- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Classics; New Ed edition (16 Jun 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099301830
- ISBN-13: 978-0099301837
- Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 2.1 x 19.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 391,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bunuel's many award-winning films include Belle de our, Nazarin, Los Olvidados, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and That Obscure Object of Desire. Madrid, Paris, Hollywood, New York and Mexico; Salvador Dali, Lorca, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Miro and Charlie Chaplin all feature in this superb autobiography of Bunuel's extraordinary career.
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A master filmmaker, inimitable, and unrelenting in his assault on bourgeois values. Bunuel's method is free from all artifice, and his honesty and humour are to extreme to accept any compromise in exposing our deceit and our decadence. Like Pasolini, his work offers a remarkably sophisticated political analysis, but remains based in the essentially peasant values of storytelling, and the purposefully unsystematic supervisions of laughter. (20020220)
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A wonderful and very funny book from one of best directors ever. Bunuel writes so vividly and with such wit you'd think he was still alive. The tales about the days with the surrealists, Hollywood parties and the making of his films are brilliantly funny and it was also very interesting to find out what Bunuel's favourite movies and books were. This is certainly one of the most enjoyable biograhies I have read.
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This is a unique and inspirational self-portrait of an artist and an antidote to a world in which the making of art is inextricably linked to money, branding, fashionable trends and conformity. It's also a fascinating documentation of the philosophy of the surrealists and how that coloured Bunuel's thinking and imagination as a film-maker and collaborator on many projects. What comes across strongly, and what is so inspiring, is Bunuel's integrity and humanity - his films were made on a shoestring budget, before the days of the blockbuster film - and the way that he made iconic work without becoming enslaved to formulas, trends or the lure of Hollywood. It's a very Spanish book, it makes you want to go to Toledo and hang out in dark cafes. Fascinating, and sad too (particularly the closing chapter), because this is a largely lost time. A moving, very honest and resonant portrait of the inner world of a visionary.
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