Yesterday we looked at the 1968 song The Weight, by The Band. We learned that the song’s author, Robbie Robertson, was influenced by surrealist director Luis Buñuel.
Luis Buñuel’s best know film is L’Age d’Or (Age of Gold, or Golden Age), released in 1930.
L’Age d’Or (French: L’Âge d’Or, pronounced [lɑʒ dɔʁ]), commonly translated as The Golden Age or Age of Gold, is a 1930 French surrealist satirical comedy film directed by Luis Buñuel about the insanities of modern life, the hypocrisy of the sexual mores of bourgeois society, and the value system of the Catholic Church. Much of the story is told with title cards like a predominantly silent film.
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The WLBOTT Review
We would designate this movie as the Eraserhead of the 1930s.
Our film critic, Clementine DuCinema, recovering from a brisk 1/16th mile walk, viewed this film alone, in a darkened storage shed. She experienced at least half a dozen laugh-out-loud moments during the course of this 63 minute film.
Q: How cool is the Austin Public Library?
A: Very cool.
(Kanopy is available thru the APL)
Lya Lys (born Nathalie Margoulis; May 18, 1908 – June 2, 1986) was a German-born American actress.
Biography
Lya Lys was born in Berlin on May 18, 1908[1] to a Russian banker and French pediatrician who moved to Paris when she was about seven. Her mother was Ina Löscht (née Blumenfeld), who later served at a French field hospital during the early months of World War II. Her fate during or after the German invasion is unclear.[3] Nathalie was educated in France and Switzerland and later studied language at the Sorbonne.In the late 1920s, Lya Lys was among a group of French actors that included Charles Boyer, André Berley, and Mona Goya, who were brought to Hollywood by MGM to work on films intended for the French market.
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Hey, Wait a Minute, Chester!
A bit of a semi-sequitur, but we wanted to share more images of Carmen and the Devil, walking side-by-side.
