Double Feature: 50th Anniversary! THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL, 1962, THE CRIMINAL LIFE OF ARCHIBALDO DE LA CRUZ, 1955 January 21, 2012

Saturday, January 21 – 7:30 PM
Co-presented by the Luis Buñuel Film Institute: Double Feature: 50th Anniversary! THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL, 1962, Janus Films, 95 min. A dinner gathering of wealthy Mexican sophisticates at a mansion devolves when the servants abandon their posts and the guests are inexplicably unable to leave the grand music room. As days wear on, facades and hierarchies dissolve and the upper-crust prisoners become increasingly uncouth and downright animalistic. Luis Buñuel’s merciless takedown of social structures is at once haunting and riotous. Featuring international screen icon and VIRIDIANA star Silvia Pinal. “The great Spanish director Luis Buñuel traps us in the Surrealistic universe of THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL, his most bitter, most brilliant work since VIRIDIANA.” - Roger Ebert. In Spanish with English subtitles. [35mm] Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Please note that the rare archival print has edge and perf damage.
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THE CRIMINAL LIFE OF ARCHIBALDO DE LA CRUZ, 1955, 89 min. This pitch-black comedy from Luis Buñuel follows the thwarted best-laid plans of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Ernesto Alonso), a privileged screwball living during the Mexican Revolution who believes his calling in life is to be a serial killer of women - yet every woman he stalks either accidentally dies, kills herself or is bumped off by someone else before he can get his satisfaction! A rarely screened gem, and in good company with THE YOUNG AND THE DAMNED, THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL and “Simon of the Desert” as Buñuel’s finest Mexican films. With Miroslava. In Spanish with English subtitles. [35mm]

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