I know when Media Pl;ay was still around they had what looked like an official release of Holy Mountain. I think it was from TriStar, but don't quote me. Scott =============================================================================== Scott Andrew Hutchins http://php.iupui.edu/~sahutchi Oz, Monsters, Kamillions, and More! "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."--K, Barry Sonnenfeld's _Men in Black_. "The reason most folk songs are so atrocious is because they were written by THE PEOPLE."--Tom Lehrer On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Lang Thompson wrote: > >Can someone suggest a venue where I can > >acquire a copy of the film, *El Topo*. > >Iwould like to own a copy in VHS. > > It's never been released on any video format in the US because Allen Klein, > who holds the rights, is a real control freak and also apparently very > difficult to deal with. However, since this and "Holy Mountain" both aired > on the Playboy Channel sometime in the early or mid-80s and have also been > released on Japanese laserdisc, you can find copies from any of the > numerous grey-area video companies that advertise in places like > Psychotronic Video. (E-mail privately if you need recomendations.) The > catch is that the Japanese version has optical fogging of, as Monty Python > puts it, naughty bits. There's an upcoming video release in the UK which > won't be fogged but has been trimmed; how much and what I don't know yet. > > LT > ---------------------------------------------- > Lang Thompson > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/wlt4 > > World Cinema Review needs readers & writers > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/wlt4/wcr.htm > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html