Viva Pedro!

Eight re-releases in two weeks lead up to 'Volver'

"...The films of Pedro Almodóvar, Spain's all-grownup enfant terrible, stand out for many..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

¡Ay, Almodóvar!

You can't begin to explain the bewildering, gorgeous operatics of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's universe, where chance meets destiny and words take a way backseat to the communicative powers of hot, howling sex.

"...to explain the bewildering, gorgeous operatics of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's universe, where chance meets destiny and words take..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Pain and Glory

Almodóvar's latest classic is a self-portrait by a great, aging artist

"...Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar. Starring: Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Julieta

Almodóvar tracks the stages of a woman's life

"...Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar. Starring: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Rossy..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

All About My Mother

All About My Mother merges all of Almodóvar's noted preoccupations with women on the verge of nervous breakdowns, screwball melodramas, and flamboyant visual touches with a cohesive – and universal – story about the faces and roles we all adopt in public.

"...Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar. Starring: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz, Antonio..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pepi, Luci, Bom

"...Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar. Starring: Carmen Maura, Felix Rotaeta, Olvido Gara and..."

Jan. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I'm So Excited!

Pedro Almodóvar's comic romp aims sky high.

"...Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar. Starring: Antonio de la Torre, Hugo Silva, Miguel..."

July 26, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Volver

No working male director loves the community of women more than Almodóvar, and Volver is his ode of love to women’s congress and fortitude.

"...Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar. Starring: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Talk to Her

Gone, with one major exception, are the delicious hysterics of Almodóvar's earlier works; Talk to Her is a mostly restrained, though by no means unemotional, work about two men in love with comatose women.

"...Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar. Starring: Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bad Education

Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career: a film noir melodrama that maybe should be called film sanguine.

"...Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar. Starring: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Parallel Mothers

Almodóvar and Cruz's latest pairing unearths Spain's history

"...Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar. Starring: Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All About the Others

The Austin Film Society's Besides Almodovar: Other Spanish Directors

"...in the shadow of their more outrageously visible contemporary, Pedro Almodóvar. With the aim of giving his peers some..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

The Room Next Door

Old friends reconnect amidst a cancer diagnosis

"...Directed by: Pedro Almódovar. Starring: Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Alessandro..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

True Hollywood Stories

Men who are women, and women who poison men, and loons who wave guns, and punks who urinate on housewives who happen to love it.

"...Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvarby Paul Julian Smith..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Screens Feature by David Garza

Arrebato

Addicted to filmmaking in this newly restored Spanish horror

"...The package is from another filmmaker: Pedro (More), the cousin of José's ex, a high-strung obsessive..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Marjorie Baumgarten’s Top 10 Films of 2019

"...Almodóvar's most personal film is also his most profound. 3)..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

All Wrapped Up

From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.

"...films by noted directors. With All About My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar takes a more serious turn away from his..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

A T-Rex, Trivia, and Twilight, in This Week’s Recommended Events

Take those long arms and find a weekday happening

"...underseen by mainstream American audiences, aside from the great Pedro Almodóvar. Víctor Erice should be known on par with..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Exclusive: Nightbitch, The Room Next Door to Screen at Austin Film Festival

Fest adds five world premieres in second round of titles

"...Room Next Door. It’s another example of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar working with some of the greatest living actors..."

Sept. 16, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Carmen

Did Bizet's classic tragic opera need a soft reboot?

"...the run; destination: California, where Carmen’s godmother (played by Pedro Almodóvar regular Rossy de Palma) runs a nightclub and..."

July 7, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Chavela

A tribute to the life of iconic ranchera singer

"...in part to fans in Spain, such as filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar (one of the film’s speakers), who used her..."

Nov. 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Goodnight Mommy

Nine-year-old twins suspect that someone is impersonating their mother

"...with Haneke, either. Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face, Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In, Don Siegel’s Invasion..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Alleluia

A Belgian riff on the pitch-black legend of the Honeymoon Killers

"...Pedro Almodóvar regular Lola Dueñas is Gloria, a lonely, Belgian..."

July 31, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Decade Under the Influence

The 'Chronicle' movie critics take a look back at what the Aughts wrought

"...on my hand – "Wong Kar Wai! Michael Winterbottom! Pedro Almodóvar!" – only to absentmindedly wash it off in..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

It Came From Beyond

"I saw my first cadaver when I was about five years old. I saw my first rotting corpse at 10." Now, at 35, Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most promising horror film director.

"...the Spanish Civil War. His friend, Academy Award-winning director Pedro Almodóvar (All About My Mother), is co-producing the independent..."

July 21, 2000 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

Sexy Empowerment, Terror Tuesday, Book Adaptations, and More Weekday Recos

Local event suggestions for the arts inclined

"...you saw in America were either sex comedies by Pedro Almodóvar or movies trying to be an Almodóvar-esque sex..."

July 5, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

New Prints, Old Turtles, and Other Events This Week

Gotta gotta get out to get down

"...boring movies, ever. You can say a lot about Pedro Almodóvar’s controversial romance, which features Antonio Banderas as a..."

June 21, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Stormy Weather

AFS Essential Cinema presents Fire Beneath the Ice: Films of Iceland

"...Lola, a flamenco instructor. Lola is played by former Pedro Almodóvar muse Victoria Abril, and it's clever casting; Kormákur's..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Women in Trouble

"...cobbled together from pages left over from some forgotten Pedro Almodóvar shoot. Writer/director Gutierrez is actually a pal and..."

March 27, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cinema's Labyrinth

The year in film, 2006

"...(Volver), Maggie Cheung (Clean)BEST DIRECTORGuillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), Pedro Almodóvar (Volver), Paul Greengrass (United 93)BEST SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL &..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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