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Weekly Response #9 (Aneesa Z)
Last week’s film,Death in the Garden, contained themes of greed, survival and how that changes people, rebellion, and the issues between order/chaos. The story revolves around a group of people who are forced into the jungle after a rebellion in the small mining town which forced them to flee. At first, the film seems very […]
Weekly Response – 11.6.25 – Alinne de la Torre
Death in the Garden isn’t one of Buñuel’s strongest films, but it has a lot to admire. There were many things I appreciated about it, but I don’t think his commentary feels as sharp or cohesive as it does in some of his other work. Besides that, I was really drawn to the way the […]
Week 9
Buñuel’s Death in a Garden, really feels like two different movies stitched together. There’s the town rebellion and then jungle survival. Both in some way are touching upon the themes Buñuel is known for exploring in his films. The first half has a lot of noise and politics and tension with the miners gearing up […]
Week 8, Dylan Stucko, Exterminating Angel
The Exterminating Angel feels like a feature length episode of The Twilight Zone. An existentially terrifying one at that. The premise is deceptively simple, a group of upper-class wealthy individuals come to an enormous mansion for a dinner party. After retiring to small room for the evening, the guests find themselves unable to leave. There […]
Week 8 – Exterminating Angel
Watching The Exterminating Angel was mostly frustrating for me and then post seeing it, compelling. Even knowing in advance not to get caught up in the “why” of it all, it was hard not to feel uneasy watching these characters spiral into helplessness and melodrama. Yet that discomfort feels intentional as Buñuel is often forcing […]
Week 8
In our last session, we watched the film The Exterminating Angel (1962) in which follows the characters who are unable to leave the room they had a dinner party in the evening prior. The film shows the clear descent o these characters as they are driven to madness by the prospect of being stuck and […]
Week 8 Response
This past week we watched The Exterminating Angel (1962) which has easily become one of my favorite films we have watched so far. The Exterminating Angel evokes the spirit of Dionysian worship wherein the group descends into a form of divine madness. The guests’ inability to leave the dinner party mirrors the trance-like state of […]
Weekly Response 10.23.25 – Alinne de la Torre
In The Exterminating Angel, before the guests become trapped, they’re already behaving like animals. They are making passes at each other, flirting with everyone around. These animalistic desires are taken to the extreme when they’re all trapped and asleep, when an older man gropes the women around, and ends with two lovers dying in a […]
Week 8 – Waverly Takayama
Last week we watch “Exterminating Angel”. At first I was confused, why didn’t they just leave. However I think the trust that Buñuel puts into the audience to disregard that is very powerful. He allows the audience to create a reason and then watch the character fall apart— or more so fall back into animalistic […]
Week 8 — Xavier Borrero
This week in class we watched the film The Exterminating Angel, a film where bureaucratsand the 1% are seemingly stuck in a room due to a mysterious force after their dinner party. Wediscussed prior how Buñuel arrived during the Mexican Golden Age in 1946, transformingclassic film into a new level. Staying throughout Mexico during the […]
