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Countries: Spain
Genres: Short, Comedy
Languages: Spanish
Runtimes: 10
Tech Info: OFM:8 mm, PCS:Super 8, PFM:8 mm, RAT:1.37 : 1
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Pedro Almodóvar (writer)
Articles: "The Independent" (UK), 18 February 2008, Iss. 6659, pg. 19, by: Elizabeth Nash, "Almodovar films story of poet jailed by Franco", "The Independent Newspaper" (UK), 24 October 2006, Iss. 6247, pg. 19, by: Elizabeth Nash, "Almodovar's rtisqué early works are resurrected", "Premiere" (USA), September 2006, Vol. 20, Iss. 1, pg. 42-44, by: Glenn Kenny, "Vote For Pedro", "Erga kai imeres" (Greece), 23 July 2005, Iss. 28, pg. 11, by: Alexandra Rapti, "Pente thilika apo tin efivia tou Pedro", "Film Comment" (USA), November 2004, Vol. 40, Iss. 6, pg. 22-24, by: Gary Indiana, "Internal Affairs: Pedro Almodovar's 'Bad Education' intensifies the director's ongoing exploration of identities in crisis", "International Herald Tribune" (USA), 14 May 2004, Iss. 37691, pg. 8, by: Joan Dupont, "Almodóvar sets the tone at Cannes", "Cineaste" (USA), 2004, Vol. XXX, Iss. 1, pg. 4-8, by: Geoff Pingree, "Pedro Almodovar and the New Politics of Spain", "Entertainment Weekly" (USA), 21 February 2003, Iss. 696/697, pg. 102, by: Karen Valby, "Pedro Almodóvar", "Cinema" (Hungary), August 2001, Iss. 117, pg. 38-41, by: Pedro Almodóvar, "Hogy ti mekkorát nõttetek!", "Cinema" (Greece), November 1999, Iss. 106, pg. 66-77, by: Loukas Katsikas, "O andras pou agapouse tis ginekes", "Madison" (USA), November 1999, Vol. 1, Iss. 10, pg. 84-89, by: Robert Hofler, "Mama's Boy", "TV Guia" (Portugal), 1997, Iss. 983, pg. 118-119, "TV Filmes" (Portugal), 1996, Iss. 0, pg. 52
Trademarks: Often uses symbolism and metaphorical techniques to portray circular storylines., His films often portrays strong female characters and transsexuals., Uses only his last name for his "Film By" credit ("Un film de Almodóvar").
Biographical Movies: _Viva Pedro: The Life & Times of Pedro Almodóvar (2007) (V)_ (qv), _Tocadas por Almodóvar (2003) (TV)_ (qv), _Directed by Almodóvar (2007) (V)_ (qv), _Je tourne avec Almodovar (2003)_ (qv), _El Almodóvar que nadie conoce (2006) (TV)_ (qv), _Deconstructing Almodóvar (2007) (V)_ (qv), _All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar (2001) (TV)_ (qv)
Interviews: "The Advocate" (USA), 23 November 2004, Iss. 927, pg. 76-77, by: Alonso Duralde, "Holy terror", "Film Comment" (USA), October 2004, Vol. 40, Iss. 6, pg. 25, "The Curious Catholic: Pedro Almodovar interviewed by Gavin Smith", "To allo vima" (Greece), 16 May 2004, pg. 3, by: Yannis Zouboulakis, "I eklissia den me endiaferi oute os andipalos", "The Times Screen" (UK), 13 May 2004, pg. 2-3, by: James Christopher, "Bad Boy Grows Up", "The Friday Review (Guardian supplement)" (UK), 7 May 2004, pg. 4-6, by: Simon Hattenstone, "Educating Pedro", "The Advocate" (USA), 24 December 2002, Iss. 879, pg. 56-58, by: Alonso Duralde, "Pedro talks", "Premiere" (USA), December 2002, Vol. 16, Iss. 4, pg. 40-44, by: Mark Salisbury, "The Filmmaker Series", "Vox" (Hungary), May 2000, Vol. 1, Iss. 37, pg. 47, by: Edit Inotai, "Cinema" (Hungary), March 2000, Vol. 1, Iss. 100, pg. 72, "Tejet az olajoskannából", "Entertainment Weekly" (USA), 19 November 1999, Iss. 513, pg. 75-79, by: Betty Cortina, "On the Verge", "Diário de Notícias" (Portugal), 24 October 1999, pg. 46-47, by: Abel Coelho de Morais, "«Só consigo filmar com emoção»", "La Repubblica" (Italy), 15 September 1999, pg. 46, Maria Pia Fusco., "Cinema" (Greece), March 1998, Iss. 88, pg. 98-101, by: Antonis Karpetopoulos, "Mono otan prokalo eimai efharistimenos", "Diário de Notícias" (Portugal), 5 January 1998, pg. 34, by: Fernando Barciela, "Sight and Sound" (UK), 1996, Vol. 6, Iss. 2, pg. 24-27, by: Paul Julian Smith, "Première" (France), February 1994, Iss. 203, "Agustin & Pedro. Les plus attentifs aux géneriques des films de Pedro le savent déjà: il y a deux Almodóvar", by: C. Haas., "Cahiers du Cinéma" (France), January 1994, Iss. 476, by: Frédéric Strauss., "Empire" (UK), 1994, Iss. 61, pg. 7, by: Jeff Dawson, "Fotogramas" (Spain), October 1992, Iss. 1790, "Mi vanidad ya est satisfecha", by: P. Ponga., "Cahiers du Cinéma" (France), May 1992, Iss. 455-456, "Le Cinéma voyagé", by: Frédéric Strauss., "Cineforum" (Italy), April 1992, Iss. 313. "Perché il melodramma", by: E. Imparato., "Première" (France), February 1992, "Traitment de choc", by: J.J. Bernard., "Gai Pied Hebdo", 23 January 1992, Iss. 504, "Talons aiguilles et fleur bleue", by: E. Da Costa and R. Guinard., "L'Express", 12 December 1991, by: C. Duparc., "Studio Magazine", 20 June 1990, by: C. Wimphen., "Fotogramas" (Spain), February 1990, Iss. 1760, by: N. Vidal, "Las reglas del juego", "Positif" (France), May 1988, Iss. 327. by: P. Rouyer., "Chaplin" (Sweden), 1988, Vol. 30, Iss. 5, pg. 228-229+270, "Pedro Almodóvar - en motvillig surrealist", by: Gunnar Bergdahl, "Film Quarterly", November 1987, by: M. Kinder., "Plaisure and the New Spanish Mentality", "Fotogramas" (Spain), October 1986, Iss. 1723, by: B. López., "Todos los hermanos son homosexuales", "Fotogramas" (Spain), February 1985, Iss. 1705, by: J.A. Mahieu., "El único premio posible es el dinero", "Dirigido por..." (Spain), August-September 1984, Iss. 117, by: E. Alberich and L. Aller., "Casablanca", May 1984, Iss. 42., "Dirigido por..." (Spain), April 1984, Iss. 114., "Dirigido por..." (Spain), October 1983, Iss. 108, by: A. Llauradó., "Casablanca", November 1982, Iss. 23, by: C. Boyero., "Alphaville" (Spain), October-November 1982, Iss. 22-23., "Alphaville" (Spain), June-July 1982, Iss. 18-19., "Fotogramas" (Spain), May 1982, Iss. 1674. "La vida en un bolero", by: M. Torres., "Contracampo" (Spain), September 1981, Iss. 23, by: J.I. Francia and J. Pérez Perucha.
The highest overall acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since 'Luis Buñuel' (qv) be born inwardly a undersized town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impecunious Spanish parish of La Mancha. He arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survive beside selling previously owned items in the flea-market call El Rastro. Almodóvar couldn't gain knowledge of filmmaking because he didn't clench the funds to afford it. Besides, the filmmaking school be closed in hasty 70s by Franco's managing. Instead, he found a drudgery in the Spanish mobile cast and save his income to carry a Super 8 camera. From 1972 to 1978, he dynamic himself to seed stumpy films with the frequent of of his friends. The "premieres" of those early films were familiar in the hastily mushrooming world of the Spanish counter-culture. In few years, Almodóvar become a name of "La Movida", the pop cultural time of war of tardy 70s Madrid. His early crumb substantiate, _Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (1980)_ (qv), was made in 16 mm and blown-up to 35 mm in favour of city release. In 1987, he and his brother 'Agustín Almodóvar' (qv) developed their personal abundance company: El Deseo, S. A. The "Almodóvar phenomenon" have reach all ended the world, making his films drastically desirable in abundant come to what`s left.
Quotes: All my pictures individual an autobiographical amount, but that be askance, through the personages. In certainty, I am trailing everything that happen and that is to say said, but I am never chitchat distribute or embezzle a few myself encircled by initial party singular. Something in me--probably a distaste of outlandish exhibitionism--stops me from fundamental in acceptable limits a jut out over as very well autobiographically., Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew. When I got out of a movie with my sisters, I retold them the whole story. In general they liked my version better than the one they had seen., Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film., [on his experience in the Catholic boarding school he lived in as a young man and on which _La mala educación (2004)_ (qv) is based] The education we received was about guilt, sin, punishment., [on why it took ten years to finish the script for _La mala educación (2004)_ (qv)] [It] deals with my own biography . . . it took time to remove myself from it. Now it's not me. I changed the tone of the story, but the main situation is the same., I do remember having extreme physical fear of the priests. One of the things we had to do was kiss the priest's hand, which I found revolting. The notorious abuser, who eventually had to leave, had this harem of about 20 boys., I don't get involved with my actors. I don't get so involved with the films . . . If I lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I made 16 films., Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness., The characters in my films are assassins, rapists and so on, but I don't treat them as criminals, I talk about their humanity., My first ambition was to be a writer. I have always been very interested in writing. But it seems to me that I have more capacity for telling a story with images. It seems I have more talent for filmmaking than for writing a novel, which is my dream. I have always found it easy to let my imagination go. You do not just need imagination for filmmaking, you also need a lot of passion. When I discovered filmmaking as a way of telling stories, I felt that I had found something that was in my nature. I am glad that I had this ambition to be a novelist because it has helped me in filmmaking., In the last decade you can count the number of Hollywood dramas that have revolved around women. The studios have forgotten that women are fascinating.
Birth Notes: Calzada de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Books: Nuria Bouza Vidal. _The Films of Pedro Almodâovar._ ISBN 8450576849, Marvin D'Lugo. _Pedro Almodovar._ Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. ISBN 0252073614, Paul Julian Smith. _Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar._ New York: Verso, 1994., Kathleen Vernon, Barbara Morris (eds.). _Post Franco Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar._ Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995., Mark Allinson. _The Films of Pedro Almodovar._ London, England/New York: I.B. Tauris, 2001., Frederic Strauss (ed.). _Almodovar on Almodovar._ London/Boston: Faber & Faber, 1996., Antonio Holguin. _Pedro Almodovar._ Madrid, Spain: Ediciones Catedra, Coleccion Signo e Imagen, 1994. ISBN 8437612748, Nuria Vidal. _El cine de Pedro Almodóvar._ Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones Destino, Colección Destinolibro, 1990. ISBN 842331748X, Frederic Strauss. _Pedro Almodóvar: un cine visceral._ Madrid, Spain: Ediciones El Pais, 1995. ISBN 84-03-59709-6, Maria Antonia Garcia de Leon, Teresa Maldonado. _Pedro Almodóvar, la otra España cañí._ Ciudad Real, Spain: Diputación de Ciudad Real, Area de Cultura, 1989. ISBN 84-7789-01-2, Daniela Aronica. _Pedro Alodovar._ Rome, Italy: Il Castoro, 1993., _El cine de Pedro Almodóvar y su mundo._ Madrid, Spain: Universidad Complutense, 1990., _Aula 7. Los fantasmos del deseo. A proposito de Pedro Almodóvar._ Madrid, Spain: Colegios Mayores, 1988., F.B. Boquerini. _Pedro Almodovar._ Madrid, Spain: J.C., 1989., Sergio Naitza, Valeria Patane (eds.). _¡Folle folle folle Pedro! Il cinema di Pedro Almodóvar._ Cagliari, Italy: Tredicilune, 1992.
Magazine Covers: "To allo vima" (Greece), 16 May 2004, "Friday Review (Guardian supplement)" (UK), 7 May 2004, "Out" (USA), May 1994
Other Works: La gorda Carmela, in "Star" iss. 25, 1977., Toda tuya, in "El Víbora", summer 1982., Pepi, Luci, Bom: tres mujeres con un pasado turbulento..., in "Alphaville", iss. 13-14, January-February 1982., Las últimas palabras de Rosa, in "El sueño de la razón", Madrid: 1979., Fuego en las entrañas. Barcelona: La Cúpula, 1981., 1983: He wrote the "memories" of fictional porn star Patty Diphusa in the magazine "La Luna de Madrid"., Book: "Patty Diphusa y otros textos". Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1991. ISBN 84-339-2339-0
Birth Name: Almodóvar Caballero, Pedro
Mother 'Francisca Caballero' (qv) and brother 'Agustín Almodóvar' (qv) often appear in cameo roles in his movies., Lead singer of the infamous music duo "Almodóvar & McNamara", a legendary bizarre project that personified the image of "la movida madrileña" during the early 1980s in Madrid. He appears in that role in his own film _Laberinto de pasiones (1982)_ (qv) (a.k.a. "Labyrinth of Passion") wearing women's clothes and lots of black makeup., Attended a Catholic boarding school in the 1960s where some of his fellow students were abused by priests. He asserts that he himself wasn't abused., He spent 10 years writing the script for _La mala educación (2004)_ (qv) (a.k.a. "Bad Education"), during which time he made such acclaimed films such as _Todo sobre mi madre (1999)_ (qv) (a.k.a. "All About my Mother") and _Hable con ella (2002)_ (qv) (a.k.a. "Talk to Her"). The script is based upon a short story he wrote as an adolescent, which was based upon his experience at a Catholic boarding school., 1992: Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival., Celebrity chef 'Rachael Ray' (qv) is a big fan of his and named a chicken dish after him.
Birth Date: 24 September 1949
Articles: "The Independent" (UK), 18 February 2008, Iss. 6659, pg. 19, by: Elizabeth Nash, "Almodovar films story of poet jailed by Franco", "The Independent Newspaper" (UK), 24 October 2006, Iss. 6247, pg. 19, by: Elizabeth Nash, "Almodovar's rtisqué early works are resurrected", "Premiere" (USA), September 2006, Vol. 20, Iss. 1, pg. 42-44, by: Glenn Kenny, "Vote For Pedro", "Erga kai imeres" (Greece), 23 July 2005, Iss. 28, pg. 11, by: Alexandra Rapti, "Pente thilika apo tin efivia tou Pedro", "Film Comment" (USA), November 2004, Vol. 40, Iss. 6, pg. 22-24, by: Gary Indiana, "Internal Affairs: Pedro Almodovar's 'Bad Education' intensifies the director's ongoing exploration of identities in crisis", "International Herald Tribune" (USA), 14 May 2004, Iss. 37691, pg. 8, by: Joan Dupont, "Almodóvar sets the tone at Cannes", "Cineaste" (USA), 2004, Vol. XXX, Iss. 1, pg. 4-8, by: Geoff Pingree, "Pedro Almodovar and the New Politics of Spain", "Entertainment Weekly" (USA), 21 February 2003, Iss. 696/697, pg. 102, by: Karen Valby, "Pedro Almodóvar", "Cinema" (Hungary), August 2001, Iss. 117, pg. 38-41, by: Pedro Almodóvar, "Hogy ti mekkorát nõttetek!", "Cinema" (Greece), November 1999, Iss. 106, pg. 66-77, by: Loukas Katsikas, "O andras pou agapouse tis ginekes"
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