Films with: Buñuel, Luis

Age d'or

Using a melange of strange and unrelated images, this surrealistic film about two lovers who mock convention is a statement by Buñuel on the nature of the bourgeoisie, the Church and the police. Banned in France within two weeks of its release.

DVD 3258

Ángel exterminador Exterminating angel /

After a lavish dinner party in a stately mansion, the guests believe themselves unable to leave the premises. As the days pass, the elaborate facades of their social positions collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally discovering they are actually free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped.

DVD 7207

Belle de jour

Subtle, erotic film about a wealthy young surgeon's wife who indulges her masochistic fantasies by working as a part-time prostitute in a Paris brothel.

DVD 2475

Cet obscur objet du désir That obscure object of desire /

A wealthy older man has an affair with a young maid played by twodifferent actresses in this darkly humorous satire on sexualobsession.

DVD 1571

Charme discret de la bourgeoisie

"An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined."--Container.

DVD 1480

Chien andalou

Filmed in the subjective language of the unconscious, this early avant-grade film appears as fresh today as when it first appeared.

DVD 4585

Fantôme de la liberté The phantom of liberty /

A perverse, playfully absurd comedy that compiles many of the illogical themes that preoccupied Bunuel through his career - from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.

DVD 4641

Journal d'une femme de chambre Diary of a chambermaid /

A chambermaid with Paris flair gets a job at a country estate. The family she works for and the other staff members are a strange sort and she must learn the ways of country living and neighbor revialry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible.

DVD 1431

Olvidados The young and the damned /

A group of juvenile delinquents live a life full of violence and crime in one of the most deteriorated, poor neighborhoods in Mexico City. The morality of the youth Pedro is corrupted gradually by other characteristics.

DVD 5712

Terre sans pain

"Luis Buñuel's only documentary, Land without bread (Las Hurdes) is a subversive exploration of an isolated region of Spain too barren to sustain life and the backward struggle of its inhabitants to survive. Shot as a travelogue, what surfaces is an unflinching attack on any establishment that would turn a blind eye to such a pocket of misery. Mixing cold scientific examination with absurdity and tragedy, Land without bread answers the mystifying question of whether one can make a Surrealist documentary, and with Buñuel the anser is yes"--Container.

DVD 12569

Tristana

After the death of her mother, young Tristana goes to live with her guardian, Don Lope, an older man who eventually breaks through his facade of respectability and seduces her. She repays him a hundred fold, preying on his jealousy and taunting him with perverse whimsies.

DVD 4291

Viridiana

Viridiana, who is about to become a nun, does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism.

DVD 4300

Voie lactée The milky way /

Two French beggars on their way to Spain's holy city of Santiago de Compostela meet stigmatic children, crucified nuns, and others on their pilgrimage.

DVD 9361