Pedro Almodóvar and Halina Reijn have a lot in common. They’re linked by Jean Cocteau’s 1930 play “The Human Voice,” which Almodóvar adapted into a short film (starring Tilda Swinton) as his first ...
Venice premiere "The Room Next Door" is Almodóvar's first English-language feature, but he already directed Swinton in the Jean Cocteau-inspired short "The Human Voice." Almodóvar has made two short ...
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 (UPI) --Julianne Moore said Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's movies inspired her craft as a young actor. Moore, 64, stars in Almodovar's latest film, The Room Next Door, in ...
While Pedro Almodóvar was making “The Room Next Door,” a film very much concerned with mortality and what comes after this life, the 75-year-old Spanish director started noticing something ...
Another week, another step toward the world as we knew it before COVID-19, thanks to nationwide vaccination efforts and the gradual reopening of theaters. A week after New York cinemas cautiously ...
An anti-conformist, Pedro Almodovar has dared everything in his immense cinematic career. Confronting impulses, drugs and unbridled sexuality, cross-dressing identities, over the years he has allowed ...
Is there another male filmmaker who so celebrates the mystery of women as much as Pedro Almodovar? Only maverick director George Cukor similarly delighted in the intricacies and moods of the female ...
When Pedro Almodóvar was a young boy, his mother would read and translate letters for their illiterate neighbors. One day, Almodóvar discovered that his mother was embellishing, even fabricating, what ...
The legendary auteur, who will be honored at the TIFF Tribute Awards, discusses bringing his queer Western 'Strange Way of Life' to Toronto, his fond memories of the fest and why he feels ready to ...
"The Room Next Door" cinematographer tells IndieWire about rising to the challenge of working for one of his childhood heroes. As a young man in Spain, cinematographer Eduard Grau grew up worshiping ...
“Sometimes I cry — can you believe it? There was one moment when I had to hide myself in the restroom,” Almodóvar tells Reijn, who does believe it, since she welled up on the set of her film too. “I ...