Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 3

The Exterminating Angel (1962; Dir.: Luis Buñuel)

Daniel and Corky enjoy their descent into madness and despair courtesy of Luis Buñuel’s surrealist satire The Exterminating Angel.

THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (1962) FACTS & FIGURES

Cannes Film Festival debut: May 16, 1962

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics List Ranking: #169 [tied]

IMDB synopsis: “The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.”

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original trailer for The Exterminating Angel

“Forgive him.”

Lambs to the slaughter

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

Bicycle Thieves (1948; Dir.: Vittorio De Sica)

IMDB synopsis: “In post-war Italy, a working-class man’s bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.”

Our review of Bicycle Thieves comes out on Dec. 26!

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