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27 March 2012 7:34 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Salvador Dalí is seen as the embodiment of the movement but it doesn't make him a great artist. Buñuel's films are truly radical

In Salvador Dalí's portrait of Luis Buñuel, the film-maker has a powerful, pugnacious face. He is clearly an authoritative character, someone to be reckoned with.

Today, it is interesting to ask which of them was the true artist. Perhaps Dalí's admiring portrait is a clue.

These friends who met as students made two hilarious, outrageous avant-garde films together, Un Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or. They were part of the surrealist movement led by André Breton in Paris between the world wars, and the sequence in Un Chien Andalou when a cloud crossing the moon is intercut with a razor slicing through an eyeball has become perhaps the most infamous of all surrealist dream images.

In the 1930s, these brilliant collaborators grew apart. In his memoir My Last Sigh, »

- Jonathan Jones

4 February 2012 11:27 PM, PST | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »

Midnight in Paris is a subtle romantic drama with a comical touch that has a little bit of almost everything: be it magic-realism, romance, phantasm, voyeurism, surrealism or even noire. It wouldn’t be a hyperbole to proclaim that everything that Woody Allen learned and gained during his long stint in Cinema culminated in the form of Midnight in Paris – An ode to the City of Love, and its most celebrated denizens of the past. Driven by the very impetus that gives Cinema its resonant charm, Woody Allen the auteur has seen his art go from strength to strength, taking new shapes and forms, being completely oblivious of the existence of his larger than life alter ego, Woody Allen the showman, whose stimulating works have been a treat for us all for last so many decades, and who himself has been a force to reckon with, right throughout his long »

- Murtaza Ali

30 January 2012 2:43 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

In the hands of Roman Polanski, the one-room chamber cinema of Carnage lives up to its name, says John Patterson. Spoiler alert! It all ends messily

"Mmm … Francis Bacon?" says Kate Winslet to Jodie Foster, leafing through a coffee-table book devoted to the master of the cramped interior and the silent scream, "cruelty and splendour, chaos and balance …" Later she will vomit violently and at considerable length all over this same book but for now, she's offering a neat summary of the virtues of Roman Polanski's toothsomely claustrophobic Carnage, from Yasmina Reza's stage play.

One apartment – the film's entire set – holds two bourgeois New York couples meeting to discuss their sons, one of whom has knocked out the other's front teeth, and to effect some kind of settlement between the boys. Add Polanski to this toxic cocktail of passive-aggressive PC liberalism (Foster) v Darwinian corporate sharkiness (Christoph Waltz »

- John Patterson

5 January 2012 12:58 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

Looking back at 2011 on what films moved and impressed us it becomes more and more clear—to me at least—that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, our end of year poll, now an annual tradition, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2011—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2011 to create a unique double feature. Many contributors chose their favorites of 2011, some picked out-of-the-way gems, others made some pretty strange connections—and some frankly just want to create a kerfuffle. All the contributors were asked to write a paragraph explaining their 2011 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative »

4 items from 2012