Franco is long gone, but “Viridiana” — which, as the critic Andrew Sarris wrote in 1962, has a plot “almost too lurid to ...

Luis Buñuel injected his masterful Mexican melodrama Él with just enough uncanniness to poison its lead's mind.

“Thank God, I am still an atheist,” claims Director Luis Buñuel. On that rock he has built his crutch—a lifelong obsession with Spanish Catholicism. In a career that spans four decades and nearly 40 ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Exclusive: The Spanish surrealist's sacrilegious classic, starring Silvia Pinal as a woman preparing to be a nun, opens ...

Exclusive: Arturo de Córdova and Delia Garcés star in the iconic 1953 psychological drama. Spanish auteur Luis Buñuel helped shape the language of cinema with his now-iconic surrealist reveries, so it ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

A countess from an influential Italian family, she charted her own course and produced films by the likes of Pasolini and Zeffirelli. By Alex Williams This inventive, beguiling and not quite fully ...

Iconic iconoclast Luis Buñuel directed nearly 30 feature films, and though they span different genres and production nuclei — Mexico, France, and his native Spain — nearly all share critiques of the ...

"I'm going to ... have my mind blown again," the "Jennifer’s Body" director said of selecting the Buñuel trio "Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie," "The Phantom of Liberty," and "That Obscure Object of ...