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    Masters of Cinema: Stanley Kubrick
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    Luis Bunuel
    Luis Buñuel
    • Luis Buñuel

      une chimère 1900-1983

      • 192pages
      • 7 heures de lecture

      Retrace la carrière du cinéaste espagnol Luis Bunuel (1900-1983), réalisateur entre autres de "Belle de jour"et de "Le charme discret de la bourgeoise".

      Luis Buñuel
    • Luis Bunuel

      • 192pages
      • 7 heures de lecture

      Luis Bu?uel, one of the most brilliant representatives of the surrealist movement, chose to make films and was able to make them with unflagging fidelity to his principles for fifty years. After an audacious Parisian showing of Un Chien Andalou in 1929 (Bu?uel carried stones in his pockets in case he needed them to fend off the audience), Bu?uel's subsequent career in Spain (Las Hurdes), Hollywood and Mexico (Los Olvidados, Robinson Crusoe, El, Nazarin) before returning to France (Diary of aChambermaid, Belle de jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire), showed that the only subjects he cared to make films about were the three that are never supposed to be discussed in polite society: sex, religion, and politics.

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    • Masters of Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock

      • 103pages
      • 4 heures de lecture

      Alfred Hitchcock (UK, 1899-1980) is undeniably theworld's most famous film director. His name hasbecome synonymous with the cinema, and eachnew generation takes the same pleasure in rediscoveringhis films, which are now treasures ofour artistic heritage. Hitchcock started out in theBritish silent cinema of the 1920s, which reachedits peak with succ

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    • Masters of Cinema: Stanley Kubrick

      • 102pages
      • 4 heures de lecture

      Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1928-99) was a master who took the art of filmmaking further than any other contemporary director, a creative perfectionist whose work now fascinates new generations. He started out as a photographer before moving into film noir aged barely 25, after which the power and... číst celé

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