Talk:Land Without Bread

Not a neutral article
This article clearly exhibits a POV about this movie and Luis Buñuel. Maybe that's because the article's largely based on a non-encyclopedic article by Jeffrey Ruoff. Examples: "The result was a travelogue in which a disinterested narrator provides unverifiable, gratuitous, and wildly exaggerated descriptions of the human misery of Las Hurdes." and "Luis Buñuel was not above slaughtering several animals to deliver his message". I think the article needs to be reworded so that it is completely neutral. Some passaged might have to be deleted altogether. Daaf 23:38, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Sources don't need to be encyclopedic, just reliable. Ruoff's article was published in a peer-reviewed journal, so it's reliable. We should, however, clearly attribute views to their sources.
 * The film is definitely a parody, so I hope we don't have to lose all mention of that fact in this article. Ruoff himself describes the film as such, and as he is a reliable source, all we need do is cite him.--Media anthro 00:05, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * This article is improved, but I think that some of Daaf's criticisms are still valid. The phrase "unverifiable, gratuitous, and wildly exaggerated" is inappropriately argumentative for an encyclopedia. And the sentence "Although some film scholars describe it as a documentary, Land Without Bread is actually an early (some might say prescient) parody -- some would say a Surrealist parody -- of the barely invented genre of documentary filmmaking, according to anthropologist Jeffrey Ruoff" is a bit contorted. I made slight changes to both. Llajwa 15:15, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Staging animals' deaths, English narration
Can someone point me to a source that says Bruñuel had at least two animals slaughtered? Also, there is totally a version of this film with an English narration that I will find soon to mention up here... Enderandpeter (talk) 15:37, 18 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I haven't found that English narration, but I found an article that mentions the staged animal deaths. Took me long enough, eh? Ender  and  Peter  19:21, 30 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I have watched a version with English narration, but I'm not a source. Zabacad (talk) 21:26, 5 May 2013 (UTC)