BFI Continues Its Surreal Release Schedule With L'AGE D'OR On Blu-ray/DVD May 30

A couple of days ago I posted news about Jan Svankmajer, today, I get to post about some vintage Bunuel & Dali.  BFI are a fantastic resource for classic film and today is yet another day to celebrate what they do.  L'Age d'or is presented in high definition with an awesome line-up of extras, including Un Chien Andalou, and a feature length documentary about Luis Bunuel titled A Proposito de Bunuel.   There is plenty more to sweeten the pot to, check out the press release below and more details below that.

L'Age d'or
A film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí

One of cinema history's greatest collaborations, L'Age d'or united the genius of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Now this controversial masterpiece is being released by the BFI in newly mastered High Definition for the very first time, in a Dual Format Edition (containing Blu-ray and DVD versions) with extensive extra features.

Even now, more than 80 years since it was made, this uniquely savage blend of visual poetry and social commentary remains as brilliantly witty and shocking as ever. A sinister yet poignant chronicle of a couple's struggle to consummate their frenzied desire in the face of a stream of obstacles, in the form of bourgeois society and the Church, the film was banned and vilified for many years for its subversive eroticism and furious dissection of 'civilised' values.

Extras include a new HD transfer of the 1960 restoration of Un Chien Andalou, Buñuel and Dalí's provocative debut which created a scandal at its premiere. Presented here with the restoration score, based on Buñuel's notes, the BFI has also commissioned musicmakers Mordant Music (who re-scored an array of 70s and 80s public information films and documentary shorts produced by the Central Office of Information (COI) last year for the startling BFI DVD release MisinforMation) to create an alternative soundtrack option, which is premiered on this release.

In addition to Robert Short's fascinating filmed introduction and audio commentaries for both L'Age d'or and Un Chien Andalou, this comprehensive release is completed by A Propósito de Buñuel - a feature-length documentary on the life and work of Luis Buñuel, by José Luis López-Linares and Javier Rioyo.

Add to all that the fact that this will be all region on Blu-ray, and you can't go wrong!

Further details and a pre-order link are below: