A title card reads “Once a upon a time:” a heavy-set man sharpens a straight-razor, cigarette clamped in jaw, before standing on a nighttime balcony and staring up at the full moon, as if to receive ...

Decades of graphic violence in movies haven't dulled the shock of the opening frames of the 1929 short "Un Chien Andalou." A man holds a straight razor over a woman's eye, then a thin bank of clouds ...

In Mexican cuisine, buñuelos are fried-dough confections drenched in sweet syrup. But syrupy would be the least accurate description of Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel, who, until his death in 1983, was ...

The startling 1929 surrealist silent film Un Chien Andalou made by Luis Buñuel in collaboration with Salvador Dalí is now a deeply unsettling video game. If the infamous eye slicing scene makes you ...

In 1929, famed artist Salvador Dalí and filmmaker Luis Buñuel awoke from a night of strange dreams, Buñuel recalling the image of a razor blade cloud slicing through the moon as if it were an eyeball, ...

The anarchist films of cinema's surrealist poet take center stage as the Berlinale honors Luis Bunuel with a retrospective. By Kirk Honeycutt, The Associated Press In his lifetime, Luis Bunuel was ...

Martin Scorsese’s 1980 sports film Raging Bull crescendos with a knockout of a fight. In it, the titular Jake LaMotta squares off against Sugar Ray Robinson in a tense, dramatic bout, the scene made ...

With a title like “Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles,” you’d be forgiven for thinking its director/co-writer Salvador Simó had inserted one of cinema’s great surrealists — Spanish-born auteur ...

MADRID — In 1925, Luis Buñuel, son of one of the richest men in the Spanish region of Aragón, went to Paris to make films with Salvador Dalí. The results were two surrealist shorts, 1929’s “Un Chien ...

Un Chien Andalou is a European surrealist film resulting from a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. The film presents a collection of dream-like, disjointed scenes that defy ...