for those who are interested jamelle bouie now had a youtube channel where he talks about current events and american political history, i highly recommend these two videos specifically
Buñuel and Silberman travelled to the United States in late 1972 to promote the film. Buñuel did not attend his own press screening in Los Angeles and told a Newsweek reporter that his favorite characters in the film were the cockroaches which appear in one of the dream sequences