Luis buñuel a critical biography
The universal transcendence of Luis Bunuel, is described with admirable mastery and impeccable is a priceless book in which concerns to technical....
This is the first major consideration of the life and films of the great director, Louis Buñuel.
Luis Bunuel: a critical biography - Softcover
Synopsis
This is the first major consideration of the life and films of the great director, Louis Bu�uel. The distinguished Spanish film critic and author, Francisco Aranda, traces Bu�uel's phenomenal career of more than forty years from the sensational classics Un Chien andalou in 1929 and L'Age D'or in 1930 to the Oscar-winning Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie in 1972 and Le Fant�me de la Libert� in 1974.
Focusing initially on Bu�uel's formative days as a student in the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid and his friendships with Federico Garcia Lorca, Josse Ortega y Gasset, and Salvador Dal�, Aranda discusses the development of Bu�uel's surrealist preoccupations through the use of important texts and cinema critiques written by him in the 1920s.Bu�uel's collaboration in Paris with Dal� on Un Chien andalou (the first surrealist film, which shocked audiences throughout the world) and L'Age d'or (where the theater w
