Luis Bunuel

Filmskaberen Luis Buñuels farverige erindringsklassiker, der udkom i 1982, er nu endelig tilgængelig i en ny dansk udgave. Det er en af vor tids største filmkunstnere, der her fortæller om sit liv, sin kunst og sine store samtidige – fra Dali og Picasso til Garcia Lorca, André Breton og Louis Aragon. Han fortæller om sit barndoms og ungdoms Spanien, om surrealismens Paris, om Hollywood og om det Mexico, hvor mange af hans store film blev til. Pressen skriver: »Det her er en guldklump af en bog.« * * * * * * - Politiken »Genudgivelsen af Luis Buñuels erindringer giver et fascinerende billede af en kompromisløs kunstner og en altid leveringsdygtig provokatør.« - Lars Bonnevie, Weekendavisen »… en lang, herlig rejse ind i et landskab befolket med store personligheder.« - Arne Mariager, Fredericia Dagblad

ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME - A provocative memoir from Luis Bu uel, the Academy Award winning creator of some of modern cinema's most important films, from Un Chien Andalou to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Luis Bu uel's films have the power to shock, inspire, and reinvent our world. Now, in a memoir that carries all the surrealism and subversion of his cinema, Bu uel turns his artistic gaze inward. In swift and generous prose, Bu uel traces the surprising contours of his life, from the Good Friday drumbeats of his childhood to the dreams that inspired his most famous films to his turbulent friendships with Federico Garc a Lorca and Salvador Dal . His personal narratives also encompass the pressing political issues of his time, many of which still haunt us today--the specter of fascism, the culture wars, the nuclear bomb. Filled with film trivia, framed by Bu uel's intellect and wit, this is essential reading for fans of cinema and for anyone who has ever wanted to see the world through a surrealist's eyes.

Kurz vor seinem Tod erschien Bu?uels Autobiographie, die der Drehbuchautor Jean-Claude Carri?re nach langen Gesprächen mit dem Regisseur aufgezeichnet hatte. Bu?uel war einer der bedeutendsten Filmregisseure des letzten Jahrhunderts, der die Frühzeit des Films miterlebt hat und selbst zur künstlerischen Avantgarde der 20er/30er Jahre gehörte. In seiner Autobiographie erzählt er, welche seiner Filme er besonders liebte, wie sie entstanden und wie unterschiedlich sie aufgenommen wurden. Er reflektiert über seine Befindlichkeit im Alter, über von ihm bevorzugte Bars und Drinks, über Freundschaften, über sein Verhältnis zur Kommunistischen Partei, über Erotik, Sexualität und sein Verhältnis zum Tod.

Although Luis Bunuel, one of the great filmmakers of the century, was notoriously reluctant to discuss his own work in public, he wrote - and wrote well - on many subjects over the years. This collection proceeds chronologically, from poetry and short stories written in Bunuel's youth in Spain to an essay written in 1980, not long before his death. Newly translated into English, the writings offer startling insights into the filmmaker's life and thought. The earliest pieces came well before Bunuel joined the Surrealist movement in Paris and created the landmark film Un chien andalou with Salvador Dali. Yet these and the early Surrealist writings reveal the inventiveness of the mind that would later create such masterpieces of cinema as "L'Age d'or", "Los olvidados", "Viridiana", "The Milky Way", "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie", and "That Obscure Object of Desire". Later writings, which include screenplays and reflections on his own and others' films, illuminate many aspects of Bunuel's career, as well as the ways of thinking and perceiving that underlie his unique cinematic style. The final essay by this extraordinary artist sums up his view of the world - still vibrant and full of contradictions - at the end of his life.

An aristocrat named Nobile invites several society friends to his house after the opera. But even as the dinner preparations are underway, servants feel compelled to leave. Despite threats of dismissal, the footman also leaves, and, as the guests arrive other servants escape. Dinner is served and hours pass, but the guests do not leave. Finally, each refusing to be the first to leave the party, distrust sets in, and the guests turn on their host, blaming him for their self-induced captivity. One of Bunuel's most sardonically humorous and visually dazzling of movies, "Exterminating Angel "reveals itself as a screenplay to be also a linguistically brilliant satire of social aspirations. This 1962 film presents in self in script form as a great work of literature.

A master filmmaker, inimitable, and unrelenting in his assault on bourgeois values. 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.