Among the film world’s brilliant jokers and devoted anarchists, Luis Buñuel has no equal — never will. And in the great, daunting body of the Spanish director’s work, which spans five decades, That ...

"That Obscure Object of Desire" begins with an old man dumping a bucket of water onto a beautiful young woman who approaches him on a train ride. Mathieu (Fernando Rey), who appears to be a refined, ...

NEW YORK — Desire and power, the New York performance scene, Hindu goddess Chinnamasta and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant” are all mixed into Dean Moss’ latest ...

Buñuel’s final masterpiece, the story of a teen femme fatal and her middle-aged victim, is blatantly fetishistic (and also a satire of fetishism), an even funnier exercise in frustration than The ...