Anyone else here ever see "Un Chien Andalou"?

[a_random_joel]

Just saw it in my film class. Man was that some weird stuff...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. I AM UN CHIEN ANDALUCIA!

WANT TO BE, BE A DEBASER, BE A DEBASER!

Sorry, don't know what came over me there.

[Kat45]

2. I saw it in a class too.

It grossed me out--you know, the eye thing. Gives me a shudder to think about it. Man I hated seeing that film.

[bif]

3. Saw it back in High School

many years ago. The eyeball slitting scene will stay with you forever. I still remember it 30 years later!

[a_random_joel]

4. High School?

Seems a bit over the top for high school, if you ask me...

I saw it in a college class.

[bif]

21. Our Art of a Film teacher

was very progressive. We saw some great stuff in his class.

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Got me a movie...oh ho ho ho...

Slicin' up eyeballs, oh ho ho ho...

[Plaid Adder]

6. One seriously weird movie.

But you should try "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie." Just as weird, but there's more of a narrative and it's VERY funny.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[emulatorloo]

11. Other Great ones from Luis Bunuel you outta rent

That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Belle de jour (1967)
The Exterminating Angel (1967)

All hilarious indictments of the ruling class.

[theemu]

12. Ugh

Excepting Un Chien Andalou, if you've seen one Bunuel, you've seen 'em all.

[BurtWorm]

15. The Discrete Charm of Bourgeois

is another very funny Bunuel.

My Last Sigh is my favorite film memoir.

[MojoKrunch]

7. Yes, wasn't it fun?

Now you need to watch early John Waters movies.

Can anyone recommend other Dadaist or Surrealist films?

Mojo

[Bridget Burke]

Jean Cocteau was NOT a Surrealist...

Andre Breton sternly disapproved of him. (I love the Surrealists but Breton was really good at that sternly disapproving thing, wasn't he?)

Many of his films use Surrealist methods & are worth checking out.

8. Monty Python

When Bunuel (the director of Andalou) died, Michael Palin wrote his obituary (for Rolling Stone)and listed every Monty Python film and which Bunuel film they were ripping off in each Python film. He said that Bunuel was one of their main inspirations.

Also Dali, Bunuel and the poet Garcia Lorca were all students together at the same time and were great friends. Dali got expelled and the other two caused a bit of trouble too.

[Plaid Adder]

20. Have you got a citation for that Bunuel obituary?

My partner, who loves Bunuel and Monty Python, really needs to read it. If you have the approximate year I can find it myself...

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[NightTrain]

9. Seen it

What a mind-fick of a film!

[roughsatori]

10. quite a few times, and also Buñuel's L'age D'or

The 2 are interesting to watch in relation to each other as well as their place in the development of surrealism and its view of political and clerical culture. David Bowie opened his "The Return of the Thin White Duke" tour by showing "Un Chien Andalou." It is quite the avant-garde war-horse.

[mitchum]

13. I had a stolen 16mm print of it...

and we spent a lot of time in college projecting it on the side of the house. My life as an art thug...

[BurtWorm]

16. Pretty cool, mitchum!

:thumbsup:

[scarlet_owl]

14. I was just talking about this film to my husband last night.

Surprisingly, he had never seen it.

[henslee]

17. Un chien is good... I'd say its the starwars of surrrealstic films.....

Not to take any thing from it, I like star wars but it was so.... different....it must have been a mind blower at the time.... Think about it..... What year was it the twenties?.... I heard riots broke out at tihe time. I think the coolest thing about it as the Buneu/Dali hook up,,, first avant garde art film superstar celbrities. ..... f

Hey eve check out Salo? trip of a film.

[thebigidea]

18. wonderful film... all of Bunuel is fantastic

ok, maybe a few of the early Mexican flix are kinda goofy. But still Bunuelian!

Now go gorge yourself on the rest of his work and wear that proud film student smirk, you'd have earned it!

[xchrom]

19. i love bunuel

a cronie of surealists and dadaists. that movie you are talking about is one of my favs.
extremely important to modern and post modern film making.