Decades of graphic violence in movies haven't dulled the shock of the opening frames of the 1929 short "Un Chien Andalou." A man holds a straight razor over a woman's eye, then a thin bank of clouds ...
The anarchist films of cinema's surrealist poet take center stage as the Berlinale honors Luis Bunuel with a retrospective. By Kirk Honeycutt, The Associated Press In his lifetime, Luis Bunuel was ...
The legacy of Spanish director Luis Buñuel (1900-83) will forever bear the albatross of “Un Chien Andalou” (1929), the avant-garde film made in collaboration with a Surrealist painter, Salvador Dalí, ...
With its closeup shot of the slicing of an eyeball, UN CHIEN ANDALOU is a cinematic gauntlet thrown down by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. Almost a century old, the surrealist short masterpiece has ...
BERLIN — The Berlin Intl. Film Festival’s upcoming Luis Bunuel retrospective will open and close with special presentations of the Spanish helmer’s directorial debut, the 1929 silent film “Un Chien ...
The Spanish director Luis Buñuel spent much of his career working to subvert the various pieties of civilized society. From the image of a young man in a nun’s habit riding a bicycle in “Un Chien ...
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s legendary Surrealist free-for-all doubleheader—one a dreamlike short, the other a highly symbolic feature—offers foot fetishes, sliced eyeballs, rotting bishops, ...
Martin Scorsese’s 1980 sports film Raging Bull crescendos with a knockout of a fight. In it, the titular Jake LaMotta squares off against Sugar Ray Robinson in a tense, dramatic bout, the scene made ...
Certain films in the so called canon of film art really do deserve all the praise they can get and Un chien andalou (1929) by Salvador Dalì and Luis Buñuel is one of them. If you've never seen this ...
Un Chien Andalou is a European surrealist film resulting from a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. The film presents a collection of dream-like, disjointed scenes that defy ...
With its closeup shot of the slicing of an eyeball, UN CHIEN ANDALOU is a cinematic gauntlet thrown down by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. Almost a century old, the surrealist short masterpiece has ...