Simon of the Desert Blu-ray Silent Cinema Joan Micklin Silver's groundbreaking debut

Joan Micklin Silver's groundbreaking debut feature film vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of a young Orthodox Jewish woman who arrives in New York City from Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century

The only black executive at a Madison Avenue advertising firm unexpectedly becomes the chairman after a number of his colleagues 'waste' a vote on him not thinking anyone else would select him

all with a keen sense of humour and one of the richest visual palettes of the 1990s

27 mins): film starring Alan Bates

Simon of the Desert Blu-ray Silent Cinema Joan Micklin Silver's groundbreaking debut'Simon of the Desert' Director: Luis Buuel (1965) Radiance Blu ray 4K restoration Spanish w English subtitles A typically outrageous and provocative commentary on organised religion from Luis Buuel, presenting the parable of Simon the would be saint who leads an ascetic life at the top of a succession of pillars of varying height, while being continually tested with visits from a seductive incarnation of the Devil, memorably played by Silvia Pinal