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Un chien Andalou
(1929)

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.

2004 Transflux Films edition

Un chien Andalou (1929), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated.

Transflux Films, no catalog number,
UPC 8-24820-19299-4, ISBN 1-8406-8200-0.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 1, 6.5 Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, French language intertitles, English language subtitles, 5 chapter stops, keep case, $19.95.
DVD release date: 28 December 2004.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 5 / audio: 5 / additional content: 7 / overall: 6.

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.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.

Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

2004 British Film Institute edition

Un chien Andalou (1929), black & white, 17 minutes, Classification 15,
with L’Age d’or (1930), black & white, 63 minutes, Classification 15, and A Propósito de Buñuel (2000), color and black & white, 98 minutes, not rated.

British Film Institute, unknown catalogue number, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 PAL, one? single-sided?, dual-layered? DVD disc, Region 2, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo? and mono sound, English? language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles?, chapter stops, keep case?, £29.99.
DVD release date: October 2004.
Country of origin: England

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 FRENCH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

Other AVANT-GARDE FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

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