Luis Buñuel’s 1970 masterpiece Tristana (which closed the 8th New York Film Festival) is being re-released in New York today, at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, with little fanfare. But it gives me an excuse not only to show the many varied international posters for the film, but to also to display two fascinating pieces of ephemera.
The first is this photograph, below, which blew my mind when I saw it in the Telegraph magazine in the UK this summer. A slightly different version appears in Buñuel’s autobiography My Last Sigh, where he tells the story behind it (his longtime collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière—“I am the only one from this picture still alive”—gave his own account in the Telegraph). Two years after Tristana, the 72-year-old director was in Los Angeles to present his next film, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, at the L.A. Film Festival, and George Cukor,...
The first is this photograph, below, which blew my mind when I saw it in the Telegraph magazine in the UK this summer. A slightly different version appears in Buñuel’s autobiography My Last Sigh, where he tells the story behind it (his longtime collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière—“I am the only one from this picture still alive”—gave his own account in the Telegraph). Two years after Tristana, the 72-year-old director was in Los Angeles to present his next film, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, at the L.A. Film Festival, and George Cukor,...
- 10/12/2012
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
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