Word: bunuel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...works of other prominent Spanish filmmakers such as Carlos Saura, Luis Bunuel, and Luis Berlanga will be shown. Bunuel's Viridiana (1961), one of only three films that the famous director was allowed to make in Spain, and which was banned in Spain at the time of its release, is "one of the landmarks of Spanish film," says Antonio Monegal, a graduate student in the Spanish department and former instructor of Spanish F, "Contemporary Spanish Film...
Each man films the thing he loathes. That seems the rule, anyway, for directors who investigate the darker locales in cinema's emotional landscape. Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Bunuel, Federico Fellini found artistry in images that terrified or disgusted them. Their bad dreams became their best movies...
...Oliveira's The Cannibals, an opera film about some Portuguese aristocrats. It proceeds at a gentle lull for an hour, then explodes in a delicious orgy of artificial limbs, charred torsos and a family feast of roast viscount. Like David Lean, Oliveira turns 80 this year. Like Luis Bunuel, he makes gaily macabre films -- an old master's last laugh at life and death...
...comments on Surrealism are for the most part limited to specific personalities. Thus Bunuel focuses less on the creative theories of the group than on their fascinating social energies--the excommunications and other rites. The principal weapon of their revolution, he says, was scandal; this is how the bourgeois revolts against the bourgeois. The Surrealist attack "on the notion of work, that cornerstone of bourgeois civilization, as something sacrosanct," and the Surrealist distrust of the rational may lie behind Bunuel's refusal to evaluate the Surrealist's work...
This is the sort of book one savors, a few pages at a time, over a period of days. It is a fascinating conversation; Bunuel's narrative style is as felicitous as was is life, a life rich in experience and dreams. His perceptions, his gossip, his portrait of his time reveal him to have been not only the artistic genius we find in his films, but a charming personality of deep sensitivity and conviction...