Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish: [ˈlwis βuˈɲwel poɾtoˈles]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. Buñuel's work was known for its avant-garde surrealism which was also infused with political commentary and social satire. Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel made films from the 1920s through the 1970s. He collaborated with prolific surrealist painter Salvador Dali creating the films Un Chien Andalou (1929), which was made in the silent era and L'Age d'Or (1930). The two films are seen as the birth of Cinematic surrealism. From 1947 to 1960 he developed his skills as a director filming in Mexico making grounded and human melodramas such as Gran Casino (1947), Los Olvidados (1950), and Él (1953). Here is where he gained the fundamentals of storytelling. Buñuel than transitioned into making artful, unconventional, surrealist, and political satirical films. He earned acclaim with the morally complex arthouse drama film Viridiana (1961) which criticized the Francoist dictatorship. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. He then criticized political and social conditions in The Exterminating Angel (1962), and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (1972) the later of which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He also directed Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), and Belle de Jour (1967), as well as his final film That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) the later of which earned the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director. Buñuel earned five Cannes Film Festival prizes, two Berlin International Film Festival prizes, and a BAFTA Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. Buñuel received numerous honors including National Prize for Arts and Sciences for Fine Arts in 1977, the Moscow International Film Festival Contribution to Cinema Prize in 1979, and the Career Golden Lion in 1982. He was nominated once for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. Seven of Buñuel's films are included in Sight & Sound's 2012 critics' poll of the top 250 films of all time.
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
(Self (archive footage))
Un Chien Andalou
(Man in Prologue (uncredited))
Belle de Jour
(Man in Gardencafe - Left from the Duke (uncredited))
L'Âge d'or
((uncredited))
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
(Self)
Speaking of Buñuel
(Self (archive footage))
Montparnasse
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
(Himself)
Buñuel
(Self)
There Are No Thieves in This Village
(Cura)
Carmen
(Contrebandier chez lillas pastia)
Weeping for a Bandit
(El verdugo)
On the Set of 'That Obscure Object of Desire'
(self)
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(Himself (archive footage))
Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps
(Self)
Discovering Buñuel
(Self/Archive Footage)
Fall of a Body
(Un invité (uncredited))
The Milky Way
((voice) (uncredited))
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))
Mauprat
(Monk / Guardsman)
The Phantom of Liberty
(Un condamné à mort (uncredited))
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
(Self (archive footage))
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
(Self (archive footage))
Cinépanorama
(Self)
Reflets de Cannes
(Self)
Land Without Bread
(Director)
Land Without Bread
(Producer)
Un Chien Andalou
(Screenplay)
Belle de Jour
(Screenplay)
Belle de Jour
(Director)
The Young and the Damned
(Director)
The Young and the Damned
(Screenplay)
Viridiana
(Screenplay)
Viridiana
(Director)
Viridiana
(Editor)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
(Director)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
(Screenplay)
The Phantom of Liberty
(Director)
Un Chien Andalou
(Editor)
Un Chien Andalou
(Producer)
L'Âge d'or
(Director)
That Obscure Object of Desire
(Screenplay)
That Obscure Object of Desire
(Director)
The Fall of the House of Usher
(Adaptation)
The Milky Way
(Director)
The Young One
(Screenplay)
The Milky Way
(Writer)
The Young One
(Director)
Nazarin
(Director)
Nazarin
(Screenplay)
Death in the Garden
(Director)
The Exterminating Angel
(Dialogue)
The Exterminating Angel
(Screenplay)
The Exterminating Angel
(Director)
Tristana
(Director)
Diary of a Chambermaid
(Director)
Simon of the Desert
(Dialogue)
Simon of the Desert
(Screenplay)
Diary of a Chambermaid
(Writer)
Simon of the Desert
(Director)
The Brute
(Director)
The Brute
(Writer)
Wuthering Heights
(Adaptation)
Wuthering Heights
(Story)
Wuthering Heights
(Director)
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
(Director)
Él
(Director)
Él
(Adaptation)
Susana
(Director)
Susana
(Writer)
The Great Madcap
(Director)
Mexican Bus Ride
(Adaptation)
Mexican Bus Ride
(Director)
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
(Director)
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
(Writer)
Gran Casino
(Director)
A Woman Without Love
(Director)
Fever Mounts at El Pao
(Director)
Daughter of Deceit
(Director)
Robinson Crusoe
(Screenplay)
Robinson Crusoe
(Director)
Who Loves Me?
(Co-Director)
The Monk
(Screenplay)
The River and Death
(Writer)
That Is the Dawn
(Writer)
That Is the Dawn
(Director)
The River and Death
(Director)
Él
(Screenplay)
Spain 1936
(Screenplay)
The Fall of the House of Usher
(Writer)
Carmen
(Assistant Director)
Eating Sea Urchins
(Director)
Diary of a Chambermaid
(Editor)
Siren of the Tropics
(Assistant Director)
Who Loves Me?
(Screenplay)
Who Loves Me?
(Producer)
Espagne 1937
(Production Manager)
Guard! Alert!
(Production Director)
Susana
(Editor)
Johnny Got His Gun
(Additional Writing)
L'Âge d'or
(Editor)
Si usted no puede, yo sí
(Writer)
The Fall of the House of Usher
(Assistant Director)
Guard! Alert!
(Co-Director)
Land Without Bread
(Editor)
L'Âge d'or
(Original Music Composer)
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
(Editor)
The Phantom of Liberty
(Writer)
A Woman Without Love
(Screenplay)
Tristana
(Producer)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
(Sound Effects)
Don Quintin the Bitter
(Screenplay)
Don Quintin the Bitter
(Producer)
Un Chien Andalou
(Director)
The Milky Way
(Original Music Composer)
The Phantom of Liberty
(Sound Effects)
L'Âge d'or
(Screenplay)
La hija de Juan Simón
(Producer)
Land Without Bread
(Screenplay)
Fever Mounts at El Pao
(Writer)
Death in the Garden
(Screenplay)
The Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel
(Original Story)
Tristana
(Screenplay)
La novia de medianoche
(Screenplay)
Mauprat
(Production Assistant)
Belle Toujours
(Thanks)
Spain 1936
(Producer)