Word: salvadore
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Harvard-Epworth films has started a series of all the films of Luis Bunuel, starting with his earliest, the 24-minute silent film Un Chien Andalou (1924), which he made with Salvador Dali. Bunuel had a surrealistic vision from the start, but his surrealism became politicized after a period of time. Las Hurdes (Land Without Bread) was commissioned by the Spanish government, but its political ideas were offensive to its commissioners, and so the film was banned in Spain soon after it was made. Simon of the Desert (1965) was made after his politics had grown mellower--though not quite...
Mystery has surrounded the last moments of Chile's late President Salvador Allende Gossens ever since his violent death during a bloody rightist coup that toppled his three-year-old Marxist regime (TIME, Sept. 24). Last week an unidentified former aide of Allende's released photographs of the President taken inside the besieged presidential palace on the morning of the coup. He is seen in the company of his guards wearing a metal combat helmet and carrying a Soviet-made automatic rifle given to him by Cuba's Fidel Castro. Fascinating though they are, the photos...
...Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel's surrealistic Un Chien Andalou is at Kirkland House along with some other shorts, while Bergman's Shame--where the great director takes on death and war with his usual perception--heads a list of swedish films at Hilles. I.F. Stone's Weekly is being held over at the Welles, and it's reportedly the best documentary of the year, about a very admirable journalist...
TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath was in Santiago during the September coup that overthrew the Marxist government of Salvador Allende Gossens; last week he returned to see what changes had been made by the new military junta. His report...
...enacting a socialist program, Salvador Allende provoked opposition from two sides--one, the internal Chilean class struggle and the other, the U.S. economic blockade...