Holy Mountain

[Michael Bailey]

sure, all we have to do is get to Milwaukee by tonight <g>

Or, buy the video
http://www.learmedia.ca/product_info.php/products_id/17

i have gotten the impression this director Jodorowski is somewhat eccentric.



On 4/4/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thursday, April 6th, 9 pm your friends at Rush-Mor
> Records along with WMSE and the UWM Union Theater will
> be presenting your one and only chance to see
> Alejandro Jodorowsky's "The Holy Mountain".
>
> This will be the LAST time the filmprint will be shown
> in North America. It's from the director's private
> collection and we're very proud to be able to present
> this 'Offering' to you all. It's your choice to accept
> ...
>
> For more information on the above happenings, please
> contact:
>
> Dan and/or Bill at Rush-Mor 414-481-6040
>
> http://imdb.com/title/tt0071615/
>
> Thursday, April 6 - 7pm
> The Holy Mountain
>
> Special Screening with Rushmor Records
>
> Free Screening
>
> A film that screams "product of its time," The Holy
> Mountain was Alejandro Jodorowsky's dizzying elegy to
> the sex, drugs and spiritual awakening of the late
> 1960s and early 1970s -- a suitably bizarre follow-up
> to his El Topo (1971). Fascinating although it only
> fitfully makes sense, The Holy Mountain is beautifully
> shot and designed, and it suggests what might have
> resulted if Luis Bunuel, Michealangleo Antonioni, and
> George Romero had all dropped acid and made a movie
> together. A Christ-like vagrant and thief wanders
> through a perverse and unfriendly land until he
> encounters an enlightened one, who gathers the thief
> and six of the world's most powerful individuals for a
> spiritual pilgrimage. If that description sounds a bit
> sketchy, well, narrative isn't this film's strongest
> suit. But if you want to see the conquest of Mexico
> re-enacted by reptiles, soldiers shoot innocent people
> as birds fly from their wounds, and a wizard turn
> feces into gold, this is the movie for you.
>
> (Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mexico, 114min., English and
> Spanish w/Eng. St., 35mm, 1973)
>
> http://www.aux.uwm.edu/Union/events/theatre//
>
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