
A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave in The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), a daring masterpiece from Luis Buñuel. Made just one year after his international sensation Viridiana, this film, full of eerie, comic absurdity, furthers Buñuel's wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes.
SPECIAL FEATURES
• Restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel, a 2008 documentary featuring writer Jean-Claude Carrière and filmmaker Juan Luis Buñuel
• Interviews with actor Silvia Pinal and filmmaker Arturo Ripstein from 2006
• Trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Marsha Kinder and an interview with director Luis Buñuel from the 1970s
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Simon of the Desert
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Simon of the Desert is Luis Buñuel’s wicked and wild take on the life of devoted ascetic Saint Simeon Stylites, who waited atop a pillar surrounded by a barren landscape for six years, six months, and six days, in order to prove his devotion to God. Yet the devil, in the figure of the beautiful Silvia Pinal, huddles below, trying to tempt him down. A skeptic’s vision of human conviction, Buñuel’s short and sweet satire is one of the master filmmaker’s most renowned works of surrealism.
SPECIAL FEATURES
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer
• A Mexican Buñuel (1995), 50-minute documentary by Emilio Maillé
• New interview with actress Silvia Pinal
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Michael Wood and a reprinted interview with Buñuel
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