Let’s set aside whether it’s more Dada or Surreal. Is it so bizarre, really, it “could mean anything”? Do we think of René Clair in that way? Those who do not see that Entr’acte is a unified work of art are probably mistaking discontinuity—the origin of the Dada-or-Surrealism debate regarding the film—for disunity. Clair’s wonderful […]
Daily Archives: July 14, 2007
A man (played by Luis Buñuel) sharpens a razor, walks out onto an upper-story balcony and, underneath the full moon, cuts straight across a seated, willing woman’s eyeball. Director Buñuel hated this idea of co-scenarist Salvador Dalí’s. Good. The 17-minute film jumps ahead eight years and bounds sixteen years back. In a summary shot outdoors, […]
If we accept that Michelangelo Antonioni is the God of Art occupying an exalted category of his own, the greatest living film artist is Jean-Luc Godard. This doesn’t, however, mean that we get to see his works, if at all, in a timely fashion, not in the United States at least, where so much genuine […]
Dennis Grunes 