The San Marco Theater in beautiful San Marco, Jacksonville, FL will be playing two very bizarre movies over the next few weekends: El Topo and The Holy Mountain, both by weirdo director Alejandro Jodorowsky. Both movies are Eastern Westerns featuring Christ-like protagonists who negotiate surreal and brutally violent worlds. Jodorowsky’s heroes ritualistically transgress taboo, exploring and re-interpreting colonialism, mythology, sexuality, and the concept of an idealized, subjective self. The Holy Mountain is particularly worth your two hours and six bucks–who wouldn’t want to see disfigured freaks, alchemical self-improvement, genital mutilation, cannibalism, incest and (my favorite scene) frogs and iguanas dressed as Conquistadors and Indians recreating the conquest of South America? Also features full-frontal nudity and numerous executions. Soundtrack by Don Cherry.
El Topo plays March 23rd and 24th at midnight; The Holy Mountain plays March 30th and 31st at midnight.
Also playing at the San Marco Theater beginning March 18th is Old Joy, a 2006 film starring Daniel London and our favorite Palace Brother, Will Oldham. Soundtrack by Yo La Tengo.
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oh the world’s mysterious ways. i was utterly distraught that i would be out in Portland while El Topo was playing, when whaddyaknow – i find out the Clinton Street Theater in pdx is playing El Topo and Holy Mountain back to back! i’m only going to check out Topo while i’m there so i can come to the Holy Mountain screening at SMT. Still, disappointing to have to miss Old Joy as i really wanted to see it. will have to catch it on dvd i guess.
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