Alejandro Jodorowsky

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I've seen El Topo and liked it very much. I just now finished The Holy Mountain, and while it seemed to be going somewhere, the whole "film/reality is an illusion" thing seemed a little too swarmy a way out of the hole. Plus, it's a freaking Jodorowsky film. Why does he need to bother to dig himself out at the end, anyway?

Well, on to Santa Sangre tomorrow, I guess.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 1 August 2003 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll offer my opinion even though it wasn't asked - i don't like jodorowsky, cept for maybe fando y lis. i much prefer bunuel or arrabal for my surrealism.... but the holy mountain is enjoyable to me, perhaps semi-ironically.

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 1 August 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess what I'd say is that I liked it until they came to the Table of the Immortals on the Holy Mountain.

And the call for opinions is implicit, j fail. ;)

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 1 August 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i am pretty into holy mountain...or i have been although i've never tried to watch it "unaided". el topo on the other hand i really couldn't make it through. i've tried but i just kind of give up about half to two thirds of the way through...

― jacob long (jacobL), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw el topo tripping, it bummed my shit out

― duane, Monday, 11 August 2003 06:57 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

LOVE Jodorowsky. "El Topo" is great in parts but "The Holy Mountain" is my fave. Love the whole glam aesthetic in the sets and costumes, and the entire scene where the seekers trip their brains out still gives me chills.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 25 August 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

My first and only viewing of Holy Mountain was a 35mm print on the big screen and it was one of the most amazing cinema going experiences of my life. If you ever get the chance don't miss it. I vowed never to see the film again unless it was in a theatre.

El Topo was a repetetive drag (at least by comparison).

'i saw el topo tripping, it bummed my shit out '

LOL!

― PVC (peeveecee), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.abkcofilms.com/epk1.swf

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 25 May 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Woo hoo! Just bought the four DVD, two CD set for $40 from Amoeba.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 3 May 2007 02:32 (eighteen years ago)

How is it?

― Stevie D, Thursday, 3 May 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

How does the transfer hold up ? I 've had a bootleg version of El Topo for years so this is pretty exciting.

― oscar, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

I just bought El Topo and will be watching it with beerz tomorrow night.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 July 2007 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

The shorts within Holy Mountain are great. The actual quest for the Holy Mountain is mostly annoying.

― shieldforyoureyes, Saturday, 1 September 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

otm. you can feel the narrative encroaching into the interesting stuff until by the end it's like 'yeah whatever'(cf. Girolamo's comment to start). still very nice overall.

― tremendoid, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 22:08 (seventeen years ago)

eleven months pass...

watched el topo for the first time last night. wasn't quite the journey for me holy mountain was, which i saw for the first time just a few weeks earlier.

cool fact: el guapo from three amigos is one of the three desperadoes el topo shoots up early in the film!

― andrew m., Monday, 9 February 2009 22:21 (sixteen years ago)

jodorowsky celebrated his 80th bday just a cpl of days ago!

anybody ever seen 'tusk'?

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 9 February 2009 22:35 (sixteen years ago)

yes. its fair-rated. dont expect to much.

― meisenfek, Friday, 20 February 2009 18:12 (sixteen years ago)

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