This is one of my favorite films of all time. It hasn't been availible on DVD except in poor quality bootleg form. I just found out that it will be playing at these two theatres in San Francisco in January. Anyone want to take a trip?
SAN FRANCISCO - CASTRO THEATER - EL TOPO 1/19/07 & 1/20/07
SAN FRANCISCO -CASTRO THEATER- HOLY MOUNTAIN 1/21/07 & 1/22/07
Synopsis
A group of powerful representatives from seven planets (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) gather under the council of an alchemist, played by Jodorowksy himself, along with the alchemist’s assistant and a young man who resembles Christ. They endure physical and mental tests in order to access the round table atop the “Holy Mountain” where they hope to displace the current gods and therefore gain immortality. Before the young man meets the alchemist, he travels through a dusty, presumably South American, town with a quadriplegic amputee, assisting with somewhat outlandish entertainment for lascivious Anglo-Saxon tourists. Here he escapes a vegetable storage basement after a period of forced drunkness and awakening in a roomful of plaster statues of himself as Christ.
A trailer for the film.