Luis Buñuel

Stone and Who Loves the Sun among DVD release highlights

Featuring boxsets of Akira Kurosawa, Richard Woolley and Luis Buñuel

2 Mar 2011

Here’s what may be of interest on DVD and Blu-ray that’s coming out in March. An Unflinching Eye: The Films of Richard Woolley (BFI ●●●●) brings together the almost complete short and feature work of this overlooked British filmmaker whose films were as…

Metropolis

16 Nov 2010

(PG) 150min (Eureka/Masters of Cinema) The reconstruction, restoration and re-release of classic films is now becoming a regular occurrence (happily enough), but the reissue of Fritz Lang’s visionary 1927 science fiction film is something altogether…

Screening Surrealism film programme

Films by Luis Buñuel, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Maya Deren and Hans Richter

24 Aug 2010

This terrific season of big and small films by inspirational lights of experimental cinema – Luis Buñuel, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Maya Deren, and Hans Richter among many others – is showing in conjunction with the National Galleries of…

Little Ashes

11 Jun 2009

‘No Rules. No Regrets. No Returns’ promise the breathless ads for Paul Wondrous Oblivion Morrison’s homage to the Catalonian spirit, detailing the relationships between three of Spain’s greatest creative temperaments, notably playwright and poet…

Close Up

27 Nov 2008

PHOTOGRAPHY/FILM ‘Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.’ The early 18th century poet Alexander Pope’s wrote that, perhaps in a moment of peevishness. Between Pope’s witticism and writer and critic William Hazlitt’s…

Bunuel retrospective planned for Berlin Film Festival

26 Oct 2007

A retrospective of the films of Spanish surrealist director Luis Bunuel is planned for this year’s Berlin Film Festival, which kicks off in February. Bunuel’s first feature film, 1930’s The Age of Gold, an attack on the Catholic Church and the…

Belle de Jour

(18) 99min

29 Jan 2007

RE-ISSUE The very great Spanish filmmaker and surrealist Luis Buñuel wrote in his fantastic autobiography My Last Breath that Belle de Jour was ‘my biggest commercial success, which I attribute more to the marvellous whores than to my direction.…