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Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) is regarded as one of the most accomplished directors in the history of cinema. His celebrated collaboration with Dali in 1928 was followed by a career as a filmmaker that spanned fifty years. Garrett White is a translator and film and art journalist. He translated and wrote the introduction for Blaise Cendrars's Hollywood: Mecca of the Movies (California, 1995).
"""In this collection, Bunuel eloquently proves to be an intellectual and an ideologue and a jokester as well."" -Publishers Weekly; ""This book will be treasured by anyone who cares about cinema.""-Sunday Tribune (Dublin); ""A lovely, startling grab bag of jokes, insights, recollected dreams, superbly grave mini-essays, and general bits and pieces retrieved from Bunuel's life.""-Artforum's Bookforum; ""Bunuel is a filmmaker I have been stylistically haunted and influenced by for a very long time. After reading this collection of essays, some of which have never been published before, I am even more enthralled by this man. He remains my favorite voice of the surrealists.""-Gus Van Sant; ""This lively and diverse selection of Bunuel's literary work should provide the American reader with a much greater understanding of the man and his work, and with hours of enjoyment as well.""-Julie Jones, University of New Orleans; ""Bunuel didn't like to put words on paper, but thankfully he did, revealing the sly, shy, quirky, passionate, unpredictable genius whose superbly subversive films were everything but shy. This trove of reluctant writings is a rare and historical treat.""-Charles Champlin, retired arts editor, Los Angeles Times"
