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The Other Guy
01-20-2007, 03:44 PM
I was a little shocked to see that Alejandro Jodorowsky's surrealist spaghetti western El Topo is playing tonight (1/20/07) at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, and his surrealist I-have-no-idea-what-you'd-call-it Holy Mountain is playing tomorrow and Monday. I'm missing at least El Topo due to previous plans, but it blew my mind when I saw it on a bootleg eight or nine years ago, and recommend it mightily to Qt3ers in the Bay Area who have the time and an appreciation for the insane and the beautiful.

This has been a public service announcement.
Bill Dungsroman
01-20-2007, 03:46 PM
The Other Guy, I'm calling you out.
The Other Guy
01-20-2007, 04:06 PM
Awesome! (Uh, I hope.)

Bill, not to sound disingenuous or anything, but could I ask for further clarification?
Thierry Nguyen
01-20-2007, 04:10 PM
Actually, I just read that El Topo and Holy Mountain and Fando Y Lis are being rereleased (http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents) on a DVD set from Anchor Bay this May.
The Other Guy
01-20-2007, 04:23 PM
Actually, I just read that El Topo and Holy Mountain and Fando Y Lis are being rereleased (http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents) on a DVD set from Anchor Bay this May.

Yeah, which is awesome news. I went and checked online after seeing that the flicks were playing the Castro, which tends to get a number of movies right before a new version ends up on video.

I'm stoked at getting my hands on the DVDs, but seeing those two on the big screen would be mightily cool.
Bill Dungsroman
01-20-2007, 05:15 PM
Awesome! (Uh, I hope.)

Bill, not to sound disingenuous or anything, but could I ask for further clarification?
I'm just teasing you, mon. Look for a prior thread with that phrase in it penned by the inimitable Flowers.
The Other Guy
01-20-2007, 06:02 PM
Wow. Thanks for the 'splaining, Bill. That thread you mentioned is awesome. (Whittalinks, a K0NY cameo, and the least convincing endorsement of Silent Hill Experience ever made--what doesn't it have?) Plus, it totally makes that whole half-joking "The Viral Marketers Are Due on Maple Street" vibe Qt3 had going there for a while seem justified...

I can be a bit of a proselytizer (even though I can't effin spell it), but I hope my taste never gets so lousy I honestly get mistaken for a VM.