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which begins a three day run at Anthology Film Archives tonight. With his work, Glover attempts to push the envelope of cultural taboo, and in every aspect of his 2 plus hour presentation, he succeeds.

This weekend begins a two week run of the surrealist classic, at the height of his stylistic powers. The story of a gang of youths wandering the streets of Mexico City picking fights, snatching purses and dreaming of crowing roosters and raw meat. It's rough and weird and wonderful, all at the same time.

While he's primarily known for his French language films and his surrealist collaboration with artist Salvador Dalí, the series of movies Luis Buñuel made in Mexico in Spanish from the late '40s through the '60s are also delightfully weird and perfectly wonderful.

Certain films in the so called canon of film art really do deserve all the praise they can get and (1929) by Salvador Dalì and Luis Buñuel is one of them. If you've never seen this short masterwork, Gothamist can not recommend it enough. Heck, even if you have seen it, it's time to watch it again.