Special Mention: Un chien andalou
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Written by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel
France, 1929
Genre: Experimental Short
The dream – or nightmare – has been a staple of horror cinema for decades. In 1929, Luis Bunuel joined forces with Salvador Dali to create Un chien andalou, an experimental and unforgettable 17-minute surrealist masterpiece. Buñuel famously said that he and Dalí wrote the film by telling one another their dreams. The film went on to influence the horror genre immensely. After all, even as manipulative as the “dream” device is, it’s still a proven way to jolt an audience. Just ask Wes Craven, who understood this bit of cinematic psychology when he dreamt of the central force behind A Nightmare on Elm Street, a film intended to be an exploration of surreal horror. David Lynch is contemporary cinema’s most devoted student of Un chien andalou – the severed ear at...
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Written by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel
France, 1929
Genre: Experimental Short
The dream – or nightmare – has been a staple of horror cinema for decades. In 1929, Luis Bunuel joined forces with Salvador Dali to create Un chien andalou, an experimental and unforgettable 17-minute surrealist masterpiece. Buñuel famously said that he and Dalí wrote the film by telling one another their dreams. The film went on to influence the horror genre immensely. After all, even as manipulative as the “dream” device is, it’s still a proven way to jolt an audience. Just ask Wes Craven, who understood this bit of cinematic psychology when he dreamt of the central force behind A Nightmare on Elm Street, a film intended to be an exploration of surreal horror. David Lynch is contemporary cinema’s most devoted student of Un chien andalou – the severed ear at...
- 10/28/2015
- by Ricky Fernandes
- SoundOnSight
House (Hausu) Directed by: Nobuhiko Obayashi Written by: Chiho Katsura Starring: Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Oba, Ai Matsubara Just in time for Halloween, the Criterion Collection has released director Nobuhiko Obayashi's creepy, cartoony and absurdly hilarious feature film debut House (Hausu) on DVD and Blu Ray. The film is a smorgasbord of in-camera tricks and techniques that celebrate all of the best elements of genre filmmaking while creating a completely unusual and unique cinematic experience. The synopsis on the back of the House blu ray couldn't be more appropriate, describing the film as Scooby Doo through the lens of Mario Bava. It's certainly a colourful experience that probably owes some of its imagery and effects to Italian genre films. To put it into a modern perspective, the film's aesthetics could be described as a Michel Gondry take on J-Horror. Oddly enough, Hausu was apparently Japan's direct response to...
- 10/29/2010
- by Jay C.
- FilmJunk
Janus Films' aggressive booking and marketing of Nobuhiko Obayashi's psychedelic art-horror film House (Hausu) has quickly turned a heavily-bootlegged Japanese obscurity into a North American pop culture phenomenon. So much has been written about House in recent years that one might get the impression that there is not much to say. To the contrary, The Criterion Collection's new Blu-Ray shows there is much left to be said about House.
Nobuhiko Obayashi was itching to use his skills as a television commercial director -- he did those Charles Bronson Mandom commercials floating around the Internet -- to make a feature film. He asked his 11 year old daughter Chigumi to come up with some ideas. She came up with some wild concepts that only a little kid could dream up, including: an evil cat, a house that eats people, a finger-chopping piano, murderous futons, a bleeding clock and all other sorts of mayhem.
Nobuhiko Obayashi was itching to use his skills as a television commercial director -- he did those Charles Bronson Mandom commercials floating around the Internet -- to make a feature film. He asked his 11 year old daughter Chigumi to come up with some ideas. She came up with some wild concepts that only a little kid could dream up, including: an evil cat, a house that eats people, a finger-chopping piano, murderous futons, a bleeding clock and all other sorts of mayhem.
- 10/26/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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Alien Anthology It absolutely is not fair that you have to decide between picking up this highly impressive box set featuring all four Alien films or Universal's Blu-ray release of the Back to the Future trilogy. While I reviewed both this week and gave both high marks I have to say my recommendation is to start here and pick up the Back to the Future films at a later date.
Fox has put together an amazing package for Alien fans and I went into it about as deep as I could muster in my review right here. So read that if you need additional incentive, but I will include the short video I made looking at the packaging of this set because it should become the new gold standard for Blu-ray box set packaging. It's small, sturdy, sleek and compact.
Alien Anthology It absolutely is not fair that you have to decide between picking up this highly impressive box set featuring all four Alien films or Universal's Blu-ray release of the Back to the Future trilogy. While I reviewed both this week and gave both high marks I have to say my recommendation is to start here and pick up the Back to the Future films at a later date.
Fox has put together an amazing package for Alien fans and I went into it about as deep as I could muster in my review right here. So read that if you need additional incentive, but I will include the short video I made looking at the packaging of this set because it should become the new gold standard for Blu-ray box set packaging. It's small, sturdy, sleek and compact.
- 10/26/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
It feels like we've been waiting forever for Criterion to tell us when they're going to release Nobuhiko Obayashi's insane masterpiece House (or Hausu), and it looks like it'll be arriving just in time for Halloween on DVD and Blu-Ray! Look at this list of special features: * New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition) * Constructing a House, a new video piece featuring interviews with director Nobuhiko Obayashi, story scenarist and daughter of the director Chigumi Obayashi, and screenwriter Chiho Katsura * Emotion, a 1966 experimental film by Obayashi * New video appreciation by director Ti West (House of the Devil) * Theatrical trailer * New and improved English subtitle translation * Plus: An essay by Chuck Stephens...
- 7/16/2010
- 24framespersecond.net
Here we are again: another mid-month Criterion Collection new release announcement, with some incredible titles to talk about. Many of today’s announced titles have been teased at in one way or another, over the past few months.
First up we are finally going to see Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, Criterion Collection #2, Seven Samurai finally making its high definition debut in the states. This release was something that Criterion mentioned back in December, as the Ak 100: 25 Films of Akira Kurosawa was released, and the Yojimbo / Sanjuro films were about to be announced on Blu-ray. In the post, Jonathan Turell mentioned that they wanted to have Seven Samurai ready on Blu-ray for Kurosawa’s birth month as well, but that it wouldn’t be ready until later in the year. The Seven Samurai Blu-ray was also teased at earlier this year when Amazon suddenly added a pre-order page for it,...
First up we are finally going to see Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, Criterion Collection #2, Seven Samurai finally making its high definition debut in the states. This release was something that Criterion mentioned back in December, as the Ak 100: 25 Films of Akira Kurosawa was released, and the Yojimbo / Sanjuro films were about to be announced on Blu-ray. In the post, Jonathan Turell mentioned that they wanted to have Seven Samurai ready on Blu-ray for Kurosawa’s birth month as well, but that it wouldn’t be ready until later in the year. The Seven Samurai Blu-ray was also teased at earlier this year when Amazon suddenly added a pre-order page for it,...
- 7/15/2010
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
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