tryavna wrote:Now, the question becomes: Does anybody know where one can find This Is the Dawn, Death in the Garden, and Fever Rises in El Pao with English subs? Those will be the last Bunuels that I have never seen -- or indeed that are still unavailable anywhere (even the bootleg market) with English subs, to the best of my knowledge.
Back in the dark days before DVD (ah, the 90s), I picked up two of these from Facets on VHS. I believe
La Fievre Monte a El Pao and
Cela s'appelle l'aurore both had subs.
Fievre was poor quality, near unwatchable with those white subtitles on the print itself.
Mort en ce Jardin got a legit release, if I remember correctly, and was pretty good beat-up sister to Clouzot's
Wages of Fear; definitely the most colorful of Bunuel's output at the time, with a great performance from Simone Signoret. I wish I knew what happened to the tapes I had. I must have pawned them off at some point in the road. Of the three,
Death in the Garden is by far the best, followed by
Dawn and then
El Pao, the latter being a political film that never really gelled for me. Atypical Bunuel.
I take it, then, that you've seen
La Hija del Engaño? That was one I found languishing unrented on a Mom-and-Pop videostore rack on unsubbed Mexican VHS back in the day and really enjoyed (I tried to convice the videostore owner to sell it to me, but she said no dice, so I duped it). I know it's gotten a release on DVD, but to my knowledge, no subs.