◎Original vintage film poster by Karel Machalek for the film "Belle de Jour" by Louis Bunuel (czech title: Beladonna). 80 X 58 cm, in very good condition. Karel Zlín, also known as Karel Machálek (born 23 July 1937 in Zlín) is a Czech painter, sculptor and poet. After studying Applied Arts Secondary School in Uherské Hradi tě he studied at Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under Vlastimil Rada from 1957 to 1963. The following year, he began work, mostly paintings and illustrating books. He has designed dozens of movie posters. Besides artistic activities, Zlín is also a noted poet; his first collection of poems was published in 1969. In recent years he has also translated the works of other authors. In 1976 he settled in Paris and opened a studio in the Rue du Louvre [fr]. In recent years, he has been inspired in his artwork from his trips to Egypt. Luis Buñuel Portolés ( 22 February 1900 29 July 1983) was a Spanish-mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. When Buñuel died at the age of 83, his obituary in The New York Times called him "an iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later". His first picture, Un Chien Andalou made in the silent era is still viewed regularly throughout the world and retains its power to shock the viewer, and his last film, That Obscure Object of Desire made 48 years later won him Best Director awards from the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics. Writer Octavio Paz called Buñuel's work "the marriage of the film image to the poetic image, creating a new reality.scandalous and subversive". Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel created films from the 1920s through the 1970s. Having worked in Europe and North America, and in French and Spanish, Buñuel also directed films spanning various genres. Despite this variety, filmmaker John Huston believed that, regardless of genre, a Buñuel film is so distinctive as to be instantly recognizable, or, as Ingmar Bergman put it, "Buñuel nearly always made Buñuel films". Seven of Buñuel's films are included in Sight & Sound's 2012 critics' poll of the top 250 films of all time. Fifteen of his films are included in the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? list of the 1,000 greatest films of all time, second only to Jean-Luc Godard, with sixteen, and he ranks number 13 on their list of the top 250 directors. David Thomson names him as one of the greatest directors, adding "He is as intent on comedy as Kafka was, as little intent on showing off style, and as much a victim as the joke he tells.