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THE APOLL0

One of the greatest films of all time

barleeku@comcast.net

Stunning, gorgeous, laugh-out loud funny. Max Ernst's character is funnier when you know it's Max Ernst. Great scorpions. Historical masterpiece and sublime surrealist document. I could rave on and on but if you remember it you weren't there.

El Biffo

A silent film with toe-sucking! Cinema's finest moment.

ghinnet

I think I need a second viewing on this one... very captivating indeed

IA

Whatever it is, it's against it. The most joyous expression of nihilism ever perpetrated.

bittercinema

This is where truly modern cinema began, and maybe we're finally catching up. Extraordinary sound design at the birth of the talkie, grim black humor, savage irony, the drums of Calanda, and a jaunty pasodoble at the end. Making the irrational matter-of-fact was Buñuel's vocation, peeling away the layers of propriety to find darker desires within his pleasure. And it's our privilege to watch.

Juan C.P.

I honestly can't believe you guys have this film in your catalogue... I'm going to watch and have a cinegasm. Later....

dionysus67

In 60 minutes this masterpiece of the visual and the tactile destroys society's hypocritical morals when the latter reside in the irrational mania for wealth's accumulation and the violence that supports it. A scorpio's sting really, its blend of psychoanalysis, Sadean nihilism and surreal iconoclasm includes the cretinism of the working class among its targets and serves as a mirror of our own sexual ridiculousness.