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Midnight Classics! 35mm print! <\/strong><\/p>\n

Alejandro Jodorowsky\u2019s legendary, notorious cult hit arguably created the genre of the midnight movie \u2014 a spectacle so stunning and bizarre that normal hours couldn\u2019t contain it. Melding influences from tarot reading to the Bible to surrealist art into a mind-blowing acid-trip western, Jodorowsky cast himself as the leather-clad gunman, El Topo (\u2018the mole\u2019), who wanders through a desert strewn with mystical symbols on an unnamed quest, leaving blood and carnage in his wake. Declared a masterpiece at its release by John Lennon, El Topo<\/em> tops even the most outrageous aesthetic experiments of its era and remains unmatched in its strange beauty and radical provocations.<\/p>\n

The Union Cinema is on the second floor of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the UW-Milwaukee Student Union building.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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