EL TOPO

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• Release Year: 1970
• Genre: Western
• Plot: John Lennon championed him, Dennis Hopper used him and Marilyn Manson loves him. Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of cinema's most controversial and influential filmmakers. In 1968 his scandalous debut Fando Y Lis caused a riot in Mexico. His ultra-violent underground El Topo dragged the hippy generation into the '70s, single-handedly invented the American Midnight Movie phenomenon and transformed its creator into a counterculture icon. With The Holy Mountain, his pop-alchemical follow-up, Jodorowsky tore apart the very fabric of film. After 35 years in the wilderness, the maverick visionary is back to shock and bedazzle audiences all over again.; -Ben Cobb, Anarchy And Alchemy: The Films Of Alejandro Jodorowsky; ; 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. ; -Alan Jones
• Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta, Alfonso Arau, José Luis Fernández, Alf Junco, Gerardo Zepeda, René Barrera, René Alís, Federico Gonzáles, Vicente Lara, Pablo Leder, Giuliano Girini Sasseroli, Cristian Merkel, Aldo Grumelli, Mara Lorenzio, David Silva, Ignacio Martínez España, Eliseo Gardea Saucedo, Héctor Martínez, Paula Romo, Bertha Lomelí, Juan José Gurrola, Víctor Fosado, Agustín Isunza, Jacqueline Luis, Carlos Lavenant, Eliseo Pereda, Pablo Marichal, Beatriz Beltrán Lobo, Carmen Lamadrid, Pepita González, Cecilia Leger, Elvira Agosti, Antonio Álvarez, Rueben Gonzáles, Víctor Manuel Osorio, José Pérez Bustos, Eduardo Danel, Álvaro García, José Antonio Alcaraz, Felipe Díaz Garza, Patricio Pereda, Marcos E. Contreras, Arturo Silva, Robert John, Julián de Meriche, Valerie Tremblay, José Luis González de León, Francisco González Salazar, Pedro García
• Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Runtime: 2:04
• Company: Starz / Anchor Bay
• Media Format: Movie