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Luis Bunuel: Chimera 1900-1983

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Luis Bu?uel, one of the most brilliant representatives of the surrealist movement, chose to make films and was able to make them with unflagging fidelity to his principles for fifty years. After an audacious Parisian showing of Un Chien Andalou in 1929 (Bu?uel carried stones in his pockets in case he needed them to fend off the audience), Bu?uel's subsequent career in Spain (Las Hurdes), Hollywood and Mexico (Los Olvidados, Robinson Crusoe, El, Nazarin) before returning to France (Diary of aChambermaid, Belle de jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire), showed that the only subjects he cared to make films about were the three that are never supposed to be discussed in polite society: sex, religion, and politics.

192 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2005

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May 17, 2010
Libro con orden cronologico de la filmografia de Luis Buñuel. Lo unico reprobable que le pueda decir a este libro es que el autor se tomo la libertad de agregar a Buñuel en la ficha tecnica de una pelicula que se plegio una escena recomendada por el, esto puede dar una publicidad inadecuada, pero fue criterio del autor. En general es un buen libro, al final aparecen carteles de la epoca de sus peliculas, destaco unos de europa del este que usan imagenes al estilo de H.R. Giger, que la verdad no tienen nada que ver con la pelicula (el titulo Un Perro Andaluz no tiene nada que ver con la pelicula, asi que no lo tomo a mal). Yo mismo tengo un poster de El Angel Exterminador que originalmente se hiba a llamar Los Naufragos de la Calle Providencia, muy 60's.
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