Double Feature: “Un Chien Andalou,” 1929 L’AGE D’OR, 1930, THE YOUNG AND THE DAMNED (LOS OLVIDADOS), 1950 January 19, 2012

Thursday, January 19 – 7:30 PM
Co-presented by the Luis Buñuel Film Institute: Double Feature: “Un Chien Andalou,” 1929, Transflux Films, 16 min. Director Luis Buñuel collaborated with artist Salvador Dalí for this groundbreaking short film, a resounding war-cry of Surrealism, which bleeds its arresting images (a slit eyeball, an ant-infested hand) into one dream-like tableau.
L’AGE D’OR, 1930, Kino International, 60 min. Wonderfully bizarre and spun together with the allusive dictates of dream logic, the second collaboration between Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí is a series of gleefully irreverent vignettes, the most sustained of which centers on Gaston Modot and Lya Lys, lovers attempting to consummate their passion but continuously stalled by some of Bunuel’s favorite fixations - the church and the bourgeoisie! Featuring an infamous sequence in which Lys fellates the toe of a religious statue, L’AGE D’OR was banned from distribution for nearly 50 years after its initial release in 1930. With Surrealism co-founder Max Ernst. In French with English subtitles. [35mm]
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THE YOUNG AND THE DAMNED (LOS OLVIDADOS), 1950, Kino International, 85 min. Having directed only a handful of for-hire Mexican films in the multiple-decade interim since L’AGE D’OR and LAND WITHOUT BREAD, Spanish refugee Luis Buñuel’s 1950 return to iconoclastic form is this razor-sharp, no-holds-barred docudrama. Teenage delinquent Jaibo (Roberto Cobo), fresh out of a reformatory stint, returns to the savage streets of Mexico City to head up a gang of undesirables who beat up beggars, snatch purses and loiter. But Jaibo has an insatiable itch in violent need of scratching - to settle the score with the stool pigeon who put him away. “Sharp, swift and lethally compact, LOS OLVIDADOS is a celluloid switchblade swiped at the jugular of city living. A ferocious masterpiece... There isn’t a single good shot in LOS OLVIDADOS. They're all perfect.” - Nathan Lee, New York Sun “A MASTERWORK!” - Pauline Kael. In Spanish with English subtitles. [35mm]
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