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Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish and Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. Buñuel's works are known for their avant-garde surrealism which was also infused with political commentary.
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entertainment · Spanish-Mexican filmmaker (1900–1983) · film director · screenwriter · actor · film editor · writer · composer · poet · film producer · photographer · director · also Luis Buñuel, Buñuel
Born 22 February 1900 · Died 29 July 1983 · Q51545
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2026· 2 entries
Yahoo: Luis Buñuel's 1972 Film 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' Earns Top Rankings for Its Surreal Storytelling
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2025· 3 entries
IndieWire: Karyn Kusama Can’t Resist a Luis Buñuel Box Set in the Criterion Closet
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FirstShowing.net: New Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luis Bunuel's 'Él' - Re-Release Soon
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IndieWire: Luis Buñuel’s ‘Él’ Is a Masterclass in Capturing Romantic Paranoid Obsession Onscreen — Watch the 4K Trailer
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2024· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: The Surreal Realism of Buñuel’s Mexican Films
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2022· 1 entry
collider: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Is Luis Buñuel’s Most Accessible Film
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2019· 1 entry
Fermín Solís published a graphic novel titled Buñuel en el Laberinto de las Tortugas (English translation, 2021: Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles) depicting the creation of Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan
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2013· 1 entry
The picture was re-made by Mexican director Gary Alazraki under the title The Noble Family
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2012· 1 entry
The Nation: A Charismatic Chameleon: On Luis Buñuel
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2003· 1 entry
Los Olvidados was inscribed by UNESCO in the Memory of the World International Register, calling it: "the most important document in Spanish about the marginal lives of children in contemporary large cities"
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2000· 1 entry
The Cannes festival partnered with the Spanish film industry, to pay tribute to Luis Buñuel
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1994· 1 entry
A retrospective of Buñuel's works was organized by the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle in Bonn, as homage to one of the most internationally revered figures in world cinema
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1983· 22 entries
Died 1983-07-29.
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1983).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Zaragoza (1983).
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“W imię przysięgi Hipokratesa, który stawia ponad wszystko poszanowanie życia ludzkiego, lekarze stworzyli najbardziej wyrafinowaną formę nowoczesnych tortur: podtrzymywanie życia.”
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“Przeszkody wzmagają radość.”
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“Pamięć podlega nieustannym atakom wyobraźni i marzeń, a ponieważ istnieje pokusa, by fikcję brać za rzeczywistość, z naszego kłamstwa czynimy w końcu prawdę.”
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“Od kilku lat grzmią u naszych drzwi trąby Apokalipsy, a my zatykamy uszy. Tę nową apokalipsę, tak jak dawną, niesie ze sobą galop czterech jeźdźców, których imiona: przeludnienie (pierwszy ze wszystkich, przywódca, ten, który wywija czarnym proporcem), nauka, technika, informacja. Wszystkie inne nieszczęścia, które w nas uderzają, to tylko następstwa tamtych.”
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“Nie lubię żadnych posiadaczy prawdy. Nudzą mnie i boję się ich. Jestem antyfanatykiem (fanatycznym).”
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“Na całe życie zostało mi coś z tego trwającego nieco ponad trzy lata marszu w egzaltowanych i niesfornych szeregach surrealizmu. Pozostał mi przede wszystkim ten uznany i upragniony dostęp do głębi istoty, to odwołanie do sfery irracjonalnej, do ciemności, do wszystkich tych impulsów, które wychodzą z naszego głębokiego jestestwa.”
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“Między przypadek i tajemnicę wślizguje się gdzieś wyobraźnia, absolutna wolność człowieka. Tę wolność, tak jak i inne, próbowano ograniczyć, usunąć. W tym celu chrześcijaństwo wynalazło grzech popełniany w myślach. (…) Wyobraźnia jest naszym pierwszym przywilejem.”
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“Miałem szczęście spędzić dzieciństwo w średniowieczu, tej epoce „bolesnej i wykwintnej”, jak pisał Huysmans. Bolesnej w życiu materialnym. Wykwintnej w życiu duchowym. Dokładne przeciwieństwo dnia dzisiejszego.”
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“Kilka lat temu zacząłem odczuwać stopniowy i w końcu całkowity zanik, nawet w marzeniach, popędu płciowego. Jestem z tego bardzo zadowolony tak, jakbym się wreszcie pozbył tyrana. Gdyby zjawił się Mefistofeles i zaproponował mi odzyskanie tak zwanej męskości, powiedziałbym mu: „Nie, dziękuję, nie chcę, wzmocnij mi raczej wątrobę i płuca, żebym mógł więcej pić i palić.”
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“Jednym z wielkich problemów Meksyku, tak dziś, jak wczoraj, jest wybujały do granic możliwości nacjonalizm, który świadczy o głębokim kompleksie niższości.”
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“Deszcz tworzy wielkie narody.”
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“Bez dział amerykańskich Steinbeck byłby niczym. Do tego samego worka wrzucam Dos Passosa i Hemingwaya. Gdyby się urodzili w Paragwaju czy w Turcji, kto by ich czytał? O wielkości pisarzy decyduje potęga kraju.”
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“W zorganizowanym i zhierarchizowanym społeczeństwie seks, który nie uznaje żadnej bariery, żadnego prawa, może w każdej chwili stać się czynnikiem nieporządku i prawdziwym niebezpieczeństwem.”
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“Bar jest dla mnie miejscem medytacji i skupienia, bez którego nie można sobie wyobrazić życia.”
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“Wszystkie religie posiadły prawdę. Marksizm także.”
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“Aby dotrzeć do wszelkiego piękna, konieczne jest zawsze spełnienie trzech warunków, są to: oczekiwanie, walka i zdobywanie.”
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“Wszystko, absolutnie wszystko, zostało tej czy innej nocy wyobrażone przez ten czy inny mózg – i zapomniane.”
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“Wyobraźnia jest to zdolność umysłu, którą można trenować i rozwijać jak pamięć.”
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“Z surrealizmu pozostało mi też odkrycie w sobie bardzo silnego konfliktu między zasadami wszelkiej nabytej moralności i mojej moralności osobistej, zrodzonej z własnego instynktu i z własnego czynnego doświadczenia.”
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1982· 2 entries
Wrote (along with Carrière) his autobiography, Mon Dernier Soupir (translated as My Last Sigh in the U
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By the Venice Film Festival and the FIPRESCI Prize – Honorable Mention in 1969 by the Berlin International Film Festival
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (1981).
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Won Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (1981).
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1979· 1 entry
Was awarded the Honorable Prize for his contribution to cinema
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1977· 3 entries
Awarded National Prize for Arts and Sciences (1977).
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The Moscow International Film Festival Contribution to Cinema Prize in 1979, and the Career Golden Lion in 1982
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Received the National Prize for Arts and Sciences for Fine Arts
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay (1974).
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1973· 2 entries
At the Monastery of Paular in the Spanish Somosierra, he wrote the screenplay for The Phantom of Liberty (1974) with Carrière for production by Silberman and his Hollywood partners
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Under the direction of Buñuel devotee Ado Kyrou, with considerable assistance from both Buñuel and Carrière
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1966· 1 entry
Buñuel was contacted by Robert and Raymond Hakim, Egyptian-French producers who specialized in sexy films directed by star filmmakers, who offered him the opportunity to direct a film version of Joseph Kessel's novel, ab
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1965· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival (1965).
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Buñuel managed to work again with Silvia Pinal in what was his last Mexican feature, co-starring Claudio Brook, Simón del desierto
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1963· 1 entry
Actor Fernando Rey, one of the stars of Viridiana, introduced Buñuel to producer Serge Silberman, a Polish entrepreneur who had fled to Paris when his family died in the Holocaust and had worked with several renowned Fre
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1962· 1 entry
The Spanish censor turned down this project, and Buñuel had to wait for 8 years before he could receive backing from the Spanish production company Época Films
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1961· 1 entry
In the presence of specially invited artists
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1960· 1 entry
Buñuel re-teamed with scenarist Hugo Butler and organizer George Pepper, allegedly his favorite producer, to make his second English-language film, a US/Mexico co-production called The Young One, based on a short story b
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded Cannes Best Director Award (1951).
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1949· 1 entry
Buñuel renounced his Spanish citizenship to become a naturalized Mexican however different sources stated that he retained his Spanish citizenship along with the Mexican one although remains largely disputed, since it wa
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1946· 1 entry
An old friend, producer Denise Tual, the widow of Pierre Batcheff, the leading man in Un Chien Andalou, proposed that she and Buñuel adapt Lorca's play La casa de Bernarda Alba for production in Paris
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1945· 1 entry
Buñuel's contract with Warner Brothers expired, and he decided not to renew it in order, as he put it: "to realize my life's ambition for a year: to do nothing"
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1944· 1 entry
Returned to Hollywood for the third time, this time as Spanish Dubbing Producer for Warner Brothers
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1942· 1 entry
Buñuel applied for American citizenship because he anticipated that MoMA would be put under federal control
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1938· 2 entries
Was befriended by Frank Davis, an MGM producer and member of the Communist Party USA, who placed Buñuel on the payroll of Cargo of Innocence, a film about Spanish refugee mothers and children fleeing from Bilbao to th
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And his family traveled to the United States using funds obtained from his old patrons, the Noailles
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1934· 2 entries
Despite a warning by Jean Epstein when Buñuel first proposed in 1930: "Jeanne, you are making a mistake
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To withdraw all prints from circulation, and L'Age d'Or was not seen again until 1981, after their deaths, although a print was smuggled to England for private viewing
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1933· 1 entry
Buñuel worked in Paris in the dubbing department of Paramount Pictures, but following his marriage in 1934, he switched to Warner Brothers because they operated dubbing studios in Madrid
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1932· 1 entry
Buñuel was invited to serve as film documentarian for the celebrated Mission Dakar-Djibouti, the first large-scale French anthropological field expedition, which, led by Marcel Griaule, unearthed some 3,500 African artif
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1931· 1 entry
Though later in life he denied becoming a Communist
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1929· 1 entry
On the strength of Un Chien Andalou, Buñuel and Dalí were commissioned to make another short film by Marie-Laurie and Charles de Noailles, owners of a private cinema on the Place des États-Unis and financial supporters o
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1926· 1 entry
Met his future wife, Jeanne Rucar Lefebvre, a gymnastics teacher who had won a bronze medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics
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1925· 1 entry
Buñuel moved to Paris, where he began work as a secretary in an organization called the International Society of Intellectual Cooperation
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1917· 1 entry
Attended the University of Madrid, first studying agronomy then industrial engineering and finally switching to philosophy
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-02-22.
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