CINEMA

Luis Buñuel: Aesthetics of the Irrational Until Sun 6ICA, The Mall London, SW1Y 5AH The Luis Buñuel ICA retrospective spans from the beginning of his career to his last works. The season surveys Buñuel’s unique approaches to cinema, allowing full exploration of his enduring influence and fresh understanding of his essential legacy.

Tickets and further information www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/films

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

Buñuel, Lorca, Dalí: Culture, Biography and LegacyWith Nickolas Grace, Mike Dibb, Sarah Wright, Pablo Romero and María Delgado Wed 2, 6:30 pm Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square London, SW1W 9AN What does it mean to construct a life through film? How did the unique ethos of Madrid’s Residencia de Estudiantes where Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí all lived during the early 1920s influence the creative work of all three artists? This panel brings together a group of different cultural critics to examine the unique relationships between Lorca, Buñuel and Dalí, and the ways in which artists and filmmakers have sought to ‘capture’ both the ground-breaking aesthetics of the three artists and their unique cultural legacy.

Actor Nickolas Grace (who played Lorca in Bardem’s 1995 film Lorca, muerte de un poeta), filmmakers Mike Dibb (The Spirit of Lorca, BBC Arena 1986; The Fame and Shame of Salvador Dalí, BBC Arena 1996) and Pablo Romero (University of Roehempton,currently working on a new film on Buñuel’s Las Hurdes with Dibb), and academic and translator Sarah Wright (Royal Holloway, University of London) join Maria Delgado (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London) to discuss the culture, biography and legacy of Buñuel, Dalí and Lorca.

In English – Free entranceRSVP reservas.londres@cervantes.esFurther information http://londres.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha104152_22_1.htm

CINEMA

That Obscure Object of Desire + Round table discussion with Jean-Claude Carrière, Diego Buñuel and Tim Robey. Sun 6, 4.00pm ICA, The Mall London, SW1Y 5AH

Wealthy Frenchman Mathieu regales his fellow pas-sengers with the story of the dysfunctionalrelationship between himself and a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies. 

The screening is followed by a discussion with screenwriter and novelist Jean-Claude Carrière, Luis Buñuel’s grandson, the filmmaker Diego Buñuel and Tim Robey, film critic at The Telegraph.

Tickets and further information https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/luis-bunuel-obscure-object-desire

Cultural ProgrammeDecember 2015

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