Luis Buñuel

Regista, Sceneggiatore, Attore, Montatore, Produttore, Compositore

22 febbraio 1900 — 29 luglio 1983 (83 anni)
Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish: [ˈlwis βuˈɲwel poɾtoˈles]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. Buñuel's work was known for its avant-garde surrealism which was also infused with political commentary and social satire.

Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel made films from the 1920s through the 1970s. He collaborated with prolific surrealist painter Salvador Dali creating the films Un Chien Andalou (1929), which was made in the silent era and L'Age d'Or (1930). The two films are seen as the birth of Cinematic surrealism. From 1947 to 1960 he developed his skills as a director filming in Mexico making grounded and human melodramas such as Gran Casino (1947), Los Olvidados (1950), and Él (1953). Here is where he gained the fundamentals of storytelling.

Buñuel than transitioned into making artful, unconventional, surrealist, and political satirical films. He earned acclaim with the morally complex arthouse drama film Viridiana (1961) which criticized the Francoist dictatorship. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. He then criticized political and social conditions in The Exterminating Angel (1962), and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (1972) the later of which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He also directed Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), and Belle de Jour (1967), as well as his final film That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) the later of which earned the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director.

Buñuel earned five Cannes Film Festival prizes, two Berlin International Film Festival prizes, and a BAFTA Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. Buñuel received numerous honors including National Prize for Arts and Sciences for Fine Arts in 1977, the Moscow International Film Festival Contribution to Cinema Prize in 1979, and the Career Golden Lion in 1982. He was nominated once for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. Seven of Buñuel's films are included in Sight & Sound's 2012 critics' poll of the top 250 films of all time.

Film e Serie su Plex

  • Il fascino discreto della borghesia
    Il fascino discreto della borghesia1972
  • L'angelo sterminatore
    L'angelo sterminatore1962
  • L'Age d'Or
    L'Age d'Or1930
  • Il diario di una cameriera
    Il diario di una cameriera1964
  • La via lattea
    La via lattea1969
  • Estasi di un delitto
    Estasi di un delitto1955
  • Le avventure di Robinson Crusoe
    Le avventure di Robinson Crusoe1954
  • La selva dei dannati
    La selva dei dannati1956
  • Il grande teschio
    Il grande teschio1949

Famoso per

  • Bella di giorno
    Bella di giorno1967
  • Il fascino discreto della borghesia
    Il fascino discreto della borghesia1972
  • L'angelo sterminatore
    L'angelo sterminatore1962
  • Un chien andalou
    Un chien andalou1929
  • Viridiana
    Viridiana1961
  • I figli della violenza
    I figli della violenza1950
  • Quell'oscuro oggetto del desiderio
    Quell'oscuro oggetto del desiderio1977
  • Simon del deserto
    Simon del deserto1965
  • Il fantasma della libertà
    Il fantasma della libertà1974
  • L'Age d'Or
    L'Age d'Or1930
  • La via lattea
    La via lattea1969
  • Nazarín
    Nazarín1959
  • Il diario di una cameriera
    Il diario di una cameriera1964
  • E Johnny prese il fucile
    E Johnny prese il fucile1971
  • Lui
    Lui1953
  • Terra senza pane
    Terra senza pane1933
  • Estasi di un delitto
    Estasi di un delitto1955
  • Le avventure di Robinson Crusoe
    Le avventure di Robinson Crusoe1954
  • Violenza per una giovane
    Violenza per una giovane1960
  • La caduta della casa Usher
    La caduta della casa Usher1928

Filmografia

1997
La novia de medianoche · as Screenplay
1977
1974
1972
Le moine · as Screenplay
1972
1971
1970
Tristana · as Screenplay
1969
1967
Belle de Jour · as Screenplay
1964
1961
Viridiana · as Screenplay
1960
The Young One · as Screenplay
1959
1959
Nazarin · as Screenplay
1956
Death in the Garden · as ScreenplaySu Plex
1956
1955
1954
1954
Robinson Crusoe · as ScreenplaySu Plex
1953
1952
A Woman Without Love · as Screenplay
1951
1951
1950
The Young and the Damned · as Screenplay
1937
1936
¿Quién me quiere a mí? · as Screenplay
1935
Don Quintin the Bitter · as Screenplay
1933
Land Without Bread · as Screenplay
1930
L'Age d'Or · as ScreenplaySu Plex
1929
Un chien andalou · as Screenplay

2024
Portabella Constellation · as (archive Footage)
1974
The Phantom of Liberty · as A Condemned Man (uncredited)
1973
Fall of a Body · as Un Invité (uncredited)
1969
The Milky Way · as (voice) (uncredited)Su Plex
1967
Belle de Jour · as Man In Gardencafe - Left From The Duke (uncredited)
1965
1964
Weeping for a Bandit · as El Verdugo
1953
The Proud and the Beautiful · as Smuggler (uncredited)
1935
1930
L'Age d'Or · as (uncredited)Su Plex
1929
Un chien andalou · as Man In Prologue (uncredited)
1926
Carmen · as Contrebandier Chez Lillas Pastia
1926
Mauprat · as Monk / Guardsman

1969
The Milky Way · as Original Music ComposerSu Plex
1930
L'Age d'Or · as Original Music ComposerSu Plex

2025
Memory of the Forgotten · as Self (archive Footage)
2024
2024
2022
Deneuve, la reine Catherine · as Self (archive Footage)
2022
2020
Le fantôme de Laurent Terzieff · as Self (archive Footage)
2019
2018
Jeanne Moreau, l'affranchie · as Self - Filmmaker (archive Footage)
2017
L'extravagant monsieur Piccoli · as Self - Filmmaker (archive Footage)
2012
Discovering Buñuel · as Self/archive Footage
2008
2005
2004
María querida · as Self
2004
2000
Regarding Buñuel · as Self (archive Footage)
1997
Un Buñuel mexican · as Self (archival)
1984
Buñuel · as Self
1975
Arena (1975) · as Self
1971
1964
1964
1956
Cinépanorama · as Self
1952

2006
Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD · as Based On The Screenplay By
1975
Arena (1975) · as Autobiography
1974
The Phantom of Liberty · as Sound Effects
1972
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie · as Sound EffectsSu Plex
1965
Simon of the Desert · as Dialogue
1962
The Exterminating Angel · as DialogueSu Plex
1954
Wuthering Heights · as Adaptation
1953
El · as Adaptation
1952
Mexican Bus Ride · as Adaptation
1937
¡Centinela, alerta! · as Co-Director
1937
¡Centinela, alerta! · as Production Director
1936
¿Quién me quiere a mí? · as Co-Director
1936
¿Quién me quiere a mí? · as Production Director
1935
Juan Simon's Daughter · as Production Director
1928
The Fall of the House of Usher · as Assistant Director
1928
1927
Siren of the Tropics · as Assistant Director
1926
Carmen · as Assistant Director
1926
Mauprat · as Production Assistant