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UN CHIEN ANDALOU/ LAND WITHOUT BREAD


1928/1932, Kino on Video, HF, $24.95, 15m 18s/27m 28s, VHS


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lowing tapes reflect only the length of the film itself, and do not include such ephemera as video company logos, FBI warnings, supplemen­ tary trailers, or MPAA ratings cer­ tificates. The only exceptions to this rule are those films in which the soundtrack is first heard while the distributor’s logo is s till onscreen.


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plauded for reissuing two early shorts by the great Spanish Sur­ realist, Luis Buñuel, both films part of the Interama Collection. Perhaps the quintessential Sur­ realist film—certainly the most famous—Un Chien Andalou (“An Andalusian Dog”) was made in France by the then-novice di­ rector Buñuel and his friend, Salvador Dali. At the time the film was made, Buñuel was a film enthusiast and failed modernist poet who was serving as an as­ sistant to French director Jean Epstein, who the same year made the silent THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER [La Chute de la Maison Usher, 1928], recently released on DVD by All Day Entertainment. How does one paraphrase


what is, in effect, a Surrealist poem? Un Chien Andalou has a minimal narrative component, being composed of hallucinatory, dream-like images—the opening image of an eyeball being sliced by a razor blade (with Buñuel himself wielding the razor), ants crawling out of a hole in the palm


of a hand, a doorbell represented by a pair of hands protruding through a wall shaking a cock­ tail. (And why not? Buñuel loved martinis.) There is also a strong dimension of frustrated sexual desire, as the cyclist (Pierre Batcheff) lecherously fantasizes massaging a woman’s (Simone Mareuil’s) bare breasts and but­ tocks, for instance, or later, when it appears he desires to take her by force, he cannot reach her because he is hindered by ropes tying him to two pianos on which lie the corpse of a dead donkey, to which are tied two priests (one


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