Word: chien
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie. From the first scene of his first film (the surrealist Un Chien Andalou, 1928) Luis Bunuel has shocked--much less attacked--his audience. He continues to surprise here, but his digs are playful. He manipulates a half dozen characters in an ironic world of distorted time and confused identity to create an aesthete's version of his past social bites. At 72, he is like the Nabokov of movie-making. Central Square Cinema...
...Uncle Antoine. An outstanding French-Canadian film, directed by Claude Jutra, which shows a great deal of ingenuity. 1972. (Reviewed tomorrow) Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie. From the first scene of his first film (the surrealist Un Chien Andalou, 1928) Luis Bunuel has shocked -- even attacked -- his audience. He continues to surprise in this latest film, but by playfulness. Bunuel manipulates a half-dozen engaging characters in an ironic world of distorted time and confused identity, creating a witty and eloquent phantasma. Bunuel has become an aesthete, but he retains his expressiveness. At age seventy-two, he has become...
...Bunuel has changed since he collaborated with Salvador Dali in 1929 to make the surrealistic film "Le Chien Andalou," whose release one stunned critic called "a date in the history of the cinema, a date marked with blood." His latest movie is kinder, less harrowing than past works. Though Bunuel is shrewdly anti-sentimental in stripping his bourgeoisle of its sanctuaries, it may even by permissible not to feel enraged by his six sturdy representatives of the middle class...
Chinese newspapers hammered the restoration theme in a joint Army Day editorial last week, urging the faithful "to unite, to be open and above board." The star of the Defense Ministry's Army Day reception was Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, an old (74) hero from the days of the Long March whom Mao summoned out of semiretirement as the September crisis was approaching. Peking has let it be known that Yeh will soon be named Lin's successor as Defense Minister in an important first step toward filling out Mao's decimated government...
Foolish Wives, a rarely-seen 1921 masterpiece by Erich von Stroheim, playing with Bunuel's Chien Andalou. Mather House Dining Hall...