路易斯·布纽尔西班牙的电影狂热者和现代主义诗人，他于1928年执导的〈一条安德鲁狗〉也许是最具超写实本质的一部电影。它的故事主要是关于一对情侣之间的争吵，但是片中的时序和逻辑则错乱不清。电影开场的一场戏中，一个男人不可思议地用剃刀将女主角的眼睛切开，然而她在下一场中出现，眼睛却毫发无伤。随著继续不断的争吵，一群蚂蚁从男主角手掌上的一个洞中爬出来，男主角拉著一个塞满骡子尸体的钢琴横越房间，一双手从墙洞中伸出来摇著鸡尾酒的调酒器。贯穿全片一直出现的插卡字幕，告知一些毫无意义的消逝时间间隔，像是「十六年前」的字幕插入时，剧中的动作却一直连续进行没有中断。
　　这部作品被《电影元素》的作者波布克引为“电影史上最有影响力的作品之列——因其率先运用了象征、省略的影象和印象主义的剪辑技巧”。

《我母亲的消失》是一部激进的纪录片，它诞生于一个渴望解放自己的母亲和一个渴望利用电影媒介与她保持亲密关系的儿子之间的一系列对抗之中。从个人为控制而进行的激烈斗争开始，它就转变成一个深度协作的项目，一个试图纠正几十年来由相机压抑的目光造成的伤害的项目。
Benedetta Barzini是一位受人尊敬的意大利模特，她通过成为一名记者和教授打破了陈规陋习，并通过公开批评时尚界根深蒂固的厌恶情绪而臭名昭著。但是现在，在她70多岁的时候，巴兹尼对图像世界的厌恶已经加深到一个存在主义的危机中。她悄悄地、毫无预兆地收拾好行李，告诉儿子贝尼阿米诺，她打算永远从物质世界消失。贝尼阿米诺惊恐万状，设计了一个计划，他希望允许她面对-而不是逃跑-她最不信任的东西：相机。通过拍摄她的电影，他打算挽救他母亲的真实本质，并保存她的叙事。

Intelligent, gripping, innovative, Robert Hughes' eight-part exploration of modern art gets an airing on BBC Four. First shown on BBC Two in the 1980s, the series looks at different themes rather than presenting the art chronologically.
Ben Lewis: "It is the greatest series on art ever made"
The Mechanical Paradise - Episode 1
Thursday 8 July 10pm-11pm
Traces how developments in technology inspired art between 1880 and the end of WWI, leading to movements like cubism and futurism.
The Powers that Be - Episode 2
Thursday 8 July 11pm-midnight
Hughes explores the interplay between art and politics, seeing how artists were affected by the development of mechanised warfare and ideologies like fascism and communism.
The Landscape of Pleasure - Episode 3
Thursday 15 July 10pm-11pm
The French artists who attempted to reconcile man with nature, from the determination of the impressionists to paint outside to Matisse's vibrant use of colour.
Trouble in Utopia - Episode 4
Thursday 15 July 11pm-midnight
How modern architects in the wake of the Bauhaus aspired to change societies with their designs, a move represented both by Le Corbusier and the plans for the city Brasilia.
The Threshold of Liberty - Episode 5
Thursday 22 July 10pm-11pm
The art movement that gripped its exponents with the fervour of a religion: surrealism. Artists like Di Chirico, Ernst, Miró and Dalí; brought the subconscious to the fore and attempted to tap into innocent and irrationality.
The View From the Edge - Episode 6
Thursday 22 July 11pm-midnight
Expressionism sprung out of the harsh, secular atmosphere of the 20th Century and evolved, through the strong colours and often sombre moods of artists like Munch, to the non-figurative work of Pollock and De Kooning.
Culture as Nature - Episode 7
Thursday 29 July 10pm-11pm
Artists began to take man-made images as their inspiration, leading to the pop art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein as well as Stuart Davis' collages inspired by jazz.
The Future That Was - Episode 8
Thursday 29 July 11pm-midnight
The final episode in the series explores the decline of modernism and how various artists have reacted to the consequent commercialisation of their art.
BBC four

On the occasion of the official 200th anniversary celebrations, this documentary is the first cinematic journey through the rooms, stories and emotions of one of the most visited museums in the world.
Its wealth of over 8000 art treasures is a spell-binding experience drawing almost 3 million visitors to Madrid every year.
Magnificent masterpieces tell the story of Spain and of an entire continent.
We are in one of the temples of world art. Its collection tells the story of kings, queens, dynasties, wars, defeats and victories, as well as the story of the feelings and emotions of the men and women of yesteryear and of today, whose lives are intertwined with the museum’s: rulers, painters, artists, architects, collectors, curators, intellectuals, visitors. This heritage is universal and includes the works of Vélazquez, Rubens, Titian, Mantegna, Bosch, Goya, El Greco, to name just a few.
Oscar winning actor Jeremy Irons will be guiding spectators on a discovery of a heritage of beauty and art.

达利与迪斯尼合作《命运》的前后经历，以及日后根据当年的资料重新完成创作的全过程。

Documentary showcasing the life and works of surrealist artist Salvador Dali.

简介：本纪录片将卡尔的生活和工作，设计服装、珠宝等所有的细节都展露无遗。不仅如此，在片中卡尔还谈到了他对爱情的看法，以及对于童年的回忆等等，完全的本色表现，让观众全方位、近距离的了解到了一个真实的老佛爷。

西班牙才女导演Silvia Munt拍摄过一部关于传奇女性加拉的纪录片，让她首次获得了巴塞罗那电影节最佳纪录片奖，西尔维娅走访了法国去寻找当年超现实主义运动中那些伟大的名字，深入了解这位达利一生最爱的MUSE女神，她早年与诗人Paul Eluard的关系等等，穿插进不少黑白的影像。关于达利生平的纪录片拍了不少，但有关加拉的电影却并不多见，这是其中比较好的一部。
A journey through the life of Elena Dimitrievna Diakonova Gala starting in Kazan (Russia) where she was born in 1894, through the Davos sanatorium (Switzerland), where she met her first husband, Paul Eluard, and then on to Paris until she arrived at Cadaqués, where she met Salvador Dalí in 1929. Dalí with his visionary and paranoiac mind recognizes Gala as a kindred spirit. New York, Paris and once again Cadaqués are the new destinations of a journey which ends in the Castillo de Públo, where Gala lies alone at the side of the empty tomb of her beloved Salvador Dalí. We know about all this from the texts written by Gala herself, by her friend Anastasia Tsvetaieva, and by her brilliant husbands Eluard and Dalí as well as from the interviews with people who knew her.
Clearly one of the great "muses" of the 20th century, Elena Dimitrievna Diakonova, better known as Gala, cut an extraordinary swath across much of modern culture. Soon after leaving Russia she met the poet Eluard in Davos, and would later become his wife. Through Eluard she gained access to the Parisian avant-garde, and established relations with several other notable figures. But it was her decades-long relationship with Salvador Dalí that more than anything else created her legend. Constantly cited by Dalí as his key inspiration, Gala formed a bond with him that was sensual, intellectual and mystical; they seemed intent on living in their own, private world with its own rules and conventions Through interviews with some of those who knew her, as well as by passages from texts written by Gala herself, Silvia Munt has conjured up a fascinating look at an endlessly intriguing woman.

A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.

In the first episode of the series, this programme unlocks the BBC archives to tell the story of the birth of modern art, in the words of the artists who created a cultural revolution - from the startling innovations of Picasso to the explosion of colour in the paintings of Matisse, to LS Lowry's industrial cityscapes and the often shocking work of surrealists like Max Ernst, Magritte and Dali.