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Around Town: Salutes to Bunuel and the hero of 'Hugo,' Melies

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The Aero Theatre kicks off the American Cinematheque’s “Curse and Kink: A Luis Bunuel Retrospective” on Thursday evening with his seminal 1930 surreal short film “L’Age D’or” — this is the film in which they slice an eyeball with a razor blade — and the 1950 docudrama “The Young and the Damned.”

Scheduled for Friday at the Aero is Bunuel’s 1967 French classic, “Belle de Jour,” starring Catherine Deneuve as a housewife who becomes a prostitute, and the filmmaker’s 1964 drama, “Diary of a Chambermaid,” with Jeanne Moreau. Saturday’s offerings are two from Mexico: 1962’s “The Exterminating Angel” and 1959’s “The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de La Cruz."

The festival moves to the Egyptian Sunday evening with Bunuel's French 1973 foreign-language Oscar winner, “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” and the 1961 Spanish drama “Viridiana.”

 The Aero celebrates the works of French film pioneer Georges Melies, who is the subject of Martin Scorsese’s’ “Hugo,” early Sunday evening with a program of his shorts, including 1903s “The Cake-Walk Infernal,” 1900’s “Joan of Arc” and 1900’s How He Missed His Train.”

Source: Los Angeles Times