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The Holy Mountain

By Jenn Brown on November 8, 2009 - 7:55pm in
Date/Time: 
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 10:00pm
Host: 
High for the Holidays
Location: 
Alamo Drafthouse -- Ritz
More info: 
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Rated R; 114min; Director:Alejabndro Jodorowsky
Alamo Website:  With Best Drug Story contest before the film. 
Alejandro Jodorowsky's most daring film, as well as THE celluloid mind-roaster of all time! An epic hallucination crawling with wall-to-wall mega-weirdness, in which Christ, The White Master and a pack of symbolic thieves (each named after a planet, and each representing a different ill of society) link up to raid The Holy Mountain and steal its secrets. This pic would cost a billion dollars to make nowadays, and its first half hour of in-your-face imagery (crucified, skinned animals; storm troopers; cripples; flowers blooming from stigmata; exploding toads) is like prime Fellini on really prime Peyote. Outrageous, pretentious, unbelievable, and unforgettable. There will never be another film remotely like it! (Steven Puchalski, Shock Cinema)