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Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés [1900-1983]
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Buñuel was praised by Alfred Hitchcock as 'the best director ever'.
"Buñuel is a deeply Christian man, and he hates God as only a Christian can."
— Orson Welles
B I O
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Luis Buñuel Film Institute [est. 2009]
Luis Buñuel entry at Wikipedia
Luis Buñuel credits [1926-87] at Internet Movie Database
browse Luis Buñuel on DVD at Amazon
![won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for "The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie" [1972]](images/oscar_sm.gif){kind=small} | Luis Buñuel won a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for "The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie" [1972] — plus 2 Oscar nominations |
He also received
seven Ariel Awards (of Mexico), out of 12 nominations, 1951-56
four awards at the Cannes Film Festival, out of 10 nominations, 1951-62
four awards at the Venice Film Festival, 1965 & 1967
two awards from the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, 1968 & 1973
one BAFTA Award, 1974
and a Career Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, 1982
Movies of Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel credits [1926-87] at Internet Movie Database
browse Luis Buñuel on DVD at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Films-Luis-Bu%C3%B1uel-Subjectivity-Hispanic/dp/0198159064/
http://www.amazon.com/Films-Luis-Bu%C3%B1uel-Subjectivity-Hispanic/dp/0198151934/
http://www.amazon.com/Queering-Bunuel-Dissidence-Psychoanalysis-Association/dp/1845116682/
http://www.amazon.com/Las-Peliculas-Luis-Bunuel-Spanish/dp/8449305004/
 | "The Luis Buñuel Collection" DVD box set [2007] for Region 2 only
Optimum Home Ent. Region 2 DVD only [1/2007] 8 PAL disks for £22.48 at Amazon U.K. includes "The Young One" aka 'La Joven' [1960] starring Zachary Scott; "The Diary of A Chamber-maid" [1964] starring Jeanne Moreau & Michel Piccoli; "Beauty of The Day" aka 'Belle de Jour' [1967] starring Catherine Deneuve; "The Milky Way" [1969]; "Tristana" [1970] starring Catherine Deneuve & Fernando Rey; "The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie" [1972] starring Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Stéphane Audran & Jean-Pierre Cassel; "The Phantom of Liberty" [1974]; and "That Obscure Object of Desire" [1977] starring Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet & Ángela Molina; plus extras including documentaries, trailers, commentary & booklet |
The films of Luis Buñuel are readily available on Region 2 (Europe) DVD, but hard to find on
Region 1 (USA & Canada) DVD - except for the new disks being produced by Criterion.
As-of early 2010, no Luis Buñuel films are available on Blu-ray.
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"La Sirène des Tropiques (Siren of The Tropics)" [1927]
"La Chute de la Maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher)" [1928 adaptation]
"Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)" [1929]
http://www.amazon.com/Branded-Eye-Bunuels-Chien-Andalou/dp/0816620474/
http://www.amazon.com/Un-Chien-Andalou-Luis-Bunuel/dp/0571173721/
"L'Áge d'Or (The Golden Age)" [1930]
http://www.amazon.com/LAge-dor-BFI-Film-Classics/dp/0851706428/
http://www.amazon.com/Age-Gold-Bunuel-Surrealist-Directives/dp/097998470X/
"Las Hurdes, Tierra sin Pan" (1933) aka "Land Without Bread"
"Don Quintín el Amargao (Don Quintin the Bitter)" [1935]
"La Hija de Juan Simón (Juan Simon's Daughter)" [1935]
"¿ Quién me Quiere a Mí ? (Who Loves Me?)" [1936]
"España 1936" [1937] as montage supervisor
aka "España 1936: - España leal en Armas"
"¡ Centinela, Alerta ! (Guard! Alert!)" [1937]
"Gran Casino (Tampico)" [1947] aka "En el Viejo Tampico"
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"El Gran Calavera (The Great Madcap)" [1949]
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones)" [1950]
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"Susana" [1951] aka "Carne y Demonio (The Devil and The Flesh)"
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"La Hija del Engaño (Daughter of Deceit)" [1951]
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"Subida al Cielo (Ascent To Heaven)" [1952]
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"Una Mujer sin Amor (A Woman Without Love)" [1952]
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"El Bruto (The Brute)" [1953]
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"El" [1953] aka "This Strange Passion"
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"Abismos de Pasión (Depths of Passion" [1953] aka "Cumbres Borrascosas (Stormy Heights)"
adapted from Emily Bronté's "Wuthering Heights"
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"La Ilusión Viaja en Tranvía (Illusion Travels By Streetcar)" [Mexico June 1954]
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A streetcar mechanic and a driver are told that their favorite streetcar #133 is being decomissioned (to the scrap heap). After gatting drunk at a party, they decide to take #133 out for one last run, not charging passengers. After sleeping off their crazy rampage, they have endless trouble trying to return the street-car to the barn.
Directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Carlos Navarro, Fernando Soto 'Mantequilla', Lilia Prado & Agustín Isunza
LionsGate double bill b&w DVD [9/2008] for $7.83 with Buñuel's "Nazarín" [1959] Connoisseur Video b&w VHS [3/91] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"Luis Buñuel's Robinson Crusoe" [1954]
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"El Río y la Muerte (The River and Death)" [1955]
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"Ensayo de un Crimen (Rehearsal For A Crime)" [1955]
aka "The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz"
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"Cela s'Appelle l'Aurore" [1956]
"Death In The Garden (La Mort en ce Jardin)" [1956] starring Simone Signoret /tt0049521/
http://www.amazon.com/Luis-Bunuels-Death-Garden-jardin/dp/B002IXBUE2/
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"Nazarín" [Mexico June 1959, USA June 1968]
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Nazario is a priest trying to live a pure and honest Christian life in a seedy hotel; when he tries to help a prostitute, they are run out of town by the authorities. He meets up with the girl and a crazy woman from the hotel; they travel from village to village until pursuers find and arrest them. Nazario is deemed crazy and marched to his (offscreen) death by firing squad. Co-written & directed by Luis Buñuel; adapted from the novel by Benito Pérez Galdós; starring Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo, Jesús Fernández, Ofelia Guilmáin & Noé Murayama; won the International Prize & nominated for a Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival
LionsGate double bill b&w DVD [9/2008] for $7.83 with Buñuel's "Tranvia/Streetcar" [1954] Connoisseur Video b&w VHS [8/89] out of prodn/used 12"x16" poster available for $6.98 at AllPosters.com full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Nazarín" [1895 Spanish classic novel] by Benito Pérez Galdós [1843-1920] Translated by Robert S. Rudder & Gloria Chacon De Arjona Saintly, mysterious, and irritating Nazario attempts to set up an alternative society based on non-resistance to evil and the rejection of private property – often with hilarious results. Latin American Literary Review Press (English translation) 8¼x5¼ pb [9/97] for $13.26 |
"La Fièvre Monte à El Pao" aka "Los Ambiciosos" [1959] as writer
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"The Young One (La Joven)" [1960] starring Zachary Scott
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"Viridiana" [1961]
http://www.amazon.com/Viridiana-Script-Director-Luis-Bunuel/dp/0435070150/
based upon "Halma" 1895 novel by Benito Pérez Galdós [1843-1920]
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"Viridiana" 50th Anniversary fansite {in Spanish} [est. 2011]
"The Exterminating Angel (El Ángel Exterminador)" [1962]
http://www.amazon.com/Exterminating-Angel-Green-Integer-Bunuel/dp/1931243360/
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"The Exterminating Angel: The Opera" [2016] by Thomas Adès
premiered at the 2016 Salzburg Festival; US premiere at Metropolitan Opera, NYC 10/2017, with a national Live In HD broadcast in November
"Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre (The Diary of A Chambermaid)" [1964]
starring Jeanne Moreau & Michel Piccoli
"Llanto por un Bandido (Weeping For A Bandit)" [1964] as actor
"Simón del Desierto (Simon of The Desert)" [1965]
CineMexicano movie fanpage {in Spanish}
"Belle de Jour (Beauty of The Day)" [1967] starring Catherine Deneuve
http://www.amazon.com/Belle-jour-film-Modern-scripts/dp/0671207938/
http://www.amazon.com/Belle-Jour-Luis-Bunuel/dp/0571125603/
sequel "Belle Toujours" [2006] /B0015TJGH8/
Directed by Manoel de Oliveira, starring Michel Piccoli & Bulle Ogier
"La Voie Lactée (The Milky Way)" [1969]
"Tristana" [1970] starring Catherine Deneuve & Fernando Rey
http://www.amazon.com/Tristana-Bunuels-Galdoss-Novel-Study/dp/0773490892/
http://www.amazon.com/Tristana-film-Luis-Bu%C3%B1uel/dp/0900855894/
based upon the 1892 novel by Benito Pérez Galdós [1843-1920]
"Johnny Got His Gun" (1971) /tt0067277/
Luis Buñuel wrote (uncredited) the surreal scenes with Jesus Christ
"Una Historia Decente" [1971 short] adapted from his book /tt0170004/
"Le Moine (The Monk)" [1972]
"The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie" [France 1972]
Co-written & directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Stéphane Audran &
Jean-Pierre Cassel; won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (5/2005)
http://www.amazon.com/Bu%C3%B1uels-Discreet-Bourgeoisie-Cambridge-Handbooks/dp/0521568315/
"Le Fantôme de la Liberté (The Phantom of Liberty)" [1974]
"That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet Obscur Objet du Désir)" [1977]
starring Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet & Ángela Molina
http://www.IMDb.com/ra/us/a/B00005QAPJ
http://www.amazon.com/Objekt-Begierde-Luis-Bunuel/dp/3803123607/
"Igra o Pamcenju i Umiranju" [Yugoslavia TV 1984] adapted from his novel /tt0891508/
Other Works By Luis Buñuel
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book used as basis for 1971 short film "Una Historia Decente"
novel used as basis for "Igra o Pamcenju i Umiranju" [Yugoslavia TV 1984]
 | "My Last Sigh" (aka 'My Last Breath') autobiography [1982] by Luis Buñuel; English translation by Abigail Israel Univ MN Press 8½x5½ pb [9/2003] for $12.71 Flamingo pb [4/86] out of print/used Knopf hardcover [9/83] out of print/used German translation: Alexander Verlag Berlin 7½x5 pb [8/2004] out of print/used "Mi Ultimo Suspiro" Spanish-language original [1982] Random House Mondadori 7¾x5 pb [10/2008] out of print/used Plaza & Janes pb [1982] out of print/used |
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"Die Erotik und Andere Gespenster (Erotica and Other Ghosts)" [2003] Interviews of Luis Buñuel by {friend & critic} Max Aub [1903-72] Wagenbach German-language mass pb [2/2003] out of print/used |
Works About Luis Buñuel
browse books by/about Luis Buñuel
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"Buñuel" [1984] http://www.IMDb.com/title/tt0295894/
"Buñuel In The Labyrinth of The Turtles" animated feature film [GKIDS Aug 2019] 
original title: "Buñuel en El Laberinto de Las Tortugas"
 | True story, Paris & Spain, 1930: Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel are main figures of the Surrealist movement, but Buñuel is left penniless after a scandal surrounding his first feature film "L’Age d’Or"; however, his good friend sculptor Ramón Acín buys a lottery ticket with the promise that, if he wins, he will pay for Buñuel's next film; incredibly, the ticket is a winner and so they set out to make the movie . . . • Co-written & directed by Salvador Simó Busom; co-written by Eligio R. Montero, based on the graphic novel by Fermin Solís; featuring voices of Jorge Usón {as Luis Buñuel}, Fernando Ramos, Luis Enrique de Tomás, Cyril Corral, Pepa Gracia, Rachel Lascar, Gabriel Latorre, Alex Martos, Philipp Nowicki, Victor Nuñez, Fermín Núñez
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie website watch 2/2019 official trailer [2:15] online at YouTube |
 | "Buñuel en El Laberinto de Las Tortugas" graphic novel [2009] by Fermin Solís Spanish-language Kindle Edition from Reservoir/Penguin Random House [3/2019] for $7.99 Reservoir Books Spanish-language 9¾x7 hardcover [3/2019] for $18.36 Astiberri Ediciones Spanish-language 9½x7 hardcover [3/2009] for $24.19 publisher Astiberri bookpage |
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bio by John Baxter [2/1998] /0786706198/ + /844930248X/
 | "El Carnaval de Luis Buñuel: Estudios Sobre una Tradición Cultural" [2000] by Aitor Bikandi-Mejias Ediciones del Laberinto SL Spanish-language pb [12/2000] out of print/scarce |
 | "Buñuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema" [2003] by Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz Univ CA Press 9x6 hardcover [11/2003] for $63.63 |
 | "Luis Bunuel: The Red Years, 1929-1939" [2012] by Roman Gubern & Paul Hammond Kindle Edition from Univ WI Press [1/2012] for $19.95 Univ WI Press 8¾x6 pb [1/2012] for $24.99 |
http://www.amazon.com/Luis-Bunuel-Belleza-Rebeldia-Spanish/dp/8481093173/
http://www.amazon.com/Luis-Bunuel-Biography-Francisco-Aranda/dp/0306707543/
http://www.amazon.com/Luis-Bunuel-Cahiers-cinema-French/dp/2866421655/
http://www.amazon.com/Luis-Bunuel-Chimera-1900-1983-Directors/dp/3822833754/
http://www.amazon.com/Luis-Bunuel-Cine-Comunicacion-Spanish/dp/8420635723/
http://www.amazon.com/Luis-Bunuel-Collection-Cine-regards-French/dp/2912400228/
http://www.amazon.com/Luis-Bunuel-Da-Capo-Paperback/dp/0306800284/
http://www.amazon.com/Luis-Bunuel-Durgnat-Raymond/dp/B0000CNISB/
http://www.amazon.com/Luis-Bunuel-Introduction-Ado-Kyrou/dp/B000GSPXPS/
http://www.amazon.com/Luis-Bunuel-Peliculas-Films-Spanish/dp/8449310067/
http://www.amazon.com/Luis-Bunuel-Peligroso-Asomarse-Interior/dp/848996078X/
http://www.amazon.com/Luis-Bunuel-Readings-Isabel-Santaolalla/dp/1844570037/
http://www.amazon.com/Luis-Bunuel-Twaynes-Theatrical-Arts/dp/0805792619/
http://www.amazon.com/Luis-Bu~nuel-Libertad-Exposicion-Febrero-Mayo/dp/8495078953/
http://www.amazon.com/Bunuel-COLECCION-CINEASTAS-Imagen-Spanish/dp/8437621518/
http://www.amazon.com/Bunuel-Historia-History-Larger-Spanish/dp/8437626110/
http://www.amazon.com/Bunuel-Iconografia-Personal-Iconography-Spanish/dp/9681629426/
http://www.amazon.com/Bunuel-Movie-Paperbacks-Raymond-Durgnat/dp/0520034244/
http://www.amazon.com/Bunuel-Suenos-Pesadilla-Personajes-Spanish/dp/9583014419/
http://www.amazon.com/Bu%C3%B1uel-cine-literatura-V%C3%ADctor-Fuentes/dp/8434549557/
http://www.amazon.com/Bu%C3%B1uel-100-Years-A%C3%B1os-Dangerous/dp/0810962195/
http://www.amazon.com/Age-Gold-Surrealist-Cinema-Persistence/dp/1840680598/
http://www.amazon.com/cinema-Luis-Bunuel-International-guide/dp/0498013022/
http://www.amazon.com/Cinema-Luis-Bunuel-International-Guides/dp/090073048X/
http://www.amazon.com/Companion-Luis-Bu%C3%B1uel-Monograf%C3%ADas/dp/185566108X/
http://www.amazon.com/Companion-Luis-Bu%C3%B1uel-Monograf%C3%ADas/dp/1855662051/
http://www.amazon.com/Discreet-Art-Luis-Bunuel-Reading/dp/0714527548/
http://www.amazon.com/Discreet-Art-Luis-Bunuel-Reading/dp/0714528323/
http://www.amazon.com/Diversions-Pleasure-Bunuel-Crises-Desire/dp/0814204392/
http://www.amazon.com/Escritos-Bunuel-Fundidos-Negro-Spanish/dp/8493124303/
http://www.amazon.com/Figures-Desire-Theory-Analysis-Surrealist/dp/0252008782/
http://www.amazon.com/Genres-Genders-Surrealism-Annette-Shandler/dp/0312120508/
http://www.amazon.com/Lorca-Bunuel-Dali-Forbidden-Pleasures/dp/1848850077/
http://www.amazon.com/Midday-Bunuel-Memories-Sketches-1973-1983/dp/0974888133/
http://www.amazon.com/Objects-Desire-Conversations-Luis-Bunuel/dp/094141969X/
http://www.amazon.com/politica-autores-Politics-Authors-Memoria/dp/8449314143/
http://www.amazon.com/Surreal-Lives-Surrealists-Ruth-Brandon/dp/080213727X/
http://www.amazon.com/Three-European-Directors-Truffaut-Fellini/dp/0802815049/
http://www.amazon.com/Unsilvered-Screen-Surrealism-Film/dp/1904764878/
http://www.amazon.com/Unspeakable-Betrayal-Selected-Writings-Bu%C3%83%C2%B1uel/dp/0520234235/
http://www.amazon.com/World-Luis-Bunuel-Essays-Criticism/dp/B000JVHLDE/
http://www.amazon.com/World-Luis-Bunuel-Essays-Criticism/dp/0195023994/
http://www.amazon.com/World-Luis-Bunuel-Essays-Criticism/dp/0195023986/
Friends & Family
Luis Buñuel Portolés was born in Spain in 1900; he lived and worked in Spain and France and Hollywood, settling in Mexico in 1946
and renouncing his Spanish citizenship; he died in Mexico City in 1983.
lover/fiancée Concepción 'Concha' Méndez Cuesta [1898-1986], in France 1917-22
wife Jeanne Rucar Buñuel [1925-84] - married 1934, widowed 1983
son film-maker Rafael Buñuel [b. 1940 in NYC]
son Juan Luis Buñuel [1934–2017]
daughter-in-law Joyce Ellen Sherman Buñuel [b. 1941 in NYC] - divorced 1976
3 children including filmmaker Diego Buñuel
L i n k s
Luis Buñuel entry at Wikipedia
Luis Buñuel credits [1926-2017] at Internet Movie Database
browse Luis Buñuel on DVD {returns 230+ titles} at Amazon
browse books by/about Luis Buñuel {returns 350+ titles} at Amazon
search books by Luis Buñuel {returns 80+ titles} at Amazon
Luis Buñuel Metropolitan Water Park in Zaragoza, Spain
Luis Buñuel Film Institute [est. 2009]
Casa Buñuel [open 2011, open to public 2013] in Mexico City
here on the Luis Buñuel [1900-83] Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
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