(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movies: Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, The Skin I Live In, Volver, The Human Voice, Bad Education, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Broken Embraces, Pepi, Luci, Bom, take your pick.…
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This week, we take true crime a little less seriously, remember what it was like to be 16, wait longingly for our lover, and more.
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Tilda Swinton puts on a blazing one-woman show in Pedro Almodóvar's English-language short film. Read our The Human Voice review.
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Pedro Almodóvar and his longtime collaborator Penelop Cruz are teaming up again for a motherhood-themed drama Madres Paraleles.
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The Pedro Almodovar English-language debut will follow his first English-language short film with Tilda Swinton, and will adapt A Manual for Cleaning Women.
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A new The Devil's Backbone book sheds light on the making of Guillermo del Toro's 2001 masterpiece – here's a sampler of things you need to know.
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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See the Wild Tales trailer. Argentina's Foreign Language Oscar nominee spins six tales of revenge. Produced by Pedro Almodóvar, directed by Damián Szifrón.
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Pedro Almodovar has had a wild few years, dodging from the wild horror tale The Skin I Live In to the brightly colored comedy I'm So Excited!, which was also generally little-seen, at least in the US. Now he's going to make a film called Silencio. Not to be confused with Martin Scorsese's upcoming Silence, this Almodovar…
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At first, Pedro Almodovar's new film I'm So Excited! seems to move away from the psycho-sexual weirdness of his last movie, The Skin I Live In and its predecessor Broken Embraces. The colors are bold, the energy is big, and the tone is defiantly upbeat, at least from what we've seen of the film to…
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It's going to be an arthouse-friendly summer. Following yesterday's announcement that Richard Linklater's Before Midnight would land in theaters Memorial Day weekend, Sony Classics has just set June and July openings for two more upcoming auteur releases, Pedro Almodovar's I'm So Excited and Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine. The news is less positive for DreamWorks' animation…
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One thing we can probably all use today is a light, colorful, perhaps even strange comedy. I'm So Excited! is the new film from Pedro Almodovar, and it couldn't appear to be more different from his last, The Skin I Live In. This brief teaser shows a few bored or irritated passengers on an airplane,…
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As 2012 comes to an end, it's time to look ahead to the cool stuff in store for 2013. A few new release dates have just been announced, promising a new year just as exciting on the cinematic front as the old one was. Hit the jump to read more about scheduling for George Clooney's…
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Every year during awards season, The Hollywood Reporter somehow organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress, writer and director of the year's best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty spectacular. What's even better is they release the videos of the full conversations so we can watch. For…
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Reviews out of Cannes might have been mixed at best, but the images and footage we've seen so far from The Skin I Live In, aka the reunion of Pedro Almodovar and Antonio Banderas, are just too weird to allow me to write the film off completely. The film is about experimentation, control, and sex,…
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If you're more interested in the typical fall slate of festival entrees than summer's glut of tentpole action fare, this is a great week. The Toronto International Film Festival announced the first wave of films that will play the fest in September. This is a batch of about 50 titles, which makes up only a…
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We've got a handful of release dates to share, with the biggest possibly being Guillermo del Toro's upcoming Pacific Rim, which, if things go well, will begin shooting late this summer or in early fall. Warner Bros. will distribute the Legendary Pictures production, and has just set July 12, 2013 as the release date. Pacific…
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Reviews at Cannes painted Pedro Almodovar's new film, The Skin I Live In, as a muddled but sometimes effective thriller. A new international teaser for the movie has landed, and it certainly hypes up the 'effective' part, even while suggesting the same all over the map tone of which some complained at Cannes. I got…
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Another of our most-anticipated Cannes premieres was shown to press early today, Cannes time, and reviews are hitting the web. Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In represents his first collaboration with actor Antonio Banderas in twenty years, and also marks a break in subject matter for the director. Based on Thierry Jonquet's novel Tarantula…
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The working team of director Pedro Almodovar and actor Antonio Banderas was once potent, and while Mr. Almodovar has continued to make excellent films since their last pairing (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! in 1990), Antonio Banderas has been slowly defanged over many years. So their reunion was reason enough to celebrate. The fact…
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Pedro Almodovar's new film, The Skin I Live In, has been picked up by Sony Classics and will play in competition at Cannes next month. The movie is definitely one of my most anticipated of the year, in part because it seems to be an excursion into new territory for the director. An adaptation of…
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One of the most enticing films that may well play Cannes this year -- and, yes, one of the more frightening ones, too -- is Pedro Almodovar's reunion with Antonio Banderas, The Skin I Live In. The film is based on a novel called Tarantula that is nominally about a plastic surgeon who takes revenge…
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 30 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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It's been a big Toronto Film Festival for Harvey Weinstein, as The Weinstein Company picked up films like Dirty Girl, Sarah's Key and the surprise hit of the fest, Submarine. But there's another Harvey-related buy that might not make him as happy: IFC has picked up Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, a documentary about the…
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Pedro Almodovar has been casting his next film La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In) and got things off to a big start by including Antonio Banderas, with whom the director has not worked since 1990. Now Almodovar has hired actresses Elena Anaya (Sex and Lucia) and Marisa Paredes. Both actresses have worked…
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Antonio Banderas and director Pedro Almodovar have made several movies together, but none since Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down in 1990. Now the pair are finally set to reunite in a film called La Piel que Habito (The Skin I Live In), which Almodovar calls "a terror film without screams or scares." THR pulled…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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