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Re: Santa Sangre

Compared to El Topo, Sante Sangre is beautful and reasonably normal, for Jodorowski, that is.

El Topo played at the old Elgin Theatre (now the Joyce) in Chelsea (NYC) for almost a year at midnight in the 1970s. I saw it several times and was there the night Jodorowski took the stage and answered questions.

Because El Topo reached such cult status it stayed alive (thanks in part to a Japanese only Laserdisc). Copyright problems reared their ugly head and it took some time before a DVD was made but it is now available.

The laserdisc was cut (censored?). I have yet to see the DVD and I hope it is not. Frankly the cuts do serious damage to the film which was (and is) unsettling and WAY wierd but has a much better flow in the original. At least as I recall, it was a long time ago.


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