American Film Institute (AFI) announced today that internationally acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar will serve as its Guest Artistic Director at AFI FEST 2011 presented by Audi.
AFI FEST – celebrating its 25th year in 2011 – will take place November 3 through 10 in Hollywood, California at the historic Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
As Guest Artistic Director, Almodóvar will present a screening of hi...
Tuesday, December 26----Following the international success of Pedro Almodovar’s acclaimed femme fest VOLVER, arthouse distributor Sony Pictures Classics is presenting a national tour of eight Almodovar classics in spanking new 35mm prints. New Yorkers can sample the series when it unspools at the Walter Reade Theater starting tomorrow through January 3. VIVA PEDRO, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, is a wonderful way to see out the old year, or ring in the new one. And with ...
The opening ceremony for Cannes Film Festival opened with the presentation of Pedro Almodovar's "Bad Education". Quentin Tarantion head of the jury walked up with the film cast and Sofia Coppola and many more film talents.Also invited on the steps were the french showbiz demonstrators who did not prevent the protocole from running smoothly.talents....
Agnès Jaoui and Lucrezia Martel's films premiered the same day, include a music theme and were created with veteran fathersand/or producers. 'Look at Me' has been well received, the script is intelligent and the acting performances excellent. It is a film made for 'Cannes heaven'. Agnès Jaoui, is the partner of French veteran Jean Pierre Bacri, who plays the father 'Etienne', "a self-obsessed writer who ignores his daughter"; Agnès, plays herself - the singing teacher Sylvia Miller who doubt...
Today was the long awaited debut of the 57th Cannes Opening Film, Pedro Almodóvar's new film Bad Education. Fele Martinez and Gael Garcia Bernal, tackle the subject of sexual child abuse, set at a religious school in the 1960's and the free Madrid of the 1980's, the Spanish Mystic River at Cannes this year. Almodóvar, Martinez and Garcia Bernal were all present at the press conference on opening day. The gender bending Spanish director that has liberated film in his country after Franco explai...
