April 28, 2007

Nudity, Mass Murder, Mime

During the dark days of the week now coming to its close, I got to thinking that once clusterflock was stabilized, I’d pick up the abruptly dropped themes of ‘spaghetti westerns’ (see Once Upon a Time in a Cage and From JT Helms) and ‘curious cinema’ (see Cindy, — and be aware that among the very few casualties in the cluster-transfer were comments appended to the latter post re: Jan Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay).

Said I to myself, “I’ll post [Bizarre, Self Immolation, Surrealism] an announcement of the imminent DVD release [Good Versus Evil, Dreamlike, Nihilism] of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s long-out-of-release El Topo [Mass Child Killing, Mass Hanging, Child Murder, Shoe, Social Satire] (a film I saw in 1971 — as a high school senior — [Disturbing, Cult Favorite, False God] — and have not seen since).

Meantime, I thought that Cindy [Russian Roulette, Deformity, Religion, Dwarf] might enjoy one aspect [Child Shot In The Head, Mexico, Bandit, Bare Butt] of my planned post — a link to the IMDB list of plot keywords for the film. I sent the link to her and here present it for all to enjoy. The complete list reminds me of the labels Pinky Diablo [Church, Gambling, Gloves, Human Branding, Inbreeding] attaches to his blog posts.

And if you’re wondering whether El Topo is worth viewing, Rumsey Taylor’s review over at Not Coming to a Theater Near You, together with Shawn Levy’s piece in The Oregonian, pretty much say it all.

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comments

  1. Sheila Ryan on April 28th, 2007 at 4:34 pm

    And if this post doesn’t lure any strayed visitors back to the site — well, I throw up my hands in dismay.

  2. Michael Grant Smith on April 28th, 2007 at 6:28 pm

    There are a lot of hyperlinks in your post, Sheila. I like hyperlinks. Thank you.

  3. Sheila Ryan on April 28th, 2007 at 6:32 pm

    Keep a person busy, don’t they?

  4. Michael Grant Smith on April 28th, 2007 at 6:40 pm

    Yes. The linker and the linkee, both.

  5. Sheila Ryan on April 28th, 2007 at 6:43 pm

    I know I’m plumb wore out.

  6. Cindy Scroggins on April 28th, 2007 at 7:53 pm

    This makes me very proud to be a part of this group.

  7. Sheila Ryan on April 29th, 2007 at 8:14 am

    It’s the dignity, isn’t it?


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