USA, 82 min
Archive for the ‘1930s’ Category
Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
January 16, 2010Tarzan Escapes (1936)
January 15, 2010Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
January 15, 2010Tarzan, Ape Man (1932)
January 15, 2010Pinscreen Works (A. Alexeïeff & C. Parker)
September 17, 2009Une nuit sur le mont chauve, 1933
En passant, 1943
le Nez, 1963
Tableaux d’une exposition, 1972
Trois thèmes, 1980
Kaleidoscope (Len Lye, 1935)
August 17, 2009Lot in Sodom (1933)
March 24, 2009Great Guy (John G. Blystone, 1936)
March 7, 2009Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan (Luis Buñuel, 1932)
February 17, 2009Sp. & Fr., 26 min.
A parody of documentary, Buñuel’s exaggerations included covering a donkey in honey so that it would be killed by bees. The people of Las Hurdes have been stigmatized for generations, and the subject of some ill-conceived reconstruction plans. Now they live by tourism and bee-keeping. Watch this film for its surrealism and not its truth.
The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau, 1930)
February 12, 2009l’Âge d’Or (Luis Buñuel, 1930)
February 7, 2009the Golden Age
FR, 63 min
Co-written by Buñuel and Salvador Dali, the film strings together various interrelated vignettes; a blend of Sadean themes and surreal sets by Dalí, who left the project halfway through. Wildly satirical, blasphemous and pornographic for its time.
The film was financed to the tune of a million francs by the nobleman Vicomte Charles de Noailles, who beginning in 1928 commissioned a film every year for the birthday of his wife Marie-Laure de Noailles. When it was first released, there was a storm of protest. The film premiered at Studio 28 in Paris on November 29 1930 after receiving its permit from the Board of Censors. In order to get the permit, Buñuel had to present the film to the Board as the dream of a madman.
On 3 December 1930, a group of incensed members of the fascist League of Patriots threw ink at the screen, assaulted members of the audience, and destroyed art work by Dalí, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy and others on display in the lobby. On 10 December, the Paris Prefect of Police, Jean Chiappe, arranged to have the film banned after the Board of Censors reviewed the film. The film did not have its official US premiere until 1-15 November 1979 at the Roxie Cinema in San Francisco.
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