“Belle de Jour” (Luis Bunuel, 1967) at 4 p.m. on Bravo. Beauty and evil, madness and liberation, the sins and indiscretions of the bourgeoisie — all these are among the main themes of Bunuel’s great, ...
A new restoration of the 1967 film “Belle de Jour” opens Friday. Below is The Times’ original review from Dec. 19, 1968. It is one of life’s surprising ironies that the great Spanish director Luis ...
Since the 1960s, when she began as a feminist filmmaker working in the radical tradition of Jean-Luc Godard, Belgium’s Chantal Akerman has been at the center of the European avante-garde. Her world is ...