My Top 10 Luis Buñuels

By: Jerry Johnson

-Kick-started avant-garde cinema
-Made the greatest fake documentary ever
-Re-edited Riefenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will” for American tastes
-Kicked Mexican cinema in the teeth
-Mastered the Mexican studio system
-Made two films for Hollywood
-Presented Generalissimo Franco with a Cannes-winning, gift-wrapped car bomb
-Made the greatest French actors his bitches
-Never stopped smoking
-Never stopped drinking
-Surrounded himself with priests on his death bed
-Life full circle
-Cinema full circle