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Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in Spain, Mexico, and France. When Luis Buñuel died at age 83, his obituary in the New York Times called him "an iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later". His first picture—made in the silent era — was called "the most famous short film ever made" by critic Roger Ebert, and his last film —made 48 years later— won him Best Director awards from the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics. Writer Octavio Paz called Buñuel's work "the marriage of the film image to the poetic image, creating a new reality... scandalous and subversive". Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel created films from the 1920s through the 1970s. His work spans two continents, three languages, and an array of genres, including experimental film, documentary, melodrama, satire, musical, erotica, comedy, romance, costume dramas, fantasy, crime film, adventure, and western. Despite this variety, filmmaker John Huston believed that, regardless of genre, a Buñuel film is so distinctive as to be instantly recognizable, or, as Ingmar Bergman put it, "Buñuel nearly always made Buñuel films". Six of Buñuel's films are included in Sight & Sound's 2012 critics' poll of the top 250 films of all time. Fifteen of his films are included in the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? list of the 1,000 greatest films of all time, which is tied with John Ford for second-most, and he ranks number 14 on their list of the top 250 directors.
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1929
Un Chien AndalouMusic Supervisor, Producer, Director, Screenplay, Scenario Writer, Editor, and Man in Prolog (uncredited)
1930
L'Âge d'OrEditor, Screenplay, Director, and Music
1933
Land Without BreadDirector, Producer, Screenplay, and Editor
1950
The Young and the DamnedDirector and Screenplay
1962
ViridianaDirector, Editor, and Screenplay
1962
The Exterminating AngelDialogue, Director, and Screenplay
1964
Diary of a ChambermaidWriter, Editor, and Director
1965
Simon of the DesertScreenplay, Dialogue, and Director
1967
Belle de JourScreenplay, Director, and Man in Gardencafe - Left from the Duke (uncredited)
1969
The Milky WayDirector, Original Music Composer, Writer, and Voice (uncredited)
1970
TristanaDirector, Screenstory, and Producer
1971
Johnny Got His GunProducer
1972
The Discreet Charm of the BourgeoisieDirector, Sound Effects, and Screenplay
1974
The Phantom of LibertyDirector, Sound Effects, and Writer
1977
That Obscure Object of DesireDirector and Screenplay
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