Island of Shame

Starring: Luis Bunuel, Peter Matthiessen Dvd Release: 12th November, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Luis Buñuel was a surrealist filmmaker. Buñuel was born in Calanda, Teruel, Aragón, Spain. He had a strict Jesuit education & went to university in Madrid. He was a very close friend of Salvador Dalí & Federico García Lorca, among other important Spanish artists that were living in the Residencia de Estudiantes. After that, he moved to Paris to do film-related work. He married Jeanne Rucar in 1925. Buñuel became a Mexican citizen in 1948. His sons are film-maker Rafael Buñuel & Juan Luis Buñuel. He died in Mexico City of liver cirrhosis. His first movie, Un Chien Andalou, put him into film history due to its shocking imagery, such as the slicing of a womans eyeball. He continued using this surreal imagery that found fertile ground in Mexico. Famous are his scenes where chickens populate nightmares, women grow beards & aspiring saints are desired by luscious women. Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie, won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Belle de jour, starring Catherine Deneuve. Le journal dune femme de chambre, starring Jeanne Moreau.

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Peter Matthiessen is an American naturalist & author of historical fiction & non-fiction. Matthiessens work is known for its meticulous approach to research. He frequently focuses on American Indian issues & history, as in his detailed study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. In 1979, his book The Snow Leopard won the Contemporary Thought category of the National Book Award. His novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord, about an American missionary coming to a South American tribe, was made into a major Hollywood movie in 1991. More recently, Matthiessens fiction trilogy Killing Mr. Watson, Lost Mans River & Bone by Bone was based on accounts of Florida planter Edgar J Watsons death shortly after the Southwest Florida Hurricane of 1910. Matthiessen became a Zen practitioner & later a Buddhist priest. He lives in Sagaponack, New York. The Cloud Forest. A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness. Under the Mountain Wall. A Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age. The Atlantic Coast, a chapter in The American Heritage Book of Natural Wonders. Sal Si Puedes.

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