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...showing it, where they sliced up the screen, attacked the audience physically, and destroyed the original Surrealist canvases adorning the theater's lobby. Others found the filmmaker's artistic act of provocation to be a work of genius: avowed fan Henry Miller proclaimed that "they should take Buñuel and crucify him, or at least burn him at the stake. He deserves the greatest reward that man can bestow upon...
...Luis Buñuel is currently the subject of a comprehensive two-month retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art in honor of the centennial of his birth. "Don Luis" was actually born in February of 1900, but the delay between the actual event and its celebration makes perfect sense, as there are few filmmakers who are as appropriate as this renegade stylist to lead moviegoers into the 21st century...
...Several of today's most prominent filmmakers betray the influence of Buñuel. David Lynch's radically bizarre first feature, "Eraserhead," couldn't have existed without the example of Buñuel's rulebreaking Surrealist masterwork "Un Chien Andalou" (1929), directed with Salvador Dali. Pedro Almodovar's deliciously ripe melodramas contain numerous elements first found in Buñuel's Mexican work from the 1950s; in fact, key sequences from Buñuel's giddily psychotic "The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz" (1955) are incorporated into Almodovar's "Live Flesh" (1997). And former Monty Python member Terry...
...still too small to have much effect. That doesn't mean it won't happen in the future, though. Hurricanes might not be more frequent in a hotter world, but they could be more intense. The upper limit on wind velocities should increase, M.I.T. atmospheric scientist Kerry Eman uel calculates, perhaps as much as 40 m.p.h. over their current top speed of about 180. And while major urban centers won't be battered by winds at the top of the range any more than they are today, there would be a rise in potential danger...
...films are argument enough for his place in movie history. With My Last Sigh, Buñuel allows himself to be seen in another light: as that most engaging of con artists, the raconteur. Reading the memoir is like spending a long, lazy afternoon in his presence. His voice never rises above a murmur. A small smile engages his face as he recalls some long-ago provocation that today scandalizes no one. Now and then he dozes. On one such afternoon this summer, Buñuel nodded off into immortality...