Fascinating cinematic experiments by 1920s surrealists appear in this compilation of rare and extraordinary films. ENTR'ACT, an utterly surreal short directed by Rene Clair, involves an uncooperative corpse in a coffin being chased around. The film originally played without sound as an intermission and featured Jean Borlin, Eric Satie, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, and Man Ray. BALLET MECANIQUE, directed by Fernand Leger and photographed by Dudley Murphy and Man Ray, features syncopated images of steel machinery, puppets, people, shoes, and eyes. The Dadaist ANEMIC CINEMA employs spirals and a disc, and LA COQUILLE ET LA CLERGYMAN involves a clergyman battling his obsession with a woman--the British Board of Censors banned the film from exhibition in England with its own surreal pronouncement that This film is so obscure as to have no apparent meaning. If there is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
