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Scorsese, Nolan & Many More Filmmakers Urge US Congress To Save Cinemas: “We Fear For Their Future”

October 1, 2020 11:21 am

Cinemas are in trouble. And what makes it worse is that this existential problem facing movie theaters, which existed before the pandemic but has only been exacerbated by the virus, comes at a time when people...

Pedro Almodóvar Says He’s Working On A Dystopian Short Film Set In A World Where All The Theaters And Cultural Spaces Shut Down

Rafael Motamayor

September 5, 2020 2:31 pm

News

Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar isn't waiting for theaters to go back to normal before he resumes blowing us away with cinematic explorations of the human condition. Shortly after his first English-language f...

‘The Human Voice’ Is A Concentrated Half-Hour Dose Of Everything You Love About Almodóvar [Venice Review]

Jessica Kiang

September 3, 2020 11:04 am

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

The human voice is Tilda Swinton's, but the directorial voice is all Pedro Almodóvar in the Spanish legend's half-hour, English-language "The Human Voice." Freely adapting – read: ruthlessly modernizing and th...

‘The Human Voice’ Clip: Tilda Swinton Stars In Pedro Almódovar’s Venice-Bound Short

Charles Barfield

August 27, 2020 10:13 am

News, Trailers, Video

You would think a team-up between filmmaker Pedro Almódovar and actress Tilda Swinton would be absolutely perfect. For many film fans, it doesn’t get better than those two. However, there is a fatal flaw with ...

Venice Adds Pedro Almodovar’s Tilda Swinton-Starring Short & Regina King’s ‘One Night In Miami’

Charles Barfield

August 3, 2020 10:22 am

Festivals, News

The Venice Film Festival just got a bit more star power. As is common during the lead-up to festivals, the Italian event has augmented its offering of films with a couple of projects featuring some superstar t...

‘Madres Paralelas’: Pedro Almodóvar Teams With Penelope Cruz, Once Again, For His Next Feature

Charles Barfield

June 30, 2020 11:56 am

News

Filmmakers have seen their daily lives upended pretty dramatically due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Those that were filming when the outbreaks began around the world saw their productions halted. Some who were fi...

Pedro Almodóvar & Antonio Banderas Were “Treated Like Simpletons” By Madonna At A Dinner In The ’90s

Charles Barfield

April 10, 2020 2:05 pm

News

Dinner with Madonna has to be quite a memorable event, no matter the situation. However, for acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, his most famous dinner with Madonna turned into a night he’d like to forget, or...

Amidst Global Pandemic, Pedro Almodóvar Finds Solace In The “Pure Entertainment” Of James Bond Movies

Rafael Motamayor

April 4, 2020 4:41 pm

News

In times of crisis, like a global pandemic that has the entire film industry (and many other industries) in complete lockdown, many find comfort in movies and TV to get them through this mess. Sure, we still l...

Pedro Almodóvar’s Working On 2 English-Language Films, Including A Short Starring Tilda Swinton

Charles Barfield

February 11, 2020 1:57 pm

News

While “Pain & Glory” didn’t pick up any Oscars on Sunday, filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film is one of our favorites of the past year and has continued his tradition of releasing personal, beautiful w...

Oscar, Oscars Oscars 2020, Academy Awards

Seven Perplexing Questions As Six Days Of Oscars Voting Begins

Gregory Ellwood

January 2, 2020 5:44 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

Six days. That's it. Today, Thursday, January 2 through Tuesday, January, 7. Six full days for members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to vote for the nominees for the 2020 Oscars. This ra...

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