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Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 3
The Exterminating Angel (1962; Dir.: Luis Buñuel)
Daniel and Corky enjoy their descent into madness and despair courtesy of Luis Buñuel’s surrealist satire The Exterminating Angel.
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (1962) FACTS & FIGURES
Cannes Film Festival debut: May 16, 1962
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics List Ranking: #169 [tied]
IMDB synopsis: “The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.”
CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS
Original trailer for The Exterminating Angel
“Forgive him.”
Lambs to the slaughter
NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE
Bicycle Thieves (1948; Dir.: Vittorio De Sica)
IMDB synopsis: “In post-war Italy, a working-class man’s bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.”
Our review of Bicycle Thieves comes out on Dec. 26!
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Sullivan’s Travels (1941; Dir.: Preston Sturges)
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