>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