Luis Bunuel: Chimera 1900-1983 - Softcover

Krohn, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3822833754 ISBN 13: 9783822833759

Publisher: Taschen America Llc, 2005

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

The author: Bill Krohn is the author of Hitchcock at Work. He also co-directed, -produced and -wrote It’s All True: Based on an Unseen Film by Orson Welles. Bill Krohn has been the Los Angeles correspondent for the legendary French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma since 1978. He also reviews films for The Economist.

Review:

"I am still an atheist, thank God." Luis Bunuel"

About this edition

• Publisher: Taschen America Llc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 3822833754
• ISBN 13: 9783822833759
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Duncan Paul