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Had to get away from the umteenth moronic debate about "rockism" & film....

So I've seen very little Bunuel (only Un Chien Andalou, Belle De Jour, Viridiana, Discreet Charm of the Bourgousie). I've liked everything I've seen thus far, and was thinking of renting another one of his films this weekend. Any recommendations?

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Fcuk man, pretty much everything. See some of the Mexican stuff: Most famous two:
Los Olvidados
The Exterminating Angel

are both great. What else?

El (That Strange Passion)
Susanna
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo del la Cruz
and so on.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

French (w/ some Spanish actors, dubbed by some famous French ones)
That Obscure Object of Desire

Spanish(I think) w/ vice a versa dubbing)
Tristana (supposedly a favorite of Hitchcock)

For a short one but very great one"
Simon of the Desert.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Another Mexican (w/ Spanish star)
Nazarin.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

l'age d'or is pretty great. unfortunately, that and UCA are the only films of his i've seen so i'm worse shape than you, jay.

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

(oh who am i kidding i'm in worse shape than pretty much everyone on this forum (and i'd wager ILE, too))

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Simon of the Desert strongly seconded. Quite handily my favorite Buñuel of the small handful I've seen. I've read that the end of the film was conceived out of total frustration and that Buñuel himself didn't really have any clue what he was trying to say, but I think it was Kael who said that and strikes me as a total cop-out. Even if he didn't know how he wanted to reign in his film narratively, it's clear that the non-sequitor finale carries over the film proper's skepticism of piety and lip-service thereof.

That ending totally skewers '60s rockism. *ducks*

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 2 December 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

(Haha. I love that I mentioned the word "hand" twice in the second sentance. Those who've seen the film will understand my glee.)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 2 December 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

That ending was just another proof that Don Luis was the master: he know better than anybody how to take something seemingly random and really make it work. Hopefully I can say this better in a later post.

Eric, did you really have to use the "R-word"?

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 2 December 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i have seen discreet charm, obscure object of desire, belle du jour, the milky way, un chien andalou and the golden age.

un chien and the milky way are my favorites. the milky way is just a bunch of hilarious shots at the church and there are a bunch oc classic scenes.

― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 3 December 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i have seen discreet charm, obscure object of desire, belle du jour, the milky way, un chien andalou and the golden age.

un chien and the milky way are my favorites. the milky way is just a bunch of hilarious shots at the church and there are a bunch of classic scenes.

― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 3 December 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The least well known of those is The Milky Way. I remember seeing it just out of completism and ending up really liking it. The title refers to the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. As I remember it the characters are making their way to Santiago and keep meeting weird people with strange ideas. Later I found out that each one was enacting a very specific historical heresy.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 3 December 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

The Discreet Charm of the Burgeoisie is my favorite, but I also love Los Olvidados.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

i've only seen belle du jour and un chien andalou and i just picked up viridian for 19.99. i chose it over phantom of liberty and fellinis vitelloni, am now having second thoughts. i may just go out and get phantom of liberty later as it was the last one at the store.

― kephm (kephm), Saturday, 8 July 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

i just picked up viridian for 19.9

... just got in a car boot sale about an hour ago for £5... bit feckin' pricey if you ask me!

― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Saturday, 5 November 2011 12:17 (fourteen years ago)

I got Viridiana for £3 in Fopp 2 months ago!

― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Saturday, 5 November 2011 12:20 (fourteen years ago)

Balls, I knew I was being ripped off

― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Saturday, 5 November 2011 12:24 (fourteen years ago)

Who's the band in Simon Of The Desert?

― dow, Sunday, 6 November 2011 21:25 (fourteen years ago)

Google seems to think it's a Mexican band called Los Sinners but i'm struggling to find much reliable info

― Bond 23: Skyrim (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 November 2011 21:52 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

I don't remember seeing The Milky Way before. I went to Catholic school for 8 years, but damn, I couldn't get all the heresy references. Some funny stuff tho, esp Jesus as a bland folksinger type.

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 January 2015 14:57 (eleven years ago)

I like the nuns nailing their sister to the cross.

An amusing film that I found tedious after half an hour, although its form and tone are truer to Don Luis' affinities for Spanish picaresque literature than the Galdos adapations.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 January 2015 15:05 (eleven years ago)

love that he is the pope who gets executed

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:34 (eleven years ago)

One of his best imo.

― A trumpet growing in a garden (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:59 (eleven years ago)

The Vatican liked it too.

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:04 (eleven years ago)

Liked that much more than I would have thought from the description. Only saw once 25 years ago, though.

― Number Nine Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:08 (eleven years ago)

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