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Radio Eye|2008-10-04 The Bells of Toledo Episode
A passionate cinephile's idiosyncratic homage to the great Spanish film-maker Luis Buñuel.Because of copyright restrictions this program is not available as a podcast.
Best known perhaps for his scathing, surrealistic satires of middle class mores in films such as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel, Buñuel was a savage critic of the Catholic Church and the military dictatorship in Spain, and his subjects ranged from urban poverty to sexual fantasy. His career spanned fifty years, and began with a shocking 'bang' -- the avant garde short film he made with Salvador Dali, Un chien andalou (1929), infamous for its image of a woman's eye being sliced open with a razor blade and well known to every student of film for the last 50 years.
Australian artist and film academic John Conomos sends a fan's love letter to a film-maker who has kept him spellbound in the front stalls for more than forty years.
Featuring the voices of Virginia Baxter, Ruben Fernández and William Zappa.
WriterJohn Conomos
Sound engineerRussell Stapleton
ProducerTony MacGregor
[ Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]
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