SFMOMA
151 3rd St
415.357.4000
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El Topo
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Thursday Mar 6, 2008 (6:30pm)
Saturday Mar 8, 2008 (3pm)
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- Price
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$5 / Free with museum admission
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John Lennon was so impressed with Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky's psychedelic western El Topo that he convinced a friend to buy out the film's distribution rights and funded the director's next film himself. El Topo tracks a nomadic gunslinger (played by Jodorowsky himself) who encounters a series of mystical fighters in the desert. Its mix of outlandish sex and violence, grotesque surrealism, and pseudo-spiritualism made it one of the first midnight-movie hits. An obvious influence on oddballs like David Lynch, El Topo remains a touchstone of counterculture cinema.
