Pedro Almodóvar
Certain filmmakers are such mainstays of the New York Film Festival that you can pretty…
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
It’s been a long time since short films have received the amount of hype around…
Strange Way of Life could fulfill all the clichés of the genre, with gunslingers, ranches, and a sheriff, but with a completely different angle.
In using the medium of melodrama for Parallel Mothers to convey such a message, Almodóvar has given us one of his best films in years.
A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover and a restless dog who doesn’t understand that his master has abandoned him.
The beautiful boldness of The Human Voice makes it clear that Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swinton are a match made in film lover’s heaven.
Just as Mallo does in the film’s final moments, Almodóvar reaches into the past to find new ways to create, to evolve, and eventually, find glory from pain.
In Dolor Y Gloria (Pain & Glory), a film director reflects on the choices he’s made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.
Julieta is an earnest drama and has been noticeably billed by Almodóvar himself as his welcome return to the “cinema of women”.
There are a million great films outside the U.S, it’s just you haven’t seen them. Good fortune smiles on you today because I’m here to show 15 foreign flicks you should have seen a long time ago.