Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Ave
212.505.5181
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Un chien andalou
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Saturday Dec 20, 2008 (5pm)
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$7
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French for "between the acts," Entr'Acte was originally made as between-ballet filler for Francis Picabia's Relâche. Nearly 85 years later, René Clair and Picabia's Dada dazzler still contains the ecstatic feeling of throwing caution into the Seine. Picabia, Satie (who pitched the delirious score), Duchamp, and Man Ray make cameos and Clair gives a clinic on visual magic with playful superimpositions, possessed objects, and leaping, balletic bodies in exquisite slow- and reverse- motion. Luis Buñuel supplies two other avant-garde knockouts: Un chien andalou, a prime slice of surrealism dreamt up with Dalí in 1928, and Land Without Bread, a sardonic ethnographic study on the savage destitution in Spain's Las Hurdes region.
