Price
- £6.50 Full Price
- £5.50 Concessions
- £4.50 Student Members
Length
- 90
A double bill of cinematic classics: the eerie, twisted world of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and the surreal, mind-bending imagery of Un Chien Andalou.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Delusion, deception and fear are wrought into the very design of this early horror from Robert Wiene.
Franzis encounters the mysterious and menacing Dr. Caligari at a carnival as he’s showing off his clairvoyant somnambulist. By the following morning the hypnotised man’s prediction of Franzis’ friend’s death has come to pass... Delusion, deception and fear are wrought into the very design of this early horror, as drunkenly askew streets, crooked buildings and twisted landscapes express the subjectivity of a deranged mind.
Un Chien Andalou
France 1929. Dir Luis Buñuel. With Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff, Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel. 16min. 15
A young woman’s eye is sliced open by a razor. What ensues dispenses with plot and chronological coherence in favour of a ‘dream logic’ that offers a playful and anarchic assault on authority and convention. It’s hard to overstate the formative impact that Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s collaboration had on the development of cinema.
Country: Germany, French
Language: Silent
Venue: The Dukes - The Round
