Search results for: Pedro Almodovar

The Film Society of Lincoln Center is looking to leverage its brand-spanking-new facilities as much as possible for the upcoming 49th annual New York Film Festival, which takes place from September 30-October 16. Already promising an expansion of screenings and panels, the FSLC announced today that it is adding two Gala nights to accompany screenings of two of the fall’s most anticipated films, David Cronenberg’s ‘A Dangerous Method,’ and Pedro Almodovar’s ‘The Skin I Live In.’

In a very short amount of time, NYC/LA based Filmnation Ent. have padded themselves a hell of a slate including Terrence Malick's forthcoming film (not The Tree of Life...the other one - see pic above) John Hillcoat's Wettest County and in this year's Cannes they have the excellent Take Shelter (in my top 2 from Sundance) and Pedro Almodovar's huge Main Comp buzz title.

Pedro Almodovar wasn't invited to Karlovy Vary this year, but in many ways the Spanish master filmmaker's influence among fellow Spanish filmmakers is evident in Dunia Ayaso & Felix Sabroso's "La isla interior" (The Island Inside). Apart from the subject of sexuality, this film has Almodovar's fingerprints all over it: beginning with the colorful design of the frames, the score which comes awfully close to Alberto Iglesias' work and the female cast which uses former Pedro film thesps in Geraldine Chaplin, who appeared in "Talk to Her" and Candela Peña who had a small part in "All About my Mother" and a third actress, who is the spitting image of a 1980's Carmen Maura.

Before releasing what I imagine is a cleaned up, DVD extra filled Blu-ray edition of Orlando, Sony Pictures Classics will re-release the pic in the art-house circuit starting July 23rd in NYC and Los Angeles. I've liked what they've down with re-releases for Pedro Almodóvar's films and Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger -- so this is on my must see for a 2nd time list.

Canada's most avant-garde film festival have released their entire slate for their 38th edition. Apart from Lee Daniel's pegged for Oscar - Precious, Lone Scherfig's An Education, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces (Los abrasos rotos), this year's edition is filled to the gills with obscure titles and names that even a hardcore connoisseur of world cinema such as myself is unfamiliar with.