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...began his first film, Un Chien Andalou (1928), by walking onto a moon-flooded balcony and calmly slitting a young woman's eye. He began his last film, That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), by replacing his leading lady with two actresses who alternated scenes in the same role. For Luis Buñuel, the Spanish film maker who died this July at 83, conventions of content and form were mere pieties, best approached with a straight razor and a straight face. He had been, after all, one of the merry pranksters of surrealism, spiking café chat...
...Spanish film maker considered one of the cinema's greatest artists; of bile duct disease; in Mexico City. Son of wealthy, religious parents, Buñuel and his friend Salvador Dali transfigured their fantasies in 1929 into one of the first surrealist films, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), a work of bizarre images including a man slashing a woman's eyeball with a razor. In 1930, L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age), with its brutal attacks on Roman Catholicism and bourgeois morality, established the ideological foundation for most...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou, Land Without Bread, and Simon of the Desert, Feb. 7, 7:30, Ganga Zumba (about a slave rebellion in Brazil), Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m. BAKER LIBRARY, B-SCHOOL, Sam Peckinpah's Ballad of Cable Hogue...
Harvard-Epworth films has started a series of all the films of Luis Bunuel, starting with his earliest, the 24-minute silent film Un Chien Andalou (1924), which he made with Salvador Dali. Bunuel had a surrealistic vision from the start, but his surrealism became politicized after a period of time. Las Hurdes (Land Without Bread) was commissioned by the Spanish government, but its political ideas were offensive to its commissioners, and so the film was banned in Spain soon after it was made. Simon of the Desert (1965) was made after his politics had grown mellower--though not quite...
Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel's surrealistic Un Chien Andalou is at Kirkland House along with some other shorts, while Bergman's Shame--where the great director takes on death and war with his usual perception--heads a list of swedish films at Hilles. I.F. Stone's Weekly is being held over at the Welles, and it's reportedly the best documentary of the year, about a very admirable journalist...