Favorite Film Beginnings

Hiroshima Mon Amour, Persona and Post Tenebras Lux are the three definitive film beginnings for me. All of them left me in awe of what this medium is capable of before I even had a complete handle on what the film was going to be. Once you’ve been absorbed by the opening of these films… it’s hard not to be excitedly awaiting whatever could possibly come next.

Un Chien Andalou: One of the single most enduring images throughout cinema history and it’s the very beginning of Bunuel’s first film. That’s tough to beat.

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