3399 Un Chien Andalou
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 14:47:25 +1000
From: Geoff Walker <geoffww@BIGPOND.NET.AU>
Subject: Un Chien Andalou
I've just seen this 1928 silent French cult classic - it's the one with
the famous scene where a razor slices a woman's eyeball!
The backing music includes a repeatedly played tango. One of its parts
sounds very similar to the well-known Marioneta, but the other parts are
much more "marching".
Googling doesn't help me identify it - can any listero help?
Thanks, Geoff
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 11:06:02 +0200
From: SOSA IUDICISSA Marcelo <MSosa@EUROPARL.EU.INT>
Subject: Re: Un Chien Andalou
Excuse me Geoff,
But it is not a French film; it is one of the milestones of that giant of surrealism known as Luis Buñuel, born in Calanda, Teruel, Spain.
Read more about him in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Bunuel
Cheers from Brussels,
Marcelo
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Subject: [TANGO-L] Un Chien Andalou
I've just seen this 1928 silent French cult classic - it's the one with
the famous scene where a razor slices a woman's eyeball!
The backing music includes a repeatedly played tango. One of its parts
sounds very similar to the well-known Marioneta, but the other parts are
much more "marching".
Googling doesn't help me identify it - can any listero help?
Thanks, Geoff
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 09:36:46 -0700
From: Svetlana Didorenko <svetlanadi@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Un Chien Andalou
The only credit available at imdb.com (which, as well as other sources,
lists it as a French film, despite the origins of filmmakers) is to Richard
Wagner's music from opera "Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod" (is that it?)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/fullcredits
Another website:
"[...] in the 1960s Buquel created the sonorised version of Un Chien
Andalou, based on the original music (Wagner, a South American tango) used
for its original release."
(https://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/01/12/chien.html)
Svetlana.
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Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 9:47 PM
Subject: [TANGO-L] Un Chien Andalou
> I've just seen this 1928 silent French cult classic - it's the one with
> the famous scene where a razor slices a woman's eyeball!
>
> The backing music includes a repeatedly played tango. One of its parts
> sounds very similar to the well-known Marioneta, but the other parts are
> much more "marching".
>
> Googling doesn't help me identify it - can any listero help?
>
> Thanks, Geoff
>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 18:32:04 -0400
From: Daniel Saindon <gardien@TANGO.MONTREAL.QC.CA>
Subject: Re: Un Chien Andalou
Good evening
The 1928 silent movie UN CHIEN ANDALOU
is the first movie produced by Luis Bunuel
and features in parts the Surrealist Painter
Salvador Dali.
The movie like the Surrealist movement
was meant to shock people in various manners
and to integrate within its scope the
latest trends of the time and this
includes Tango Music; that was
played by a pianist while the Silent
Movie was presented; and was incorporated
on the Sound track when the movie was
re-edited in the 1960s ( the origin for most
of today`s copies )
I have received about 5 years ago an email
from a FIlm producer who meant to re-engineer
a copy of that movie and asked specific questions
about two tangos quoted by Bunuel.
Unfortunately, I have lost that email
with a crash of my hard disk but my
recollection is that two short musical excerpts
one coming from RECUERDO and a second
one from TANGO ARGENTINO were
put together and played by a european
group with the music sensitivity of Europe
during the 1960s.
Daniel Saindon
gardien@tango.montreal.qc.ca
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