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OverviewAlthough Luis Buñuel, one of the great filmmakers of the century, was notoriously reluctant to discuss his own work in public, he wrote--and wrote well--on many subjects over the years. This collection proceeds chronologically, from poetry and short stories written in Buñuel's youth in Spain to an essay written in 1980, not long before his death. Newly translated into English, the writings offer startling insights into the filmmaker's life and thought. The earliest pieces came well before Buñuel joined the Surrealist movement in Paris and created the landmark film Un chien andalou with Salvador Dalí. Yet these and the early Surrealist writings reveal the inventiveness of the mind that would later create such masterpieces of cinema as L'Age d'or, Los olvidados, Viridiana, The Milky Way, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, and That Obscure Object of Desire. Later writings, which include screenplays and reflections on his own and others' films, illuminate many aspects of Buñuel's career, as well as the ways of thinking and perceiving that underlie his unique cinematic style. The final essay by this extraordinary artist sums up his view of the world--still vibrant and full of contradictions--at the end of his life. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Luis Buñuel , Garrett White , Jean-Claude Carriere , Juan Luis BuñuelPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Edition: Revised ed. Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780520234239ISBN 10: 0520234235 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 17 May 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Jean-Claude Carriere Surrealist Writings An Unspeakable Betrayal Orchestration Suburbs: Motifs Unnoticed Tragedies as Themes for a Totally New Theater Why 1 Don't Wear a Watch Theorem Lucille and Her Three Fish Deluge Ramuneta at the Beach Cava/feria rusticana The Pleasant Orders of St. Huesca Letter to Pepin Bello on St. Valero's Day Idea for a Story La Sancta Misa Vaticanae Menage a trois A Decent Story On Love A Giraffe An Andalusian Dog For Myself I Would Like Miraculous Polisher It Seems to Me Neither Good nor Evil Upon Getting into Bed The Rainbow and the Poultice Redemptress Bacchanal Odor of Sanctity Palace of Ice Bird of Anguish Theater Hamlet Guignol On Cinema BUNUEL AS CRITIC A Night at the Studio des Ursulines Metropolis Fred Niblo's Camille Abel Gance's Napoleon Victor Fleming's The Way of All Flesh Buster Keaton's College Variations on Adolphe Menjou's Mustache News from Hollywood Our Poets and the Cinema Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc The Comic in Cinema BUNUEL AS THEORIST The Cinematic Shot Decoupage, or Cinematic Segmentation Cinema as an Instrument of Poetry BUNUEL AS SCRIPTWRITER Goya and the Duchess of Alba Un Chien andalou L'Age d'or Gags Hallucinations about a Dead Hand Illegible, the Son of a Flute Agon (Swansong) Bunuel on Bunuel Land without Bread Viridiana To PECIME Autobiographical Writings Fragments of a Journal from Bufiuel's Youth in Calanda Medieval Memories of Lower Aragon From Bufiuel's Autobiography Pessimism Afterword by Juan Luis Bufiuel and Rafael BufiuelReviews"""In this collection, Bunuel eloquently proves to be an intellectual and an ideologue and a jokester as well."" -Publishers Weekly; ""This book will be treasured by anyone who cares about cinema.""-Sunday Tribune (Dublin); ""A lovely, startling grab bag of jokes, insights, recollected dreams, superbly grave mini-essays, and general bits and pieces retrieved from Bunuel's life.""-Artforum's Bookforum; ""Bunuel is a filmmaker I have been stylistically haunted and influenced by for a very long time. After reading this collection of essays, some of which have never been published before, I am even more enthralled by this man. He remains my favorite voice of the surrealists.""-Gus Van Sant; ""This lively and diverse selection of Bunuel's literary work should provide the American reader with a much greater understanding of the man and his work, and with hours of enjoyment as well.""-Julie Jones, University of New Orleans; ""Bunuel didn't like to put words on paper, but thankfully he did, revealing the sly, shy, quirky, passionate, unpredictable genius whose superbly subversive films were everything but shy. This trove of reluctant writings is a rare and historical treat.""-Charles Champlin, retired arts editor, Los Angeles Times" In this collection, Bunuel eloquently proves to be an intellectual and an ideologue and a jokester as well. -Publishers Weekly; This book will be treasured by anyone who cares about cinema. -Sunday Tribune (Dublin); A lovely, startling grab bag of jokes, insights, recollected dreams, superbly grave mini-essays, and general bits and pieces retrieved from Bunuel's life. -Artforum's Bookforum; Bunuel is a filmmaker I have been stylistically haunted and influenced by for a very long time. After reading this collection of essays, some of which have never been published before, I am even more enthralled by this man. He remains my favorite voice of the surrealists. -Gus Van Sant; This lively and diverse selection of Bunuel's literary work should provide the American reader with a much greater understanding of the man and his work, and with hours of enjoyment as well. -Julie Jones, University of New Orleans; Bunuel didn't like to put words on paper, but thankfully he did, revealing the sly, shy, quirky, passionate, unpredictable genius whose superbly subversive films were everything but shy. This trove of reluctant writings is a rare and historical treat. -Charles Champlin, retired arts editor, Los Angeles Times Author InformationLuis Bunuel (1900-1983) is regarded as one of the most accomplished directors in the history of cinema. His celebrated collaboration with Dali in 1928 was followed by a career as a filmmaker that spanned fifty years. Garrett White is a translator and film and art journalist. He translated and wrote the introduction for Blaise Cendrars's Hollywood: Mecca of the Movies (California, 1995). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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