Features
Tuesday, August 2 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 1: Chantal Akerman - Bernardo Bertolucci
Neurotic New Yorkers, Queer Mavericks, Swedish close-ups and the art of putting a microphone on every person on set are but a few of the themes explored in PopMatters' first group of ten essential directors, Chantal Akerman through Bernardo Bertolucci. Please note that any perceived omissions were likely on purpose...
Friday, January 8 2010
The Best Independent / International Films of 2009
Looking for something far off the well-beaten mainstream path? Well, step on over to some savory world and outsider independent cinema. It's here where the risks, the experimentation, and the true art lives.
Friday, November 20 2009
Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Interview
What could possibly be better than getting face time with one of the most legendary filmmakers of all-time? Getting face time with Almodovar and getting him to talk about some of Matt Mazur's favorite things: Jessica Lange, Ingmar Bergman, and actresses behaving badly. Generous, energetic and all-around amazing, Almodovar talks to PopMatters about his new film, Broken Embraces and much more.
Friday, November 20 2009
Director Spotlight: Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most important directors currently working in film, a true legend. What is it about the great Spanish director that resonates so profoundly with spectators worldwide? His signature, colorful visual style? His keen awareness of and sensitivity to the issues of women? His audacity when portraying a large cross-section of sexuality in new, thrilling ways?
Thursday, November 19 2009
Lost in Translation
Though Almodovar's work seems to have penetrated the xenophobic American critical monolith, winning Oscars and scoring major points with stateside critics, he has often been taken to task by the European press. Bringing a special insight into Almodovar's place in the world of European filmmaking is a correspondent from Madrid, who turns a microscope on Pedro's role in post-Franco Spanish cinema, and the importance of his work as a European auteur.
Reviews
Tuesday, October 18 2011
New York Film Festival 2011: The Skin I Live In + The Artist + The Descendents
The many characters in The Descendants create a complex Venn diagram of Matt King’s community and a larger rumination on their interlocking pain, anger, and love.
Friday, October 14 2011
'The Skin I Live In': Ideas on Gender and Power
Impeccably filmed and laden with intriguing, thorny ideas, The Skin I Live In is nonetheless a glassy, curiously reserved affair comprised of equal parts camp and melodrama.
Monday, May 23 2011
Cannes Film Festival: 'La Piel Que Habito' and 'The Artist'
Though its formal parameters may be different for Pedro Almodóvar, the themes of La Piel Que Habito are familiar, including family dysfunction, and sexual transgression.
Monday, March 29 2010
Broken Embraces
Pedro Almodovar, like Brian dePalma, David Lynch and Dario Argento before him, has steeped his film in Freudianism, employing favorite Hitchcockian tropes of the voyeur, the blond, the double and the über-mother
Monday, November 23 2009
Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos)
Broken Embraces remains fixed on the ways that men seek control of the not-so-elusive Lena.
Blogs
Tuesday, August 2 2011
100 Essential Directors - Pedro Almodóvar
100 Essential Directors celebrates directors of distinct vision, who have honed their respective crafts, who have brought something new and exciting to the medium, and who continue to push the boundaries of the form.
News
Friday, November 4 2011
Pedro Almodóvar tries his hand at horror with ‘The Skin I Live In’
MIAMI — “The Skin I Live In” (“La piel que habito”), the 18th film from writer-director Pedro Almodovar, is a radical departure for the celebrated…
Tuesday, October 18 2011
‘Skin I Live In’ marks the latest in a long line of Banderas-Almodovar collaborations
LOS ANGELES — In the 25 years since he started making movies with Pedro Almodovar, Antonio Banderas says one thing hasn’t changed: The iconoclastic director…
