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

[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.