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Oscar Nominees Announced – ‘The Power of the Dog’ Leads, ‘Drive My Car’ Makes the Cut in Best Picture

Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were announced this morning by actors Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross in twenty-three categories. The overall nominations leader is The Power of the Dog with 12 bids, including four acting nominations. Next up was Dune with ten bids, though it missed an expected mention for director Denis Villeneuve,…

Cate Blanchett to Star in Pedro Almodóvar’s First English Film, “A Manual For Cleaning Women”

Cate Blanchett will star in A Manual for Cleaning Women, the first English-language feature by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. The film, now in the early stages of development, is based on Lucia Berlin’s 2015 short-story collection about women working in subservient jobs, such as laundresses, switchboard operators, and housecleaners. During her career, Blanchett captured two…

Film Review – ‘Parallel Mothers’ is a Dependably Involving and Resonant Story from Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar is a filmmaker who has been regaling audiences with his fantastical and deeply engrossing stories for decades. Among his most celebrated works are Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, Talk to Her, and Volver. His ability to flesh out the inner thoughts and characteristics of seemingly ordinary…

New York Film Festival : Parallel Mothers / Press Conference with Director Pedro Almodóvar, Actress Penélope Cruz, Actress Milena Smit 

Synopsis : Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like…

78th Venice Film Festival Awards: Golden Lion Goes to Audrey Diwan’s abortion film, ‘Happening’

The 78th Venice Film Festival wrapped up on September 11, a year after the COVID pandemic took center stage, forcing the 2020 iteration to adopt a “more restrained” format.  This year’s jury was helmed by South Korea’s Bong Joon Ho, whose Parasite took top honors last year. The jurors wrapped up the two-week extravaganza by…

Top 3 Films That We Expected to See This Year!

Now, Toronto Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and New York Film Festival are coming up, around this time of the year, we start to see some Oscar contenders, so we decided to pick Top 3 movies that we expected to see this year. Abe Friedtanzer Dune West Side Story Parallel Mothers 2021 has been a…

Parallel Mothers / Trailer / Directed by Pedro Almodovar, Starring Penélope Cruz

PARALLEL MOTHERS A film by Pedro Almodovar Sony Pictures Classics will release the film in theaters on December 24, 2021 Starring Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, and Israel Elejalde, with Julieta Serrano and Rossy de Palma.    Synopsis : Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth.  Both are single and became pregnant by accident. online…

Film at Lincoln Center Announces 
Main Slate Selections for The 59th New York Film Festival

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES MAIN SLATE SELECTIONS FOR  THE 59th NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 32 features including new films from Pedro Almodóvar, Jane Campion, Jonas Carpignano, Joel Coen, Julia Ducournau, Bruno Dumont, Michelangelo Frammartino, Rebecca Hall, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Mia Hansen-Løve, Todd Haynes, Joanna Hogg, Hong Sangsoo, Tatiana Huezo, Radu Jude, Alexandre Koberidze, Kira Kovalenko, Nadav Lapid, Pietro…

Pedro Almodóvar Heading Back to Venice with Opener ‘Parallel Mothers’

Acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar will be back at the Venice Film Festival this year, with his latest, Parallel Mothers, opening the fest on September 1st. This film reteams Almodóvar with actress Penélope Cruz, who earned her first Oscar nomination for his 2006 entry Volver, and also stars Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Julieta Serrano…