The Exterminating Angel 1962  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery
aka: El Angel Exterminador
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Enrique Rambal, Lucy Gallardo, Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Enrique Rambal, Antonio Bravo, Cesar del Campo, Rosa Elena Durgel, Lucy Gallardo, Enrique Garcia Alvarez, Ofelia Guilmain, Nadia Haro Oliva
While attending a dinner party, the guests are entranced by their host's music room and then find that, for reasons unknown to them, they are trapped in the room. As the days pass, they are reduced to living like savages. Russell (Antonio Bravo) dies, and the other guests put his body in a cupboard. More guests die, and the situation deteriorates until it is suggested that they sacrifice Nobile (Enrique Rambal). Then Letitia (Sylvia Pinal) recommends that they retrace their actions of the last days, and they find themselves freed from the room. Celebrating their freedom, the guests attend mass at a cathedral–only to find that they, along with the priest and congregation, are now trapped inside the cathedral.
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Simon of the Desert 1965  N/R, 45 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santovena, Enrique Alvarez Felix, Enrique del Castillo, Jesus Fernandez, Luis Aceves Castaneda, Antonio Bravo, Francisco Reiguera, Enrique Garcia Alvarez, Eduardo MacGregor
Simon (Claudio Brook) is an extremely religious man in the fifth century who has been standing on a tall column in a desert for over six-and-a-half years. Crowds gather as he dispenses healing to the deserving or hands out punishment as needed. Meanwhile, the Devil (Silvia Pinal andk Francisco Reiguera) shows up in several forms to entice Simon off the column, but he recognizes her each time. She finally gets him off, and takes him to a disco in 1960s Manhattan. The film stopped abruptly when Bunuel ran out of money, but he still made his anti-Christian point.
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| 1. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
aka: El Angel Exterminador
2. Simon of the Desert (1965)
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