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Images of wonder and terror swirl beneath the Mexican sun in these delirious, alcohol-fueled fever dreams. Suzan Pitt’s wildly surreal animated short EL DOCTOR is an alternately morbid and miraculous magical-realist tour through a boozehound Mexican doctor’s last moments on earth, featuring a gargoyle spirit guide, a human flower garden, and an equine seduction. It’s paired with another hallucinatory tale of chronic inebriation south of the border, John Huston’s masterful adaptation of Malcolm Lowry’s novel UNDER THE VOLCANO, built around a towering performance from Albert Finney as a mezcal-swilling ex-diplomat drinking himself into oblivion on the Day of the Dead.

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  • Under the Volcano

    Episode 1

    Directed by John Huston • 1984 • Mexico, United States
    Starring Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset

    UNDER THE VOLCANO follows the final day in the life of self-destructive British consul Geoffrey Firmin (Albert Finney, in an Oscar-nominated tour de force) on the eve of World War II. Withering fr...