Pedro Almodovar

Bleak view of humanity, or a few giggles

Human endurance has long been the movies' supreme subject. Already, with the release of the wrenching new feature "Precious," we have traveled to hell and back with a 16-year-old incest survivor. More sexual violence is coming...

powered by

IFFI-2009 opens tomorrow

PANAJI: The International Film Festival of India (IFFI)-2009 will begin here on Monday with the screening of the Chinese historical drama “Wheat” by He Ping, while the festival will close on December 3 with the screening of the...

powered by

Chinese film 'Wheat' to open Goa IFFI

India's News.Net Saturday 21st November, 2009 (IANS) The 40th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will be inaugurated by veteran actress Waheeda Rehman at a glittering ceremony here Monday. Chinese film...

powered by

Opening This Weekend: ZOMG New Moon! Plus Sandra Bullock Makes the Boys Cry in The Blind Side

It might be just days before Thanksgiving (and, btw, when did that happen?), but if you head to a movie theater this weekend, don't be surprised if it feels a little bit like summertime. The box office is littered with...

powered by

Embrace Fergie & Cruz

Penelope Cruz, leading lady in the movies, and Fergie, leading lady with the Black Eyed Peas, both generate news with their menfolk. Penelope dates actor Javier Bar dem, and it's gossiped she maybe might be having baby Bardem....

powered by

Almodovar to make 'reunion' film

Pedro Almodovar has hinted he may bring together for a new film. The Oscar-winning Spanish director has made a habit of using his favourite actors time and time again, but has never cast Antonio and Penelope in the same film....

powered by

'Broken Embraces': The Very Picture Of Romance

Brace yourself: Things are about to get meta. Pedro Almodovar's latest picture strings a colorfully knotty love story across layers of dark film-within-a-film intrigue. Complex of plot, deft in its blending of comedy and...

powered by

Pedro Almodovar discusses childhood, influences and what he won't put on film

NEW YORK - Sex, drugs, prostitution, pedophilia, rape: Pedro Almodovar has been able to translate some of the most delicate subjects to the big screen with grace and humour. But the acclaimed maste...

powered by

Review: `Broken Embraces' is Almodovar's lastest

In the most indelible scene of "Broken Embraces" ("Los abrazos rotos"), Pedro Almodovar's latest vivid melodrama, Penelope Cruz plays dress-up. In her fourth film with Almodovar, Cruz gives her most glamorous performance yet _...

powered by

Movie Review: ‘Broken Embraces’

Pedro Almodóvar and Penelope Cruz Team Up Again It seems a renaissance of sorts is underway for Pedro Almodóvar’s breakout film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Almodóvar also resurrects Verge as the recognizable film...

powered by
1 2 3 4 5 next »