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L Age d Or
A Film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí
More than 80 years on, this masterpiece of cinematic surrealism remains as brilliantly witty and shocking as ever. Uniting the genius of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, L Age d Or (1930) is a uniquely savage blend of visual poetry and social commentary. A sinister yet poignant chronicle of a couple s struggle to consummate their desire the film was banned and vilified for many years for its subversive eroticism and furious dissection of civilised values.
Also includes Bunuel and Dali s surrealist masterpiece Un Chien Andalou (1928, 16min) and A Propósito de Buñuel (2000, 103 mins) a documentary on the life and work of Luis Buñuel by José Luis López-Linares and Javier Rioyo.
Extra Features:
- Dual Format Edition: presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition (Blu-ray and DVD)
- New HD transfer of L'Age d'or, presented with a choice of two audio tracks: original score; and Robert Short audio commentary
- Un Chien Andalou (1929, 17 mins): the 1960 restoration of Buñuel and Dalí s provocative entrée into the Surrealist movement, presented in HD with a choice of three audio tracks: the 1960 'Tango' score; a newly commissioned Mordant Music score; Robert Short commentary
- A Propósito de Buñuel (2000, 103 mins, DVD only): feature-length documentary on the life and work of Luis Buñuel by José Luis López-Linares and Javier Rioyo
- Fully illustrated booklet features newly commissioned sleeve notes
- New and improved English subtitles
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United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C DVD: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Linear PCM ), French ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Alternative Footage, Biographies, Black & White, Booklet, Commentary, Documentary, Interactive Menu, Remastered, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: An Andalusian Dog / Un Chien Andalou (1929): In a dream-like sequence, a woman's eye is slit open--juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring the moon moving in the same direction as the knife through the eye--to grab the audience's attention. The French phrase 'ants in the palms,' (which means that someone is 'itching' to kill) is shown literally. A man pulls a piano along with the tablets of the Ten Commandments and a dead donkey towards the woman he's itching to kill. A shot of differently striped objects is repeatedly used to connect scenes. Age of Gold / L'Age D'Or (1930): Bunuel's first feature has more of a plot than Un Chien Andalou, but it's still a pure Surrealist film, so this is only a vague outline. A man and a woman are passionately in love with one another, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, the Church and bourgeois society. ...An Andalusian Dog / Age of Gold ( Un chien andalou / L'Age D'or ) ( Âge d'or ) (Blu-Ray)
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
I am pleased that many of the more obscure, early films are being released on high quality digital transfer. For those of us who were exposed to the original celluloid projection, either in an art cinema, university or art school, it's a chance to revisit it and for those who didn't a new opportunity to see it.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Together with a gathering of film buffs, we watched all of Louis Bunuel's films in a week, complete with lectures and discussions. Made in 1930, it was his first feature film and, although it has a more development and coherent story and plot, it is pure surrealist and, therefore, not everyone's taste especially as it is in black-and-white, showing its age and the limitations of the equipment at the time. However, from another perspective, those are its charms too and it is essential viewing for anyone ninterested in film history, surrealism or Louis Bunuel.
Some remasering has been done and soundtrack changes have been done, e.g. Bunuel himself worked on the soundtrack in this sixties.
Keep in mind while watching it the size and unsophisticated nature of the cameras and sound equipment, the vocabulary of film-making at the time and the political, religious and social conditions just to set the film in context. That way, viewers will begin to appreciate the quality of the film and some of it will still shock, yes, even a modern audience. Having the DVD allows subsequent watchings to be performed from altered perspectives, e.g. as a film historian, a cameraman, editor and so on, all of which will heinten appreciation.
Some remasering has been done and soundtrack changes have been done, e.g. Bunuel himself worked on the soundtrack in this sixties.
Keep in mind while watching it the size and unsophisticated nature of the cameras and sound equipment, the vocabulary of film-making at the time and the political, religious and social conditions just to set the film in context. That way, viewers will begin to appreciate the quality of the film and some of it will still shock, yes, even a modern audience. Having the DVD allows subsequent watchings to be performed from altered perspectives, e.g. as a film historian, a cameraman, editor and so on, all of which will heinten appreciation.
10 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
L'age d'or is in an quality incredible. The choice of the sounds is multiple. And, personnally, i préfer the sound re work by Bunuel in the 60' showing the same music and conditions of the projection in 1932. Only a little regret... but .... Un chien andalou shoulden't be remastered at the level of l"age d'or. But, it's in hight quality and the best of the copie of today. And in blu-ray it's impressive. So, it's not really à critic. The movies, theirs souls and their identity are totaly respected by the infomatique work and not at all transformed in a new way. Very good work.
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