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...first surrealist film and is probably the most powerful short film ever made. Bunuel's surrealism was abstract in the 20s, became a savage vehicle for social criticism in the 40s and 50s, and mellowed into a means for joking about the upper class in last year's Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie. Un Chien Andalou was its first expression...
...three-story white villa in Zu rich's discreet residential district of Hongg is surrounded by electronic devices to detect intruders. As visitors walk from the iron gate to the front door through terraced gardens, they may notice that the burly man water ing the petunias has a revolver stuck in his jeans. They may also see a cheetah and hear the growls, if not feel the breath, of two lion-sized Great Danes...
...Hutus the troops have missed in their savage campaign against the "rebels." Survivors have told stories of men, women and children being herded into straw huts and burned alive. Refugees arrived in Tanzania with their hands, ears, even their feet chopped off. This year the Tutsis are being more discreet, killing mainly at night. But a nun assigned to the area to treat leprosy said she has no work because "everyone has fled-or is dead." Farther down the road a Jeunesse waved his rifle and boasted: "It's very simple. They want to kill us, so we must...
...undated memo, prepared by Dean as a briefing paper for former Nixon Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, suggested that then IRS Commissioner Johnnie M. Walters be told that "discreet political actions and investigations on be half of the Administration are a firm requirement and responsibility on his part." The memo complained that Walters seemed no more willing to let the IRS be used for political purposes than had been his Nixon-appointed prede cessor, Randolph Thrower...
...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...