Repertory Pick: Party All Night
March 07, 2013
Film Info
- Mexico
- 1962
- 94 minutes
- Black and White
- 1.33:1
- Spanish
- Spine #459
A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave in Luis Buñuel’s daring masterpiece The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador). Made just one year after his international sensation Viridiana, this film, full of eerie, comic absurdity, furthers Buñuel’s wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes.
Cast
| Leticia “La Valkyrie” | Silvia Pinal |
| Edmundo Nobile | Enrique Rambal |
| Lucía de Nobile | Lucy Gallardo |
| Julio, the steward | Claudio Brook |
| Leandro Gomez | José Baviera |
| Carlos Conde, the doctor | Augusto Benedico |
| Sergio Russell | Antonio Bravo |
| Alicia de Roc | Jacqueline Andere |
| Alberto Roc | Enrique García Alvarez |
| Alvaro, the colonel | César del Campo |
| Silvia | Rosa Elena Durgel |
Credits
| Director | Luis Buñuel |
| Screenplay | Luis Buñuel |
| Based on a story by | Luis Alcoriza and Luis Buñuel |
| Cinematography | Gabriel Figueroa |
| Sound | José B. Carles |
| Production design | Jesús Bracho |
| Music | Raúl Lavista |
| Editing | Carlos Savage |
| Costume design | Georgette Somohano |
Disc Features
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel, a 2008 documentary featuring screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and director Juan Luis Buñuel
- New interviews with actress Silvia Pinal and filmmaker Arturo Ripstein
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Marsha Kinder and an interview with Buñuel from the 1970s
New cover by Neil Kellerhouse
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