Film Watch

Macario
Mexico, 1958
This Day of the Dead fable blends traditional folktale with Buñuelian social satire as it follows a luckless woodcutter's struggles against God, Satan, Death, and that deadliest of all beasts, the State.

Nazarín
Mexico, 1958
Gabriel Figueroa's cinematography lends stark beauty to an unforgiving landscape in this Buñuel classic about a priest whose Christlike charity is his undoing. “Marks Buñuel's creative peak in his Mexican period.”—Village Voice