FROM LUIS BUNUEL'S FILM "UN CHIEN ANDALOU" 1928
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FROM LUIS BUNUEL'S FILM "UN CHIEN ANDALOU" 1928
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POSTER FOR LUIS BUNUEL'S FILM
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PICTURE OF LUIS BUNUEL(1900-1983) BY SALVADOR DALI
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"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed." - Luis Buñuel

"Thank God I'm an atheist." - Luis Buñuel

"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether." - Luis Buñuel

"You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing." - Luis Buñuel

Here are some bits about the truly great & influential Spanish surrealist film director Luis Buñuel ( 1900-1983) which I picked up on the Net.
He began making films in 1928 & made his last film in 1977.

His films can be funny shocking & disturbing. My favourite Buñuel films are The Exterminating Angel ,The Phantom of Liberty ,The Milky Way & The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie & Mexican Busride.

Referring to the images above:

“ A man. A woman. A knife. An eye. A moon. A cloud.

The man slices open the woman's eye as a cloud slices across the moon.

Describing this opening scene in words, of course, cannot do justice to its visual ferocity. More than one viewer has stood up and departed the theater after this visual assault.

Luis Buñuel, in collaboration with the painter Salvador Dali made Un Chien Andalou in 1928. The film has been hailed as

"one of the purest examples of Surrealist cinema." (P. Adams Sitney)

" The opening scene described above is a classic of film history. Its meaning has been discussed, dissected and even desiccated in the halls of academe by well meaning but tired film sophists.


The initial seeds of surrealism begin to grow. You have to admire the temerity of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali to create this piece of material circa 1928, when it was going to cause an outrage in that taboo period. Buñuel allegedly took stones to the premiere to throw at the critics. The film opens with Buñuel in the infamous scene where he slashes the eyeball of a woman with a razorblade. After this initial disturbing image, the rest of the film has other dreamlike sequences, which cannot be easily explained. But it's a very accomplished piece of film making - well crafted, and displayed the promise of Buñuel and set him on the road to his legendary career. A magnificent landmark and watershed of artistic film making. "

" His first two films were made in collaboration with the painter Salvador Dali and both caused an uproar on release. Un Chien Andalou in 1928 and L'Age D'Or in 1930, both displayed dreamlike sensationalist images, that were designed to shock and startle the audience. They did just that, and L'Age D'Or was banned for forty-nine years.

Bunuel ‘s films depict "the irrational, the irreverent, the unexpected, and the non-sequitur."



FROM LUIS BUNUEL'S " PHANTOM OF LIBERTY" 'DINNER IS SERVED ???'
(eating is done in private ,defecating is a communal event)
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His roots have always been in surrealism and savaging the bourgeoisie and religion. His later films were less outrageous, but were always scathing. The Exterminating Angel and The Phantom of Liberty being good examples."


FROM LUIS BUNUEL'S "PHANTOM OF LIBERTY" I like to shoot people from this building
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From Cosmic Baseball Association
/www.cosmicbaseball.com/
Luis Buñuel- The Eye of the Beholder

From:
chaotic cinema
/sarahbyte.f2s.com/bunuel.
& there is a Free download available on this site of “un chien andalou “ mpg/ full length movie
/dmoz.org/Arts/Movies/Filmmaking

AND :
strictly film school
www.filmref.com/

" Luis Buñuel (1900-1983), was born in Spain and grew up in Zaragoza, the capital of Aragon. Buñuel became involved while at the University of Madrid with an avant guard circle that included Federico Garcia Lorca, Salvador Dali, and Morena Villa, who were inspired by the surrealist movement that had emerged in France. While studying film and working as an assistant, Buñuel collaborated with Dali, an irreverent surrealist agitator, to produce the highly experimental work, Un Chien andalou (1928).

When the Spanish Civil War began, Buñuel found it necessary to flee Spain for America. Unfortunately, that largely side-tracked Buñuel’s career, since the only opportunity that opened up to him in America was work on military documentaries and Spanish-language versions of Hollywood films. His career was later revitalized when he moved to Mexico in the 1950’s."

Just a film you say but at the time it was seen as an affront to society & as spreading dangerous views which could undermine the authority of the Church & the State. So ...

"When Buñuel’s great surrealist masterpiece premiered in Paris in November of 1930, it caused a riot. Outraged Fascists threw bottles of ink at the screen, released stink bombs, and fired guns into the air. Later, paintings by some of the surrealists, including Ray, Ernst, and Dali, were destroyed in galleries."


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FROM PETER GREENAWAY'S "ZOO: A ZED & TWO NOUGHTS" CAR CRASHES INTO A SWAN
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Though Surrealism in film was pioneered by Buñuel it was not exclusive to Buñuel for his influence on other film makers included directors such as Ingmar Bergman’s THE SEVENTH SEAL , Stanley Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE & DR.STRANGELOVE, Ken Russell’s ALTERED STATES & GOTHIC, David Lynch’S ERASERHEAD & LOST HIGHWAY, or Peter Greenaway’S
A ZOO: A ZED & TWO NOUGHTS


FROM TERRY GILLIAM'S "BRAZIL"
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OPENING SHOT TERRY GILLIAM'S "BRAZIL"
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BRAZIL - Terry Gilliam

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