Word: penguin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pained Penguin. But Spain, Franco and Buñuel now seem equally aged, if not exactly mellowed. The director and his French wife maintain homes in Mexico and Madrid. Both of his sons dabble in the arts, Raphael as a sculptor, Juan Luis as an experimental-film maker. This fall, the old man returned to his motherland once more, where, again, he is working on his "last" film. Under the sullen skies of Toledo, he directs scenes from Tristana, a dissection of Spanish middle-class society. One scene is purest Buñueliana: a crumpled, baggy-eyed Catherine Deneuve sits...
...weary and almost completely deaf, Buñuel moves like a pained penguin, as if he feels every second of his 69 years. Yet like his countryman Picasso, his large, intense eyes seem illuminated from inside by some unquenchable zeal. No one knows whether Tristana will indeed be his finale or whether Luis Buñuel is trying to propitiate fate by loudly leaving art before reality quietly leaves him. If there is any certainty about the enigmatic old film maker, it was recently voiced by New Wave Director Louis Malle: "Buñuel will die with the director...
Reasonable Penguins. Undoubtedly the happiest buyer at last week's Parke-Bernet sale was a Manhattan dealer named Eric Shrubsole, who started his bidding day by purchasing a silver Victorian penguin for $325 ("a nice stocking present"), a delectable little James II chocolate pot with a sinuous profile probably based on an Oriental vase ($7,500), a George II silver caster ($1,100) and a James II silver lighthouse caster...
...regular edition complete with Preface and Postscript and the Shaw Alphabet edition are both available in paperback, published by Penguin Books.)The inflated Roman Emperor (REX ROBBINS) who will eventually be deflated...
...When a pal wants to have a serious talk with Scott about his marital problems, they go to lunch at a topless restaurant so that the camera can do some plain and fancy dollying. Lester also swings a skillful and satirical lens around deserted Fort Winfield Scott, the Penguin Pool at Fisherman's Wharf and the hippie scene, contriving somehow to get his actors into most of the scenes. There is so little for them to do that he need hardly have bothered...