Movie: X-rated Film Classic: Luis Buñuel's Un Chien Andalour (1929)

See the movie trailer on video for free at Mubi.  This super-short clip may leave you howling in pain for days.  Viewer beware!   If you take the trouble to read Mr. Bongo's film history of "Luis Buñuel," you'll come across his pithy remarks on two films of which I'm especially appreciative, Viridiana and The Milky Way.  If you get a chance, you absolutely must view Viridiana with intelligent Christian friends, and afterward have a good discussion.

-- Movie Viewer, refWrite Backpage newspotter, analyst, columnist

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UN CHIEN ANDALOU

France

1929

16 Min

Black and White

1.33:1

Silent

Subtitled in English

Audio in Silent

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Director: Luis Buñuel (1929)

PROD Luis Buñuel

SCR Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí

DP Albert Duverger, Jimmy Berliet

CAST Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Robert Hommet, Marval, Fano Messan, Jaume Miravitlles

ED Luis Buñuel

PROD DES Pierre Schild

Berlinale (Retrospective)

SYNOPSIS

Fledging director Luis Buñuel and painter Salvador Dali create this ultimate surrealist film, which is essentially a barrage of striking and irrational images designed to shock and provoke.  During the course of the film, we witness a close-up of a woman’s eye being slashed open with a razor; a man dragging a piano, two bishops, and a pair of rotting asses across a room; ants swarming around a hole in a man’s palm; and sundry severed limbs and gratuitous slayings. Though this was originally a silent film, Buñuel later added a recorded score consisting of Liebestod from Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde and a number of popular tangos of the time.

LUIS BUÑUEL

Although regarded as the greatest artist of Spanish cinema Luis Buñuel only made three films that are Spanish by nationality. His exile from his homeland at the end of the Spanish Civil War resulted in extended periods in Mexico and France. Despite this displacement, Spain was never far from Buñuel’s mind. The peasant culture of the villages of Calanda and Zaragoza, many of them dating to the Middle-Ages, greatly influenced his imagination during his childhood. The Spanish literary tradition, represented by Lope de Vega, Cervantes and the writers of picaresque stories, remained constant touchstones. Strongest of all was the distinctly Spanish nature of his Catholicism; he would retain its influence long after he renounced the teachings of the Church. At the University of Madrid his friendship with poet Federico Garcia Lorca and painter Salvador Dalí would play a major role in the avant-garde of the 1920s. It was during this period that he discovered the works of Sigmund Freud. His insight into the functioning of the unconscious and its relation to human sexuality would strongly inform the content of Buñuel’s films.   Read more ...

Music: Contemporary: Bunbury Deluxe Argentina where Enrique vocalizes in Spanish is phenom

"Bunbury & Vegas - Welcome To El CallejÃn Sin Salida"
  [Babelfish says this translates "The street with no exit"]

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Somebody in Latin America to my fevered mind suggested that Enrique Bunbury now of Bunbury Deluxe Argentina, after establishing a name in contemporary Spain, his native country, was / is a Christian.  I don't know what I expected, but I signed onto his espanolic Facebook page some months ago, and have been receiving his noticias ever since.  Eventually, as the enigma grew in my mind,  I checked out his most recent website, there to find, inter alia, this image of him with his band -- and not in the colourful stage clothes they wear in performance.


The Saints Innocent, or in more grammatical English, The Innocent Saints -- The Band of the Devil, or perhaps The Saints of Innocence -- The Devil's Band.  I considered this all inauspicious; not the best recommendation, but capable of being given a Christian spin, with which I will dispense here.  Perhaps this Bunbury is a thoro ironist, irony being a genre that enriches many arts (along with satire) not much appreciated among most thawtful Christians, to our discredit. But irony woud have to be the order of the day in reading and musically experiencing the always-new Bunbury a Christian practioner of contemporary musical arts.


But, hecks, there's lots more interesting about the man and his bands and their processes of development over the years than whether the group's leader has been able to achieve some expression or other of a possible Christian culture.  As I listen to the music, I'm finding interesting, attractive flows of sound that have an integrity in their own rite.  


Oh yeah, the name "Bunbury."  Enrique acquired it as a nickname from a mention in the comedic drama The Importance of Being Ernest, by that consummate ironist and satirist, Oscar Wilde.  In turn he was poking at and alluding to the Bunbury Group, a social circle that included Alfred Keynes the prominent economist and many other literati and intellectuals in an area of London.  In my college days, I performed the character's role of Dr Chasuble, the presumably Anglican cleric who preferred to quote 'the pagan authors' to convey his tidy Christian witticisms and maxims.


-- Musikos

Sports: Soccer: Spain wins WorldCup, Netherlands gets #2 spot on the boards and in the records

Steven Goff, Sports W+ter for Washington Post, gives the most absorbing account of the Final Match of the FIFA WorldCup today, the most followed sports event in world history,  playing in several cities in South Africa over the course of the last month, and around the world daily.  Goff, a seasoned sports w+ter,  wr+ts the story of the last game of this year's World Cup of the Federation of Football (FIFA, in French), he wr+ts in the breathtaking old fashioned way when there were no full-colour moving pictures to help visualize the story, vizualization was restricted to still photos mass reproduced in newspapers.

You'll want to read Goff's slendid 2-pager, "Spain vs. Netherlands: Spain is World Cup winner after 1-10 victory over the Netherlands" (July 12,2k10).

... Meanwhile, I've stumbled on a CBC TV replay of the entire Final match between Nederland and Espana, as the billboards announce the score in the background.  Not much of a score, tho these WorldCup games, so many 0-0 and 1-1 final scores.  Well, so far this is an 0-0 game.

Weird, knowing the ultimate goal in a Spain win over Netherlands, yet being surprized by the level of expertize the players on both s+ds are exhibiting.  ....  I'm musing ... how does my perception of a goaltender in soccer, and a goalie in hockey.  For one thing, an ice hockey goalie is encased in a suit of armor, replete with mask.  In Lacross there seems nowadays to be as much protective gear as in hockey.

Netherlands vs. Spain .... O-0, 0-0, 0-0 ....

'Til the game's over ...

-- Sportikos, a fan of the sport of soccer, football, futbol ...

MarketWatch's Christopher Noble wr+ts up the event, "World Cup final: Spain defeats Holland 1-0 in overt+m."