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[[Surrealist]] [[film]]s include ''[[Un chien andalou]]'' and ''[[L'Âge d'Or]]'' by [[Luis Buñuel]] and [[Salvador Dalí]]; Buñuel went on to direct many more, with varying degrees of Surrealism. Notable for Surrealism amongst Bunuel's later films are ''[[The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie]] (Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie)'', ''[[El ángel exterminador|The Exterminating Angel]] (El Ángel exterminador)'', and ''[[Belle de jour]]''. [[Surrealist]] [[film]]s include ''[[Un chien andalou]]'' and ''[[L'Âge d'Or]]'' by [[Luis Buñuel]] and [[Salvador Dalí]]; Buñuel went on to direct many more, with varying degrees of Surrealism. Notable for Surrealism amongst Bunuel's later films are ''[[The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie]] (Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie)'', ''[[El ángel exterminador|The Exterminating Angel]] (El Ángel exterminador)'', and ''[[Belle de jour]]''.
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== Films by the Surrealist movement == == Films by the Surrealist movement ==

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Surrealist films include Un chien andalou and L'Âge d'Or by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí; Buñuel went on to direct many more, with varying degrees of Surrealism. Notable for Surrealism amongst Bunuel's later films are The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie), The Exterminating Angel (El Ángel exterminador), and Belle de jour.

Films by the Surrealist movement

Later directors working within the surrealistic tradition

The truest aspects of Surrealism in film are often found in passing frames of a larger film; the sudden emergence of the uncanny into the "normal" which may or may not be further explored in the rest of the film. The original group spent hours going from film to film, often not finishing one before seeking another, partly in hopes of catching just such ephemeral moments, and partly with the idea of stitching together a film in their own minds out of the disparate parts.

Marcel Mariën (L'imitation du cinéma), André Delvaux (Un Soir, un train) and, more recently, Jan Bucquoy (Camping Cosmos) are notable for being representational of the Belgian Surrealist school in cinema. Antonin Artaud, Philippe Soupault and Robert Desnos wrote screenplays for Surrealistic films. Salvador Dali designed a dream sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's film Spellbound. There is a strong Surrealist influence present in Alain Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad.

Surrealist and film theorist Robert Benayoun has written books on Tex Avery (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck), Looney Tunes, Woody Allen, Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers.

Many have described David Lynch as a Surrealist filmmaker, he is perhaps one of the best known examples of today, and most influential. For examples of Surrealism in his work, see Eraserhead, Blue Velvet or Mulholland Drive.

Alejandro Jodorowsky sought to revive Surrealism in his films The Holy Mountain and El Topo.

Jan Bucquoy with the movie Camping Cosmos (1996), André Delvaux (the latter in the tradition of the magic realism with the movie Un Soir, un Train (1968)) and Marcel Mariën with the controversial L'imitation du cinéma (1959), are representatives of the Belgian Surrealist school in cinema.

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