1. El Topo movie review & film summary (1970) - Roger Ebert
“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.
2. El topo | Rotten Tomatoes
I see the movie as a classic 70's western movie. It has everything that I expected such as violence and sex. It also had things that I didn't expect in the ...
A black-clad gunfighter (Alejandro Jodorowsky) embarks on a symbolic quest in an Old West version of Sodom and Gomorrah.
3. El Topo (1970) - The Golden Age of Cinema - WordPress.com
Jul 14, 2016 · It's beautiful in places as well, the sumptuous cinematography by Raphael Corkidi shows stunning vistas and deserts in Mexico, as well as lush ...
I have to admit I’m no fan of death. And you’d be hard pressed to find a film more brimming with death than Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo. Yet, the massively death-filled El…
4. El Topo review – Jodorowsky's weird world of occult psychedelia | Westerns
Jan 9, 2020 · The veteran director stars as a black-clad horseman on a bizarre desert quest with worrying Mansonesque overtones in his rereleased head trip of 1970.
The veteran director stars as a black-clad horseman on a bizarre desert quest with worrying Mansonesque overtones in his rereleased head trip of 1970
5. El Topo archive review: stormy surrealism in the desert heat - BFI
Jan 9, 2020 · Alejandro Jodorowsky's landmark acid western is re-released in a new 4K restoration. On its original release, our critic found it to be an absurd and energetic ...
Many a lone horseman has drifted in across the high hot plains since the days of Shane, purged a restless group of townsfolk of their vices and guilts, and dwindled once again into the desert leaving a pile of corpses to be disposed of by the survivors. The staying-power of the Western has come to depend upon this hollow-eyed metaphor, an unquestionable moralist whose force of argument relies not on rhetoric but on the entirely dubious moral superiority of the well-aimed bullet. He wins too many battles for his audience to risk not being on his side, and although he has become a little more vulnerable in the last decade his potency as a freedom fighter is undiminished. Billy the Kid lives on.
6. El Topo - Psychotronic Review
Jul 19, 2018 · Frankly, with a film like El Topo you should just sit back and enjoy. It's a lot like going to the circus — but one that's actually enjoyable.
All you really need to know about Alejandro Jodorowsky's masterpiece El Topo: plot summary, analysis, what critics say, what to watch for, and tech details.
7. El Topo (1970) directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky • Reviews, film + cast
***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.*** SPANISH REVIEW: El Topo ha sido clasificado como el definitivo spaghetti western de culto.
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.
8. Symbolism gone wild movie review (1970) - Roger Ebert
Oct 6, 2007 · Alejandro Jodorowsky in the title role of his 1970 movie, “El Topo,” and more recently (inset). The renowned director told Roger Ebert in 1989 ...
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,
9. El Topo - Film Review - DMovies
Jan 6, 2020 · 50 years later, cult classic El Topo is truly a one-of-a-kind experience, a unique take on the Western that shocks and beguiles in equal ...
50 years later, cult classic El Topo is truly a one-of-a-kind experience, a unique take on the Western that shocks and beguiles in equal measure.
10. Movies I Have Never Seen #20: El Topo (1970) - Nik Dirga
Nov 6, 2022 · What is it: The first “midnight movie,” the surrealist “acid western”, “the weirdest western ever made.” Director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ...
What is it: The first “midnight movie,” the surrealist “acid western”, “the weirdest western ever made.” Director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s extreme cult hit El Topo was a groundbreaking, aggress…