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...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #5. Lucrecia Martel’s Zama
Zama
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Writer: Lucrecia Martel
We’ve been waiting quite a while for Zama, and had high hopes this would appear at either Cannes or Venice...
Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, Aquarius, Elle & Paterson Top our 2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel
Yesterday's George Miller led jury pronounced Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake as the best from the 2016 competition of twenty-one films, and they gave...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Pedro Almodovar Soaks in Silence with “Julieta”
Hovering around the twenty film mark, you might have thought that this Madrilenian's entire filmography was displayed on the Croisette, when in fact, excluding...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition
Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #6. Pedro Almodovar’s Julieta
Julieta
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Writer: Pedro Almodovar
Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar returns to high drama with Julieta following the sillier escapades of 2013's I'm So Excited. Showcasing...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #10. Lucrecia Martel’s Zama
Zama
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Writer: Lucrecia Martel
Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel has become one of her country’s most prolific filmmakers with three outstanding titles to her name,...
A Cannes Opener: 2016 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
A furious slew of titles in the works would seem to prophesize a robust main competition slate for Cannes 2016. Though our initial list...
Perfect Ten: Sony Pictures Classics Reteams with Almodóvar on “Silencio”
Almost a full year before it likely premieres In Comp at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival (where it will surely compete against his produced...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: Picks 100 to 6
While DC and Marvel might already have a lock on several future release dates past the 2015 campaign with the Coen Bros. circling February...
Tracking Shot June: Steve McQueen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and John Carney Filming New Projects
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on IONCINEMA.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and...
I’m So Excited | Review
Music Make You Lose Control: Almodovar’s Return to High Camp Shenanigans
Fans of Pedro Almodovar’s early works, like Dark Habits and Women on the Verge...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #30. Pedro Almodóvar’s I’m So Excited
I’m So Excited
Director/Writer: Pedro Almodóvar
Producer(s): Agustín Almodóvar
U.S. Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Paz Vega, Blanca Suárez, Lola Dueñas, Hugo Silva, Javier...
Sony Pictures Classics Just Can’t Hide It; Almodovar’s “I’m So Excited” Makes it 8 Between Label & Helmer
In a no-brainer deal, SPC have grabbed all North American rights to Pedro Almodóvar’s next project which begins lensing next month. Curiously the pic...
2011 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In Voted Top Film
It was shut out by the jury members at this year's festival, but Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In topped call films in...
