Salvador Dalí
Also Known As: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí
Biography: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), commonly known as Salvador Dalí (Catalan pronunciation: [səɫβəˈðo ðəˈɫi]), was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to a self-styled "Arab lineage," claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors. Dalí was highly imaginative, and also had an affinity for partaking in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem and to the irritation of his critics. Description above from the Wikipedia article Salvador Dalí, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Figueres, Girona, Catalunya, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: May 11, 1904
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 23, 1989
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God Chose Paris
Overview: An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end of the 19th century and ending in the mid-1960's. Jean-Paul Belmondo leads us through the movie starting as a young photographer around 1900, a reporter in both world-wars and doing fictional interviews with lots of celebrities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-09-05
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Un Chien Andalou
Overview: Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-06-05
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The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
Overview: Actor Jeremy Irons embarks on an epic journey through the halls of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, two hundred years after its inauguration, along corridors where thousands of masterpieces of all time tell the lives of rulers and common people, and tales about times of war and madness and times of peace and happiness; because, as Goya said, imagination, the mother of the arts, produces impossible monsters, but also unspeakable wonders.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-04-15
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Dali In New York
Overview: Filmmaker Jack Bond and Salvador Dali got together at Christmas 1965 to make Dali in New York, a highly entertaining film. Dali devoted two weeks of his life to creating extraordinary scenes for the film, performing "manifestations" with a plaster cast. A thousand ants and one million dollars in cash. When he confronts the feminist writer, Jane Arden, sparks fly. "You are my Slave! I am not your slave. Everybody is my slave." Dali recalls his meeting with Freud, "The last human relationship ever" About his wife, 'But for Gala I would be lying in a gutter somewhere covered with lice" Jim Desmond's dazzling cinematography captures the great artist painting as Flamenco virtuoso Manitas de Plata performs. Dali in New York is a rare treat for anyone who loves film and the living theatre of Dali's surreal universe.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-21
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Gala
Overview: Tour of the life of Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova Gala from Kazan Russia, where she was born, to Davos, where she met Paul Éluard, and continues in Paris and New York down to Cadaqués, where she died.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-04
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Fun and Games for Everyone
Overview: “FUN AND GAMES (FOR EVERYONE): a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset's exhibition openings. A psychedelic game of improvisation joins the Zanzibar group with Salvador Dalí, Barbet Schroeder and Jean Mascolo... the solarized image reminiscent of thick strokes of a paintbrush.” - Philippe Azoury
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-22
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Donyale Luna: Supermodel
Overview: Explores the remarkable life and career of Donyale Luna, one of the first Black supermodels who graced the covers of both Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar in Europe.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-15
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The Dali Dimension
Overview: Retrace Salvador Dalí’s obsession for science, which lasted his entire life. This can be seen in his paintings, which reflect every major discovery of the 20th Century. Even his signature is directly influenced by a scientific image.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-02
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Johnny Minotaur
Overview: Johnny Minotaur is a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest, intergenerational desire, pansexuality and autoeroticism are a few of the issues Charles Henri Ford grapples with through mythopoeic, sensual imagery, recitations of his diaries and a philosophical debate featuring an impressive narration by such artists as Salvador Dali, Allen Ginsberg, Warren Sonbert and Lynne Tillman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-07
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Dali's Greatest Secret
Overview: History - Revealing, touching and puzzling, Dali's Greatest Secret takes us on the spiritual journey of history's greatest surrealist artist. - Glen Baggerly, Eddie Eagle, Christy Lynn
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
Overview: A look at the life and art of Ms. Iran Darroudi, one of the most important contemporary Iranian painters, who has divided her time between Tehran and Paris for the past fifty years. The film describes the various influences in her life and how she came to cultivate a style that merges the western surrealism with eastern mysticism
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino
Overview: The story of the unlikely alliance between two of the most renowned innovators of the twentieth century: brilliantly eccentric Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí and American entertainment innovator Walt Disney.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-30
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Mike Wallace Is Here
Overview: For over half a century, 60 Minutes' fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world's most influential figures. Relying exclusively on archival footage, the film interrogates the interrogator, tracking Wallace's storied career and troubled personal life while unpacking how broadcast journalism evolved to today’s precarious tipping point.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-26
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Jodorowsky's Dune
Overview: Shot in France, England, Switzerland and the United States, this documentary covers director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre) and his 1974 Quixotic attempt to adapt the seminal sci-fi novel Dune into a feature film. After spending 2 years and millions of dollars, the massive undertaking eventually fell apart, but the artists Jodorowsky assembled for the legendary project continued to work together. This group of artists, or his “warriors” as Jodorowsky named them, went on to define modern sci-fi cinema with such films as Alien, Blade Runner, Star Wars and Total Recall.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-30
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Overview: The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-28
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A Season with Mankind
Overview: The questioning of an individual lost in the society of man.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
Overview: In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the much-anticipated Orwellian year, Paik and Co. were keen to demonstrate satellite TV's ability to serve positive ends-- Namely, the intercontinental exchange of culture, combining both highbrow and entertainment elements. A live broadcast shared between WNET TV in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, linked up with broadcasters in Germany and South Korea, reached a worldwide audience of over 10 or even 25 million (including the later repeat transmissions).
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Gaumont, the Étrange Anthology
Overview: To mark the 30th anniversary of L'Étrange Festival, Gaumont is opening up its archives to offer the best of its most secret, bizarre and crazy images, digitized for the first time. A unique program featuring black magic, surrealistic happenings, world records, the evolution of feminism, wild bets, vanished places, forgotten inventions and other delights.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-12
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Salvador Dalí at Work
Overview: Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-11
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Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
Overview: A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-29
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Salvador Dalí's Fantastic Dream
Overview: Produced by 20th Century Fox, this Maysles Brothers short was intended to help promote the release of Disney's Fantastic Voyage (1966) for which Salvador Dali was artistic consultant. Shot in and around New York, the film features a cameo by a bikini clad Raquel Welch, star of Fantastic Voyage and Dali's muse for a series of portraits of Hollywood starlets.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-06
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Screen Test #3
Overview: One of Andy Warhol's screen tests, focusing on an actor's face for 4-5 mins.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-23
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As Far as Love Can Go
Overview: The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and leave the city. She travels to the coast where she meets a young history professor on the beach...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-20
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Dali's Last Masterpiece
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Salvador Dalí: In Search of Immortality
Overview: The documentary proposes an exhaustive journey through the life and work of Salvador Dalí, and also of Gala, his muse and collaborator. It starts in 1929, a crucial year in Dalí's career and life, as he joined the surrealist group and met Gala, and advances until the year of the artist's death in 1989.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-04-17
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Filmmakers in Action
Overview: What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2006-09-15
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Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
Overview: Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead (Poet/Actor/Artist) share their stories of Manhattan in the 1960s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-14
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Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Overview: Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal catchphrase "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"), gets the definitive treatment. This film includes a look into his inner circle and examines both his artistic and personal impact on society. From day-glo Marilyns and Elvises to Campbell's Soup cans to the groovy 1960s and '70s, step into the limelight of the Warhol world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-27
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Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
Overview: This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and interesting glimpses of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dalí, Jane Fonda and The Velvet Underground among other 1960s icons and featuring original music by Angus MacLise, who was the first drummer to perform with The Velvet Underground.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Salvador Dalí
Overview: Salvador Dalí is a 35-minute film directed by Andy Warhol. The film features surrealist artist Salvador Dalí visiting The Factory and meeting the rock band The Velvet Underground.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Who Gets to Call It Art?
Overview: Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-01
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The End of a Mystery
Overview: Joaquin comes back to Granada in the eighties trying to find out about something happened when he was a child and the Spanish Civil War was going on. He helped an unknown man who survived after being executed. He finds the man, Galapago, who is now quite old, poor and with almost no memory. Joaquin takes care of him and finds hints that point to Galapago as Federico García Lorca.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-01-30
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Moires with Prof. Oster and Salvador Dalí
Overview: This was filmed on January 24, 1964, during Prof. Oster's demonstration of moiré patterns. He is shown with Salvador Dalí.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-11
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Salvador Dalí Home Movie
Overview: In Salvador Dalí’s home movies, the 50-year-old Surrealist artist plays with a kitten, an animal skull, and a rake to entertain a friend filming him on the terrace of his villa in Port Lligat, Costa Brava, Spain.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-27
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Impressions of Upper Mongolia
Overview: The genius Spanish painter Salvador Dalí undertakes an amazing journey through the unknown mental territories of Upper Mongolia in search of a giant hallucinogenic mushroom while paying an experimental tribute to the French poet Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), a visionary and eccentric writer, precursor of the surrealists and much admired by them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-03
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Speaking of Buñuel
Overview: Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-06-09
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Buñuel in Hollywood
Overview: This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program proposes a chronological journey through the Aragonese filmmaker stays in the U.S., the characters he met, the films he made and he could never do. The program also includes new material-unpublished until 2012 - the Aragonese director filmed in the U.S. in the early 1940s and where he can be seen playing one of their children or enjoying a short holiday in a cottage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-22
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L’Énigme Velázquez
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-02-26
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