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Owen Wilson Gives Luis Buñuel The Idea for THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL

i assume that most of ya’ll have seen this already, but i just re-watched Midnight in Paris this weekend and was struck by how much better and more thoroughly this silly little bit works than so many of the fun but one-note cameos that pepper the film. i mean, this is just a touch more pertinent to Gil’s reveries than Adrien Brody referring to himself as “Dali!” over and over again. 

cute movie. now where’s the twisted, vitriolic, and abstract Buñuel biopic for which the world* has been waiting? 

* in this case, the word “world” is used as a synonym for “me.” 

“My last abortive American project was the time Woody Allen proposed that I play myself in Annie Hall. He offered me thirty thousand dollars for two days’ work, but since the shooting schedule conflicted with my trip to New York, I declined, albeit not without some hesitation.(Marshall McLuhan wound up doing the self-portrait in my place, in the foyer of the movie theatre.)”

Luis Bunuel, excerpted from his memoir My Last Sigh.

McLuhan was good, Bunuel would have been brilliant. but anyone who saw MIDNIGHT IN PARIS might argue that Woody Allen never quite got over his urge to work with Bunuel,