Word: bunuel
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...More ironies abound. Marie is a woman who looks like a sweet and frail schoolteacher but willingly accepts a lewd offer from a stranger, fantasizes about working in a headless whore factory, and derives visceral pleasure in gynocological exams. While reminiscent of Luis Bunuel's Belle du Jour, concerning the kinky desires of an angelic Gallic heroine, Breillat's film is less mysterious but considerably more graphic and disturbing...
Visual and Environmental Studies 157r: "Classics of World Cinema: The First Half Century" will give you the chance to look at a host of great films you've probably never seen, by directors like Bunuel, Ozu, Mizoguchi, Vertov and Rossellini...
DIED. GABRIEL FIGUEROA, 90, Mexican camera poet; in Mexico City. Working with such top directors as Luis Bunuel (seven films), John Ford and Emilio Fernandez, this superb cinematographer illuminated many a craggy vista, from the parched roads in John Huston's The Night of the Iguana to the face of Clint Eastwood (in Two Mules for Sister Sara). Through Figueroa's lens, they all looked stark, profound, beautiful...
Bertolucci chose an odd genre, the European house party, whose best examples are Renoir's The Rules of the Game, set on the eve of World War II, and Bunuel's The Exterminating Angel, which was about a party that, mysteriously, no one could leave. This time there's no war, and it's the audience that's trapped. In Susan Minot's goofy script, Tyler ministers to ailing writer Jeremy Irons and other artsy layabouts while searching for the man on whom to bestow her virginity. The climactic deflowering scene provides the only giggles in an otherwise stodgy mess...
...larger issue than love and betrayal. Although the book is ostensibly about the relationship of the author and Diana, the political and social issues of the world are brought together in a series of short glimpses of various side-characters. These vary from internationally prominent figures such as Luis Bunuel, to little-known people such as Diana's personal make-up artist. Each character presents a different outlook, but all reveal a time of much trouble and dishonesty...