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

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

The film stars an impressive cast, including Callum Turner, Alia Shawkat, Zahra Alzubaidi, Tim Heidecker, Jane Levy, Tony ...

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.

Silvia Pinal was a woman of many artistic faces. “I think I’ve been many things over time. First, I was a naive young girl, then a sex symbol, later a vedette ...

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 ...

Iconic iconoclast Luis Buñuel directed nearly 30 feature films, and though they span different genres and production nuclei — Mexico, France, and his native Spain — nearly all share critiques of the ...

Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish: [ˈlwis βuˈɲwel poɾtoˈles]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film ...

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 ...

Silvia Pinal, a Mexican actress known as an icon for her work during the Golden Age of Cinema, died Nov. 28 at the age of 93. Mexico’s cultural ministry on X shared that Pinal had died after starring ...