Luis Buñuel

Known for DirectingBorn 1900-02-22Died 1983-07-29Calanda, Teruel, Aragón, España

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Les paradoxes de Buñuel

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

Short Cuts: “The Diary of a Chambermaid” by Luis Buñuel

Cinépanorama

Deneuve, la reine Catherine

Buñuel in Hollywood

La novia de medianoche

The Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel

The Castaway on the Street of Providence

The Exterminating Angel

The Young and the Damned

Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là

Simon of the Desert

Viridiana

Nazarín

Él

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Johnny Got His Gun

That Obscure Object of Desire

The Phantom of Liberty

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit

The Incredible Mr. Piccoli

Belle de Jour

Tristana

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel

The Great Madcap

The Milky Way

Diary of a Chambermaid

Un Chien Andalou

Spain 1936

The Young One

The Brute

Land Without Bread

The Fall of the House of Usher

Susana

The Proud and the Beautiful

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

Belle Toujours

Mexican Bus Ride

That Is the Dawn

Illusion Travels by Streetcar

L'Âge d'or

Speaking of Buñuel

Eating Sea Urchins

The River and Death

A Mexican Buñuel