Un chien andalou (English: An Andalusian Dog) is a sixteen-minute surrealist film made in France in 1929 by writer/directors Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. It is one of the best-known surrealist films of the French avant-garde film movement of the 1920s. It stars Simone Mareuil and Pierre Batcheff as the unnamed protagonists.

aw main, aint this ere already???

You posted it choggie, but it was "put to sleep"...
http://www.videosift.com/video/-Un-Chein-Adalou-1960-Luis-Buenel-wSalvador-Dali

hey is that the giant holstein outside of green bay?

Debaser by the Pixies is based on this film.

Yay for ants!!

yeah, i think i mentioned that in the thread for the last one....

SLICING UP EYEBALLS I WANT YOU TO KNOW


also... wh00t

Who cares if this sick piece of film is famous. This is for people who get off on psycho mutilation of the body. Do you think this is "cool" for everyone to see or whhhaaattt!!!? I'd rather enjoy Dali's incredible paintings and sculptures instead. He stinks at film work! He must have had a bad day when he made this crap.
I'm sure it was only famous because his name was associated with it.

BlueGW, I think you're overlooking the fact that the same mind with the same views and mindset created this film. It's surrealist film, and if you actually study the paintings, you'll recognize a lot of imagery, symbolism, and ideas... the ants, for example, appear in a lot of his work, including two of the most famous paintings, Persistence of Memory and Metamorphosis of Narcissus. These paintings were initially received with the same knee-jerk reaction you're giving here. Further, if you look at Persistence of Memory, you'll find that central to the piece is a "psycho mutilation" of a face.

I saw this on DVD for the first time a few days ago (right after watching Mulholland Drive - yikes) and I'll admit it blew my mind (which, admittedly, was blown already by the previous film.) That said, even in our overwhelmed state, two of my friends quickly commented "my dreams are like this. well, not with the dead horse pianos, but with the completely random nonsensical happenings that seem to make perfect sense."

As for the ants, I think they typically symbolize decay. And the eyeball, I believe they used a cow eye for that shot. I cringe remembering it.

Next up: L'Age D'Or

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Never heard of this film until I was at Bowie's Madison Square Garden "Station to Station" concert in 1976. This film was the opening act. You can imagine the sound of 18,000 people reacting to the eyeball scene, took everyone off-guard. I kept cringing for the rest of the film, thinking we were going to see more of the same weirdness. Nobody knew what the film was, when the guy was looking at the ants in his hand people were wondering if it was Bowie in the film, that he had made the film himself for the tour. Definitely confused everyone. The band started playing "Station to Station" as the movie screen was rolling up afterwards, went on to be an incredible show.

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