Unspeakable Betrayal

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).

• Acknowledgments Forewordby Jean-Claude CarriereSurrealist WritingsAn Unspeakable Betrayal Orchestration Suburbs: Motifs Unnoticed Tragedies as Themes for a Totally New Theater Why 1 Don't Wear a Watch Theorem Lucille and Her Three Fish Deluge Ramuneta at the Beach Cava/feria rusticana The Pleasant Orders of St. Huesca Letter to Pepin Bello on St. Valero's Day Idea for a Story La Sancta Misa Vaticanae Menage a trois A Decent Story On Love A Giraffe An Andalusian DogFor Myself I Would Like Miraculous Polisher It Seems to Me Neither Good nor Evil Upon Getting into Bed The Rainbow and the Poultice Redemptress Bacchanal Odor of Sanctity Palace of Ice Bird of Anguish TheaterHamlet Guignol On CinemaBUNUEL AS CRITICA Night at the Studio des Ursulines Metropolis Fred Niblo's Camille Abel Gance's Napoleon Victor Fleming's The Way of All Flesh Buster Keaton's College Variations on Adolphe Menjou's Mustache News from Hollywood Our Poets and the Cinema Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc The Comic in Cinema BUNUEL AS THEORISTThe Cinematic Shot Decoupage, or Cinematic Segmentation Cinema as an Instrument of Poetry BUNUEL AS SCRIPTWRITERGoya and the Duchess of Alba Un Chien andalou L'Age d'or Gags Hallucinations about a Dead Hand Illegible, the Son of a Flute Agon (Swansong) Bunuel on BunuelLand without Bread Viridiana To PECIME Autobiographical WritingsFragments of a Journal from Bufiuel's Youth in Calanda Medieval Memories of Lower Aragon From Bufiuel's Autobiography Pessimism Afterwordby Juan Luis Bufiuel and Rafael Bufiuel

"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