Un chien Andalou (1929) on

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s bizarre surrealist short film is hard to watch for some, and is a fascinating, unhinged masterpiece to others. Good or bad, the film is full of striking images that are hard to forget.

This edition has been mastered from an English-subtitled print sourced from the 1960 Les Grands Film Classiques sound version, which is commonly utilized for home video editions of Un chien Andalou. As with others, this edition is compromised by the tight framing, and contrasty and grainy images of the source print.

The disc’s supplementary material includes “A Slice of Buñuel,” a video interview/documentary with Buñuel’s son Juan-Luis (16 minutes), a bonus interview with Juan-Luis Buñuel on Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel (5 minutes), audio commentary by Spanish surrealism expert Stephen Barber, a two-page abridged transcript of a Bunuel speech from 1953, and “Dave McKean: Graphic design and statement,” images and text.

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In addition to the two films mentioned on the front cover, the disc presents an introduction and audio commentary by author Robert Short, and a feature-length documentary A Propósito de Buñuel on Buñuel, and includes a 30-page booklet.

This Region 2 PAL DVD is available from the British Film Institute.

Other silent era avant-garde films available on DVD home video:
Anémic cinéma (1926)
Anthology of Surreal Cinema, Volume 1 (1924-1928)
Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and ’30s (1921-1947)
Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema, 1928-1954 (1928-1954)
Le ballet mécanique (1924)
La coquille et le clergyman (1928)
The Crazy Ray (1922)
Entr’acte (1924)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
La folie du Docteur Tube (1915)
Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film (1894-1947)