Weekly Response #11_Saree Griffin“That Obscure Object of Desire” is Luis Buñuel’s final film and truly a perfect culmination of his directorial career. It combines themes […]

Saiss Cruz and Saree Griffin: Comparing the themes of “Innocence” in Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados to other film adaptations.  Comparing the themes of “Innocence” in Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados to other film adaptations.  Intro:  “Loss of Innocence,” this term […]

Weekly Response #12In our last class we screened one of Luis Buñuel’s final movies, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. In true “Buñuelian” fashion, the fil […]

Week 11-Saree GriffinFor my presentation last week, I delved deep into themes of misogyny within Luis Buñuel’s Tristana. In many of Buñuel’s films he uses misog […]

Weekly Response #8_Saree GriffinI mainly saw Luis Buñuel’s 1962 film,  “Exterminating Angels”, as a critique of the bourgeoisie (a theme Buñuel commonly discusses in his f […]

Weekly Response #6-Saree GriffinLuis Buñuel went to Mexico in 1946 after being exiled from Spain and spending some time in the United States. While there, Buñuel used M […]

Weekly Response #4-Saree GriffinLuis Buñuel’s 1960 film  The Young One can be seen as a critique of America and its’ anti-communist movement. Spanning  from the late 1940s […]

Weekly Response #3In class last week we watched the animated documentary,“Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles” directed by Salvador Simó Bosum. The film […]

Weekly Response #1To begin our close analysis class, which specifically pertains to the life, times, and films of the famous Spanish-Mexican filmmaker Luis […]