, and Buñuel — more enjoyable for its unending string of outrages than for its capacity to make coherent sense.” Chicago Reader
Official Website: http://www.grandillusioncinema.org/
Added by Alter's Ego on December 31, 2006