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Luis Buñuel Portolés ( Spanish: [ˈlwis βuˈɲwel poɾtoˈles]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish and Mexican [ 2][ 3][ 4][ 5][ 6] [ 7][ 8][ 9][ 10][ 11] filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. [ 12] He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and most ...
Luis Buñuel. Writer: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study ...
Jul 25, 2024 · Luis Buñuel (born February 22, 1900, Calanda, Spain—died July 29, 1983, Mexico City, Mexico) was a Spanish filmmaker who was a leading figure in Surrealism, the tenets of which suffused both his life and his work.
Nov 2, 2018 · Born in 1900, Luis Buñuel was truly a child of the 20th Century. But his radical films that negotiated class struggle and sexual politics are still relevant today.
Sep 4, 2023 · From Un Chien Andalou to Los Olvidados, these 10 Luis Buñuel movies are his best, with him being a major player in the surrealist movement.
Luis Buñuel. Writer: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study ...
Luis Buñuel Portolés (Calanda, Teruel, 22 de febrero de 1900-Ciudad de México, 29 de julio de 1983) fue un director de cine español nacionalizado mexicano. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Ha sido ampliamente considerado por muchos críticos de cine, historiadores y directores como uno de los cineastas más grandes e influyentes de todos los tiempos.
Jan 10, 2020 · As a true and eternal surrealist, Buñuel believed in the poetic—not divine—mystery inherent in all things. A retrospective of Buñuel’s films is playing on the Criterion Channel through June 30, 2020.
Best remembered for his early Surrealist films and for his work in the Mexican commercial cinema, Buñuel's prolific career is distinguished for his highly personal style and controversial obsession with social injustice, religious excess, gratuitous cruelty, and eroticism.
Sep 4, 2017 · For nearly half a century, Buñuel took glee in lighting the fuse under bourgeois notions of good taste and propriety, saving his most savage barbs for what he saw as the complacency of the middle classes and the hypocrisies of the Catholic church.