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ASCENT TO HEAVEN
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This gently surreal comedy directed by Luis Bunuel during his Mexican period is an interesting glimpse of life in 1950s Mexico. Oliverio (Esteban Marquez), a young bridegroom, is called away on his wedding day to settle matters on behalf of his dying mother. When the newlyweds arrive at the family home Oliverio discovers that his brothers have been neglecting their mother's care and plotting how to squander her inheritance. In order to get the will notarized to protect her wishes, he embarks upon a two-day bus journey during which he meets many odd characters and is faced with new temptations along the way. With Roberto Meyer, Luis Aceves Castaħeda, Leonor Gomez, Carmenita Gonzalez, Roberto Cobo. Also known as Mexican Bus Ride. In Spanish with Luis Bunuel---Mexico---1952---85 mins.
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BELLE DE JOUR (CRITERION)
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In this Bunuel masterpiece, Catherine Deneuve sparkles as a middle-class wife who finds a day job in a brothel that gives her an outlet for darker passions.
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BRUTE, THE (EL BRUTO)
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Filmed during his exile in Mexico, Bunuel's overlooked neorealist melodrama deals with a corrupt landlord in search of a thug to intimidate his tenants.
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CRIMINAL LIFE OF ARCHIBALDO DE
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Bunuel's black comedy Ensayo de un Crimen concerns a sadist named Archibaldo, who was told in his youth that his music box had the power to kill. After successfully marking his teacher, Archibaldo develops an erotic obsession with death that festers until adulthood. He attempts to murder a string of young women, but these failed attempts only lead him toward a normal, bourgeoisie life. "His crimes are his very conscious, aesthetic attempts to revive a delicious sensation" (Raymond Durgnat). With Ernesto Alonso, Miroslava Stern and Rita Macedo. In Spanish with NO English subtitles. Luis Bunuel---Mexico---1955---91 mins.
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DEATH IN THE GARDEN
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A thriller with a surrealist's touch, this is one of Bunuel's most accessible and fascinating films.
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DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID BUNUEL
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A great Bunuel film in which he updated the famous Mirbeau novel about the decadent French upper classes of the 19th century to 1928. Jeanne Moreau plays the chambermaid, both demure and cunning, who takes a position in a cheerless chateau, and immediately becomes the newest "object d'art" for a whole family of perfectly ordinary perverts, from the shoe-fetishist father to the gamekeeper, who is a reactionary and a rapist. In French with English Luis Bunuel---France---1964---97 mins.
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DISCREET CHARM OF BOURGEOISIE
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Six characters are forever trying to sit down for a meal, but bizarre events--dreams, fantasies, guests, terrorists--interfere. Bunuel's brilliant satire lampoons the church, diplomats, wealthy socialites and radical terrorists and is a pure joy to watch. With Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stephane Audran, Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Michel Piccoli. Academy Award winner, Best Foreign Film. Winner, Best Film, National Society of Film Critics. French with English subtitles. Luis Bunuel---France---1972---100 mins.
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EXTERMINATING ANGEL (BUNUEL)
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A metaphorically rich and comic film, Exterminating Angel tells the story of guests invited to an elegant dinner party who find they are unable to leave at the end of the evening. A mysterious force compels them to stay...and stay...and stay. After several days, their well-heeled social facades collapse as hunger, thirst, fear, and boredom send them into a frenzy. Bunuel stated that this film is "a metaphor, a deeply felt, disturbing reflection of the life of modern man, a witness to the fundamental preoccupations of our time." It is certainly one of Bunuel's greatest achievements. In Spanish with English Luis Bunuel---Mexico---1962---94 mins.
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GREAT MADCAP (BUNUEL)
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Bunuel's hilarious portrait of the hypocrisy of the middle class centers on the disastrous results of a wealthy man's spendthrift habits and womanizing on his family. An elegant satire on sex, advertising and the reverse exploitation of the ruling elite. In Spanish with English subtitles. Luis Bunuel---Mexico---1949---92 mins.
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ILLUSION TRAVELS BY STREETCAR
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Shot in roughly two weeks in order to pay grocery bills (one of five features turned out during Bunuel's very active 1952-53 period), Illusion tells the story of two young employees of a public transportation company in Mexico City who get drunk at a local festival and decide to take a girl on one last trip on a train about to be retired from service. This results in a number of hilarious incidents and unexpected adventures. In Spanish with English Luis Bunuel---Mexico---1953---90 mins.
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ILUSION VIAJA TRANVIA/ NAZARIN
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A simple priest tries to live by Christian precepts in one of Luis Bunuel's best--and most unjustly neglected--films. "I am very much attached to Nazarin," said Bunuel. "He is a priest. He could as well be a hairdresser or a waiter. What interests me about him is that he stands by his ideas, that these ideas are unacceptable to society at large, and that after his adventures with prostitutes, thieves and so forth, they lead him to being irrevocably damned by the prevailing social order." With Francisco Rabal, Marga Lopez and Rita Macedo. In Spanish WITHOUT English subtitles.
Luis Bunuel---Mexico---1958---95 mins.
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L'AGE D'OR
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Bunuel's masterpiece extolls love and attacks religion and the social order in an amazing assemblage of images that remain no less provocative today than they were in 1930. Its central metaphor is a couple making love who are continually disturbed by the intrusions of officialdom, police and the Church. It remains one of the most unashamedly erotic films ever made, with a famous toe-sucking sequence. Financed by the Vicomte de Noailles, who gave Bunuel complete freedom and declared it "exquisite and delicious," the film immediately became the object of right-wing extremists and remained unseen for generations because of the Church's threat to excommunicate the Vicomte if the film were distributed. With Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst and Pierre Luis Bunuel---France---1930---62 mins.
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LAND WITHOUT BREAD (LAS HURDES)
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An extraordinary film about the impoverished people living in the Las Hurdes region of Spain. Bunuel constructs the film in the manner of a travelogue. The absurdity of the contrast between narration and image results in a vision so powerful the film seems surreal. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Luis Bunuel---Spain---1932---45 mins.
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LOS OLVIDADOS
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Bunuel's filmmaking milestone looks at the lives of young people growing up in the slums of Mexico. In particular, at the desperately inevitable process by which an older, more corrupt gang leader, Jacob, hounds and destroys the younger, more innocent Pedro. Bunuel's surrealist tendencies are given evident in the film's mise-en-scene and dream sequences. The film was quite controversial upon it's release in Mexico, but went on to win Best Director at Cannes. In Spanish with NO ENGLISH subtitles.
Luis Bunuel---Mexico---1950---90 mins.
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LUIS BUNUEL (2DISC COLL ED)
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Two rare classics from the master of all things subversive and surreal in the cinema. The set includes Gran Casino (Mexico, 1947, 92 mins., Spanish with English subtitles), the first feature film by Bunuel to be made during his stint in Mexico. This musical western is standard genre fare, but Jorge Negrete and Libertad Lamarque give spirited performances, and the zany plot--part gangster film, part adventure musical--is undeniably lively. The Young One (Mexico/USA, 1960, 95 mins., in English), the director's only American film, is a powerful work about racism and sexual exploitation. A northern black jazz clarinetist (Bernie Hamilton) fleeing from false rape charges turns up on a small island off the Carolina coast and finds himself being hunted by a game warden (Zachary Scott). The sheriff's racial bigotry flares openly, though he is concealing his own perverse sexual fixation on a beautiful young nymphet (Kay Meersman). "A film that is realistically simple in all its parts, and realistically complex in its total picture of life and Luis Bunuel---Mexico/USA---1947/1960---187 mins.
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MEXICAN BUS RIDE/ SUBIDA CIELO
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This gently surreal comedy directed by Luis Bunuel during his Mexican period is an interesting glimpse of life in 1950s Mexico. Oliverio (Esteban Marquez), a young bridegroom, is called away on his wedding day to settle matters on behalf of his dying mother. When the newlyweds arrive at the family home Oliverio discovers that his brothers have been neglecting their mother's care and plotting how to squander her inheritance. In order to get the will notarized to protect her wishes, he embarks upon a two-day bus journey during which he meets many odd characters and is faced with new temptations along the way. With Roberto Meyer, Luis Aceves Castaħeda, Leonor Gomez, Carmenita Gonzalez, Roberto Cobo. Also known as Mexican Bus Ride. In Spanish with Luis Bunuel---Mexico---1952---85 mins.
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MILKY WAY, THE (BUNUEL)
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La Voie Lactee is Luis Bunuel's truly outrageous and very funny satire on the history and ritual of the Roman Catholic Church, and a road movie in its own right. Two tramps on a pilgrimage from Paris to a shrine in Spain encounter Christ, the Devil, the Virgin Mary, crucified nuns, and various arguments about Catholic doctrine along the way. Rich color cinematography by Christian Matras (The Grand Illusion). In French with English subtitles. Luis Bunuel---France---1969---105 mins.
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PHANTOM OF LIBERTY
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One of Bunuel's masterpieces of surrealism, this loosely structured series of anecdotes deals with the concept of freedom. A daisy-chain of characters move through this cinema of dreams and absurdity, demonstrating the cosmic comedy of humans who constantly enslave themselves in order to be free. The lightest and liveliest of Bunuel's films filled with riddles, jokes and outrageous associations ridiculing the power to reason. In French with English subtitles. Luis Bunuel---France---1974---102 mins.
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RIVER AND DEATH/ EL RIO Y LA
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Before Bunuel left Mexico for Paris in 1955, he directed this fairly literal adaptation of Miguel Alvarez Acosta's novel about the inverse relationship between crime and education. A series of vengeful crimes surges through a coastal Mexican town, culminating in a standoff between an educated man and a low class criminal. Some would describe this as one of Bunuel's formulaic commercial films from his Mexican period, but without competent works like El Rio y la Muerte, he'd have no financing for more personal projects, especially The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz from the same year. With Columba Dominguez, Miguel Torruco, Joaquin Cordero, and the fine cinematography of Raul Martinez Solares. In Spanish with NO English subtitles. Luis Bunuel---Mexico---1955---93 mins.
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ROBINSON CRUSOE (BUNUEL)
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Spanish surrealist Luis Bunuel's first English-language film, produced while the director was in self-imposed exile in Mexico, is an adaptation of Daniel Dafoe's novel about the infamous shipwreck victim. A fine rendition of the classic tale of survival, with Bunuel throwing in a few subtle jabs at religion and the complacency of society. This was also the first of Bunuel's films to be shot in color. Luis Bunuel---Mexico---1952---90 mins.
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