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Book SynopsisA collection which proceeds chronologically, from poetry and short stories which offer insights into the filmmaker, Luis Bunuel's life and thought.
Trade Review"In this collection, Bunuel eloquently proves to be an intellectual and an ideologue and a jokester as well." -Publishers Weekly; "This book will be treasured by anyone who cares about cinema."-Sunday Tribune (Dublin); "A lovely, startling grab bag of jokes, insights, recollected dreams, superbly grave mini-essays, and general bits and pieces retrieved from Bunuel's life."-Artforum's Bookforum; "Bunuel is a filmmaker I have been stylistically haunted and influenced by for a very long time. After reading this collection of essays, some of which have never been published before, I am even more enthralled by this man. He remains my favorite voice of the surrealists."-Gus Van Sant; "This lively and diverse selection of Bunuel's literary work should provide the American reader with a much greater understanding of the man and his work, and with hours of enjoyment as well."-Julie Jones, University of New Orleans; "Bunuel didn't like to put words on paper, but thankfully he did, revealing the sly, shy, quirky, passionate, unpredictable genius whose superbly subversive films were everything but shy. This trove of reluctant writings is a rare and historical treat."-Charles Champlin, retired arts editor, Los Angeles Times
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Foreword
by Jean-Claude Carriere
Surrealist Writings
An Unspeakable Betrayal
Orchestration
Suburbs: Motifs
Unnoticed Tragedies as Themes for a Totally New Theater
Why 1 Don't Wear a Watch
Theorem
Lucille and Her Three Fish
Deluge
Ramuneta at the Beach
Cava/feria rusticana
The Pleasant Orders of St. Huesca
Letter to Pepin Bello on St. Valero's Day
Idea for a Story
La Sancta Misa Vaticanae
Menage a trois
A Decent Story
On Love
A Giraffe
An Andalusian Dog
For Myself I Would Like
Miraculous Polisher
It Seems to Me Neither Good nor Evil
Upon Getting into Bed
The Rainbow and the Poultice
Redemptress
Bacchanal
Odor of Sanctity
Palace of Ice
Bird of Anguish
Theater
Hamlet
Guignol
On Cinema
BUNUEL AS CRITIC
A Night at the Studio des Ursulines
Metropolis
Fred Niblo's Camille
Abel Gance's Napoleon
Victor Fleming's The Way of All Flesh
Buster Keaton's College
Variations on Adolphe Menjou's Mustache
News from Hollywood
Our Poets and the Cinema
Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Comic in Cinema
BUNUEL AS THEORIST
The Cinematic Shot
Decoupage, or Cinematic Segmentation
Cinema as an Instrument of Poetry
BUNUEL AS SCRIPTWRITER
Goya and the Duchess of Alba
Un Chien andalou
L'Age d'or
Gags
Hallucinations about a Dead Hand
Illegible, the Son of a Flute
Agon (Swansong)
Bunuel on Bunuel
Land without Bread
Viridiana
To PECIME
Autobiographical Writings
Fragments of a Journal from Bufiuel's Youth in Calanda
Medieval Memories of Lower Aragon
From Bufiuel's Autobiography
Pessimism
Afterword
by Juan Luis Bufiuel and Rafael Bufiuel
