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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 One — Carter Moore
Prior to the first class, I, along with many other students as it turned out did notnecessarily have a proclivity for the titular director of this course. After reading hisreview of Buster Keaton’s College and an excerpt from one of his passages ‘The ComicIn Cinema’, his personality became much more apparent. Unlike many pretentiousfilmmakers of […]
Response #1 – 09.18 – Alinne de la Torre
Throughout the week and in my classes, I paid closer attention to documentaries and their composition. I found most of them had shots that aren’t completely candid or ‘natural.’ Buñuel might’ve taken it to something extreme, but documentaries can usually have these elements without taking away their apparent objectivity. The voiceover in Land Without Bread […]
Weekly Response #1- Maribel Gomez
On our first week in class, we touched on the topic of films by the renowned Spanish-Mexican filmmaker, Luis Buñuel, and explored two reading materials. Throughout the reading I sensed he was a fascinating individual with somewhat of an unfiltered personality. As he mentions in The Comic In Cinema, he praises Harry Langdon and Ben […]
Weekly Response #1
To begin our close analysis class, which specifically pertains to the life, times, and films of the famous Spanish-Mexican filmmaker Luis Buñuel, we examined two of Buñuel’s film reviews. The first was titled “Buster Keaton’s College”, in which he discusses his support of a new wave of comedic filmmaking, one that Buster Keaton’s College provides […]
Zachary Lubin – Weekly response
I found the life of Luis Bunel to be very interesting. A lot of the life of a filmmaker comes into their work, and it’s especially true when we’re dealing with a filmmaker like Luis Bunuel. His work is very visceral. I wonder what we’ll discover that Luis Bunel pulled from his real life as […]
Week 1 Film Diary Entry – EWD
In the first week of our class, a sort-of introduction to Luis Buñuel, I think that a lot has already been revealed about his process of creating work and his overall views on life and art. The documentary about Buñuel’s life, which featured his own son, Juan Luis, and long-time collaborator, Javier Espada, was very […]
Weekly Response #1
Buñuel discusses what he found poetic in Langdon’s and Turpin’ work in comparison to Chaplin’s work which he said had lost originality and was ruined by intellectuals. He talks about very specific methods of bringing comedy to a film that is efficient and meaningful as opposed to just merely existing in a film. It was […]
Weekly Response #1
September 4, 2025 Weekly Response #1 I appreciate Buñuel’s acknowledgement of comedy as a genre to be taken seriously despite the opinion that it might be a lesser art form because it’s not “serious” in thought. In his review of College, he views Buster Keaton as an auteur of his own, deserving of critical praise […]
Class 1 Response
What stood out to me in Buñuel’s writings was that it felt both energetic and thoughtful and even conversational in moments as if he was thinking out loud. There’s an immediacy to his words that makes them easy to engage with, but at the same time he’s making sharp observations about what film can do. […]
