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...singing hunk sweepstakes, Jorge Negrete. Emilio "El Indio" Fern?ndez was directing movies that won international prizes, like the Cannes Palme d'Or. A renegade from Franco's Spain, the surrealist master Luis Buñuel, came to Mexico and made a string of startling social melodramas: Los Olvidados, Nazarin, The Exterminating Angel, Simon of the Desert. Among these giants, Infante stood proud...
...important to note that the film that probably best illustrates Buñuel's feelings about Christianity is also one of his most sober-minded, the Mexican production "Nazarin" (1958). Hailed by Christian critics as well as Buñuel's usual contingent of nonconformist fans, the film concerns a small-town priest whose attempts to dispense real Christian charity result in derision, poverty, exile and arrest. "Nazarin" demonstrates the essential difference between Buñuel's brand of blasphemy and that currently practiced in American pop culture: Buñuel's gags and images contain a strong sense...
Luis Bunuel's Viridiana at 6:15 and 9:30; his Nazarin...
...Nazarin by Luis Bunuel, Thursday, March 7, 7:30 p.m.; Dreyer's The Word, Sunday, March...
Much of Tristana's success lies in the director's scrupulous ambition. Once he was satisfied with the village atheism of Nazarin or the facile eroticism of Belle de Jour. In his 29th film, he is content with nothing less than the face of Spain. Don Lope's backchat with his comrades is an indelible vignette of the inhuman condition, where the aging pick the reputations of their fallen comrades, like buzzards wheeling over cadavers. In the background hover the symbolic figures of deaf-mutes, youths whose voices, like many Spaniards', cannot be heard. Yet Tristana...