Browse by Artist: BUNUEL, LUIS

Artist:	BUNUEL, LUIS
Title:	Un Chien Andalou
Label:	MICROCINEMA
Format:	DVD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	MC 721DVD

"Made in 1929, Un Chien Andalou (The Andalusian Dog) is regarded as the first film produced purely from within the Surrealist Movement, and a landmark in the history of cinema. Based on an exchange of dreams between Salvador Dali and acclaimed director Luis Buñuel, this tale of unfulfilled desire opens innocently with the words 'Once upon a time.' What follows is one of the most shocking and celebrated sequences in film history -- a razor slashing a woman's eye in extreme close up...Intended to provoke rather than to please (Buñuel saw it as 'nothing more than a desperate, a passionate appeal to murder'), Un Chien Andalou is a triumph of art and a hysterically dark joy ride whose power to affront the viewer is undiminished after more than three quarters of a century. Special Features: A Slice of Buñuel: a documentary featuring Buñuel's son, Juan-Luis, 16 min. Epilogue: Buñuel & Dali Bonus Interview, 5 min. Audio Commentary by Surrealism expert Stephen Barber, author of Antonin Artaud: Blows and Bombs. Mystery of Cinema, abridged transcript of speech given by Luis Buñuel in 1953. Dave McKean graphic design and statement." Total DVD running time: 55 minutes; stereo, NTSC all region DVD.

Artist:	BUNUEL, LUIS
Title:	Death In The Garden
Label:	MICROCINEMA
Format:	DVD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	MC 968DVD

"Available for the first time on DVD! The DVD was created using a newly restored print! Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives, a roguish adventurer (Georges Marchal), a local hooker (Simone Signoret), a priest (Michel Piccoli), an aging diamond miner (Charles Vanel) and his def-mute daughter-are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another. Shot in brilliant Eastmancolor and featuring a star-studded cast, Death in the Garden is a pulsating adventure film, alive with Surrealist gestures, making it classic Luis Buuel. In French with English subtitles. Special Features: Restored picture and sound plus new and improved subtitles. Audio commentary by film scholar Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz. New video interviews with actor Michael Piccoli and film scholar Victor Fuentes. Booklet featuring essays by Javier Espada, Juan-Luis Buuel and Susan Hayward. New and improved English subtitle translation." Aspect ratio: 1:66:1. NTSC All Region format.

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