Word: bunuel
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...movie with a new soundtrack in the 80s. But by focusing solely on Metropolis, viewers fail to realize the importance of Lang’s many other films. His great silent films such as Destiny (1921), Dr.Mabuse the Gambler (1922), and Die Nibelungen (1923-24) should not be ignored. Bunuel believes that Destiny opened his eyes to the poetic expressiveness of the cinema. This fantastical film, which is about the fight of the individual against the forces of death, or destiny, is based on a Grimms fairy tale, and is in the German romantic tradition. Dr. Mabuse captures the essence...
...true that folks with few qualifications have become professional film critics (see Jeffrey Lyons). It?s also true that some websters have devoted their life to watching movies and can put their informed prejudices into words. I can heartily recommend the essays on Bergman, Bresson, Bunuel and other demanding European auteurs in Gregory and Maria Pearse?s Truth-in-Cinema Quest site and the panoramic considerations of themes in Chinese movies on Peter Nepstad?s The Illuminated Lantern. And I?m agreeably flummoxed by the attention ladled onto the 175 films made by Spanish bad-film auteur Jesus Franco...
...That Bunuel film for your Spanish class. With subtitles...
...that radically reshapes their fates. Inarritu, 37, who has made hundreds of TV commercials in Mexico City, consciously intends his movie to be a portrait of his "dangerous, beautiful" hometown. The film is muy espanol, a portrait that blends harsh realism with a curious tenderness. It is also muy Bunuel, but without his conscious surrealism and with a fierce, cinematic energy that is uniquely Inarritu...
...Trailers: The majority of Buñuel's films have been released on home video, with some titles unfortunately going in and out of distribution; for a reliable list, try Movies Unlimited. The best books about Bunuel are the aforementioned "Objects of Desire" and "Luis Buñuel: A Critical Biography." Buñuel's own writings can be found in "An Unspeakable Betrayal" and his autobiography (largely ghostwritten by his frequent collaborator Jean-Claude Carriere), "My Last Sigh...