What Are They Doing Now?

During one glorious moment in cinema, Luis Buñuel made movies, grand, messy, symbolic, intense movies. Tristana, produced in 1970 and based on a novel by Benito Perez Galdos, represented Buñuel’s return to Spain after an exile of many years. A European co-production, it starred Franco Nero (the Italian “it” boy of the moment), Catherine Deneuve (already an international superstar who had most recently brilliantly acquitted herself in Buñuel’s Belle de Jour) and the incomparable Fernando Rey who for a short time in the 1970s played characters who were the personification of sophisticated evil from The French Connection to Buñuel’s films The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie and That Obscure Object of Desire.

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EASY READER REVIEWS:

• Farewell My Queen - a sumptuous goodbye
• The Amazing Spiderman is astonishing
• People Like Us
• To Rome with Love -meh
• Brave
• Nobody Else But You
• Wallander: The Revenge
• Snow White and the Huntsman
• The Intouchables a must see
• MIB3
• Hysteria hysterically creative

OTHER BLOGS

• Women Writing Pilots
  How did they do this pilot season
• 2011-2012 New Series - Dramas
  The score card
• 2011-2012 New Series - Comedies
  The score card
• VOD: Was I Asleep at the Wheel?
  VOD before theatrical release
• Give Me Back My Rabbit Ears
  It's no wonder viewers are disappearing

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