Tristana

[poliphilo]

Bunuel is just so grown up.

He doesn't judge. He doesn't show any mercy either. Why should he? We don't deserve it.

People are like this, he says. Take it or leave it. And please don't ask me to explain. 

A glacial blonde with a missing leg: Hitchcock was ever so jealous; Why didn't he get there first?

A vision of hell: to be drinking chocolate with three priests while the snow falls on Toledo- and Tristana paces up and down the corridor on her crutches.

Comments

[senordildo.livejournal.com]

Apparently Bunuel could get quite chummy with priests--I've read about him regularly dining in cafes with priests in Mexico City. I guess he enjoyed gently debating religious matters.
Tristana is one of my favorites--I'd be curious to know your opinion on The Milky Way. The film is really more of a series of sketches than a coherent whole, but many of the parts are wonderful, though in a frequently recondite way.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think there's a lot of Bunuel in Don Lope.

I love The Milky Way. It's pythonesque- as are many of the later films- but I guess that's the wrong way round and we should really be calling the Python team, Bunuelian.

I didn't get Bunuel at all when I was a kid. I thought of him as a less operatic Fellini, but that's entirely wrong. They're two very different directors. Bunuel is all impassioned intelligence- low-key, acidic, Swiftian. The older I get, the more I love him.

[riklaw.livejournal.com]

You should write films you've got the edge
You write palientonic while laugthing acute

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I did write a screenplay once. My co-writer is still trying to get producers interested in it.

[manfalling.livejournal.com]

went ahead and started downloading some bunuel. figured i'd go the whole hog after that and started downloading hitchcock, miyazaki, and kurosawa. was trying to remember the other guy you like- then realized- fellini. so i'll look him up now.

got plenty of time at the moment. and barely eking out a living. eek.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Brilliant.

I watched Bunuel's Belle de Jour this afternoon. Great movie.