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Week 7 — Xavier Borrero
In this past week’s class we discussed the framework for many characters in Buñuel’s Mexicanfilms, and viewed The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz. Buñuel made 20 films in Mexico, whichoftentimes focused on melodramas, with characters being the bad woman (mala mujer), the lady and themacho. Alongside the maternal “saint” figure, independent women would […]
Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned, 1950) Dir. Luis Buñuel: The Nuances of Impoverished Youth and Criminality
By Mariah Smith Jones After viewing Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados, I found the film to be an unfiltered depiction of the realities many impoverished youth face. The film effectively displayed how poverty can disassemble family structures and encourage criminality amongst those it affects, furthering systems of unreform. Los Olvidados is a Mexican film that centers […]
Whitney Museum’s Sixties Surreal exhibition
Info: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/sixties-surreal?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22920073581&gbraid=0AAAAADFLMBopaqH7_9gP5y1Jg_FchtvoO&gclid=CjwKCAjwup3HBhAAEiwA7euZusvSS9kg8RdfPhmkXz_hdWnr63PkRZ5l5LStwwTSN1z_NKrxgFc26hoCHLcQAvD_BwE
Week 3 — Saiss Cruz
Las Hurdes, is a work of art whose very production is a point of rebuttal towards the nuances of what makes a documentary, even very much a comment of film production – and how much of film’s artistry comes together to create an image or destroy it, how behind the scenes it takes so much […]
Week 2 — Saiss Cruz
L’age d’or (The Golden Age) is Luis Buñuel’s Icarus, a piece which pushed the very medium of narrative filmmaking while exploring the very surrealist themes that would lead to his downfall years later – it’s a daring film with roots in sensuality, religious critique, feminine violence, the characterization of jesus in media – all themes […]
Week 1 — Saiss Cruz
The subtlety of comedy in Luis Buñuel’s filmmaking approach is strongly cemented in the origins of film as medium, that is, in the reflection of life – there’s a need to cope and that is strongly seen in his analysis on Buster Keaton’s approach to film. For example, Eating Sea Urchins was a great critique on the […]
Week 4 — Mariah Smith
The Young One (1960) Dir. Luis Buñuel: Intersections of Race and Gender After watching Luis Buñuel’s 1960 film, The Young One, I was left feeling unsettled and unresolved by the ending. However, the film effectively captured the dark underbelly of America’s long-standing history with racism, sexual exploitation, and general moral hypocrisy. In brief, the film […]
Week 2 — Mariah Smith
An Andalusian Dog (Un Chien Andalou) (1929) Dir. Luis Buñuel: A Woman’s Autonomy & Exploring Sexuality Luis Buñuel’s 1929 film Un Chien Andalou epitomizes Buñuel’s work as a surrealist director. As I watched the film, I felt almost as if I was in a dream-like state where images and stories are connected in terms of […]
Week 3 — Xavier Borrero
For week 3 we discussed the journey of Luis throughout the 30’s and his film LasHurdes: Land Without Bread which explored the topic of propaganda and the idea ofmockumentary. Throughout the 1930’s Luis Bunuel would travel through a plethora ofcountries and venture towards the United States and sign with Hollywood MGM studios,leading to a Paramount […]
Week 4 — Xavier Borrero
For this week’s class we screened La Joven and discussed the journey of Bunuel moving fromcity to city due to complications within the film industry. Prior to screening the film we discussed Bunuel’sfinancial situation as he was bankrupted in 1938, leading to Bunuel travelling by transatlantic ship to NYC.Within his time in NYC, Bunuel would […]
