Please turn your pages to the Auteurs’ Notebook for an article by yours truly profiling Luis Bunuel’s DEATH IN THE GARDEN.… more →
shadowplaydcairns wrote 2 days ago: Please turn your pages to the Auteurs’ Notebook for an article by yours truly profiling Luis B … more →
robchristopher wrote 2 weeks ago: The Young One [1960] 1. The old man has died and his corpse is still lying in the bed. It has one bo … more →
nighthawk4486 wrote 2 weeks ago: My Top 10: The final poignant moment in All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Fron … more →
letocq wrote 1 month ago: “Grace has a grand laughter in it.” - Marilynne Robinson [Gilead] I’m not sure how God d … more →
lichanos wrote 1 month ago: Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes (1938) reminded me of Bunuel’s Exterminating Angel in a way. A … more →
robchristopher wrote 1 month ago: Beyond Ipanema [2009] 1. In 1939 Carmen Miranda came to the US. In 1945 she was the highest-paid wom … more →
lichanos wrote 2 months ago: Another Bunuel film:Â this one about a group of upper class (bourgeois) in Mexico City who come to a … more →
robchristopher wrote 2 months ago: The Phantom of Liberty [1974] 1. Muni lowers her eyes and sadly walks away. 2. The fire in fireplace … more →
AleerAnaya wrote 2 months ago: View This Pollpolling His world in complete disorder after his break-up with a famous actress, Carte … more →
lichanos wrote 2 months ago:     That’s what Oscar Wilde said, life imitates art, not the other way ’round. I … more →
robchristopher wrote 2 months ago: Diary of a Chambermaid [1964] 1. “Let me see those little boots move!” 2. Muni. Monsieur … more →
robchristopher wrote 4 months ago: Simon of the Desert [1965] 1. His hands are restored. Almost immediately he smacks his daughter on t … more →
Bing Bonaparte wrote 4 months ago: Dear Meg, I really am trying to write. Actually, the truth is that I haven’t begun writing at … more →
dcairns wrote 5 months ago: Realising that Bunuel’s old cinematographer from his Mexico days shot a movie about LSD was en … more →
Mike Rankin wrote 6 months ago: I am eight kinds of geek. Among my varied geekery is film geekery. I took a lot of film classes in c … more →
dcairns wrote 6 months ago: I was going to run this at Easter but I totally forgot. Maybe it’s less inflammatory to do it … more →
fearofapopplanet wrote 6 months ago: I watch so many films, that my friends are amazed when I tell them I haven’t seen something. F … more →
dcairns wrote 7 months ago: I went into THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, Hitch’s comeback film after the “lowest ebb … more →
roberthorton wrote 7 months ago: The exterminating supper. 1972: Unstable mix of old guard and young pups, with Bunuel weighing in wi … more →