TONIGHT ONLY: EL TOPO at IFC CENTER
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo (1970). The ultimate midnight movie experience - some unholy cross-breeding of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns, Godard’s politicized aesthetics, Bunuel’s surrealistic symbolism, and Jodorowsky’s own mystical explorations. After a gunfighter and his son wander into a town only to find everyone has been massacred, the two set out on a mission to track down the murderers and exact merciless revenge. Blending the sacred and the profane has never been so bloody, surreal, or spiritual (in its own weird way).
Sample Jodorowsky’s inimitable, dreamlike world by watching the film’s trailer, courtesy of YouTube.
