This first event in CSUN Cinematheque's Spring 2025 series "Sacred and Profane: The Surreal Cinema of Luìs Buñuel" presents free screenings of two of the director's satirical comedies, L' Age D'or (1930), a sendup of societal sexual mores co-written with Salvador Dalí, and Simon of the Desert (1965), a loose take on the life of… Continue reading CSUN Cinematheque: Luìs Buñuel’s “L’ Age D’or” and “Simon of the Desert”

CSUN Cinematheque's Spring 2025 series "Sacred and Profane: The Surreal Cinema of Luìs Buñuel" presents a free screening of  Viridiana (1961), a Spanish-Mexican surrealist comedy-drama  loosely based on the 1895 novel Halma by Benito Pérez Galdós. In a 2016 poll organized by Spanish film magazine Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, it was voted the best Spanish film of all… Continue reading CSUN Cinematheque: Luìs Buñuel’s “Viridiana”