El Topo (1970) Review

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.

El Topo movie review & film summary (1970) - Roger Ebert

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.

El topo | Rotten Tomatoes

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…

El Topo (1970) - The Golden Age of Cinema - WordPress.com

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

El Topo review – Jodorowsky's weird world of occult psychedelia | Westerns

5. 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.

El Topo (1970) directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky • Reviews, film + cast

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.

El Topo - Psychotronic Review

7. 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.

El Topo archive review: stormy surrealism in the desert heat - BFI

8. Movies I Have Never Seen #20: El Topo (1970) - Nik Dirga

  • Nov 6, 2022 · El Topo was a groundbreaking, aggressive statement that helped to change cinema, taking western movie tropes and turning them into a bizarre, questing ...

  • 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…

Movies I Have Never Seen #20: El Topo (1970) - Nik Dirga

9. Symbolism gone wild movie review (1970) - Roger Ebert

  • Oct 6, 2007 · If the child is naked, it becomes a Child, a symbol of itself. Reviews of “El Topo” tend to be infuriating because their authors, myself ...

  • 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,

Symbolism gone wild movie review (1970) - Roger Ebert

10. El Topo - Film Review - DMovies

  • Jan 6, 2020 · Seen with an open mindset however and El Topo is a highly cathartic experience, an expiation of sin through brutal violence. Jodorowsky stars ...

  • 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.

El Topo - Film Review - DMovies

11. Review: El Topo - Slant Magazine

  • Dec 11, 2006 · El Topo opens with a passage that could be an existential journey for one's soul or a spoof of a Sergio Leone spaghetti western.

  • There’s no denying the immersive being of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s film.

Review: El Topo - Slant Magazine

12. Films We've Watched: El Topo (1970) | Lara And The Reel Boy

  • Oct 16, 2012 · El Topo is a difficult film. It gives its audience no quarter and offers no comfort. Its frames are riddled with unpleasant imagery and heavily ...

  • El Topo is a difficult film. It gives its audience no quarter and offers no comfort. Its frames are riddled with unpleasant imagery and heavily shrouded symbolism, and make no effort at an easy or …

Films We've Watched: El Topo (1970) | Lara And The Reel Boy

13. Review: El Topo (The Mole, 1970) | Bill's Movie Emporium

  • May 20, 2009 · It is a very good film that borders on great at times. It is unique in its presentation and style, but it does suffer from the allegory pitfall.

  • I thought Werner Herzog had the market cornered on midget weirdness, but I was wrong!

Review: El Topo (The Mole, 1970) | Bill's Movie Emporium

14. Review: El Topo 1970 - HorrorMovieMama - Medium

  • Aug 4, 2016 · “El Topo” is a Mexican, surrealist western-horror, directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. This movie is so symbolic that it often seems to make no sense at all.

  • ← This, of course, is not the actual movie cover for “El Topo” but I really think that this is the only image I’ve found that even comes…

Review: El Topo 1970 - HorrorMovieMama - Medium

15. El Topo Reviews - Metacritic

  • Dec 18, 1970 · El Topo is a good deal more interesting and a good deal less hung up on its own pretensions than all my most intelligent friends had led me to ...

  • A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.

El Topo Reviews - Metacritic

16. El Topo (1970) - Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)

  • Jul 23, 2014 · It's pretty good. Striking for sure, but pacing is all over the place, and the more it went on, the less I cared.

  • Discuss

El Topo (1970) - Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)

17. El Topo (1970) - Scopophilia

  • Sep 28, 2012 · The blood, violence, and sexuality are no big deal. The special effects are weak and the editing is choppy. In many ways it comes off looking ...

  • By Richard Winters My Rating: 7 out of 10 4-Word Review: Lust is not good. This is an experimental film that has received a large and loyal following. Although considered highly controversial at th…

El Topo (1970) - Scopophilia

18. El Topo (1970) Alejandro Jodorowsky - Apocalypse Later Film Reviews

  • Aug 18, 2007 · That's not to mention the skinned and crucified goat, bareback lesbian whipping and the hallucinogenic dead insect sucking. And everything else.

  • I've waited a long, long time to see this film, which has been kept from release by issues between the man who made it it, director Alejandro Jodorowsky, and the owner of the rights, Allen Klein who was John Lennon's manager. Finally they have come to an agreement and it, along with The Holy Mountain and others have been released in a powerful box set. My wait is over. So, having read so much about this film, I finally get to see it. What's it about? Well, from what I've read that will be the applicable question when I finish it too.

19. El Topo - Movie Review : Alternate Ending

  • Apr 21, 2008 · El Topo is a film that constantly brushes up against the idea of narrative, only to kill its plotlines midway through, or loose interest in the main narrative ...

  • El Topo - Movie review by film critic Tim Brayton

El Topo - Movie Review : Alternate Ending

20. Rediscover: El Topo (1970) - Spectrum Culture

  • Sep 26, 2009 · A sort of surrealist quest movie/love story set in the desert, it is less surrealist in terms of aesthetics/philosophy and more from the random, ...

  • Revisit: El Topo Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky 1970 Rediscover is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that have flown under the radar and now deserve a second look. Alejandro Jodorowsky is not exactly a household name, but he was one of the most significant counterculture filmmakers of the ’70s and his second film, El Topo, …

Rediscover: El Topo (1970) - Spectrum Culture

21. Digital Review - El Topo (1970) - The People's Movies

  • Oct 29, 2020 · El Topo is a hypnotic film, led by its brilliant conductor. You cannot look away from it thanks to its striking visuals. Even despite the over ...

  • El Topo is hypnotic, led by its brilliant conductor. You cannot look away thanks to its striking visuals. Alejandro Jodorowsky forces you notice his work

Digital Review - El Topo (1970) - The People's Movies

22. El Topo Blu-ray (Remastered)

  • Sep 21, 2020 · Yes, the audio is a product of its time and Jodorowsky's less than fulsome budget, and as such there can be a pretty boxy ambience to a lot of ...

  • El Topo Blu-ray Release Date April 16, 2021 (Remastered). Blu-ray reviews, news, specs, ratings, screenshots. Cheap Blu-ray movies and deals.

El Topo Blu-ray (Remastered)

23. El topo (1970) critic reviews on MUBI

  • Its humor attacks reality, creating a comedy that provokes laughter in order to overcome horror—a comedy that becomes a cult of salvation.

  • Critic reviews for the film: 'El topo (1970)'

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