Walter C. (bjaccobs)

While Sweetback (Melvin Van Peebles) is being taken to the police station for questioning, the cops pick up another black man and start beating on him. Sweetback comes to the rescue and kills the cop and spends the rest of the movie on the run.
This is considered the first blaxploitation film (coming out before 'Shaft' by a few months) and was made with a very limited budget. The first half of the movie is okay with Sweetback trying to find a safe haven within the black community that he has become a legend within. After the first forty minutes it's basically scene after scene of Sweetback running through the city and the desert as if they had run out of script or didn't have much of a script to work with in the first place.
Mario Van Peeples made a great movie about the making of this one called 'Badass.' I'd say watch that movie with this one. This one on it's own without the history behind it isn't that great of a movie.

El Topo was one of the most memorable films I've seen in the past year and I couldn't wait to get my hands on another Alejandro Jodorowsky film.
Holy Mountain is about nine powerful industrialists and politicians heading taking part in a quest to reach the top of a holy mountain so that they can become immortal. The film is done in a surrealist style and there are some beautiful scenes of art direction.
Other parts of it feel dated as if at one point Jodorowsky wanted to make a sixties drug film. I wouldn't recommend this movie to everybody but I'm sure people who like surrealist films will enjoy this one.

One of my all time favorite movies. The way Kon mixes the life story of the title character into the films she's created in her life is awe-inspiring and could only be done in the medium of animation. One of the few movies that always makes my eyes water at the end.