Though Federico Garcia Lorca was 'charming and irresistible,' his plays were 'ornate and bombastic.' Picasso was friendly and lively, yet selfish and egocentric. Bunuel knew just about everyone and gives us his candid assessments of them. Bunuel describes Breton as 'forever kissing women's hands' - an unconscious Surrealist act, perhaps - and growing furious at Leon Trotsky because the exiled revolutionary was fond of his dog and contended it had 'a human look.'. Bunuel was summoned to a Surrealist tribunal headed by the humorless Andre Breton, who demanded to know whether the fact of the film's appeal was not a violation of Surrealist principles. When the first achieved a succes d'estime in Paris, Mr. In his films, he opposed his positive impulse to 'a climate of insecurity and imminent disaster - an atmosphere we all recognize.' He began his career with two Surrealist films: Un Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or. The constant presence of death and religion, he observes, gave him a strong joie de vivre. He remembers a group of boys running through the streets at dawn singing 'The Song of Sunrise' to wake the workers. Bunuel writes, the middle ages lasted until World War I.

In the town of Calandra where he was born, Mr. It may surprise some readers to discover how intuitive and non-intellectualized many of those films were. Besides, it makes his book move from image to image, like his films.

Bunuel, Spain's most famous film maker, complains of losing his memory - but he had so much to remember. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Dustwrapper is well-rubbed and sunned with some moderate edgewear now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Mild wear previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown with light offset very light spotting to the text block top edge. with metallic blue spine and upper board titling 256pp., untrimmed. First edition: octavo hardcover, quarter-bound in papered boards.

Luis buñuel my last sigh