The Lady Gaga new music video, 911, is inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo, a Mexican Western. Cinephile Lady Gaga strikes again. Cinephile Lady Gaga strikes again. Skip to main content.

El Topo was the original ‘midnight movie’, and inspired the sub-genre of the ‘acid western’, writes Larushka Ivan-Zadeh. New York, 1971. It’s somewhere around 1am and John Lennon is ...

Until El Topo emerges as a holy man, shorn of his hair and beard, he cuts quite a figure in black leather -- cowboy hat, sleeveless duster over a black silk shirt, bellbottoms and designer boots ...

It’s almost impossible to separate El Topo from the mythology attached to the film. For five decades, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s wild second feature has, among cineastes, retained a strange ...

That story examined the making of “El Topo,” a surreal western in which Mr. Jodorowsky plays a man in black who wanders a phantasmagoric Mexican landscape and at one point commits a brutal rape.

In 2017, The Telegraph, in Britain, published an article citing a 1972 book “El Topo: A Book of the Film,” that included a statement by Mr. Jodorowsky who played a character in the movie, ...

Legendary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Incal, Metabarons) and virtuosic illustrator José Ladrönn (Cable, Incredible Hulk) deliver a sequel to Jodorowsky's cult classic film, El Topo.

El Topo was the original ‘midnight movie’, and inspired the sub-genre of the ‘acid western’, writes Larushka Ivan-Zadeh. New York, 1971. It’s somewhere around 1am and John Lennon is ...