Buñuel

American  

[boon-wel, boo-nywel] / bunˈwɛl, buˈnywɛl /

noun

1. Luis 1900–83, Spanish film director.

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Buñuel British  

/ buˈɲwel /

noun

1. Luis (lwis). 1900–83, Spanish film director. He collaborated with Salvador Dali on the first surrealist films, Un Chien andalou (1929) and L'Age d'or (1930). His later films include Viridiana (1961), Belle de jour (1966), and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

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Example Sentences

Zvulun, who turns to fascist Italy in the years before World War II, counts as his inspirations the films by Federico Fellini and Luis Buñuel.

From Los Angeles Times

Fluent in posturing and hypocrisy, Ulman looks like an influencer and thinks like Luis Buñuel.

From Los Angeles Times

As mordant in its way as the slyly subversive movies Luis Buñuel made in Mexico, Brocka’s two-fisted melodrama is a hellish, compelling work by a director whom the French critic Serge Daney, then editor of Cahiers du Cinéma, called “the great filmmaker of the ’70s.”

From New York Times

The hive of activity is the Palais, a massive complex by the sea full of cinemas with names like Buñuel, Bazin and, the granddaddy, the Grand Théâtre Lumière.

From Seattle Times

“The Exterminating Angel,” with a libretto by Adès and Tom Cairns adapted from Luis Buñuel’s surrealist film, is one of the finest operas of the century so far, alongside works by George Benjamin and Kaija Saariaho.

From New York Times