Los Olvidados (1950; Dir.: Luis Buñuel)

Canon Fodder Episode 12

Your hardly young but certainly damned hosts Daniel and Corky review Luis Buñuel’s surrealistic neo-Realist classic.

LOS OLVIDADOS FACTS & FIGURES

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics List Ranking: #157 (tied)

Mexican theatrical debut: Nov. 9, 1950

IMDB synopsis: “A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.”

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Trailer for Los Olvidados

Watch it for free on YouTube

The influence of Los Olvidados

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

Do the Right Thing (1989; Dir.: Spike Lee)

IMDB synopsis: “On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.”

Our review of Do the Right Thing comes out on May 7!

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