Word: bunuel
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...looking for a better understanding of the dream images and surrealist constructs in the Luis Bunuel movies shown in the Harvard Film Archive last month (“Un Chien Andalou,” anyone?), the famed auteur’s autobiography might not be satisfying...
...book, “My Last Sigh,” lacks autobiographical detail and does not shed much light on his works. Instead, Bunuel provides readers with a kaleidoscope rendition of the bohemian world of the 20th century’s great artistic minds. He freely mixes fact with fiction as he touches upon everything from art to politics. Bunuel mentions how figures like Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, and Charlie Chaplin dressed, drank, and behaved at orgies. The charm of “My Last Sigh” comes from the fiction, as well as the credibility and renown...
...French Resistance to the occupying Nazis during World War II and the story of this film?s making and release is almost as interesting as the true-to- life adventure it recounts. It?s based on a novel Joseph Kessel - more famous for writing the book on which Luis Bunuel based Belle de Jour - published in 1943, when he was himself a member of the resistance, and it was written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (also a resistance fighter) in 1969, a quarter of a century after he first decided that he somehow had to make a movie...
...Jerry Lewis on the low side, Tennessee Williams and biblical spectacles on high. Meanwhile, artists in other countries were leading film to a robust maturity: Ingmar Bergman in Sweden, Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard in France, Akira Kurosawa in Japan, Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni in Italy, Luis Bunuel in Spain. As each director found a constituency, U.S. distributors would pick up his earlier films, as well as other movies from the same country. Americans got an informed sampling from the world's film banquet...
...hardly took the Mayflower Madam to alert the citizenry to the news that genteel women had taken up prostitution. French films had the story 20 years ago: Luis Bunuel's Belle de Jour and Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her spoke of suburban housewives who supplemented their allowances by turning tricks. The twist in Lizzie Borden's new film is that its call-girl protagonist Molly (Louise Smith) uses her earnings to support her half of a lesbian relationship...