The Room Next Door Review: Or, Women Talking
Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door highlights his gift for gab in a talky drama starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore.
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The Classics Shelf: The 1999 Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival held in May 1999 was the last before the new, for some dreaded, millennium, and featured its own watershed moments, including an Almodóvar film that aged far better than the Palme winner.
Strange Way of Life Review: Short and Bittersweet Almodóvar
Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal star in Pedro Almodóvar's take on the "gay cowboy" trope, but their younger costars steal it.
The Criterion Shelf: A Tribute To Sony Pictures Classics
The latest edition of the Criterion Shelf surveys 30 years of Sony Pictures Classics streaming in Criterion Channel's anniversary salute, including Volver , The Lives of Others , and that bomb City of Lost Children .
Parallel Mothers Review: A Perfect Pair
Penélope Cruz and Pedro Almodóvar offer further proof they're among the best actor-director combos of any generation with Parallel Mothers .
NYFF Dispatch II: The Human Voice Review
A new Pedro Almodóvar film is always cause for celebration. Even a short one, especially one that so carefully harkens back and deepens, in turn, the Spanish director’s longstanding fascinations. The Human Voice, starring Tilda Swinton and “freely based” on Jean Cocteau’s 1928 play by the same name, is pure Almodóvar. It’s both a potent […]
The Criterion Shelf: Scores by Ryuichi Sakamoto
When interviewed, Ryuichi Sakamoto says that he's ”fascinated by the notion of a perpetual sound”, working to create not just a melody but a mood and even a way of thinking with his compositions.
Shelf Help: Easter Egg Hunt
Easter observer or not, nearly everyone can get behind a cinematic Easter egg. Those little self-referential nods from the filmmaker to the audience that lets them know we are in on their little jokes. Though some films or shows go a little overboard with their egg hunt, a perfectly placed Easter egg is a beautiful […]
The Criterion Shelf: Best Foreign Language Film Winners
Overwhelmed by options on the Criterion Channel? Bil Antoniou is your guide to the site's collections and wants to tell you where to start first.
Pain & Glory’s Antonio Banderas on Finding Himself Again
Antonio Banderas spoke to That Shelf about Pedro Almodóvar's Pain & Glory , where he plays an aging film director who reflects upon his career, creative stagnation, and the rich life that inspired his passion for the cinema.
TIFF 2019: Pain and Glory Review
TIFF 2019: Pain and Glory Review
I’m So Excited Review
Those expecting a campy trip in I'm So Excited will be disappointed to learn that they signed up for a didactic lecture from a vastly more cynical than usual Pedro Almodovar.
TIFF 2011: The Skin I Live In Review
The Skin I Live In is a hypnotizing feat, a contemporary reflection of The Brain That Wouldn’t Die resulting in a Frankenstein tale making sweet, Spanish love to body politics. Almodóvar is gently taking us by the hand down and leading us down a trail of science gone mad, and it feels as classically minded as it does completely original.-
