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PEDRO ALMODOVAR


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'Father Mother Sister Brother' wins top prize at the Venice Film Festival

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Jim Jarmusch's film โ€œFather Mother Sister Brotherโ€ has won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.

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From โ€˜The Brutalist' to 'Wicked,' where to watch this yearโ€™s Oscar-nominated movies

Read full article: From โ€˜The Brutalist' to 'Wicked,' where to watch this yearโ€™s Oscar-nominated movies

The 2025 Oscars season is in full swing but figuring out where to watch everything can be overwhelming.

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Tilda Swinton explores assisted suicide in Pedro Almodovarโ€™s 'The Room Next Door'

Read full article: Tilda Swinton explores assisted suicide in Pedro Almodovarโ€™s 'The Room Next Door'

Although โ€œThe Room Next Doorโ€ is Pedro Almodรณvarโ€™s first English-language feature, Tilda Swinton says itโ€™s in the directorโ€™s inimitable style.

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โ€˜The Room Next Door' tops Venice Film Festival. Nicole Kidman misses acting honor due to momโ€™s death

Read full article: โ€˜The Room Next Door' tops Venice Film Festival. Nicole Kidman misses acting honor due to momโ€™s death

Pedro Almodรณvarโ€™s โ€œThe Room Next Doorโ€ won the Venice Film Festivalโ€™s Golden Lion award Saturday.

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Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix bring 'Joker: Folie ร  Deuxโ€™ to Venice Film Festival

Read full article: Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix bring 'Joker: Folie ร  Deuxโ€™ to Venice Film Festival

Five years after โ€œJokerโ€ won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, director Todd Phillips canโ€™t help but be a little nervous about returning with its sequel.

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Almodรณvar returns to Venice with 'The Room Next Door' and gets a nearly 20 minute ovation

Read full article: Almodรณvar returns to Venice with 'The Room Next Door' and gets a nearly 20 minute ovation

Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodรณvar is returning to the Venice Film Festival with stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore.

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Hereโ€™s everything you need to know about the Venice Film Festival

Read full article: Hereโ€™s everything you need to know about the Venice Film Festival

The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival has begun, with major Hollywood films and stars arriving in Italy.

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Venice Film Festival: From โ€˜Joker 2โ€™ to โ€˜Maria,โ€™ here are 10 movies to get excited about

Read full article: Venice Film Festival: From โ€˜Joker 2โ€™ to โ€˜Maria,โ€™ here are 10 movies to get excited about

Some of Hollywoodโ€™s biggest stars are getting ready to descend on the Venice Film Festival this week, from George Clooney and Angelina Jolie to Lady Gaga, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Joaquin Phoenix.

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New York Film Festival sets main slate with movies by Pedro Almodรณvar, Sean Baker and Mati Diop

Read full article: New York Film Festival sets main slate with movies by Pedro Almodรณvar, Sean Baker and Mati Diop

The New York Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the main slate for its 62nd edition with selections including Sean Bakerโ€™s Palme dโ€™Or-winning โ€œAnora,โ€ Pedro Almodรณvarโ€™s โ€œThe Room Next Doorโ€ and Mati Diopโ€™s โ€œDahomey.โ€.

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Venice Film Festival lineup includes โ€˜Joker 2,โ€™ films with Pitt, Clooney, Jolie, more

Read full article: Venice Film Festival lineup includes โ€˜Joker 2,โ€™ films with Pitt, Clooney, Jolie, more

Five years after โ€œJokerโ€ won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, filmmaker Todd Phillips is returning with the sequel.

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What to stream this week: Billy Joel sings, Dora explores and 'Food, Inc. 2' chows down

Read full article: What to stream this week: Billy Joel sings, Dora explores and 'Food, Inc. 2' chows down

This weekโ€™s new streaming entertainment releases include a sequel to the powerful documentary โ€œFood, Inc.,โ€ Dating expert Patti Stanger has a new TV show on The CW and โ€œDora the Explorerโ€ gets a reboot on Paramount+.

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Q&A: Liv Ullmann, cinema royalty and major Cannes draw, looks back

Read full article: Q&A: Liv Ullmann, cinema royalty and major Cannes draw, looks back

Very few are capable of capturing peopleโ€™s attention at the Cannes Film Festival like Liv Ullmann.

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Pedro Almodรณvar rides into the Western in a Cannes short about gay cowboys

Read full article: Pedro Almodรณvar rides into the Western in a Cannes short about gay cowboys

โ€œPedro.

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Almodรณvar pulls out of first English-language feature film

Read full article: Almodรณvar pulls out of first English-language feature film

Oscar-winning filmmaker Pedro Almodรณvar is withdrawing from his first English-language feature, "A Manual for Cleaning Womenโ€ produced by and starring Cate Blanchett.

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What to watch out for when Oscar noms are announced Tuesday

Read full article: What to watch out for when Oscar noms are announced Tuesday

Itโ€™s time again to celebrate Hollywoodโ€™s grandest ambitions and most daring risk takers.

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Q&A: Almodรณvar on unearthing the past in 'Parallel Mothers'

Read full article: Q&A: Almodรณvar on unearthing the past in 'Parallel Mothers'

Pedro Almodรณvar's โ€œParallel Mothersโ€ stars Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit as young mothers who meet at the hospital and whose babies are accidentally switched at birth.

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Done with delays, Academy movie museum rolls out red carpet

Read full article: Done with delays, Academy movie museum rolls out red carpet

The projectors are rolling.

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Banderas skewers his own craft in 'Official Competition'

Read full article: Banderas skewers his own craft in 'Official Competition'

Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz have brought some laughs to the Venice Film Festival.

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No stranger to plagues, Venice opens film fest with caution

Read full article: No stranger to plagues, Venice opens film fest with caution

Venice's central place in the history of battling pandemics provides the backdrop to this yearโ€™s Venice Film Festival.

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Pedro Almodรณvar warns against algorithms in Instagram row

Read full article: Pedro Almodรณvar warns against algorithms in Instagram row

Spanish director Pedro Almodรณvar says society must be alert to the power of algorithms deciding what humans are permitted to see.

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Instagram apologizes for Almodรณvar film's poster censorship

Read full article: Instagram apologizes for Almodรณvar film's poster censorship

Instagram has apologized for removing the official poster for Spanish director Pedro Almodรณvarโ€™s new film from the social network for showing a nipple, after the posterโ€™s designer complained of censorship.

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Almodรณvarโ€™s โ€˜Madres paralelasโ€™ to open Venice Film Festival

Read full article: Almodรณvarโ€™s โ€˜Madres paralelasโ€™ to open Venice Film Festival

The Venice International Film Festival will kick off its 78th edition in September with the premiere of Pedro Almodรณvarโ€™s film โ€œMadres Paralelas.โ€.

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With fluent French, Jodie Foster at home again in Cannes

Read full article: With fluent French, Jodie Foster at home again in Cannes

In the first two days of Cannes, one thing everyone can agree on is that Jodie Foster really speaks terrific French.

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'Halloween' comes to Venice as Curtis gets lifetime award

Read full article: 'Halloween' comes to Venice as Curtis gets lifetime award

The Venice Film Festival is awarding its lifetime achievement award this year to Jamie Lee Curtis.

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Clooney honored by MoMA as actor, director and humanitarian

Read full article: Clooney honored by MoMA as actor, director and humanitarian

Clooney was honored Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, by co-stars and colleagues at the annual film benefit for the Museum of Modern Art, held virtually. MoMAโ€™s annual film benefit raises funds to bring great works of film to the museumโ€™s collection. Also giving virtual tributes Monday evening were actors Felicity Jones, Tiffany Boone, Kyle Chandler and Demian Bichir, who appear in โ€œA Midnight Sky,โ€ which Clooney stars in and directs. The benefit featured clips from some of Clooneyโ€™s many films: โ€œMichael Clayton,โ€ โ€œSyriana,โ€ "The Descendants,โ€ โ€œGravity,โ€ and โ€œGood Night, and Good Luck,โ€ among others. In earlier comments to The Associated Press, Clooney said โ€œGood Night, and Good Luckโ€ was probably his proudest professional accomplishment.

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Digital and drive-in, film festivals try to salvage a season

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This year, three of the four major fall film festivals, including Venice, are going forward despite the pandemic. This year, three of the four major fall film festivals all but Telluride, which had to cancel are going forward despite the pandemic. For a season predicated on badge-wearing throngs and marquee movies, its meant rethinking what a film festival is. A situation like this forces you to assess what is fundamental, says Dennis Lim, director of programming for the New York Film Festival. Anyone in Canada will be able to buy tickets to TIFF screenings, and New York Film Festival films will be briefly available nationwide.

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From Venice, a plea to reopen movie theaters shut by virus

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Director Pedro Almodovar, right, and actress Tilda Swinton pose on the red carpet of the movie 'The human voice' during the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival at the Venice Lido, Italy, Thursday, Sep. 3, 2020. The Venice Film Festival goes from Sept. 2 through Sept. 12. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)VENICE Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has joined a chorus of voices at the Venice Film Festival urging the reopening of movie theaters after coronavirus lockdowns, saying films are meant to be seen on the big screen, not at home. They went ahead with the first major in-person COVID-era film festival convinced they needed to chart a path forward for a film industry hard-hit by the lockdowns. What it means to be about to see a film, in Venice.

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Venice reclaims spotlight as 1st COVID-era film fest opens

Read full article: Venice reclaims spotlight as 1st COVID-era film fest opens

Festival attendees cycle in front of the main cinema ahead of the start of the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. The 77th edition of the worlds oldest film festival opening Wednesday looks nothing like its predecessors. Italys strict 10-week lockdown largely tamed the virus, but infections are now rebounding after summer vacations. Guests to the glamorous film festival are not exempt. Italian films are well represented, including the first Italian opening-night film in years, the out-of-competition family drama Lacci by Daniele Luchetti.

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Lincoln Center in New York City to honor Spike Lee in April

Read full article: Lincoln Center in New York City to honor Spike Lee in April

NEW YORK, NY โ€“ Spike Lee will receive Film at Lincoln Center's 46th Chaplin Award. Lincoln Center announced Thursday that the 62-year-old filmmaker will be honored in its annual fundraising gala on April 27. For its 50th anniversary last year, Lincoln Center skipped a Chaplin Award honoree and instead hosted a special gala that featured Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodovar, Tilda Swinton and others. The four previous Chaplin Award winners were Helen Mirren, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Robert Redford. Lee's last film, "BlacKkKlasman" was nominated for six Oscars including best picture.

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