1929 Movies
OSCARS Won/Nominated
Un Chien Andalou
Dir: Luis Bunuel 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die I will tell you exactly what this Salvador Dali collaborative effort reminded me of. It reminded me of the tape in THE RING that will kill you in seven days after you watch it. This is a surrealist hodgepodge of visuals that only produces a "What the F**K?" emotion. There is that slit eyeball scene (which the film is most famous for), a man pulling 2 pianos into the living room with pilgrims in tow, breasts morphing from covered, to bare, to under overalls, to butt cheeks etc.. It is so weird. I think this short film is famous because it reminds us that there were werid, abstract filmmakers even back in the 20s. I still don't really enjoy it though. C |
Man With a Movie Camera
Dir: Dziga Vertov 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die A truly inspired, technical, non-narrative film that really showed what the medium could do, even back in the 1920s. Russian filmmaker Dziga Vertov decided to film a day in a Russian city...and that took 4 years. The film consists of shots of the city working, the filmmaker shooting the city, and the filmmakers editing together their film. It is truly groundbreaking and the kinetics of the editing were so far ahead of its time, that it defies logic. There is no story to tell, but it does show us how stories will be told for decades to come. Wonderful piece of work, and truly important to the world of cinema. A- |