Bunuel, Luis

Bude, Guillaume, 31 Bunuel, Luis, 115, 120, 121 Burgkmair, Hans, 28 Burton, Robert, 138... 

Chapter 4 "Presence d Hermes dans la ville (Le Picatrix, Gustav Meyrink, Luis Bunuel, George Miller)," in O Imagindrio da... 

Although particular filmmakers have been affiliated with hyperdrama— Luis Bunuel throughout his career, from Spain to Mexico to France—the genre is more often affiliated with humorists, such as Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers. Modern Times (1936) is a fable about industrialization and its explicit tendency to mechanize and dehumanize. The many set-pieces in the film have an internal logic, but they are so fabulist in their content that realism is actually beside the point. A similar quality infuses the majority of Chaplin s work. 

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