Pedro Almodovar

Venice Update: The Wordless Beauty and Brutality of Kim Ki-duk's Moebius and Scarlett Johansson in Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin

Pedro Almodóvar's I'm So Excited Is a Minor Work By a Major Master

Pedro Almodóvar on Why the World Is So Awful (and How His New Comedy Can Help)

Pedro Almodóvar's Forgotten Films: 5 of the Spanish Maestro’s Best Comedies

Top 12 LGBT Movies You Need To See, as Picked by Film Fest Organizers

Outfest, L.A.'s gay and lesbian film festival, ended on Sunday, reminding us that films about the LGBT experience serve an important role in the community, from teaching teenage boys and girls that it's alright to kiss other boys and girls, respectively, to connecting social activists with images su ... More >>

The First Best Picture: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

The AFI Films You Need to See

Our critics' recommendations for the best of the fest

The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) Review

OUTFEST 2011: Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Preview

Rapture at Cannes: The Twisted Poetry of Lars von Trier's "I am a Nazi" Scandal

​ After a week at the Cannes Film Festival, I left the south of France on Thursday morning fully aware that I would likely miss something major. The world's premiere showcase of top-shelf auteur cinema would go on without me for another few days, with many highly anticipated Competition title ... More >>

Cannes 2011: We the Jury

The Artist​ CANNES, FRANCE -- The fun is winding down and the sad thing is, there could have been even more. Cannes's programmers had carefully contrived a Palme d'Or celebrity death match between two wildly polarizing contenders with Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life in the white trunks an ... More >>

Cannes 2011: Karina Longworth's 21 Films Ranked From Worst to Best

​ Thanks to the idiosyncrasies of Air France's pricing schedule, I am departing Cannes on Thursday morning, before the premieres of some of the festival's most anticipated titles -- including the Ryan Gosling-starring Drive; This Must Be the Place, featuring Sean Penn in rock star drag; and ne ... More >>

Cannes 2011: The Quest to Avoid Lady Gaga Begins!

​ CANNES, FRANCE -- That faint noise wafting in mid-afternoon from across the Atlantic will not be the cacophony of bravos raising the Grand Palais roof in appreciation of the 65th Cannes Film Festival's opening attraction -- rather it will be the sound of the prolonged smooch that the fest's ... More >>

A Serbian Film: Kiddie Porn? Historical Satire? Both?

The legal battles of Eli Roth's "litmus test for dates"

Pedro Almodovar Takes Over YouTube, Claims Flamenco Dancer Invented Hip Hop, Brings on the "Global Gay Chic" with Raquel Welch-Cher Duet

YouTube has had the brilliant idea to allow celebrities to "curate" their front page with their 5 favorite YouTube videos. Today was Pedro Almodovar's turn and his selections are expectedly amazing, including making the claim that a Spanish cult actress (and Flamenco singer and dancer) invented hip ... More >>

Booty Central: Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America

New film documents America's funkiest TV dance show

Movie Reviews: Broken Embraces, Paa, A Single Man, Armored

Also, Four Seasons Lodge, the Vicious Kind, The Lovely Bones and more

L.A. Latino International Film Festival: Padres y Niños

Family matters at 13th annual fest

Bardem Farce: Javier Makes Whoopee With Scarlett, Rebecca and Penelope

is Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director

Let the Sunshine In

Last Thursday morning in Paris, the lineup was announced for the 60th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The announcement was made by Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux during a press conference held in a gilded and mirrored salon of the Hotel de Crillon, located on the Place de la Co ... More >>

Volver

Sweet Bird of Youth

Beethoven’s Nephew and Matador

All About his Mothers

Pedro Almodóvar’s great dames

Reality Czech

Post-Soviet aesthetics in Karlovy Vary

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, Antony and Cleopatra

Apocalypto

Darko director’s Cannes premiere is prophetic in all the wrong ways

Stuck in a Winter Wonderland Traffic Jam

Unholy Orders

Catholic damage in Almodóvar’s Bad Education, plus Conspiracy of Silence

Snaking Through the Garden of Delight

After the Lights Go Down

What's up at AFI Fest 2004

July Surprises

The Kerry-Edwards cute meet plus Bush’s search for Osama

Crying Time

The Saddest Music in the World’s surreally funny sob story

Angel in My Trailer

Sarah Polley redeems My Life Without Me

Can L.A. Get Beyond Cool?

Curator/critic Michael Duncan thinks so, and he’s got a show to prove it

Revolutionary Impulses

Fassbinder at LACMA

When Moore Is Not Enough

The Oscars give peace a glance

A Moment Like This

The Year in Film

Dead Alive

Almodóvar's Talk to Her

Playing Favorites

Queer and/or peculiar films that have mattered

Cinema Esperanto

The best and brightest from Spain 2001

Wild at Heart

Lovesickness in Winter Sleepers; cardiac arrest in Return to Me

The Dreamlife of Foreign-Film Distributors

New approaches, new audiences

To Niche or Not To Niche

Foreign-film distribution

Marx's Family, Galileo's Daughter and Socrates' Dog

A few of our favorite reads this year

What It Was

Meltdown Music

The best of '99

Women of the Year

Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother

Under the Skin

The 52nd Festival de Cannes

Imitations of Life

The Secret of My Success and Law of Desire