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Engaging tribute to master of provocative film-making
ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a new take on the great Spanish film-maker Luis Bunuel
DEFTLY SKETCHED: Bunuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
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The bard serenades the Diggers of Wigan and their festive followers
ALEXEI SAYLE speaks to Angus Reid about a lifetime of protest, how to hone political art – and what to do now
ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH, LEO BOIX and MARIA DUARTE review Just An Illusion, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Blue Film, Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, and Runner
MARIA DUARTE recommends a nerve-wracking reconstruction of the 72 hours before the Normandy landings
Bunuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
by Fermin Solis
(SelfMadeHero, £14.99)
LUIS BUNUEL made his first film just before the 1929 Wall Street Crash and retired from the director’s chair soon after the advent of the home computer.
His half century of creative provocation began with the grotesque surrealism of Un Chien Andalou (1929), an avant-garde classic of the silent era, and closed with a series of late flourishes: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), The Phantom of Liberty (1974) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977).
These are cinematic masterpieces – humorous, poetic and more overtly political than his early work.
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ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
ANDY HEDGECOCK is astonished by a portrait of contemporary Greece, complete with political protest, organised crime and people trafficking, told from the point of view of — wait for it — runaway poultry