Luis Buñuel

Spanish-Mexican filmmaker (1900–1983)

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Luis Buñuel was a Spanish-Mexican filmmaker who created influential surrealist and socially critical films throughout the 20th century. His innovative movies challenged conventional storytelling and explored themes of desire, religion, and class inequality, making him one of cinema's most important and provocative artistic figures.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1900
Died: 1983
Works: 83

Top works

Los olvidados
Le journal d'une femme de chambre
Un perro andaluz
Goya+Buñuel
Nazarin

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Group
Origin: Italy

Discography

Discogs Stream

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Listeners: 413
Total plays: 600

Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwiz βuˈɲwel portoˈles]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in Spain, Mexico and France. When Luis Buñuel died at age 83, his obituary in The New York Times called him "an iconoclast, moralist and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later." His first picture—made in the silent era—was called "the most famous short film ever made" by critic Roger Ebert <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Luis+Bu%C3%B1uel">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,734x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,391x
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,147x
PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet
· 2000 · cited 11,781x
2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2016 · cited 11,018x

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Quotes

“God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.”
“Thank God I'm an atheist.”
“Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese you dingus”
“Frankly, despite my distaste of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.”
“If someone were to prove to me- right this minute- that God, in all his luminescence, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.”
“If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.”

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Wikidata facts

Image: LuisBuñuel1929.jpg
Number of children: 2

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Commons category: Luis Buñuel
date of birth: 1900-02-22
date of death: 1983-07-29
name in native language: Luis Buñuel
birth name: Luis Buñuel Portolés
start of work period: 1928-00-00
end of work period: 1983-00-00

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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 works are known for their avant-garde surrealism which was also infused with political commentary.

Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel's career spanned the 1920s through the 1970s. He collaborated with prolific surrealist painter Salvador Dalí on Un Chien Andalou (1929) and L'Age d'Or (1930). Both films are considered masterpieces of surrealist cinema. From 1947 to 1960, he honed his skills as a director in Mexico, making grounded and human melodramas such as Gran Casino (1947), Los Olvidados (1950), and Él (1953).