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DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel FEATURING: Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel PLOT: Six friends attempt to have dinner together, but repeatedly fail for increasingly bizarre reasons. WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: A plot so simple it’s barely a plot at all starts out small . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972) DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel FEATURING: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina PLOT: A rich French businessman courts a beautiful young Spanish woman over the years, but although she sometimes professes to love him, she continually refuses to consummate the relationship. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Obscure Object is one of Buñuel’s best, . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (1977) Further thoughts on the Certified Weird “Un Chien Andalou” (1929) “Moving pictures merely repeat what we have been told for centuries by novels and plays. Thus, a marvelous instrument for the expression of poetry and dreams (the subconscious world) is reduced to the role of simple REPEATER of stories expressed by other art forms.”–Luis Bunuel . . . → Read More: BUNUEL’S “UN CHIEN ANDALOU” (1929) An Andalusian Dog “No idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted… We had to open all doors to the irrational and keep only those images that surprised us, without trying to explain why.”–Luis Buñuel on Un Chien Andalou DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel FEATURING: Simone Mareuil, . . . → Read More: 117. UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929) “Moving pictures merely repeat what we have been told for centuries by novels and plays. Thus, a marvelous instrument for the expression of poetry and dreams (the subconscious world) is reduced to the role of simple REPEATER of stories expressed by other art forms”-Luis Buñuel. Simon of the Desert (1965) was Buñuel’s final Mexican film . . . → Read More: BUNUEL’S SIMON OF THE DESERT (1965) “By the end, the real and imaginary fuse; for me they form the same thing.”–Luis Buñuel on Belle de Jour DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel FEATURING: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Pierre Clémenti, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page PLOT: Séverine is a wealthy young newlywed who proclaims she loves her husband, but refuses to sleep with him. Her . . . → Read More: 105. BELLE DE JOUR (1967) Luis Buñuel‘s self-imposed exile in Mexico from 1946-1964 yielded a fruitful harvest, and his films from this period are, arguably, his most organic and economically composed. The director listed Nazarin, based off the Benito Perez Galdos novel, as a film he felt much affection for, and that affection extended to the character Father Nazario (Francisco Rabal). . . . → Read More: BUNUEL’S NAZARIN (1959) DIRECTED BY: Paul Morrison FEATURING: Robert Pattison, Javier Beltrán PLOT: In Madrid in the 1920s, with Dadaism in full flourish and Surrealism in its infancy, soon-to-be-famous poet Federico García Lorca flirts with soon-to-be-famous painter Salvador Dalí while soon-to-be-famous director Luis Buñuel hangs around. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It’s subject is Surrealism, . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: LITTLE ASHES (2008) “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be . . . → Read More: 26. THE MILKY WAY [LA VOIE LACTEE] (1969) |
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