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HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH--Luis Bunuel's Los Olvidados and Ernie Gehr's Field, Thursday, February 14, 7:30 p.m. Sambizanga (about the 1961 revolt in Angola), free, Sunday, February...
Starkly and brutally realistic, but dreamlike in an intense emotional way, Luis Bunuel's Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones) tells a story about juvenile delinquents growing up in slums outside Mexico City. Bunuel--the master film surrealist--made this movie in 1950. He formed the basis of his plot from a true story in police records, but no straight documentary could ever have the power of this film. The strength of the characters in Los Olvidados and the things that happen to them drive pins into your soul...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou, Land Without Bread, and Simon of the Desert, Feb. 7, 7:30, Ganga Zumba (about a slave rebellion in Brazil), Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m. BAKER LIBRARY, B-SCHOOL, Sam Peckinpah's Ballad of Cable Hogue...
Harvard-Epworth films has started a series of all the films of Luis Bunuel, starting with his earliest, the 24-minute silent film Un Chien Andalou (1924), which he made with Salvador Dali. Bunuel had a surrealistic vision from the start, but his surrealism became politicized after a period of time. Las Hurdes (Land Without Bread) was commissioned by the Spanish government, but its political ideas were offensive to its commissioners, and so the film was banned in Spain soon after it was made. Simon of the Desert (1965) was made after his politics had grown mellower--though not quite...
Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel's surrealistic Un Chien Andalou is at Kirkland House along with some other shorts, while Bergman's Shame--where the great director takes on death and war with his usual perception--heads a list of swedish films at Hilles. I.F. Stone's Weekly is being held over at the Welles, and it's reportedly the best documentary of the year, about a very admirable journalist...