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Article: Unsynched: the contrapuntal sounds of Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or.(Essay)
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- Film Criticism
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- December 22, 2008
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I think that the 100% talking film is a stupidity, and I believe that everyone is of my opinion. But the sound film is a thing of great interest and the future belongs to it.
--Sergei Eisenstein
Two Notes on Sound
Two years after Alan Crosland's The Jazz Singer (1927) broke the sound barrier with four synchronized musical passages and Al Jolson's now-historic line, "You ain't heard nothing yet," the Vicomte de Noailles commissioned Luis Bunuel to direct a feature film with synchronized sound--as a birthday present for his wife, Marie-Laurie, painter, poet, and granddaughter of the wife of Marquis de Sade. The Noailles apparently wanted ...
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