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Dreams cobbled to history.(Luis Bunuel)(Critical essay)
A RICH CHUCKLE, from either heaven or the other place, seems the apt accompaniment to the news in late 2004 of confusion about the whereabouts of Luis Bunuel's ashes. It is the chuckle I heard when he gave a press conference in Venice in 1967 after winning the main award for Belle du Jour. He was a welcome contrast to his posturing friend Salvador Dali. Bunuel seemed perfectly normal compared to the self-proclaimed genius but his films were more subversive than Dali's paintings because, instead of dissolving the barrier between the everyday and the surreal, they showed they were juxtaposed. After the surrealist movement was consigned to art history and museums, Bunuel ...
- Luis Bunuel: New Readings.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Krohn, Bill December 22, 2004 700+ words
Luis Bunuel: New Readings Edited by Peter William Evans...contributors' notes" on the editors of Luis Bunuel: New Readings, I see that Evans, the author of The Films of Luis Bunuel: Subjectivity and Desire, is a Bunuel expert...
- A Companion to Luis Bunuel.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Penn, Sheldon January 1, 2008 700+ words
A Companion to Luis Bunuel. By GWYNNE EDWARDS. Woodbridge: Tamesis. 2005. 176 pp. [pound...s previous work on the director, including The Discreet Art of Luis Bunuel: A Reading of his Films (London: Boyars, 1982) and Indecent...
- LUIS BUNUEL'S LIFE LEAPS FROM PAGES OF BAXTER'S FASCINATING...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) May 28, 1998 700+ words
...shooting take after take - it's often a life that seems more glamorous than it is. But that's clearly not the case with Luis Bunuel, the Spanish director whose life and work were inextricably intertwined. His surrealistic vision, first expressed in his...
- Objects of Desire: Conversations with Luis Bunuel.
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Rosemont, Franklin January 1, 1993 700+ words
...Last Sigh. Without a second's hesitation I could rattle off dozens of questions I would like answered about the life of Luis Bunuel, but few of them, I am sorry to say, are touched on in these 262 pages. In strictly biographical terms, the book is disappointingly...
- Unsynched: the contrapuntal sounds of Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or.(Essay)
- Magazine article from: Film Criticism Richards, Rashna Wadia December 22, 2008 700+ words
...passages and Al Jolson's now-historic line, "You ain't heard nothing yet," the Vicomte de Noailles commissioned Luis Bunuel to direct a feature film with synchronized sound--as a birthday present for his wife, Marie-Laurie, painter, poet...
- An Unspeakable Betrayal: Selected Writings of Luis Bunuel.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Conrad, Randall September 22, 2000 700+ words
...themselves become less available, you get to read more about them in that enduring medium, print. This thought must have tickled Luis Bunuel: he went into film as a surrealist in the silent era because, among other reasons, it was not literature or fine art...
- On the cutting edge - Controversial filmmaker Luis Bunuel is subject of Harvard...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Verniere, James December 14, 2000 700+ words
Although his films shocked the world, Luis Bunuel probably never made a movie as surreal as his life. The subject of a centenary retrospective at the Harvard Film Archive beginning...
- No blacks or whites; the making of Luis Bunuel's 'The Young One.'
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Conrad, Randall June 22, 1993 700+ words
Produced and cowritten by exiles from McCarthyism, adapted from a story by Peter Matthiessen, and directed by Luis Bunuel, The Young One was released in 1960 and died the death of a work whose time had not yet come. Today, this Mexican-produced...
Source: HighBeam Research, Dreams cobbled to history.(Luis Bunuel)(Critical essay)