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Beneath Buñuel: On 'A Woman without Love'
Where, in A Woman without Love is the imagination, wit, and brilliance one expects of Buñuel?
27 Nov 2018
Music
The Cabin Fever Goes Cult With "The Brown Bunny" (premiere)
Mysterious Los Angeles outfit the Cabin Fever draws inspiration from Heaven's Gate and surrealistic film on "The Brown Bunny".
Jedd Beaudoin
08 Jun 2018
Books
Jennifer Caloyeras Gets Unruly In Her New Short Story Collection
Intimacy with animals, babysitting plastic dolls, and running into your dad at a furry cuddle party are just a few of the details in this off-the-chain collection of stories, Unruly Creatures.
29 Mar 2018
Television
Going Back to Things Unknown with 'The Outer Limits'
The Outer Limits is a mix of science fiction, nightmares, and surrealism -- the very things that make life worth living even though they scare the bejeebers out of us.
20 Mar 2018
Film
On Satyajit Ray's Make Believe World in The Hero
The Hero has deliciously surreal nightmares of obvious symbolism -- skeletons under piles of money, a nightclub in a spectral forest -- and these seem to give Satyajit Ray and Subrata Mitra special chiaroscuro joy.
28 Feb 2018
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Criterion's 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me' Is a Semiotic Feast
Sheryl Lee's iconic performance as Laura Palmer evokes epic sorrow and haunting tragedy.
11 Jan 2018
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Andrzej Żuławski Finds Love and Family in the 'Cosmos'
At its heart, Cosmos is a very human story born from rudiments both otherworldly and oneiric.
25 May 2017
Film
Parochial Hierarchy in Walerian Borowczyk's 'Goto, Isle of Love'
Shot in lustrous black and white, Borowczyk’s film straddles an impossible line between grim drama and ramshackle fantasy.
17 May 2017
Books
Salvador Dalí’s 'Alice in Wonderland' Work Finally Gets Some Mad Love
This edition is valuable because it underscores a variety of connections that are generally not foregrounded in the work of either Lewis Carroll or Salvador DalÃ.
11 Sep 2015
Books
'Dreaming of Cinema' Demonstrates Why the Humanities Are Out of Touch
For better or worse, contemporary scholars in cinema studies spend more time drawing from and debating one another than talking about films.
18 Mar 2015
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Sewing Machine, Lobster, Giraffe, Umbrella... 'L'Age D'Or' by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali
Amidst familiarity the artists overwhelm the viewer with unexpected, lurid absurdity.
28 Jun 2011
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'On Elegance While Sleeping' Is a Hidden Gem in the History of Surrealist Literature
Viscount Lascano Tegui seduces with his prose, drawing the reader into an ever more depraved fantasy world in a manner that mixes repulsion with wonder.
10 Feb 2011
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