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Week 2 — Saiss Cruz
L’age d’or (The Golden Age) is Luis Buñuel’s Icarus, a piece which pushed the very medium of narrative filmmaking while exploring the very surrealist themes that would lead to his downfall years later – it’s a daring film with roots in sensuality, religious critique, feminine violence, the characterization of jesus in media – all themes […]
Week 2 — Mariah Smith
An Andalusian Dog (Un Chien Andalou) (1929) Dir. Luis Buñuel: A Woman’s Autonomy & Exploring Sexuality Luis Buñuel’s 1929 film Un Chien Andalou epitomizes Buñuel’s work as a surrealist director. As I watched the film, I felt almost as if I was in a dream-like state where images and stories are connected in terms of […]
Response #2 – 09.25 – Alinne de la Torre
I had many strong reactions to Buñuel’s The Young One. There were a few moments where I wanted to turn away. First, it’s uncomfortable to see how Evvie is perceived by the men in the film. When she cleans herself and does her hair, suddenly Miller doesn’t see a child. Before this, she was treated […]
Weekly response 2 – Zachary Lubin
Un chien andalou was really interesting to watch. It was a bizarre and dream like film. It makes me wonder what Bunel’s influences were. Was this the first surreal film like this to strike with an audience. How was the film received at the time. did people understand it? I also wonder where Bunel would […]
Weekly Response 2
When reading the reviews and critic commentaries about Un Chien Andalou, I found it very interesting that many viewers found that Buñuel’s films simultaneously invite interpretation and actively resist it. It was a very succinct description of the way that I felt after watching the film and it resonated with me even more so after […]
Grace Tapia Week 2
The experience of watching Un chien andalou and L’age d’or one after the other was definitely an enlightening introduction to Buñuel as a surrealist, to say the least. To start, Un chien andalou was such an interesting watch from the very start of the film. The man sharpening his blade to then, rather than predictably […]
Weekly Response #2- Maribel Gomez
This week in class, we watched Un Chien Andalou and L’Age D’or. My feelings about his characters throughout the films were more in line with being unlikeable, as most characters seem to portray a sense of selfishness. Most characters are displayed with greed, lust, wrath, and turning a blind eye to the lower class. For […]
weekly response
In class two we were supposed to watch L’Age D’or and Un chien andalou. What is surrealism? Is it the idea of something so strange that is unreal or is it the confusion itself that makes something surreal? Buñuel is a master of his craft and from these films we can agree that his mastery […]
Weekly Response #2
In class we looked at a number of examples of films that utilized the association of images which contributed to their narratives. Movement became a focal point in analysis as the films we viewed experimented with the capture of movement, at first experimentally and then more artistically. It became clear that scientific film held influence […]
Weekly Response Two
I found the psychosexual themes of both Buñuel films we watched this week rather perplexing. On one hand, traditional directors will try to make you feel empathetic towards their protagonists. Even if the character does unfavorable things, we are meant to empathize with them, vis-à-vis them being the focal point of our narration. However, in […]
