Franco is long gone, but “Viridiana” — which, as the critic Andrew Sarris wrote in 1962, has a plot “almost too lurid to ...

Exclusive: The Spanish surrealist's sacrilegious classic, starring Silvia Pinal as a woman preparing to be a nun, opens November 14 at Film Forum from Janus Films.

Luis Buñuel injected his masterful Mexican melodrama Él with just enough uncanniness to poison its lead's mind.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While visiting her sick uncle before taking her vows as a nun, Viridiana questions her faith ...

Silvia Pinal, who has died aged 93, was one of the most glamorous stars of Mexican cinema; in Europe she was best known for her roles in three films by Luis Buñuel, especially Viridiana, a film that ...

Silvia Pinal is dead. Per Variety, the star of Luis Buñuel’s Viridana and The Exterminating Angel, known as the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema’s “last diva,” died on November 28. She was 93. “Your ...

The transatlantic co-productions Viridiana and The Hand in the Trap, which swept the top awards at Cannes in 1961, are remarkably similar in their juxtaposition of Catholic repression and modern mores ...

Viridiana (Kingsley International). In the first reel of the first important film directed by Spain’s Luis Bunuel, something surreal called Un Chien Andalou (1929), the camera watches closely as ...

At the suggestion of her mother superior, innocent novitiate Viridiana pays a visit to her wealthy uncle, Don Jaime, only for him to rape her and commit suicide. Renouncing her vocation, she opens the ...

Silvia Pinal, a glamorous blond-haired actress who worked with acclaimed director Luis Buñuel and endured as one of the last stars of Mexican cinema’s mid-century golden age, died Nov. 28 at a ...