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El Topo

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(No longer in theaters)
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  • Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky   Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta, Alfonso Arau, José Luis Fernández
  • Running Time: 125 minutes
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Genre

Drama

Producer

Juan López Moctezuma, Moshe Rosemberg, Roberto Viskin

Distributor

Tartan Films

Release Date

Dec 18, 1970

Release Notes

Limited

Review

Don’t expect culty camp. Instead, this beautiful, expertly made film is deep stuff: a dreamlike meditation on violence, redemption, and fate.

El icono: The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s screening of Jodorowsky’s zonkedout, allegorical 1970 Western—the original midnight-movie classic—will be followed by a conversation with the man himself, as well as FSLC program director Richard Peña.

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