Dreams That Money Can Buy

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An extraordinary film, a sort of history of art film noir, for want of a better description. A man sells dreams to those who need them. And amongst his customers are some of the greatest names in the Dadaist/ Surrealist movements, all of whom make a very personal contribution. Man Ray, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp,and Fernand Leger.

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Bonus Alternative Soundtrack; Interview With The Band; 3 Short Films By Hans Richter; Booklet.

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Review by Barry Forshaw on 17th August 2006

Still with surrealism, another legendary example of the medium makes a belated (but equally welcome) appearance. Richter, the Berlin-born filmmaker (and Dadaist) brought together some of the century's most important surrealist artists and created this delirious and dreamlike film. A new soundtrack and copious extras make the package even more attractive.

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Review by Graeme Hobbs on 15th July 2006

Produced, written and directed by Hans Richter, and with dream sequences contributed by Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Fernand Leger and Alexander Calder, this is a real curiosity. Although put together for very little over three years in a Manhattan loft, Dreams… went on to win a special award at the Venice Film Festival for the best original contribution to the progress of cinematography.
The set-up is that Joe is a dreamseller with a roomful of people waiting to have their dreams unlocked. A closet art-lover gets a sequence from Ernst based on his Une Semaine de Bonté, an uptight woman gets Leger's dream of a girl with a pre-fabricated heart, and a gangster who wants a tip for the Derby gets Duchamp's Rotoreliefs and his Nude Descending a Staircase to the music of John Cage, which prompts him to dump Joe in a cupboard.
The 'surrealism' may now look a little quaint, but seeing the artists and their art - Calder's 'Circus', a sinister Big-Brother-before-he-existed close-up of Man Ray's eyes on the wall, among them - is a rare treat.

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Article - "Cinema and Surrealism" by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Tuesday 29th May 2007

Surrealism is now thought of mainly as an art movement, one of the many styles that succeeded each other with bewildering rapidity in the early 20th century. There was Cubism, and Fauvism, and Suprematism, and Futurism, and Dada, and near the end there was Surrealism...  View article in full

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Surrealism on Film

Including: A Hard Days Night, A Snake Of June, Brazil, Celine And Julie Go Boating, Cinema Dada, Dreams That Money Can Buy, Fantômas, Inland Empire, Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films 1964-1992, L'Age dOr / Un Chien Andalou.

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