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8月22日 Buñuel, She And Others On DVD
I think Sean Axmaker and I have a similar DVD collection. I could be wrong but, based on the pictures he chooses to cover in his terrific DVD column, I can easily envision us being the two people in Amoeba Records fighting over the last used Criterion edition of "Straw Dogs" which is out of print. But then, I'm sure he already has that one (I still have a foreign disc, which is fine, but not Criterion).
Anyway...here's Sean's look at Luis Buñuel's "The Milky Way," a movie I'll be running out to purchase (at yes, Amoeba). Writes Sean:
"A pair of shaggy modern day pilgrims (Paul Frankeur and Laurent Terzieff, with the fitting names Peter and John) follow the traditional route (the Milky Way) from Paris to the ancient Santiago de Compostela in Spain in Luis Buñuel's surreal road movie. Along the way they wander through a series of religious debates and, briefly, back into medieval times. Think of them as passive hosts of an ecclesiastic skit comedy: theological follies with a surreal slant, where defiantly religious men might die for their beliefs before offering food or shelter to a pair of poor travelers.
"The first film in what Buñuel later proclaimed a trilogy of comically surreal satires (along with 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' and 'The Phantom of Liberty') is a cheeky return to some of his favorite themes -- religion and hypocrisy -- but the first film where he really dismantled the conventions of storytelling and rebuilt them in a playfully fractured form: jumping to unrelated flashbacks for a punch line, wandering off with a side character for a spell, dissolving the distance between the past and the present without a comment."
And read all of his DVD pieces, including "She" Deluxe Edition, the 20th anniversary edition "RoboCop," "The Lives of Others" and more here.
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