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Both of these films are about childhood and both of them are by the man who is, next to Buñuel, the most distinguished Spanish director. But that is where their similarity ends. Cria! is a dark and melodramatic comedy, highly original in plot, about how a child misperceives her actions and their consequences in the adult world. Cousin Angelica, though more stylistically unconventional, is a rather ordinary story about an adult attempting to refine and correct the memories of childhood. Cria! is an almost entirely successful work, while the other, earlier film must be regarded as an honorable...
...there are no contemporary writers of importance. Not one. O'Neill and Tennessee Williams had moments, but I don't regard them as great classical writers. Movies? Forget it. I'm convinced that the larger the gross, the worse the picture. Bergman and Buñuel are visionaries, wonderful artists and craftsmen. How many people in the world have ever seen one of their films or ever heard of them? How can you take movies seriously? You go on the set with the script in your back pocket. You take it out and read...
...PHANTOM OF LIBERTE. A Series of surreal blackout sketches by Luis Buñuel, loosely grouped around the theme of man's perverse pleasure in paradox. Buñuel creates in this film a paradox of his own: a work that is carbolic and tonic all at once...
...pure fantasy in the film, however, is the hearing aid Truffaut wears for his characterization of the director. "I could have been thinking of Buñuel," Truffaut said last week in New York, where Day for Night opened the eleventh New York Film Festival. "But actually I had no one particular in mind. For me, the hearing aid is more symbolic. It emphasizes how a director is isolated during shooting, how he hears only things about the film...
...DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE. Luis Buñuel's intricate and elegant dissection of middle-class amorality, shrewd and very funny...