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...Several of today's most prominent filmmakers betray the influence of Buñuel. David Lynch's radically bizarre first feature, "Eraserhead," couldn't have existed without the example of Buñuel's rulebreaking Surrealist masterwork "Un Chien Andalou" (1929), directed with Salvador Dali. Pedro Almodovar's deliciously ripe melodramas contain numerous elements first found in Buñuel's Mexican work from the 1950s; in fact, key sequences from Buñuel's giddily psychotic "The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz" (1955) are incorporated into Almodovar's "Live Flesh" (1997). And former Monty Python member Terry...
...Jesuits, who, he revealed to one interviewer, would attempt to channel young boys' sexual urges by encouraging them to masturbate to a statue of the Blessed Mother. Years later, while living at a now-famed students' residence in Madrid (where he first encountered Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali), Buñuel took his childhood game a step further by wandering the streets dressed as a priest...
After the opening day, Crimson players had earned three quarterfinal berths, with wins by Browne, Riddell and junior Dali Snyder...
This show cannot be seen as a Dali retrospective, though it represents all phases of his career. In pursuit of all aspects of his illusionism, it contains a great deal of decidedly inferior work from his later years. However ingenious his pictorial puns, tropes and double meanings may be, they do not necessarily amount to much as painting. Nevertheless the show has some amazing pictures in it, and it contains what is certainly Dali's greatest and most frightening work: the Soft Construction with Boiled Beans--Premonition of Civil...
With this single painting, Dali moved into the territory of Goya. This monstrous Titan in the act of tearing itself to pieces is the most powerful image of a country's anguish and dismemberment to issue from Spain (or anywhere else) since Goya's Desastres and Disparates. And every inch of it, from the sinister greenish clouds and electric-blue sky to the gnarled bone and putrescent flesh of the monster, is exquisitely painted. This, not Picasso's Guernica, is modern art's strongest testimony on the Spanish Civil War and on war in general. Not even the failures...