Word: bunuel
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...Bunuel's Viridiana. Friday and Saturday, March...
Simon of the Deeort, with five early experimental films, including Bunuel and Dall's Un Chien Andsiou, Vigo's Tarie, and The Life and Death of a Hollywood Extra tonight at 8:30, and Friday through Tuesday at 7:30 and 10 p.m. Free to Be... You and he, starting Monday...
...their principle--especially for the children's movies--is "non-violent and non-sexist." During next week's Washington's Birthday school vacation, Mario Thomas's Emmy award-winning Free to Be...You and Me will be shown daily for $.50. On the regular program beginning tonight is Bunuel's Simon of the Desert, among other things, a film from the director's Mexican period about a Christian mystic who moves to the top of a high pillar in the middle of the desert, hauling up his food by ropes, to commune with The Lord. As vicious about Catholicism...
Discrest Charm of the Bourgeoisie Bunuel throws out the narrative mode in this 1972 movie, and with it escapes the nice touches, the quick flourishes, that make most of his films great instead this series of disjointed skits, featuring middle class folk with fantasies about death and bombs and machine gun massacres, becomes an opportunity for critics to jump into the abstraction and emerge with their own fantastic. "Will there ever be a revolution?" one asked, "Or just another capitalistic realignment designated to keep the bourgeoisise in power--like the formation of the Common Market or the resurgence of Japan...
...British film ever made, but compared to American blockbusters like The Great Gatsby and Cleopatra, it is an understated film. Europeans don't have the same problems reconciling big money with culture that American artists and moguls use as an excuse for avoiding excellence. Give Fellini and Resnais and Bunuel more money to make a film than they ever dreamed of any they make films that are, indeed, different from their earlier, low-budget works, but films of undoubted high quality. In America, the big money goes only to those directors who sell out to the formulas imposed by their...