Pedro Almodovar
Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis,’ Films From Pedro Almodovar and Max Minghella Join Toronto Film Fest
The Toronto Film Festival has made its final lineup announcement for its 2024 edition, to include a North American premiere of Francis Ford Coppola’s dystopian epic Megalopolis and a world bow for Driven director Nick Hamm’s medieval action drama William Tell. Both movies, including the Cannes-bowing Megalopolis, will get a Gala premiere at Roy Thomson Hall. […]
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Venice 2024 Lineup Set to Kick-Start Awards Season
Alberto Barbera, it must be said, has done it again. The long-running director of the Venice Film Festival, who successfully repositioned the august Italian cinema event as an awards-season launchpad, on Tuesday unveiled another top-shelf lineup for the 81st Biennale (Aug. 28-Sept. 7). And, as Kendall Roy would say, it’s “all bangers, all the time.” […]
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Warner Bros. Takes Spain, Multiple International Territories for Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door’ With Tilda Swinton
Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language feature debut, The Room Next Door, starring Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore and John Turturro, for multiple international territories, the studio announced Wednesday. Warners will release the feature across much of Europe, including in Spain, Italy, Germany and the U.K., as well as across the Nordics and […]
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Julianne Moore Joins Pedro Almodovar’s ‘The Room Next Door’
Julianne Moore will star alongside Tilda Swinton in The Room Next Door, the first English-language feature from acclaimed, Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, his production company has confirmed. Almodóvar first spoke about Swinton’s casting last year. The Scottish actress starred in Almodovar’s 2021 short The Human Voice, which premiered in Venice and was one of the director’s first steps […]
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Pedro Almodóvar, Andy Lau, Lee Byung-hun, Park Seo-jun to Keynote Toronto Film Festival
The Toronto Film Festival has tapped Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar, Hong Kong multihyphenate Andy Lau and Korean superstars Lee Byung-hun and Park Seo-jun to topline its In Conversation With… series next month. Almodóvar, earlier announced to receive the Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media from Participant at TIFF, has been among the most successful European directors […]
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Spike Lee, Pedro Almodóvar Tapped for Toronto Film Festival Awards
Celebrated directors Pedro Almodóvar and Spike Lee will be honored at at the fifth annual TIFF Tribute Awards on Sept. 10, during the 2023 Toronto Film Festival, organizers said on Thursday. Spanish auteur Almodóvar will receive the Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media from Participant, while the Do the Right Thing and Da 5 Bloods filmmaker Lee will receive the TIFF Ebert […]
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Cannes: Saint Laurent Makes Chic Splash With Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Strange Way of Life’ as Debut Project From New Production Division
In fashion, credits are everything. This week in Cannes, French fashion house Saint Laurent graduated beyond “who are you wearing?” to “who made that movie?” courtesy of the world premiere of Pedro Almodovar’s gay Western Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. Because credits are crucial, now is the time to point […]
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Cannes: Ethan Hawke Praises ‘Strange Way of Life’ Co-Star Pedro Pascal as “Very Attractive, Extremely Talented Man”
One of the more intriguing selections at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — a 30-minute gay Western short film from beloved Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar, presented by French fashion house Saint Laurent and starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal — finally had its world premiere. Almodóvar, for one, was pleased as punch to see a capacity crowd […]
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‘Strange Way of Life’ Review: Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal Heat Up the Desert in Pedro Almodóvar’s Intoxicating Queer Western
The half-hour short about the reunion of former lovers also features Jason Fernández and José Condessa as the protagonists in their wild youth, with Manu Ríos as a guitar-strumming balladeer.
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Cannes: “Unacceptable” Festival Mishap at Pedro Almodóvar Event Sparks Mini Riot
The first full day of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival was marred by a festival mishap that resulted in dozens — perhaps even hundreds — of festivalgoers being turned away from a screening for which they possessed tickets, all after they had waited for more than an hour in pouring rain. Ticketholders for the 3 […]
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Pedro Almodóvar’s LGBTQ Western ‘Strange Way of Life’ Gets Cannes Premiere
Pedro Almodóvar’s Strange Way of Life, an LGBTQ-themed Western starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, will have its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, the festival confirmed Tuesday. The short, which sees The Northman star Ethan Hawke and The Last of Us‘ Pascal as two middle-aged gunslingers with a deep connection who meet […]
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Guillermo del Toro to be Honored at MoMA’s Film Benefit
Guillermo del Toro has a date with New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The Pinocchio auteur will be honored at the museum’s Film Benefit, presented by Chanel, on Dec. 8. It’s an institution he knows well. Del Toro’s work has appeared in several MoMA exhibitions, first in 1994 when his first film, Cronos, was selected […]
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