Co-presented by the Luis Buñuel Film Institute: Double Feature: “Un Chien Andalou,” 1929, THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE, 1972, VIRIDIANA, 1961 January 22, 2012

Sunday, January 22 – 7:30 PM
Co-presented by the Luis Buñuel Film Institute: Double Feature: “Un Chien Andalou,” 1929, Transflux Films, 16 min. Director Luis Buñuel collaborated with artist Salvador Dalí for this groundbreaking short film, a resounding war-cry of Surrealism, which bleeds its arresting images (a slit eyeball, an ant-infested hand) into one dream-like tableau.
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE, 1972, Rialto Pictures, 102 min. This later Luis Buñuel masterpiece and 1973 Best Foreign-Language Oscar winner is a return to the subversive director’s Surrealist roots and a showcase for his scrumptiously satirical wit. A sextet of upper-class friends (including Fernando Rey, Stéphane Audran, Delphine Seyrig and Jean-Pierre Cassel) attempt to dine together but are continually stalled by a streaming series of vaudevillian events, both real and dreamed. In French and Spanish with English subtitles. [35mm]
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VIRIDIANA, 1961, Janus Films, 90 min. One of director Luis Buñuel’s most brilliant, scandalous films was banned in his homeland of Spain and almost got him arrested in Milan. A novice nun (Silvia Pinal) finds herself corrupted by her spectacularly nefarious uncle, Fernando Rey - until she turns the tables on her tio by installing a group of beggars and lepers in his rural mansion. Bunuel gradually, mischievously weaves a web of contradictory impulses: Faith, charity and selflessness become inextricably bound up with lust, hypocrisy and greed in the schizophrenic universe of Old World Latin Catholicism. With longtime Buñuel friend Francisco Rabal. In Spanish with English subtitles. [35mm]
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