Question: Which film has the director who was born earlier, Witchfinder General (1968 film) or Nazarín?

It won the international prize at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards, but was not selected as a nominee. Although" Nazarín" is not one of Buñuel's most renowned films, it still holds a high reputation. Nazarín is a 1959 Mexican film directed by Luis Buñuel and co-written between Buñuel and Julio Alejandro, adapted from the eponymous novel of Benito Pérez Galdós. Andrei Tarkovsky named it one of his 10 favorite films. In April 2019, a restored version of the film was selected to be shown in the Cannes Classics section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. <SEP> When Buñuel died at age 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—was called" the most famous short film ever made" by critic Roger Ebert, 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. Luis Buñuel Portolés( 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish- born Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico and Spain. 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. His work spans two continents, three languages, and an array of genres, including experimental film, documentary, melodrama, satire, musical, erotica, comedy, romance, costume dramas, fantasy, crime film, adventure, and western. 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"< nowiki>'</ nowiki >s 2012 critics' poll of the top 250 films of all time. Fifteen of his films are included in the" They Shoot Pictures, Do n't They?" list of the 1,000 greatest films of all time, for which he ranks second only to Jean- Luc Godard, with sixteen, and he ranks number 13 on their list of the top 250 directors. <SEP> He is best known for the 1968 film" Witchfinder General"( known in the US as" Conqueror Worm"). Michael Reeves( 17 October 1943 – 11 February 1969) was an English film director and screenwriter. He died at the age of 25 from an accidental alcohol and barbiturate overdose. <SEP> Hassan Zee is a Pakistani- American film director who was born in Chakwal, Pakistan. <SEP> Edward J. Yates( September 16, 1918 – June 2, 2006) was an American television director who was the director of the ABC television program" American Bandstand" from 1952 until 1969. <SEP> The screenplay by Reeves and Tom Baker was based on Ronald Bassett's novel of the same name. Made on a low budget of under £ 100,000, the film was co-produced by Tigon British Film Productions and American International Pictures( AIP). In the United States," Witchfinder General" was retitled The Conqueror Worm( titled onscreen as Matthew Hopkins: Conqueror Worm) by AIP to link it with their earlier series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations directed by Roger Corman and starring Price; because its narrative bears no relation to any of Poe's stories, American prints book- end the film with the titular poem being read through narration by Price. The film is a heavily- fictionalised account of the murderous witch- hunting exploits of Matthew Hopkins( Price), a lawyer who falsely claimed to have been appointed as a by Parliament during the English Civil War to root out sorcery and witchcraft. Its plot follows Roundhead soldier Richard Marshall( Ogilvy), who relentlessly pursues Hopkins and his assistant John Stearne( Russell) after they prey on his fiancée Sara( Dwyer) and execute her priestly uncle John Lowes( Davies). Reeves directed many scenes of intense onscreen torture and violence that were considered unusually sadistic at the time. Upon its theatrical release throughout the spring and summer of 1968, the movie's gruesome content was met with disgust by several film critics in the UK, despite having been extensively censored by the British Board of Film Censors. Witchfinder General( titled onscreen as Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General) is a 1968 British- American historical horror film directed by Michael Reeves and starring Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Dwyer, Robert Russell and Rupert Davies. In the US, the film was shown virtually intact and was a box office success, but it was almost completely ignored by reviewers. " Witchfinder General" eventually developed into a cult film, partially attributable to Reeves's 1969 death from an alcohol and barbiturate overdose at the age of 25, only nine months after its release. Over the years, several prominent critics have championed the film, including Tim Lucas, J. Hoberman, Danny Peary, Robin Wood and Derek Malcolm; their praise has particularly targeted its direction, performances, and musical score by Paul Ferris. In 2005, the magazine" Total Film" named" Witchfinder General" the 15th- greatest horror film of all time.