That Obscure Stretch of a Master's Filmography

Cine las Americas presents Luis Buñuel en México

"...Few would deny Spanish-born filmmaker Luis Buñuel his place in the pantheon of the great directors...."

Nov. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Belle de Jour

"...Directed by: Luis Buñuel. Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Genevieve Page, Jean Sorel and Michel..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Man on Wire

In a guerrilla act, French wirew-alker Philippe Petit crossed the space between the World Trade Center towers in 1974. His daring and artistry continue to amaze and inspire, as demonstrated in this documentary.

"...the tops of the two then-new World Trade Center buildings. In hindsight, Philippe Petit's inspired and altogether unauthorized bit..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gummo

White-trash hell from the writer of Kids.

"...I realize my confessed appreciation for Kids will thoroughly bugger my credibility in describing Gummo with phrases like “appalling,”..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Twelve Monkeys

Gilliam cloaks a startlingly effective rumination on the nature of sanity and madness in the shroud of a sci-fi thriller.

"...may be the most gifted cinematic surrealist since Luis Buñuel and, while his newest film fits more squarely into..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hot and Cold

Two new series tap extreme climes, from Buñuel in Mexico to Iceland's endless winter

Nov. 19, 2010 Screens Feature

Two for One Times Three

AFS Essential Cinema tracks a few masters' journeys from Old World to New

"...reputation with the likes of Metropolis and the Dr. Mabuse films. M was his first sound picture – and,..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Food-o-File

News bites that are easy to digest

"...Gourmet Creations dropped off a package of the distinctive buñuelos they are currently testing in the Austin market in..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

'Art Should Be Convulsive'

The Austin Film Society and SXSW celebrate the films of Mexican cinema giant Arturo Ripstein.

"...critique of masculinity set Ripstein's work apart from the bulk of movies that were being produced in Mexico at..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Girl

"...the French to come up with this erotically charged but intellectually shaped contribution to lesbian noir. A trail of..."

June 15, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Exterminating Angel

Rules of the Game (1939) played ball and jacks compared to Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel

"...lashing than with the deliciously straight face of Luis Buñuel. Between unparalleled surrealism old and new – Salvador Dalí..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Bardot, Buñuel, Handy Manny, and Home Run Derby

"...likes horses better than she does people now. Luis Buñuel: 2-Disc Collector's Edition(Lions Gate, $29.98)..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Sex and satire in this Romanian polemic comedy

"...blending academic inquiry with farcical social critique, à la Buñuel. But with his new atrocity exhibition, Bad Luck Banging..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Bacurau

Brazilian drama mixes social commentary and exploitation action

"...something in the water, that we have not one but two films channeling Richard Connell's seminal humans-hunting-humans story, "The..."

March 27, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Brief History of Holiday Tamales

And where to acquire these little bundles of iconic Texan year-end tradition

"...by then that it was seen as a viable business proposition. Selling tamales became an annual tradition, as mechanical..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Food Feature by Emily Beyda

The Film Society That Brought Indie and Arthouse to Austin Returns

AFS hosts a series of the movies that inspired Cinema 40

"...Austin's film appreciation culture, and now AFS is paying tribute with a short season of the movies that inspired..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Greener Grass

Something weird in suburbia (again) but this is no Blue Velvet ripoff

"...Why do we love satires of suburban life? Is it the distillation of society into complete..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Tigers Are Not Afraid

Supernatural horrors are less terrifying than real life in this Mexican fable

"...premiere reception at Fantastic Fest 2017, writer-director Issa López's debut feature finally reaches wider audiences without losing an iota..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Climax

Gaspar Noé's acid freakout dance-a-thon teaches us that drugs are bad, m'kay

"...feat in breaking out of the underground with his button-pushing debut, 1998's Seul Contre Tous, while its follow-up (2002's..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Making College a Lesson in Diversity

Blending race at Boston University and beyond

"...But those are the headline numbers. The reality that Fernandez..."

March 3, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Julieta

Almodóvar tracks the stages of a woman's life

"...Julieta (an homage, no doubt, to fellow countryman Luis Buñuel’s sublime That Obscure Object of Desire): Ugarte, as the..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Last Days in the Desert

Ewan McGregor plays both Jesus and the devil in this secular imagining

"...in common with the imperfect holy men of a Buñuel or Pasolini movie than the irreproachable paragon that’s depicted..."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mad Max: Fury Road

Glorious action cinema abounds on Fury Road

"...I’ll have to come up with a new stumper, but no matter: Fury Road is, to paraphrase Mad Max’s..."

May 15, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Feed an Artist, Nourish the World

Austin School of Film underground and avant-garde shorts

"..."A writer or painter cannot change the world, but they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive."..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Bad Education

Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career: a film noir melodrama that maybe should be called film sanguine.

"...and candy-colored palette, as well as his ripe characters bursting with their melodramatic lives and messy emotions. Yet in..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDs: Part 3

Gift guide

"...agreeably hostile to a scholarly commentary track than Luis Buñuel's L'Age D'Or? Pity Robert Short (author, The Age of..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Maddin Comes Alive

'Cowards Bend the Knee': the autobiography of an original in all senses

"...truly bizarre storylines to create an entirely new – but decidedly pre-Hayes Code – form of cinema, one that..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two

Meditations on memory, politics, and sexuality, brought on by the Beach Boys.

"...of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys' legendary unreleased album, Smile, and all night I'm haunted by Van Dyke..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Column by Louis Black

That Obscure Object of Desire

"...D: Luis Buñuel (1977); with Fernando Ray, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina, Julien..."

June 9, 2000 Screens Review by Ada Calhoun

What's the Buzz?

Guide to Summer Films

"...event movies? Leery of hearing a generation raised by bubblegum pop spout out Shakespeare? A host of vintage rereleases..."

May 26, 2000 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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