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Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish: [ˈlwis βuˈɲwel poɾtoˈles]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish 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. Buñuel's work was known for its avant-garde surrealism which was also infused with political commentary and social satire.
Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel made films from the 1920s through the 1970s. He collaborated with prolific surrealist painter Salvador Dali creating the films Un Chien Andalou (1929), which was made in the silent era and L'Age d'Or (1930). The two films are seen as the birth of Cinematic surrealism. From 1947 to 1960 he developed his skills as a director filming in Mexico making grounded and human melodramas such as Gran Casino (1947), Los Olvidados (1950), and Él (1953). Here is where he gained the fundamentals of storytelling.
Buñuel than transitioned into making artful, unconventional, surrealist, and political satirical films. He earned acclaim with the morally complex arthouse drama film Viridiana (1961) which criticized the Francoist dictatorship. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. He then criticized political and social conditions in The Exterminating Angel (1962), and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (1972) the later of which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He also directed Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), and Belle de Jour (1967), as well as his final film That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) the later of which earned the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director.
Buñuel earned five Cannes Film Festival prizes, two Berlin International Film Festival prizes, and a BAFTA Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. Buñuel received numerous honors including National Prize for Arts and Sciences for Fine Arts in 1977, the Moscow International Film Festival Contribution to Cinema Prize in 1979, and the Career Golden Lion in 1982. He was nominated once for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. Seven of Buñuel's films are included in Sight & Sound's 2012 critics' poll of the top 250 films of all time.
As director
Eating Sea Urchins
That Obscure Object of Desire
The Phantom of Liberty
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Tristana
The Milky Way
Belle de Jour
Simon of the Desert
Diary of a Chambermaid
Viridiana
The Exterminating Angel
The Young One
Nazarín
Fever Mounts at El Pao
Death in the Garden
That Is the Dawn
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Wuthering Heights
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Robinson Crusoe
The River and Death
The Brute
Él
Mexican Bus Ride
A Woman Without Love
Susana
Daughter of Deceit
The Young and the Damned
The Great Madcap
Gran Casino
As actor
Memoria de Los Olvidados
Constel·lació Portabella
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Discovering Buñuel
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
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Speaking of Buñuel
Buñuel in Hollywood
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
A Mexican Buñuel
Paco, mi padre
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
Buñuel
The Phantom of Liberty
Fall of a Body
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
The Milky Way
Belle de Jour
There Are No Thieves in This Village
Weeping for a Bandit
Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps
The Proud and the Beautiful
L'Âge d'or
Un Chien Andalou
Montparnasse
Carmen