Tag: Pedro Almodovar
The Room Next Door | Review
Triumph of the Will: Almodovar’s Muy Excelente English Debut
“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems,” wrote Virginia Woolf in...
2024 European Film Awards: Jacques Audiard’s ‘Emilia Pérez’ Scoops Up Four Awards
Except perhaps Souleymane's Story's Abou Sangare biking away with the European Actor award (beating out Conclave's Ralph Fiennes) there were no surprises at last...
2024 TIFF: Luca Guadagnino, Brady Corbet, Pedro Almodóvar & Maura Delpero Land in Toronto
Filmmaker Brady Corbet will have to schlep twenty-six reels from Venice Italy to Toronto's Pearson Airport as The Brutalist is confirmed as part of...
2024 Venice: Corbet, Guadagnino, Haugerud, Kulumbegashvili, Salles, Tsangari & Yeo Siew Hua In Golden Lion Competition
21 films were selected for the 2024 Venice Film Festival competition and in the pack we find some surprises and several shoe-ins for the...
2024 Venice Film Festival Predictions: Luca Guadagnino, Brady Corbet & Dea Kulumbegashvili
Pedro Paramo
Dir. Rodrigo Prieto
Prod: Rafael Ley, Stacy Perskie, Francisco Ramos
A Netflix backed project that went into production in March of last year, Mexican cinematographer...
2024 TIFF/Venice: David Gordon Green “Nutcrackers” Opens Toronto, Almodóvar a Lock for Venice?
Sundance has Sebastian Silva. Cannes has the Dardenne Bros. And at this point, we can call him a VIP guest at Toronto Intl. Film...
2023 NYFF: Trân Anh Hùng, Garth Davis, Hayao Miyazaki, Harmony Korine & Steve McQueen in Spotlight Section
Last year's Spotlight Section managed to nab pair of highly sought-after titles in Bones and All and Women Talking and a pair of world...
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Out of Comp, Midnight, Special Screenings & Cannes Premiere
The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (May 16th until the 27th) begins exactly fifty days from now and from the one-hundred-plus feature...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #18. Pedro Almodóvar’s Strange Way of Life
Strange Way of Life
Pedro Almodóvar has been challenging himself as of late moving away from what could be repetitiveness and a certain complacency by...
2022 European Film Awards: Alcarràs, Close, Triangle of Sadness, Corsage & Holy Spider on 30 Short List
It's that time of year again where Euro titles from Venice of the previous year duke it out with Euro Cannes film productions of...
Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas) | Review
The Lives of Mothers: Almodovar’s Melodrama Mines the Personal and Political
Coincidences abound in Parallel Mothers, the latest soap dish from Spain’s perennial auteur, Pedro...
2021 Venice Film Festival: Blonde is MIA, Franco’s Sundown, Vasyanovych’s Reflection, Frammartino’s The Hole, Larrain’s Spencer in COMP
While Netflix is present Andrew Dominik's Blonde and Claire Denis' Fire is nowhere to be found, the official selection for the 2021 edition of...
The Human Voice | Review
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?: Almodovar Finds a Talking Cure in Lavish Short
In more ways than one, Pedro Almodóvar tackling an adaptation...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #19. Pedro Almodóvar’s Madres paralelas
Madres paralelas
Produced by Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Written by Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Penélope Cruz
Release Date/Prediction: If production does get greenlight in the1st quarter...
Criterion Collection: All About My Mother (1999) | Blu-ray Review
Pedro Almodóvar’s most exquisitely dramatic and compassionate film All About My Mother arrived in the final year of the last century, a supercharged queer...
2019 TIFF: Fest Lands World Preems to Cretton, Crowley, Finley, Heller, Kurzel, Iannucci, Waititi & Winterbottom
Confirming what will show at Telluride and Venice, the 2019 edition of the Toronto Intl.Film Festival has managed to land several World Preem and...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory
Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory becomes the auteur's eighth trip to the Competition and already, comes positive buzz from way back in March having...
Live from Cannes: 2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
While the competition jury have some major clout in the likes of Iñárritu, Lanthimos, Pawlikowski, Reichardt, Campillo, Alice Rohrwacher, Elle Fanning, Maimouna N’Diaye, and...
2019 Cannes Film Festival: Mati Diop, Jessica Hausner & Céline Sciamma In Competition
Expect the unexpected. A mix of new faces and veteran filmmakers will make up the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival with first works...
The Conversation: 2019 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
For several reasons, the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was something of a slight progression, if at least for the number of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #4. Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria) – Pedro Almodóvar
Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria)
One of the most influential Spanish auteurs of all time, Pedro Almodóvar will be set to unveil his 21st...
Video: Luis Ortega’s El Angel | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
A shiny, glossy and slick Argentinian import with the Almodovar bros. as producers, the Un Certain Regard selected El Angel by helmer Luis Ortega...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #18. Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows
Asghar Farhadi has quickly become the most prominent Iranian filmmaker over the past decade. After winning the Golden Bear at the 2011 Berlinale...
Video: Palme d’Or Jury – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
The final day of the Cannes Film Festival is one of trepidation and tremendous release - and I'd argue, that this applies to the...