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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great film, lousy DVD,
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This review is from: UN CIHIEN ANDALOU (DVD)
The movie is great, obviously: it's bizarre, dreamlike and fascinating.However, this DVD release is very disappointing. There has been no attempt at restoring the film: the transfer is from a battered, wobbly, dirty print. Maybe that's forgiveable, but more disgraceful is a bit of video interfence two thirds of the way in which looks like it was caused by a chewed up videotape - this on a DVD release!! This is blatantly an over-hasty transfer. The extras are disappointing - the commentator talks about the Surrealist movement of the 1920s, saying little specific about the film itself; indeed, he spends most of the time discussing Artaud, not Bunuel. Then there's an interview with Bunuel's son who talks about the village Bunuel came from; again, there's little about the movie. I'm all for leaving 'Un Chien Andalou' open to interpretation but that's no reason for saying nothing at all about it. In summary, if you love the film, but already have it on VHS, there's no real reason to splash out on the DVD. You won't learn anything new, and do you really need chapter selection on a film this short?
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4.1 out of 5 stars (63 customer reviews) 61 of 65 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
deserves better treatment for DVD,
By Aging Punk - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: UN CIHIEN ANDALOU (DVD)
The Facets DVD of Un Chien Andalou is a disgrace. The frame was severly cropped at the top (some scenes feature actors lopped off at their foreheads). Contrast was boosted to the point where significant detail is lost. As if this weren't enough, there is a wide unsightly glitch running horizontally across the screen that lasts for 5 or so frames. Despite the interviews with Bunuel's son which are the only things worth the time here, I would avoid this disc. The film itself I think is great. It's a shame that a staple of art cinema has been handled so poorly for DVD.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
simple yet effective,
By manny trejo - Published on Amazon.com
The film is most easily viewed when you take each scene as being essentially a work unto itself. However, there is a point to the film . It is about a man's struggles with sexual and religious repression and his quest to rid himself of both by killing. The ant in the hand symbolizes a french expression for murder. dragging the preist around deals with his religious hang ups and his fantasies of the girl have very obvious overtones of sexual repression. As for the eyeball slicing ......Dali liked to use the distorion (or in this case) destruction of an image of an eyeball to signal the warped ,surrealist, dimension he dealt with and Bunuel merely adopted this idea.
33 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Great film, horrible DVD,
By Patrick J. Mccart "pjmccart" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: UN CIHIEN ANDALOU (DVD)
The video is geometrically distorted, interlaced, has blown out contrast, almost no detail at all, and horrible sound. TransFlux Films should be ashamed for putting out such poor quality work, yet including a featurette on the cover designer.
Everyone should avoid this DVD and go for the BFI double feature with L'Age D'Or, which has a watchable Un chein andalou for a change. |
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