Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Ave
212.505.5181
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A Trip to the Moon
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Saturday June 28, 2008 (4:30pm)
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$8
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While the Lumières documented the quotidian proceedings of the Belle Époque, Georges Méliès made out-of-this-world shorts about space, Arabia, time travel, and the underworld. Program #1 features five of his carefully staged adventures, showcasing the cinema magician's many technical innovations: stop-motion surprises, hand-tinted prints, and delicately dissolving images. The masterpiece of his oeuvre is the sci-fi fairy tale A Trip to the Moon, which features the cut-and-paste aesthetic that inspired the Smashing Pumpkins' music video for "Tonight, Tonight." The film's famous image of a spaceship lodged in the moon's eye is on par with Buñuel and Dalí's revolutionary eye slice in Un chien andalou.
