Pedro Almodovar films on Film4
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Pedro Almodovar films on Film4
Tuesday 18/10:
21:00: All About My Mother (1999)
23:00: Bad Education (2004)
Wednesday 19/10:
21:00: Volver (2006)
23:15: Talk to Her (2002)
Bad Education, Volver and Talk to Her are fantastic (Volver and Talk to Her are especially good). All About My Mother is supposed to be too.
Excluding Broken Embraces (2009) and The Skin I Live In (2011) these are his 4 latest.
21:00: All About My Mother (1999)
23:00: Bad Education (2004)
Wednesday 19/10:
21:00: Volver (2006)
23:15: Talk to Her (2002)
Bad Education, Volver and Talk to Her are fantastic (Volver and Talk to Her are especially good). All About My Mother is supposed to be too.
Excluding Broken Embraces (2009) and The Skin I Live In (2011) these are his 4 latest.
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His best period of work too
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All crap as well
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romerojpg wrote:All crap as well
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That's what everyone says. From "All About My Mother" my mother onwards he's consistently released excellent work after excellent work. Broken Embraces is excellent too, I love spotting all the classic film references. Live Flesh (1997) is very good too. Some director's simply cannot make a rubbish film, they won't release it until it's right.luckystars wrote:His best period of work too
I do also love that all his films are in Spanish. This is one director who's not sold out to America and I bet he's been offered stacks of cash to make a sanitised American movie. Like Jackie Chan in Hollywood, Pedro Almodovar in Hollywood would be just as pointless.
Like you've actually seen them all.romerojpg wrote:All crap as well
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Broken Embraces was weak compared to the 4 you listed. Haven't seen the latest one..
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Me either. Why do you say that? Agreed it is weaker but even a weak Almodovar film is very good but other standards.
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Sure but it felt more straight melodrama, or even soapy. I like the high production and acting of the other ones you mentioned..
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Here we go again I had seen his films before you ever even spawned from puberty or even heard of his filmsbradavon wrote:Like you've actually seen them all.romerojpg wrote:All crap as well
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Shouldn't you be off fapping to the latest Paul Anderson "classic"?? Stop trolling this thread.
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You cannot really troll on this forum as its already infested.
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I just don't believe you've seen 4 (maybe 6) films from a director you cannot stand.
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I cannot stand many directors work, but I still watch everything they make
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Its called finding something to see at the cinema, I can see max of 6 films in a row in the cinema (usually 3 on average n a row)and to get that many watched I need to fill the gaps sometimes with films I maybe wouldn't pay to see or buy, its a good way of finding films I wouldn't normally see it works sometimes and I still rarely see poor films. If I had to pay full price in the cinema, I wouldn't be doing it
and I used to also watch almost every film shown on TV back in the days before dvd, well back when we had 5 channels
and I used to also watch almost every film shown on TV back in the days before dvd, well back when we had 5 channels
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Heck, even I pale in comparison to that attitude
(not that I see more than 3 films a year in theatrical distribution... but some 60 in film festivals, and I'm relatively picky with that stuff, too. Last time I opted for beer and sunstroke when the alternative was a Kou Shibasaki movie )
(not that I see more than 3 films a year in theatrical distribution... but some 60 in film festivals, and I'm relatively picky with that stuff, too. Last time I opted for beer and sunstroke when the alternative was a Kou Shibasaki movie )
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I have to travel a distance to the cinema in the car, so I think hell I may as well see more than 1 whenever I can (getting others to sit through 1 is hard, 2 very hard, more impossible haha). I was in 11 hours last Friday
I was going to see The Skin I Live In in the cinema when it came out, but they never showed it in my local. For some reason I was quite excited about that film (maybe the chance to see Antonio again on the big screen), and wouldn't you know it a very limited release!
I was going to see The Skin I Live In in the cinema when it came out, but they never showed it in my local. For some reason I was quite excited about that film (maybe the chance to see Antonio again on the big screen), and wouldn't you know it a very limited release!
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Sounds like my festival trips, pretty much
Thankfully, there aren't many Kou Shibasaki films in festival distribution, so usually there's possibility to choose interesting films only... 4-6 per day, or 7 on a midnight fest.
I saw The Skin I Live In last week. It was only screened three times. Quite liked it... like Almodovar meets pulp literature and "crazy scientist" tales...
Thankfully, there aren't many Kou Shibasaki films in festival distribution, so usually there's possibility to choose interesting films only... 4-6 per day, or 7 on a midnight fest.
I saw The Skin I Live In last week. It was only screened three times. Quite liked it... like Almodovar meets pulp literature and "crazy scientist" tales...
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3 times? was it full?
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No. Probably 30 people in there. But hey, this is a small town.
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You are allowed to do other things too. Like eat, sleep and shit .romerojpg wrote:Its called finding something to see at the cinema, I can see max of 6 films in a row in the cinema (usually 3 on average n a row)and to get that many watched I need to fill the gaps sometimes with films I maybe wouldn't pay to see or buy
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Ahh I only go Fridays or (and) Saturdays, 5 more days to do that