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Luis Buñuel Filmography
This is a list of the films directed by Luis Buñuel. Film Features Shorts Assistance and supervision Awards 1950s '' Los Olvidados'' * Cannes Film Festival – Best Director * Ariel Award – Golden Ariel * Ariel Award - Silver Ariel – Mejor Dirección * Ariel Award - Silver Ariel – Mejor Adaptación (with Luis Alcoriza) * Ariel Award - Silver Ariel – Mejor Argumento Original (with Luis Alcoriza) '' Mexican Bus Ride'' * Cannes Film Festival – Official Selection * Ariel Award nominee – Golden Ariel * Ariel Award nominee - Silver Ariel – Mejor Dirección '' Robinson Crusoe'' * Ariel Award – Golden Ariel * Ariel Award -Silver Ariel – Mejor Dirección * Ariel Award -Silver Ariel – Mejor Adaptación * Oscar nominee – Best Actor (Dan O'Herlihy) ''Rehearsal for a Crime'' (aka '' The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz'') * Ariel Award nominee – Golden Ariel * Ariel Award nominee - Silver Ariel – Mejor Dirección * Ariel Award nominee - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish and Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians and directors to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. Luis Buñuel filmography, Buñuel's works were known for their avant-garde surrealism which were also infused with political commentary. Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel's career spanned the 1920s through the 1970s. He collaborated with prolific surrealist painter Salvador Dali on ''Un Chien Andalou'' (1929) and ''L'Age d'Or'' (1930). Both films are considered masterpieces of surrealist cinema. From 1947 to 1960, he honed his skills as a director in Mexico, making grounded and human melodramas such as ''Gran Casino'' (1947), ''Los Olvidados'' (1950) and ''Él (film), Él'' (1953). Here is where he gained the fundamentals of storytelling. Buñuel then transitioned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The River And Death
''The River and Death'' (Spanish: ''El río y la muerte'') is a 1954 Mexican film. It was written by Luis Alcoriza and directed by Luis Buñuel. The film is an adaptation of Miguel Álvarez Acosta's 1952 novel ''Muro blanco en roca negra'' (White Wall on a Black Rock). Cast *Columba Domínguez as Mercedes *Miguel Torruco as Felipe Anguiano *Joaquín Cordero as Gerardo Anguiano * Jaime Fernández as Romulo Menchaca *Víctor Alcocer as Polo Menchaca *Silvia Derbez as Elsa *José Elías Moreno as Don Nemesio *Carlos Martínez Baena as Don Julian *Alfredo Varela as Chinelas (as Alfredo Varela Jr.) *Miguel Manzano as don Anselmo Background The film, an adaptation of a novel about blood revenge that has lasted for several generations, is so country-specific that the audience at the Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Got His Gun (film)
''Johnny Got His Gun'' is a 1971 American independent anti-war film written and directed by Dalton Trumbo. Based on his own novel of the same name, it was Trumbo's first and only directorial effort. The film stars Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, and Diane Varsi. Although it was a minor success upon its initial release, the film was largely forgotten by the mass audience soon after. It received renewed attention in the late 1980s after clips from it were incorporated into the popular music video for Metallica's single " One", and the film has subsequently become a cult film. Eventually, Metallica bought the rights to the film in order to be able to show the music video without having to keep paying royalties. Plot Joe Bonham, a young American soldier during World War I, awakens in a hospital bed after being hit by an artillery shell. He has lost his eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and limbs, but remains conscious and able to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tristana (film)
''Tristana'' is a 1970 drama film co-written, directed and produced by Luis Buñuel, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, and Franco Nero. The screenplay by Buñuel and Julio Alejandro adapts an 1892 realist novel of the same name by Benito Pérez Galdós. It is a Spanish-French-Italian co-production filmed in Toledo, Buñuel's one-time home, and represents his return to his native country after several years living and working abroad. It earned positive acclaim from critics, and was nominated for Best Foreign-Language Film at the 43rd Academy Awards. Plot The story is set in the late 1920s to early 1930s in the city of Toledo. Tristana is a young woman who, following the death of her mother, becomes a ward of notorious nobleman don Lope Garrido. Despite his advancing age, Don Lope refuses to change his playboy lifestyle, while maintaining strong yet increasingly-antiquated attitudes about honour, chivalry and women. Claiming to defend the weak from corrupt institut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Milky Way (1969 Film)
''The Milky Way'' () is a 1969 surrealist comedy-drama film directed by Luis Buñuel. It stars Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Denis Manuel, and Daniel Pilon, with Alain Cuny, Michel Piccoli, and Delphine Seyrig in supporting roles. Buñuel later called ''The Milky Way'' the first in a trilogy about "the search for truth", along with his subsequent films ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' and ''The Phantom of Liberty''. The title of the film is taken from a popular name used for the Camino de Santiago, a network of pilgrimage routes that stretched from northern Europe to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain, where the remains of St. James were reputed to be buried.Buñuel, Luis. ''My Last Sigh''. Trans. Abigail Israel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. p. 245. . The film follows the picaresque journey of two vagabond travelers (Frankeur and Terzieff), who seem to be making the pilgrimage as a means of escape. Along the way, they witness a series of b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belle De Jour (film)
''Belle de Jour'' () is a 1967 surrealist erotic psychological drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jean-Claude Carrière. Based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Joseph Kessel, the film stars Catherine Deneuve in the leading role, a young housewife who spends her midweek afternoons as a high-class prostitute, while her husband is at work. It co-stars Jean Sorel, and Michel Piccoli, and features Geneviève Page, Francisco Rabal, Pierre Clémenti, Francis Blanche and Georges Marchal in supporting roles. The title of the film is a play on words on the French term ''belle de nuit'' ("beauty of the night", i.e., a prostitute), as Séverine works during the day under the pseudonym "Belle de Jour". Her nickname can also be interpreted as a reference to the French name of the morning glory (''Convolvulaceae''), meaning "beauty of heday", a flower that blooms only during the day. ''Belle de Jour'' is one of Buñuel's most successful and fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diary Of A Chambermaid (1964 Film)
''Diary of a Chambermaid'' (, ) is a 1964 drama film directed by Spanish-born filmmaker Luis Buñuel and starring Jeanne Moreau as a Parisian chambermaid who uses her body and wiles to navigate the perversion, corruption, and violence she encounters at the provincial estate where she goes to work. Though highly satirical and reflective of his typical anti-bourgeois sentiments, it is one of Buñuel's more realistic films, and generally avoids the outlandish surrealist imagery and far-fetched plot twists found in many of his other works. The film was the first screenwriting collaboration between Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, who extensively reworked the 1900 novel of the same name by Octave Mirbeau. Buñuel and Carrière would go on to collaborate on '' Belle de Jour'' (1967), '' The Milky Way (1969)'', ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' (1972), '' The Phantom of Liberty'' (1974) and '' That Obscure Object of Desire'' (1977). Plot In France in the late 1920s, Célesti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Exterminating Angel
''The Exterminating Angel'' () is a 1962 Mexican surrealism, surrealist black comedy film written and directed by Luis Buñuel. Starring Silvia Pinal and produced by Pinal's then-husband Gustavo Alatriste, the film tells the story of a group of wealthy guests who find themselves unable to leave after a lavish dinner party, and the chaos that ensues. Sharply satirical and allegorical, it contains a depiction of the aristocracy that suggests they "harbor savage instincts and unspeakable secrets".Roger Ebert, Ebert, Roger''The Exterminating Angel'' ''RogerEbert.com'', 11 May 1997. . In 2004, ''The New York Times'' included the film in a list of "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made". The film was adapted into an The Exterminating Angel (opera), opera of the same name by Thomas Adès in 2016. Plot After a night at the opera, Edmundo and Lucía Nóbile host eighteen wealthy acquaintances at a dinner party at their mansion. The servants inexplicably begin to leave as the guests are about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viridiana
''Viridiana'' () is a 1961 Spanish-Mexican surrealist comedy-drama film directed by Luis Buñuel and produced by Gustavo Alatriste. It is loosely based on the 1895 novel ''Halma'' by Benito Pérez Galdós. The film was the co-winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, but was banned in Spain and denounced by the Holy See for its criticism of the Catholic Church. In a 2016 poll of 350 experts organized by Spanish film magazine ''Caimán Cuadernos de Cine'', it was voted the best Spanish film of all time, with 227 votes. Plot Before taking her final vows as a nun, Viridiana is instructed to visit her only living relative, an uncle named Don Jaime who financed her education. Don Jaime is a recluse with a decaying mansion and estate, cared for by a servant named Ramona. On Viridiana's last night at the estate, Don Jaime discloses that his wife, who bore an uncanny resemblance to Viridiana, died in their bed on their wedding night. He implores Viridiana to wear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Joven
''The Young One'' () (released as ''White Trash'' in the United States and ''Island of Shame'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1960 English-language Mexican drama film directed and co-written by Luis Buñuel, and starring Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Crahan Denton and Claudio Brook. " Inspired by" the story "Travelin' Man" by Peter Matthiessen, the film deals with issues such as racism and statutory rape by depicting the interactions between two men and a teenage girl on a private island game preserve. It was Buñuel's second (and last) film in English, following ''Robinson Crusoe'' (1954); both were co-written by Hugo Butler (under the pseudonym H. B. Addis) and produced by George Pepper (as George P. Werker), Americans who had moved to Mexico after being blacklisted in Hollywood based on their alleged membership of, or sympathy with the Communist Party USA. ''The Young One'' was screened in competition at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, and has received highly p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Fièvre Monte à El Pao
''La fièvre monte à El Pao'' (also known in English as ''Fever Mounts at El Pao'' or ''Republic of Sin'') is a 1959 film by director Luis Buñuel. Gérard Philipe died four months after the filming. This was his last film. Plot On the remote Caribbean island Ojeda an agitated population kills their despotic ruler Mariano Vargas. His secretary Ramón Vázquez takes over and tries to reinstate public order. Meanwhile, Alejandro Gual, leader of a special military unit, tries to take the place of Ramón Vázquez. Knowing that Ramón Vázquez had an affair with the dictator's wife Inés, he tries to turn the widow against her lover. Cast * Gérard Philipe as Ramón Vázquez * María Félix as Inés Rojas * Jean Servais as Alejandro Gual * Miguel Ángel Ferriz as Gouvernor Mariano Vargas *Raúl Dantés as Lieutenant García * Domingo Soler as Professeur Juan Cárdenas * Víctor Junco as Indarte Release In 2008, ''La Fièvre Monte à El Pao'' was screened in Retrospective section of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazarín
''Nazarín'' () is a 1959 Mexican satirical drama film directed by Luis Buñuel and co-written between Buñuel and Julio Alejandro, adapted from the eponymous novel of Benito Pérez Galdós. The film received the international prize at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards, but was not selected as a nominee. Although not one of Buñuel's most renowned films, ''Nazarín'' still holds a high reputation. Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky named it one of his ten favorite films. In April 2019, a restoration was selected to be shown in the "Cannes Classics" section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Padre Nazario, a priest living in a hostel, is quiet, temperate and distributes his money, even indifferent to being burgled. He shows understanding and compassion to such as Beatriz, who has psychotic episodes and suicidal thoughts after being abandoned by her lover, Pinto. A prostitute, Andara, run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
