Your hardly young but certainly damned hosts Daniel and Corky review Luis Buñuel’s surrealistic neo-Realist classic.
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.”
The influence of Los Olvidados
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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