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Luis Buñuel
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: February 22, 1900 in Calanda, Aragon, Spain Death: July 29, 1983 in Mexico City, Mexico Biography:Sent off for a Jesuit education by his prosperous Spanish parents, Luis Buñuel went on to attend the University of Madrid, where he first became interested in the burgeoning European film industry. Upon graduating from Paris' Academie du Cinema, his first movie job was as an assistant to French-based directors "Jean Epstein" and "Mario Nalpas". In partnership with an old friend, Spanish painter/sculptor "Salvador Dali", Buñuel put together the three-reel surrealist masterpiece "Un Chien Andalou" (1928), the film that features dead donkeys on a piano, a razor slashing an eyeball, and other deliberately shocking images that cineastes have either praised or damned for the past seven decades.
Buñuel's first feature film, L'Age d'Or, was banned from public exhibition almost immediately from the moment of its 1930 premiere; its principal opponents were high-ranking members of the Catholic church, who... Full Biography
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