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Title: My Last Sigh by Luis Bunuel, Abigail Israel ISBN: 0-8166-4387-3 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautiful little book
Comment: Bunuel gave some interviews towards the end of his life discussing his long list of movies. That's why I was delighted to find that his autobiography--which is one of the greatest, if not the greatest by a filmmaker--does not dwell on them. Instead Don Luis chronicles his childhood and upbringing, the relationships he cultivated, and meditates on life, love, death, art, alcohol and cigarettes. Many of the stories from his younger days are even more surreal than his movies. He writes in detail about his stormy friendships with Garcia Lorca and Dali, about his half-hearted attempt to try Hollywood on for size, meetings with Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, and others. The book is not somber or sentimental, it's not over-inflated. Bunuel's voice does not intimidate, it soothes. He's a master storyteller, a very gifted and generous writer.
Rating: 5
Summary: Delightful!
Comment: I finished this book with the feeling that I'd just spent my time with the most entertaining dinner guest imaginable. In "My Last Sigh," Luis Bunuel comes across as amusing, unpretentious, and completely modest about his accomplishments. He is not afraid of venting his opinions on everything from religion to the perfect martini. So entertaining is this delightful autobiography that one almost forgets that Bunuel is one of the masters of cinema. Instead, we are left with the impression of an eminently sane person who has fully enjoyed his life and his work. And, as is the case with many geniuses, he makes it all sound so easy. I will never forget this passage from his book: "...memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all.... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing." How lucky for us that Bunuel left us with these irreplaceable memories shortly before his death in 1982.
Rating: 5
Summary: No One Else
Comment: As a young person, don Luis helped me find my way out of the hormone fog, ... authoritarian adults and their institutions, and equally lost peers. Years later upon reading MY LAST SIGH, I was not surprised at all at the depth of don Luis' humanity and intelligence.
Nevermind the moniker "filmmaker" when talking about don Luis; he is an artist's artist. With his autobio, he only confirms what an equally supreme being he was. I miss him. However, encounter this book and become lit by life itself.
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Title: An Unspeakable Betrayal: Selected Writings of Luis Bunuel by Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Garrett White ISBN: 0520234235 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Discreet Art of Luis Bunuel: A Reading of His Films by Gwynne Edwards ISBN: 0714528323 Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title:The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie - Criterion Collection ASIN: B00004Z1FM Publisher: Criterion Collection Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $34.76 |
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Title: My Life and My Films (Da Capo Paperback) by Jean Renoir ISBN: 0306804573 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Herzog on Herzog by Paul Cronin, Werner Herzog ISBN: 0571207081 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 09 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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