Luis Bu

Features

Past Imperfect: Luis Buñuel’s Early Work

By Bill Gibron

Sometimes, filmmaking genius is evident in every movie a cinematic master makes. In the case of this famed Spanish surrealist and his two early efforts, the future achievements are well hidden. [24 October 2007]

Reviews

Simon of the Desert

By Guy Crucianelli

This has the confounding, irrational quality of a Zen riddle or Christian parable -- its comic and secular, to be sure, but revelatory nonetheless. [17 March 2009]

The Exterminating Angel

By Chadwick Jenkins

The point in Buñuel is that there is no point -- only subversive play. [27 February 2009]

The Milky Way

By Marco Lanzagorta

In this surrealist masterpiece, Luis Buñuel poses important questions about religious beliefs and organized religion. [18 September 2007]

Un Chien Andalou (1929)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Made in 1929, Un Chien Andalou is based on the exchange of 'dreams' between two young Spanish artists. [10 January 2005]

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972/2000)

By Jonathan Beebe

The utopian vision Bunuel and his contemporaries aspired to is now beside the point. All that is necessary is to get us to remember a product in order to consume it. [1 January 1995]

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972/2000)

By Sabadino Parker

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie has lost none of its relevance or power, and is well worth seeing again on the big screen, if only to remind ourselves how good it is not to be unscrupulously comfortable.