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...movie is black and blasphemous in Bunuel's manner. It is not so piquant as his recent The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, but it is full of effusive invention and flourishes of high humor that do not seem to tax the 74-year-old director in the least...
...series, including too many films to list here. The highlight is perhaps Louis Malle's Lacombe, Lucien, a new film about French collaboration during World War II. But also Attica, a Laughton film, a DeBroca film, Max von Sydow as Steppenwolf, a Boorman film, Monty Python, and the new Bunuel. Call the Orson Welles for the schedule...
Virdiana is the co-feature at the Brattle this week, playing with La Guerre Est Finie. Luis Bunuel made this film in 1961, his first in Spain since Franco threw him out at the end of the Civil War. Franco's generosity was not too long-lasting. The dictator, who is about to go to his just deserts, so disapproved of Bunuel's anti-clericism that he banned the film from his country's movie houses. Anything Franco doesn't like can't be too bad; this is actually quite good...
Madrid 1936. This is not To Die in Madrid, the most well-known documentary about the Spanish Civil War, but it was reportedly supervised by Luis Bunuel. A rare opportunity to see a film (for free) which has never before been available in this country...
...Bunuel's Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954), Thursday...