[Ahcri]

If I remembered correctly, some book says that Salvador Dali has participated in film making for a short period of time. Now, I'm not a fan of his paintings, but the description of his films are intriging. It was said that the film contains people with ants crawling all over them. I would love to see the concept of his painting in live action..
Have anyone seen any of his films? If so, how and where did you obtain a copy?

[Pat]

I think the flick you're looking for might be called Un Chein Andalou, aka An Andalusian Dog. As I recall, it has a gross eye-cutting scene. Ick.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0020530


I believe it can be purchased here:
http://sepnet.com/rcramer/foreign.htm

-Pat

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[Ahcri]

Eye cutting? Is it an actual eyeball or..?
I still want to check it out, even though I know half of the time during the movie I'll be cringing. Thanks for the help.

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[Pat]

My art prof told me it was an actual goat eye or something. It hurts.

-Pat

[Impaler]

The eye-cutting scene is the most disturbing thing ever caught on film. The worst part is that when you cringe, it feels just like a razor is cutting your eye open.

Had to watch the Dali flick for gifted.

Go watch it. Odd stuff.

[Ahcri]

My goodness.. I just looked at some of the stills from the film, and it's already unbearable. I don't dare to click on the "view video" link..

[Baka]

Dali also designed the dream sequence for the film Spellbound for Hitchcock. It's been a while since I've seen it, but if I recall correctly it does have a sequence where someone did use an oversized pair of scisors to cut an image of an eye.

IMDB link here

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[jr]

it was either a goat or a cow's eye, it was beautifully done, and still made me cringe, there was a knife up to an eye, and all of a sudden it flashes to a cloud crossing the moon, and quickly flashes to the eye again and the knife cutting it. an ewww moment.

[A.Buttle]

Let me also suggest Bru�el's "Discreet Charm of the Burgeoisie." An excellent film, Bru�el collaborated with Dal� on Un Chien.

[Teaweed]

I've seen that eye cutting scene, one of the creepiest things you'll likely see...

[Ahcri]

I could not imagine if that film was in colour, it would be even more disgusting, huh?

[edraket]

I saw the whole movie a few years back. I had to watch it in class. That and the fact that it was old and in black and white made it really boring.
I was still in that stage in my life where black and white was boring. Actually I think i am still in that phase. It's too bad. It doesn't look very artistic.
And it's more about the pace of old movies anyways. I have the attention span of...of...well..you get the point.

eddy

[travis travis]

It's a donkey's eye. And weirdly, that scene doesn't even strike me very much, maybe I wasn't at full attention or maybe they showed it too quick, but that movie does keep going unto other things -- could also be that my prof mentioned an eye would get cut ahead of time, but I dunno, it's not something I even remember about the film until people mention it -- there's an excellent scene where the guy is grasping at a women's bare back in a clearing, that one strikes me more, and when that guy keeps feeling that chick up in her apartment... uh oh, maybe I'm just horny

[Krycek]

Had a look, 'Silence of the Lambs' meets 'Clockwork Orange'.

Still images from the production...
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/SurrealismUnChienAndalou1.htm

[jr]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh disgusting! i haven't seen that in 3 years!!! damn sick! , i hope you guys enjoyed that as much as i did

[Ahcri]

It doesn't make any sense. On part 3, the upper-right picture, what the heck is that on the piano?

[A.Buttle]

Ahcri, it's a dead horse.

[vantid]

sounds like my kind of movie. yuuuum. a recent film im sure all of you know about had a lot of delicious surreal moments.....who loved "the cell?" i did. the horse part was fabulous. the plot was kind of pooie, but all the mind sequences were wonderful. another surreal/horror form of art (not film) worth checking out is wayne barlowe. has anyone ever heard of him?

[wahookah]

dont�t forget my favourite scene where the man wants to rape the girl, who defends herself with a tennis racket. when he tries to get nearer he realizes that he is tied to a piano on a rope with 2 priests on it [one of them is another surrealist, but i don�t remember his name] and in the piano there�s a dead donkey!


the dead rotten donkey is a fun game from his years at university in Madrid, where he and his friends called people they considered to be "burgeios" "putrefacto" which means rotten...

i love the tales of dali

and here a picture of the famous scene with the ants coming out of a hole in the hand


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