An early scene in Endless Poetry has Ricardo, a newly self-accepting gay friend of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s, telling Jodorowsky that he wants to be more than friends. Jodoroswky rejects Ricardo on account of his being straight. “We can still be friends,”…
The Film Canon: El Topo (1970)
Roger Ebert once wrote: “If you have to ask what something symbolizes, it doesn’t.” Such a latitude seemingly stymies attempts to interpret the works of Alejandro Jodorowsky, that great Chilean-born artistic polymath who has amassed one of the most distinctive,…