Luis Buñuel and the Marx Brothers
December 26 to 30, 2011
Between Christmas and New Year's Eve, the Film Museum traditionally presents several films with the Marx Brothers - juxtaposed
with works by other filmmakers. This year's program invites audiences to consider Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo M. in conjunction
with one of the few artists who consistently equaled their passion for a surrealist-anarchist cinema - for film as a subversive
art: Luis Buñuel. The selection of Buñuel's masterpieces in this show includes Viridiana (1961), Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), Belle de jour (1967) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972); and it also brings us face to face with The Phantom of Liberty (1974) - a creature from that utopian realm where Don Luis and Groucho Marx dance their joyful pas de deux for all eternity.
Programme:
- A Day at the Races (1937)
- A Night at the Opera (1935)
- A Night in Casablanca (1946)
- At the Circus (1939)
- Belle de jour (Schöne des Tages) (1967)
- Duck Soup (1933)
- Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Der diskrete Charme der Bourgeoisie) (1972)
- Le Fantôme de la liberté (Das Gespenst der Freiheit) (1974)
- Le Journal d’une femme de chambre (Tagebuch einer Kammerzofe) (1964)
- Viridiana (1961)
