Few filmmakers have held my attention, respect and admiration for as long or as deeply as Luis Buñuel. For years I’ve thought of him as my ‘favorite’ director, mostly due to a personal connection I feel with his attitudes, humor and outlook. A surrealist, a wandering spirit, a cynic, a recovering Catholic…Buñuel used the cinema to explore these areas and took special delight in society’s inexorable draw to the seven deadly sins—especially pride, lust and greed. Among the very few masters capable of channeling elevated social and cultural criticisms into popular cinema, he took aim at the whole of humanity, recognizing the folly of our desires.
Below this post you’ll find my review of the new DVD set of Gran Casino and The Young One, followed by some interesting photographs and a gallery of posters for his films. Directly below are links to participating blogs and websites, and I’d like to thank their authors for joining in to make this tribute to Don Luis a success.
Buñuelathon ‘07:
Boone, Steve: Susana at Vinyl is Heavy
Carlson, Steve: Susana at The Ongoing Cinematic Education of Steven Carlson
Chapman, Schuyler: Robinson Crusoe at The Life and Times of Charles Kinbote
Cruz, Francis: El (This Strange Passion) at Oggs’ Movie Thoughts
Darr, Brian: Abismos de pasión at Hell on Frisco Bay
D’Augustine, Joe: posting at Film Forno
A review of Tristana
A review of That Obscure Object of Desire
Collecting Buñuel memorabilia
Goodbye Buñuel, His Hollywood Home
Davis, Robert: Luis Buñuel’s Dry Martini Recipe at Errata
Dienstfrey, Eric: Buñuel and Eros at Filmbo’s Chick Magnet
Divers and Sundry: Assorted films to watch
Emerson, Jim: Unable to write a new piece for the Buñuelathon, he offers these articles instead:
'Birth' of a Buñuelian Notion
The Buñuel martini
The Discreet Charm of the Buñuel Martini
Lust and Death
Ferdinand, Marilyn: The Young One at Ferdy on Films
Flickhead:
Reviews of Gran Casino and The Young One
Buñuel: Up the Academy
Buñuel Poster Gallery
The Persistence of Memory
Buñuel Books & DVDs
Fournier, Pierre: exploring Buñuel’s friend and collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière at Frankensteinia
Carrière’s Frankenstein
Carrière’s The Step of Frankenstein
Filomeno2006: Assorted images at Flickr
Buñuel drum marching in Calanda
Sylvia Pinal
Fernando Rey
Paco Rabal
Gibson, Richard: Assorted images at his blog
Buñuel portrait (click image to enlarge)
Buñuel on location for Las Hurdes
Poster (click image to enlarge)
Guillen, Michael: My Last Sigh at The Evening Class
Hedwig: Belle de Jour at As Cool as a Fruitstand
If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There’d be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats: assorted images
Susana
Las Hurdes
Buñuel and Angel Orensanz
Buñuel and Catherine Deneuve
Buñuel and Billy Wilder
Los Olvidados
On location for Belle de Jour
Jahsonic: Un Chien andalou at The Art and Popular Culture Wiki
Jourdan, Vincent: posts at Inisfree
Buñuel trailers
Souvenirs de Luis Buñuel (en Français)
Kee, Kevin: Viridiana: Buñuel’s Masterpiece Nearly Destroyed at Things to Quicken the Heart
Lapper, Jonathan: posts at Cinema Styles
Man, I am Never Going to Get to See This Movie!
Cinema Still Life: L’age d’or
Lepastier, Joachim: Eclater ses yeux et ses oreilles at 365 Jours ouvrables (en Français)
Lindbergs, Kimberly: posts at Cinebeats
What’s in the Box?
Ode to Marcel
The Fine Art of Fashion: Yves Saint Laurent
Lucas, Tim: The Women of Buñuel at Video WatchBlog
Matwychuk, Paul: The Laws Have Changed at the Moviegoer
Maubreuil, Ludovic: Buñuel en cet age sombre at Cinématique (en Français)
Monell, Robert: Abismos de pasión at I’m in a Jess Franco State of Mind
Nellhaus, Peter: Gran Casino at Coffee, Coffee and More Coffee
Osborn, Mark: Gran Casino at Tractor Facts
RC: Viridiana at Strange Culture
Rob: Buñuel’s Art of the Cocktail at Cosmic Mai Tai Noir
Seacroft, Sheila: Charmed I’m Sure: A Regal Memoir at Jigsaw Lounge
Valluri, Gautam: Un Chien andalou at Broken Projector
Westal, Bob: The Buñuel Hangover at Forward to Yesterday
Young, Neil: Strangers on the Shore—Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel at Jigsaw Lounge
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Labels: Luis Buñuel, Luis Buñuel Blogathon
9 Comments:
El gran Don Luis Buñuel nunca renunció a su nacionalidad española
Hey. So I backed out of doing a real post for the Bunuel-a-thon, though it pains me to do it, as I love Luis so.
I talk about why I couldn't do it, makes a recommendation for the docs included on the UN CHIEN ANDALOU DVD and post Dali's portrait of Luis though, if anybody's interested in my Bunuel-a-thon non-post.
La Deneuve, Señora maciza y de muy buen ver.
It's interesting your reference to the seven deadly sins, which Buñuel himself stated were all relatively harmless, save perhaps envy. I look forward to exploring the various essays being contributed to your party.
Maya,
Relatively harmless...
I'm just thinking about Fernando Rey's mental state in Obscure Object...
No, he was driven by lust and pride and greed, and he was mentally fried. Especially when hit with the chastity corset.
I just reviewed Bunuel's WUTHERING HEIGHTS over at my blog:
www.robertmonell.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the blogathan!
Thanks for the link, Mr. Flick. I'm usually not on the ball enough to participate in blog-a-thons, but this was a good one to blunder into.
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