Cannes Film Festival winners: The Square with Claes Bang. “Gobsmackingly weird” Cannes Film Festival favorite may have a tough time landing a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nomination. As an aside, Ruben Östlund’s comedy-drama is totally unrelated to Jehane Noujaim’s…
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Sara Montiel Sara Montiel: Legendary Spanish movie and recording superstar dead at 85 Sara Montiel, a.k.a. Sarita Montiel a.k.a. Saritisima, one of the Spanish-speaking world’s biggest film and recording stars, died yesterday, April 8, ’13. Montiel, who was found dead…
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Dead Man Down with Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace. ‘Dead Man Down’: Colin Farrell latest box office bomb Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, whose Swedish-made The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo became an international blockbuster, and starring Colin Farrell, whose…
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I’m So Excited 2013 with Miguel Ángel Silvestre. ‘I’m So Excited’: Flamboyant Pedro Almodóvar trailer just can’t hide it Pedro Almodóvar’s upcoming movie, I’m So Excited / Los amantes pasajeros (literally, “passing lovers” and/or “passenger lovers”) has a new and…
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Fernando Guillen. Fernando Guillén: Pedro Almodóvar actor & ‘Don Juan in Hell’ Goya winner Fernando Guillén, a Spanish acting legend whose film, stage, and television career spanned close to six decades, died of cancer earlier today at a Madrid hospital.…
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‘Bad Education.’ Bad Education: Pedro Almodóvar’s complex, disturbing, brilliant gay film noir (in gorgeous color) One of Pedro Almodóvar’s most accomplished, most complex, and most daring films, Bad Education / La Mala educación is a disturbing, but also immensely moving…
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No Rest for the Wicked with José Coronado Pedro Almodóvar didn’t have much luck at the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Goya Awards this evening in Madrid: Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In won a total of…
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AFI FEST 2011 Guest Artistic Director Pedro Almodóvar has selected the following classic thrillers to be presented at the festival: Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Cercle rouge, Edmund Goulding’s Nightmare Alley, and Robert Siodmak’s The Killers.…
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Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In / La piel que habito Christophe Honoré & Catherine Deneuve to close Cannes Film Festival Christophe Honoré’s Les bien-aimés / The Beloved will close the 2011 Cannes…
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Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Biggest Snubs: Penélope Cruz and Yohana Cobo in Volver. Best Foreign Language Films Oscar: Biggest snubs Barbra Streisand - Yentl & The Prince of Tides: Biggest Oscar Snubs #5 I’ve always had a personal grudge…
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Sylvester Stallone Brazil comments leaves Twitter abuzz: The Expendables. On Thursday, at Comic-Con (a.k.a. Nerd-Con) 2010 in San Diego Sylvester Stallone explained (quote via ScreenCrave) why he chose Brazil to shoot the ultra-violent The Expendables, about a bunch of aging…
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Vera Farmiga on the Oscars’ Red Carpet. Best Supporting Actress nominee Vera Farmiga Vera Farmiga arrives at the 82nd Academy Awards, held on March 7 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Farmiga was a Best Supporting Actress nominee for her…