Luis Bunuel. Surrealist Filmmaker. Painting By Salvador Dali Editorial Image

Luis Buñuel Portolés Spanish: 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983 was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain and collaborated with Salvador Dali on his first two films, the first, Un Chien Andalou was financed by Dali`s mother. Dali painted this portrait of him.When Buñuel died at age 83, his obituary in The New York Times called him `an iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later` His first picture, Un Chien Andalou—made in the silent era—is still viewed regularly throughout the world and retains its power to shock the viewer, and his last film, That Obscure Object of Desire—made 48 years later—won him Best Director awards from the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics. Writer Octavio Paz called Buñuel`s work `the marriage of the film image to the poetic image, creating a new reality...scandalous and subversive`.Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel created films from the 1920s through the 1970s. Having worked in Europe and North America, and in French and Spanish, Buñuel also directed films spanning various genres.