Luis Buñuel on the prank he pulled on Fernando Rey during the filming of "Tristana" (1970): "Whenever I think of the shoot, I remember a joke I played on Fernando Rey. (As he's a very dear friend, I hope he'll forgive me this confession.) Like so many actors, Fernando had a healthy appreciation of his own popularity; he loved being recognized in the street and having people turn around and stare when he walked by. One day I told the production manager to bribe some local high school students to wait until Fernando and I were sitting side by side in a café, at which point the students were to come up to me, one by one, and ask for my autograph. They were instructed to ask only me and to ignore Fernando. When the scene was finally set, the first young man appeared and asked for my autograph, which I gave him happily. As soon as he walked away, without so much as a glance at Fernando, a second student arrived and did exactly the same thing. As the third stepped up, Fernando burst out laughing. When I asked him how he'd figured it out, he replied that the idea of someone asking me for an autograph and not him seemed so utterly impossible that he knew it had to be a joke." ("My Last Sigh", Buñuel, 1983) P.S: On this day, 56 years ago, "Tristana" (1970) was released in Spain.

Filmmakers praising Andrei Tarkovsky- A Thread: "I love all of Tarkovsky’s films. I love his personality and all his works. Every cut from his films is a marvelous image in itself." --- Akira Kurosawa (1/19)