Probably the greatest short film in existence by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, and
one of the most influential films ever. Preferable, in my view, to the longer follow-up *L'Age d'Or*, if only because *Un Chien Andalou* wastes no time trying to construct an even peripheral narrative. Just seventeen minutes of masterly, bizarre images and dream-logic. There's something gratifying in the fact that, in Bunuel's first film, Bunuel himself is practically the first thing we see. After he cuts open a woman's eyeball with a
straight razor, we see him no more. A fine
introduction. The Pixies made Debaser which is a song about the film.