Pedro Almodovar Archives

Update: Anya Taylor-Joy Hasn’t Joined Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door’

April 9, 2024 9:47 am

Update: Sony Pictures Classics says, unfortunately, Anya-Taylor-Joy is not in the film. The Cinemacon event program apparently had a misprint. Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar is making his English-languag...

Spike Lee & Pedro Almodóvar Set As TIFF Tribute Awards Honorees

Gregory Ellwood

August 3, 2023 1:00 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, Festivals, News

It's still unclear if a large contingent of actors will make their way to all the fall festivals this year due to the SAG strike, but the Toronto International Film Festival is confidently moving forward with ...

‘Strange Way Of Life’ Review: Pedro Pascal & Ethan Hawke Pine For Their Unlived Romance in Pedro Almodóvar’s Terrific Western [Cannes]

Anna Bogutskaya

May 17, 2023 11:40 am

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

Pedro Almodóvar has never done Westerns. Not unless you count the winks at “Johnny Guitar” in “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” (1988) or “Duel in the Sun” in “Matador” (1985). Likely the most Americ...

‘A Manual For Cleaning Women’: Pedro Almodóvar Departs His English-Language Debut Film Starring Cate Blanchett

Charles Barfield

September 13, 2022 11:18 am

News

Every film directed by Pedro Almodóvar is a special event. He doesn’t seem to be capable of turning in something bland. For better or worse, often for better, the filmmaker presents features that are exciting,...

Cate Blanchett Says Todd Field’s ‘TAR’ Is About A “Fall From Grace” & Talks Finally Working With Pedro Almodóvar

Edward Davis

April 28, 2022 1:11 pm

News

Earlier this year, Film at Lincoln Center announced Cate Blanchett as the recipient of the organization’s 47th Chaplin Award, presented earlier this week (April 25) at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Congra...

Director Pedro Almodóvar Likens Will Smith’s Best Actor Acceptance Speech To That Of A “Cult Leader”

Christopher Marc

March 31, 2022 10:17 am

Awards, News

People are still reacting to Sunday’s Oscars ceremony after nominee Will Smith slapped guest presenter Chris Rock for telling a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Perspectives are still being shared on s...

Gina Rodriguez To Lead Apple’s TV Adaptation Of Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown’

Christopher Marc

January 20, 2022 10:05 am

News, Television

Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar is having a bit of a moment after releasing the well-received "Parallel Mothers" last year starring Penélope Cruz and will be making his English-language debut with Oscar-winn...

Pedro Almodóvar’s First English-Language Pic ‘A Manual For Cleaning Women’ To Star Cate Blanchett

Christopher Marc

January 7, 2022 6:28 pm

News

Recently seen in two of the biggest films of 2021, Oscar contenders “Nightmare Alley” from director Guillermo del Toro and Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” in-demand Oscar-winning Australian actress Cate Blanchet...

Pedro Almodóvar Would Direct A ‘Batgirl’ Film If He Can “Do It My Own Way”

Charles Barfield

November 17, 2021 1:43 pm

News

Ok, so today we learned Jane Campion will never take on a superhero film because she "actually hates" them. But that doesn't mean that every auteur filmmaker is anti-superhero, right? To serve as the yin to Ca...

Spain Shocks By Selecting ‘The Good Boss’ Over Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’ For International Oscar Consideration

Gregory Ellwood

October 5, 2021 1:36 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

In 1999, Spain selected "All About My Mother" as its submission for the Foreign Language Academy Award (now known as the International Film Oscar), and the Pedro Almodovar masterpiece won the coveted Oscar. Ju...

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