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Pedro Almodóvar holds bilingual court.
Thu, Oct 8 2009 10:23 PM

The latest film from Pedro Almodóvar, "Broken Embraces," closes the New York Film Festival after coasting in on a wave of mediocre advance word. The most common complaint has been that Almodóvar is blatantly recycling himself, throwing around the same motifs as always (mothers and sons, melodrama, intimations of abuse) to lesser effect. But whatever... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Penélope Cruz, Pedro Almodóvar, Broken Embraces, Talk to Her, Lluís Homar, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Almodóvar gets left off the list.
Fri, Sep 18 2009 2:25 PM

There's a hot new drama from Pedro Almodóvar; it's just not his new movie. Spain's most famous living filmmaker has had a tempestuous relationship with the Spanish Cinema Academy for year. He and his brother Agustín left the Academy in a huff in 2005 to protest the new voting rules for the Goyas (Spain's Oscars). Now the Academy's returned... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Woody Allen, Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, Isabel Coixet, Pedro Almodóvar, Controversy, Abroad, Daniel Sanchez Arevalo, Broken Embraces, The Dancer and the Thief, Goyas, Fernando Trueba, Spain, Gordos

Cannes do.
Thu, Apr 23 2009 6:17 AM

The competition line-up for this year's Cannes Film Festival has been announced! A fair amount of Euro provocateurs -- Lars von Trier, Gaspar Noé, Michael Haneke -- and France in general, and only two American films, the expected Tarantino and the unexpected Ang Lee comedy, which hopefully has more to it than its trailer would indicate. New films from Jane... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Quentin Tarantino, Cannes 2009, Ang Lee, Terry Gilliam, Antichrist, Lars von Trier, Johnnie To, Park Chan-wook, Gaspar Noé, Michael Haneke, Jane Campion, Pedro Almodóvar, Taking Woodstock, Inglourious Basterds