Diary of a Chambermaid Victoria Loy March 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Diary of a Chambermaid/Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre (France 1964 98 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: SPEVA Films/Cine-Alliance/Film Sonor/Dear Film Produzione Prod: Serge Silberman, Michel Safra ...
The Phantom of Liberty Gwendolyn Audrey Foster March 2014 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Chance governs all things; necessity, which is far from having the same purity, comes only later. If I have a soft spot for any one of my movies, it would be for The Phantom of Liberty, because it tries to wor...
The Castaways of Providence Street: On Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel Mairead Phillips December 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film My introduction into the strange world of Luis Buñuel began with El Ángel Exterminador (The Exterminating Angel, 1962), and it was a case of love at first sight. Never had I been exposed to such a wonderful ble...
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Melissa Acker December 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Six figures stride restlessly down a barren highway. He falls behind, she adjusts a buckle on her shoe and slowly they outpace one another – hardly an opening scene to arrest the senses. The magic of Luis Buñue...
That Obscure Object of Desire Pasquale Iannone December 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film While there are many examples of individual actors playing multiple roles in the same film – Alec Guinness in Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949), Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to...
The Impotence of Asceticism: Luis Buñuel’s Simón del Desierto David Heslin September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film “More welcome is slander to the pious soul than odious eulogies.” (1) Is the ascetic a paragon of humanity, or a self-indulgent masochist? This is the question Luis Buñuel, great Spanish Surrealist and provocat...
Who Let the Cats Out? Buñuel, Deneuve and Belle de jour David Melville September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Cinema is, above all, the art of the real. A series of images that show what actually was. When cinema overpowers reality and becomes a hallucination, that’s something very rare. A privileged moment to be prese...
L’Âge d’Or Darragh O’Donoghue September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Men of my generation, particularly if they’re Spanish, suffer from a hereditary timidity where sex and women are concerned. Our sexual desire has to be seen as the product of centuries of repressive and emascu...
Viridiana Lee Hill June 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film Set in a Franco-era Spain that has made only the barest of concessions to modernism (there are telephones and cars), but remains fully locked down under Catholicism at its most patriarchal and reactionary, Luis...
A Buñuel Scrapbook: The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel (1) and Calanda: 40 Years Later Linda C. Ehrlich July 2009 Feature Articles Designed as a loosely chronological “scrapbook” marking the 25th anniversary of Luis Buñuel’s death in Mexico City, El Último guión: Buñuel en la memoria is a chat between Juan Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière about the great director’s life and work. Linda C. Ehrlich finds it a fascinating and accurate portrait of a man of vision.
Diary of a Chambermaid Victoria Loy April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Diary of a Chambermaid/Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre (France 1964 98 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: SPEVA Films/Cine-Alliance/Film Sonor/Dear Film Produzione Prod: Serge Silberman, Michel Sa...
Buñuel, Luis Dominique Russell April 2005 Great Directors b. February 22, 1900, Calanda, Spain d. July 29, 1983, Mexico City, Mexico Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Luis Buñuel was a singular figure in world cinema, and a...
