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La gran noche del cine español tendrá lugar en el Auditori del Centre de Convencions Internacionals en plena efervescencia del cine catalán. © Getty Images

Imagínense ahora mismo a ese Freddie Mercury a pleno pulmón cantando (y gritando) «¡Barcelooooona!». Porque, tal y como se había anunciado hace ya varios meses, Barcelona será la ciudad anfitriona de la 40ª edición de los Premios Goya. Y hoy, por fin, sabemos cuándo es la cita. La ceremonia se celebrará –¡apunta en tu agenda!– el 28 de febrero de 2026 y el escenario escogido será el Auditori del Centre de Convencions Internacionals de Barcelona, a un suspiro del Mediterráneo (aunque al principio se había barajado el Parc...

Something is going bump in the night in the new Spanish horror thriller Disforia. Director Christopher Cartagena is bringing his chilling feature debut to Fantastic Fest this month, where it will make its world premiere and suck viewers into a violent nightmare about a mother's resilience in the face of devastating circumstances. For the genre festival's milestone 20th iteration, which just so happens to coincide with Collider's 20th anniversary, we're excited to partner with the event and share a fresh look at the film for Collider's Exclusive Preview series. Our new image is set at night and features Esther and Tomás, a married couple played by leads Fariba Sheikhan and Eloy Azorín,...

Una historia de amistad y resistencia que sucede en el contexto del Patronato de Protección a la Mujer. © Elastica Films

Ha terminado el rodaje en Vizcaya y Barcelona de Ruega por nosotras, la nueva película dirigida por Daniel Monzón, que coescribe junto a su colaborador habitual Jorge Guerricaechevarría.

Ruega por nosotras se ambienta en el año 1974. Ana tiene 19 años, vive en Barcelona y es –a ojos de su acomodada familia– una chica rebelde. Tras una fuga nocturna, su padre decide ponerla en manos del Patronato de Protección a la Mujer, una institución especializada en «mujeres caídas o en riesgo de caer». Ana es trasladada a Madrid para ser internada en...

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the North American rights to “Bitter Christmas,” written and directed by frequent collaborator Pedro Almodóvar and produced by Almodóvar’s longtime producer, his younger brother Agustín Almodóvar, the studio announced on Tuesday.

“Bitter Christmas” follows Elsa, an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday. She works non-stop and, without realizing, doesn’t give herself time to mourn her mother’s absence. After a moment of crisis, Elsa decides to travel to the island of Lanzarote accompanied by her friend Patricia. The story of these characters run parallel to that of a screenwriter and film director, exploring how life and fiction are inseparably linked,...

Una historia de amistad y resistencia que sucede en el contexto del Patronato de Protección a la Mujer. © Elastica Films

Ha comenzado el rodaje en Vizcaya y Barcelona de Ruega por nosotras, la nueva película dirigida por Daniel Monzón, que coescribe junto a su colaborador habitual Jorge Guerricaechevarría.

Ruega por nosotras se ambienta en el año 1974. Ana tiene 19 años, vive en Barcelona y es –a ojos de su acomodada familia– una chica rebelde. Tras una fuga nocturna, su padre decide ponerla en manos del Patronato de Protección a la Mujer, una institución especializada en «mujeres caídas o en riesgo de caer». Ana es trasladada a Madrid para ser internada en un reformatorio regentado por monjas y sometida a un brutal régimen disciplinario. Allí intentará sobrevivir buscando consuelo y apoyo en la amistad de otras chicas en su misma situación, especialmente Sole, una chica de pueblo con una vitalidad contagiosa que conecta instantáneamente con ella.

Producer Esther García will receive the Donostia Award of the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival (September 19-27), with the festival also payingtribute to late Spanish actress Marisa Paredes, dedicating this year’s official poster to her memory.

García is the long-time producer and production manager for Pedro Almodóvar, beginning with Matador (1986) and The Law Of Desire (1987), his Oscar-winning titles All About My Mother (1999) and Talk to Her (2002), and up to his most recent film The Room Next Door which won the Golden Lion at Venice last year.

García has also worked with other auteurs, including Lucrecia Martel and Oliver Laxe.

Veteran Spanish producer Esther García, a longtime collaborator of Pedro Almodóvar, will be handed a Donostia Award for career achievement at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival.

The festival has said the award was timed to celebrate the 40th anniversary of El Deseo, the production company Pedro Almodóvar launched with his brother, Agustín, which García joined in 1986. García has been a secretary, production assistant, and producer at the company. She has worked on every film directed by Almodóvar since Matador (1986). Her enormous body of work also includes Pim, pam, pum… ¡Fuego! (Pedro Olea), El año de las luces, El juego más divertido, and, more recently, Olive Laxe’s 2025 Cannes title Sirat.

Amongst the myriad awards received by García are the National Cinematography Award, which she received in San Sebastián in 2018, the Silver Fotogramas in 2019, and six Goya Awards, three as the production director and three as a producer.

Two figures very close to Pedro Almodovar, his longtime producer Esther García and repeat star Marisa Paredes, will be honored by Spain’s most prestigious film festival, San Sebastián.

García will receive a Donostia Award for career achievement.

Paredes, who died in December, will feature on this year’s San Sebastian poster.

Working with Agustín Almódovar, García has produced all Almodovar’s films since 1986’s “Matador,” released a year after Pedro and brother Agustín founded El Deseo in Madrid to hone a production model which, often working on contained budgets, realized the potential of Almodovar’s talent, allowing him creative oversight over the whole of a film while relieving him of rushed production schedules and the need to abandon his more out-there innovation and humor in order to recoup on bigger budgeted productions.

At El Deseo, García has also produced third-party titles from Guillermo del Toro, Lucrecia Martel, Damián Szifron,...

Luca Guadagnino is going to be on the road a lot in the coming months. One day after the Italian filmmaker's latest feature, After the Hunt, joined the Venice Film Festival lineup as an out of competition selection, the New York Film Festival announced that the Amazon MGM-released film will play as the opening night selection of its 63rd edition.

"We are excited to open this year’s festival with Luca Guadagnino’s latest, which confirms his status as one of the most versatile risk-takers working today," NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim said in a statement. "Brilliantly acted and crafted, After the Hunt is something rare in contemporary cinema: a complex, grown-up movie with a lot on its mind that also happens to be a deeply satisfying piece of entertainment."

In his own statement, Guadagnino called NYFF "an arbiter of global cinema," and provided a quick preview of the movie's themes.

Estrenos muy diferentes para seriéfilos en Netflix, Apple TV+, HBO Max y Disney+. © Netflix, Apple TV+ & Max El Clan Olimpia (miércoles 9 de julio en Disney+) © Disney+

Una mujer y una decisión desesperada: vender hachís para salvar a su marido. La serie se titula El clan Olimpia y es una de las grandes apuestas españolas de Disney+ para este verano. Inspirada en hechos reales, esta ficción de seis episodios narra la historia de Olimpia (Zaira Romero), una mujer cuyo mundo cambia radicalmente cuando a su marido le diagnostican un cáncer. Desesperada por salvarle y mantener a su familia a flote, empieza a vender hachís en su barrio. Pero cuando decide costear un tratamiento en Estados Unidos, da un paso aún más peligroso: entra en el tráfico de cocaína. Junto a su socio, el Moreno, Olimpia ascenderá rápidamente en el mundo del narcotráfico, estrechando lazos con cárteles colombianos y la mafia napolitana.

Una ácida sátira social dirigida por Félix Sabroso. © Max

HBO Max ha publicado el primer tráiler de su nueva serie original española Furia, creada, escrita y dirigida por Félix Sabroso (La isla interior).

En Furia, Marga (Carmen Marchi) es una artista esnob. Roberto (Alberto San Juan), su marido, directivo de televisión, está liado con Tina (Claudia Salas), la asistenta y la ha dejado embarazada. Vera (Pilar Castro), amiga de Marga, es una mediática cocinera, que tiene que cerrar su negocio por los achaques de un incisivo crítico. Nat (Candela Peña) es una dependienta de alta moda. Marga y Vera son sus clientas. Nat se ve amenazada cuando la empresa renueva plantilla contratando gente más joven. Adela (Nathalie Poza), la madre de Tina, está en paro y a punto de ser desahuciada, junto a su anciana madre por su cruel casero. Victoria (Cecilia Roth), vecina de Adela y Nat, es una...

Pride Month can be celebrated in a variety of ways. From parades and festivals all over to corporations adopting rainbow logos in June for their own gain, community-driven festivities stand in stark contrast to corporate-driven ones. Still, there are plenty of ways to celebrate that don't involve partying or catching rainbow-colored swag from a T-Mobile float.

Why not plan your own queer film festival? LGBTQ+ films have become more prominent than ever, but that doesn't mean they're no longer important. Moreover, plenty of wonderful LGBTQ+ films don't receive the attention they deserve. Watching older movies can also serve as a historical education of sorts, reminding us that queer filmmakers and films have always existed. Take, for example, the 1919 German film "Different from the Others," one of the first films to depict gay people in a positive light, or the 1931 film "Mädchen in Uniform," often considered the first lesbian film ever made.

La 40ª edición tendrá lugar en el Parc del Fòrum, en plena efervescencia del cine catalán. © Getty Images

Barcelona será la ciudad anfitriona de la 40ª edición de los Premios Goya, según ha anunciado hoy martes Fernando Méndez-Leite, presidente de la Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España, en un acto celebrado en la sede de la institución en Madrid. La ceremonia tendrá lugar –¡toma nota!– el 7 de febrero de 2026 en el Parc del Fórum, un cuarto de siglo después de la histórica edición del año 2000 –la primerísima vez que los Goya salieron de Madrid–, cuando Pedro Almodóvar arrasó con su Todo sobre mi madre.

La gala regresa a la ciudad condal en un momento de especial efervescencia para el cine catalán. Basta recordar el Oso de Oro en la Berlinale de 2022 para Alcarràs, de Carla Simón, quien este año regresa, además, con Romería, su nueva película...

Cinco mujeres al límite encabezan esta ácida sátira social dirigida por Félix Sabroso. © Max

HBO Max ha anunciado la fecha de estreno de su nueva serie original española Furia, creada, escrita y dirigida por Félix Sabroso (La isla interior).

En Furia, Marga (Carmen Marchi) es una artista esnob. Roberto (Alberto San Juan), su marido, directivo de televisión, está liado con Tina (Claudia Salas), la asistenta y la ha dejado embarazada. Vera (Pilar Castro), amiga de Marga, es una mediática cocinera, que tiene que cerrar su negocio por los achaques de un incisivo crítico. Nat (Candela Peña) es una dependienta de alta moda. Marga y Vera son sus clientas. Nat se ve amenazada cuando la empresa renueva plantilla contratando gente más joven. Adela (Nathalie Poza), la madre de Tina, está en paro y a punto de ser desahuciada, junto a su anciana madre por su cruel casero. Victoria (Cecilia Roth), vecina de Adela y Nat,...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Museum of the Moving Image

Johnnie To’s The Heroic Trio and To & Ching Siu-tung’s Executioners play in See It Big: Stunts!; John Waters’ Serial Mom screens on Friday and Sunday; Amir Azizi’s Two Dogs shows on Saturday.

Japan Society

A massive Mikio Naruse retrospective, featuring numerous imported 35mm prints, has begun.

Roxy Cinema

Heat shows on Friday; John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath screens on 35mm this Saturday, as does King Vidor’s Stella Dallas; Cinderella plays for free on Sunday, along with a print of All About My Mother.

Film Forum

A restoration of René Clément’s Forbidden Games begins a run (watch our trailer debut); a new 35mm print of 8½ and Mort Rifkin favorite A Man and a Woman continue; The Incredibles screens Sunday morning.

Bam

Haydn Keenan’s Going Down, newly restored, begins a run.

John Waters was among the handful of celebs at the 50th annual Chaplin Gala in New York Monday night to tribute friend and collaborator Pedro Almodóvar. The Spanish Oscar-winning “Talk to Her” and “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” director received Film at Lincoln Center’s equivalent of a lifetime achievement award with remarks from his beloved screen muse Rossy De Palma, John Turturro, Richard Peña, and Dua Lipa, and even a flamenco dance from Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Waters’ speech, though, was the night’s most memorable and mischievous — no surprise from the “Pink Flamingos” director and Pope of Trash — with Waters praising Almodóvar as “the best filmmaker in the world” while singling out how generous the “Room Next Door” director is with complex roles for women.

Waters recalled “a completely insane club kid party for me when I appeared with my films in Malaga, Spain,” praising Almodóvar as “never pretentious,...

Pedro Almodóvar did not hold back on his opinion of Donald Trump as he accepted the 50th annual Chaplin award from Film at Lincoln Center on Monday evening in Manhattan.

As the celebrated Spanish filmmaker expressed his gratitude for the honor at Alice Tully Hall, he said, “I doubted if it was appropriate to come to a country ruled by a narcissistic authority, who doesn’t respect human rights. Trump and his friends, millionaires and oligarchs, cannot convince us that the reality we are seeing with our own eyes is the opposite of what we are living, however much he may twist the words, claiming that they mean the opposite of what they do. Immigrants are not criminals. It was Russia that invaded Ukraine.”

“Mr. Trump, I’m talking to you, and I hope that you hear what I’m going to say to you,” Almodóvar continued. “You will go...

Pedro Almodóvar is ready to party with the best of ’em. The legendary auteur will be honored with the 50th Chaplin Award during a gala evening at Lincoln Center on April 28, as previously announced. Yet it’s the who’s who of eclectic presenters that has us abuzz today: IndieWire can confirm that Dua Lipa, John Waters, Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” star John Turturro, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and long-time Almodóvar muse Rossy de Palma will be on hand to toast to the internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker.

The Chaplin Award Tribute will feature excerpts from a selection of the beloved director’s work, appearances by actors, friends, and colleagues, and the presentation of the award itself. The 50th Chaplin Award Gala, presented in partnership with Rolex, will take place at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. The annual gala is the premier fundraiser for Film at Lincoln Center, with proceeds...

I’m old enough to remember when Jacques Rivette films were the domain of dark-web networks and substandard DVD rips, a conspiratorial network worthy of his cinema. It’s still a little strange seeing that April will feature a 10-film, one-short Criterion Channel program that combines of his canonized masterpieces with decidedly lesser-seens––plus Va Savoir, which I really hope is the recently unearthed four-hour cut for which there’s no substitute. Penélope Cruz is also subject of a retrospective in April, which––more than making me pine for a Rivette collab that never was––will include both Abre Los Ojos and Vanilla Sky, some Almodóvar, and another in the Channel’s ongoing let’s-add-a-Woody-Allen-movie campaign, Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

For themed series, J. Hoberman has curated a series on the dangers of ’60s and ’70s New York that runs from Michael Roemer’s recently restored The Plot Against Harry and...

There are probably a lot of people who go up to an NYU film professor’s lectern on the first day and tell them that they want to be a filmmaker. Inbal Weinberg is maybe one of the few who has gone up and said, “I want to be a production designer.”

In a time before places like Interior and Films or One Perfect Shot spotlighted how design and composition affect film audiences — to say nothing of Google Search’s ability to find examples of production design in the space of a few seconds — Weinberg knew in her bones that the visual worldbuilding organized by the production designer was how she could help tell stories. Looking back now on her career of over 20 years and collaborations with everyone from Derek Cianfrance and Maggie Gyllenhaal to Pedro Almodóvar and Luca Guadagnino, she’s done exactly what she set out to do.

Julia Fox can’t help but shed a tear over the legacy of Pedro Almodóvar’s “All About My Mother” — especially when it comes to her personal history with the Oscar-winning 1999 film starring Penélope Cruz.

Fox, while visiting the Criterion Closet to promote “Presence” which is now on VOD, said that it was “All About My Mother” that showed her how “unconventional beauty” can be accepted.

“Ok, I had an advisor in high school, she was the only reason I went to school. She really had my back. If I didn’t go to class, she would still mark me present. We had a very interesting bond. And she actually lent me a box set of all of his movies. I feel like I’m going to cry,” Fox said. “She lent me a box set of all of his movies…Why am I crying over Pedro Almodóvar? I love Pedro Almodóvar.

Some friendships are precious and can stand the test of time. In director Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and the circumstances of life separated them. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

We enjoyed speaking with Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore about their roles and how real life informed their performances. The Room Next Door’s story goes to intimate and powerful places, asking audiences to contemplate death and how they’ll meet it. Who will hold your hand when the lights dim? What will you say before your last breath?

Produced by Almodóvar’s El Deseo, The Room Next Door is a...

It’s officially Spirit Award season here at Film Independent! We had our annual Awards Brunch last weekend, and we’re getting prepped for the big show on February 22. While that means late nights making seating charts, sending out invites, and hiring photographers for us, for you, it means enjoying even more movies!

This month, we’ve picked out some Spirit Award alums with new releases (or ones that came out during the holiday break). Included in this crop is a delicious combo of Russel Banks and Paul Schrader, Nicole Kidman making Bdsm feel good in a place like this, Pedro Almodóvar casting Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton in his first English-language film, and Robbie Williams’ surprisingly powerful monkey movie.

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In his latest podcast/interview, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks with writer/director Amrou Al-Kadhi about their feature film debut Layla and “3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life,” which includes:

Body Electric (2017) All About My Mother (1999) Cinema Paradiso (1988)

3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life is a podcast that explores the transformative power of cinema. From emotional masterpieces to thought-provoking classics, each episode delves into the films that have had a profound impact on our personal growth and perspective. Through engaging storytelling, critical analysis, and cultural commentary, Stuart aims to uncover the lasting influence that movies have had on his guests. Please join him on an emotional journey through the world of film and discover how just three movies can change the direction of a life, cement memories you will never forget or sometimes change how you see the world.

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Pedro Almodóvar is nobody’s idea of a conventional, throwback director in most ways. But among top international directors over the last 40 years, he stands if not alone but at least above anyone else until now in gaining prominence in the U.S. with subtitled films — without ever making an English-language one.

Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut, all of whom saw consistent success in U.S. arthouses, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s, made either just one or no films outside their native languages. From the 1980s, it became common for the most successful European and Latin American directors to pursue projects in English, sometimes never returning to their native tongues. Many others, like Bong Joon Ho, Alfonso Cuarón, and Guillermo del Toro, have leapfrogged to English-language scripts and actors after their initial successes.

Not Almodóvar, until now. With “The Room Next Door” (Sony Pictures Classics), he...

Marisa Paredes, the admired Spanish actress who collaborated with Pedro Almodóvar in such films as The Flower of My Secret, All About My Mother and The Skin I Live In, has died. She was 78.

Her death was announced Tuesday by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain, which called her one of the country’s “most iconic actors … her body of work was defined by women who were strong, ambivalent, broken, passionate, enigmatic, but who were, above all, very human.”

Almodóvar told Spanish public broadcaster Rtve that “it is as if I woke up from a bad dream … I am struggling to come to terms with Marisa’s death.” In their country, she was known as “an Almodóvar girl.”

Paredes also portrayed Roberto Benigni’s socialite mother-in-law in Life Is Beautiful (1997) and the head of the orphanage in Guillermo del Toro’s horror film The Devil’s Backbone (2001), set during the Spanish Civil War.

Marisa Paredes, a grand dame of Spanish cinema, died on Tuesday in Madrid from heart failure. She was 78.

While she acted in 75 movies, she will be best remembered for the five films she starred in directed by Pedro Almodóvar: “Dark Habits” (1983), “High Heels” (1991), “The Flower of My Secret” (1995), “All About My Mother” (1999) and “The Skin I Live In” (2011). Of all these, she thought she turned in one of her career-best performances in “The Flower of My Secret,” which marks the beginning of Almodóvar’s return to his roots and world of his mother, a re-connection which continues to this day.

In “The Flower of My Secret,” Paredes played a chic romantic novelist seemingly at first a fish out of water in the village where she was born.

In real life, Paredes had a natural elegance, compounded by her favouring dresses by Spain-based designer Sybille which J.A. Bayona noted, reacting to her death,...

Marisa Paredes, a well-known personality in Spanish cinema and close colleague of famed director Pedro Almodóvar, has died at the age of 78. The Spanish Film Academy reported her death, writing, “Spanish cinema is losing one of its most iconic actresses.”

Paredes’ career lasted nearly six decades, including over 75 films and a similar number of television shows. She is largely recognized as one of the most accomplished actresses of her time. Her work with Almodóvar includes remarkable performances in films like High Heels (1991), The Flower of My Secret (1995), All About My Mother (1999), and The Skin I Live In (2011).

Her journey to popularity was fueled by personal dedication. In an emotional interview with Spain’s Tve in June, Paredes discussed her poor beginnings as “the daughter of a doorkeeper.” At 15, she went on a hunger strike to encourage her father to support her acting career.

Desolado por la noticia del fallecimiento de Marisa Paredes,...

Marisa Paredes, the star of Pedro Almodóvar’s High Heels and The Flower Of My Secret, has died aged 78.

Paredes’ extensive career spanned nearly 80 feature films and a similar number of television productions over six decades.

Paredes also served as president of the Spanish Film Academy from 2000-2003 and received the industry’s highest awards, including an honorary Goya for lifetime achievement in 2018, the National Cinematography Award in 1996, and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in 2007.

Her final film, road movie Emergency Exit, was directed by Luis Miñarro; it filmed earlier this year and is still to be released.

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After just over a month in theaters, Coralie Fargeat’s acclaimed and outrageous body horror film “The Substance,” starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, will make its exclusive streaming debut this Halloween on the global film streamer Mubi, and to prepare from the switch, it’s time to countdown some of the platform’s best films!

Whether you’re activating or stabilizing your Mubi subscription to watch the must-see new release, the arthouse movie streamer is not only housed with classics like “In the Mood for Love,” “All About My Mother,” and more, it’s also packed with its own collection of Mubi-exclusive releases. From black comedies to neo-noir love stories, here are some of the best movies available to stream right now exclusively on Mubi!

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Pedro Almodóvar believes that both his two latest leading actresses should be Oscar-nominated for their performances in his latest film The Room Next Door – and he adds he wouldn’t mind one for himself.

The Spanish director’s first full-length film in the English language, it received an 18-minute standing ovation when it screened at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. It stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore as two old friends, war correspondent Martha and her friend Ingrid. They stay together in a country mansion while Swinton’s terminally ill character prepares to take her own life in the room next to her friend’s.

Almodóvar previously won the best original screenplay Oscar in 2003 for Talk to Her and the award for best foreign language film for All About My Mother in 1999.

He told The Times of London this weekend that he believes both actresses should be recognised come awards season.

“It’s a good chance to reflect about mortality,” explained writer-director Pedro Almodóvar about his film “The Room Next Door,” which was the centerpiece selection at the 62nd New York Film Festival. “This is something that at least in my life is very present.” So when he read the proposition in Sigrid Nunez‘s novel “What Are You Going Through,” where a terminally ill woman asks her friend to assist in her suicide, the filmmaker was “very surprised.” Watch his discussion with actors Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, and John Turturro above.

“I thought that that was a very good sequence to develop between two actresses and two characters that they feel in a very different way in front of mortality,” Almodóvar added. Ultimately, Martha (Swinton) wants to end her life on her own terms, and Ingrid (Moore) is terrified at the prospect, but Swinton feels the meaning of the film...

Acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar will be honored with the Chaplin Award from Film at Lincoln Center next year. The award recognizes significant contributions to cinema and has previously been given to luminaries such as Cate Blanchett, Martin Scorsese, and Meryl Streep. Almodóvar will accept the award on April 28, 2025.

Known for his vibrant visual style and emotionally complex storytelling, Almodóvar has directed over 20 feature films spanning four decades. Some of his most acclaimed works include Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Talk to Her, and All About My Mother. He has won two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and numerous Goya and César Awards.

Almodóvar’s latest film, The Room Next Door, recently premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it won the top Golden Lion prize. Starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, the film marks Almodóvar’s first English-language project and explores themes of friendship and mortality.

Pedro Almodóvar, the Oscar-winning Spanish writer-director who is making waves this awards season with his new film The Room Next Door, has been named the recipient of the 50th Chaplin Award bestowed by New York’s Film at Lincoln Center.

He will be honored at a gala tribute April 28 at Lincoln Center that will feature excerpts from his work and appearances by co-stars, friends and colleagues.

The Room Next Door, which stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, won the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival last month. The Chaplin honor was announced Friday at Flc’s New York Film Festival ahead of the film’s U.S. premiere there. It hits U.S. theaters on December 20 via Sony Pictures Classics.

“Pedro Almodóvar is a storytelling master whose artistry, creativity, and exceptional talent have captivated audiences and filmmakers alike,” said Lesli Klainberg, Film at Lincoln Center’s president.

Pedro Almodóvar is the next recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s prestigious Chaplin Award.

The Oscar-winning writer-director will be celebrated at a gala event featuring excerpts of his work and appearances by co-stars, friends and colleagues at Lincoln Center on April 28, 2025.

The announcement was made ahead of the U.S. premiere and New York Film Festival centerpiece gala screening of Almodóvar’s first English-language feature film The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.

The Room Next Door won the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival and is set to open in L.A. and New York on Dec. 20 before expanding to select cities on Dec. 25 and going nationwide in January.

One of Spain’s most celebrated filmmakers, Almodóvar’s feature films include Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988); Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989); All About My Mother (1999), which won the...

Film at Lincoln Center (Flc) has announced that internationally acclaimed Spanish film director, screenwriter, and author Pedro Almodóvar is the recipient of the 50th Chaplin Award. He will be honored during a gala evening at Lincoln Center on April 28, 2025.

The announcement was made this evening by Flc President Lesli Klainberg prior to the 62nd New York Film Festival Centerpiece premiere of Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, “The Room Next Door,” which won the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival and opens at Flc on December 20.

Per this evening’s official announcement, “Internationally recognized for his spirited and bold storytelling with a distinctive and colorful visual style, Pedro Almodóvar is one of Spain’s most celebrated filmmakers. His work is characterized by a blend of humor and melodrama and his ability to create resonant, emotional stories often centered around the lives of strong and fearless women. He has...

Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar, whose Venice Golden Lion winner The Room Next Door is anticipated to be a fixture this awards season, will receive Film at Lincoln Center’s 50th Chaplin Award on April 28, 2025.

News of the honour, which comes in recognition of the filmmaker’s “spirited and bold storytelling with a distinctive and colorful visual style”, was announced prior to Friday evening’s New York Film Festival Centerpiece premiere of The Room Next Door.

The Chaplin Award Tribute will feature excerpts from Almodóvar’s work and appearances by friends and collaborators.

His body of work includes 23 features, among them...

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San Sebastian Spotlight

Johnny Depp at the San Sebastian Film Festival

In-Depp analysis: Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival closes tomorrow, ending what many people on the ground described as one of the event’s strongest lineups in recent years. The festival opened with a bang with Audrey Diwan’s erotic remake Emmanuelle, but that film received mediocre reviews in Spain. Deadline’s Stephanie Bunbury was a little more generous, and described the flick as a “brave attempt.” There was a lot more love for the other big world premiere in San Sebastian — Johnny Depp’s second directorial effort, Modi — Three Days On The Wing Of Madness. The period flick debuted out of competition here in San Sebastian, where Depp...

What’s next for Pedro Almodóvar after winning his first Golden Lion? Perhaps something very, very different.

“I’m fascinated by the stylist who looks after Zendaya [Law Roach],” “The Room Next Door” director Almodóvar told Vanity Fair Spain in an interview published in his native Spanish (we used the built-in Google Translate tool for this story).

“I think his work is an act of enormous creation. It’s about fashion, frivolity, and social issues, and it’s about promotion,” he continued. “But above all, I think it takes talent for that. I’ve asked about this guy, and I’ve been told that he’s almost as much of a diva as she is. I’d love to make a film about them, a cross between ‘All About Eve’ and ‘The Devil Wears Prada.'”

What makes the relationship between Roach and Zendaya so unique is that, unlike most stylists,...

Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar was welcomed to San Sebastian’s Kursaal Theater with a fierce reception on Thursday as the Spaniard picked up a Donostia Award for his “extraordinary contributions to cinema.”

Tilda Swinton, who stars in Almodóvar’s latest feature The Room Next Door — which won Venice’s Golden Lion after a whopping 17-minute standing ovation in Italy — joined the director onstage to celebrate his achievements.

“At my age, a prize like Donostia can indicate the end of a road and a reward for having traveled it,” Almodóvar said after raucous applause. “But I don’t live it like that. For me, cinema is a blessing or a curse. I can’t think of any other way of life if it’s not writing or directing.”

Swinton was full of praise for her colleague. She said to him: “You have planted in each one of us a garden of treasure…...

Legendary Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar received a hero’s welcome at the San Sebastian Film Festival where he arrived this morning to speak with the press before receiving the festival’s honorary Donostia Award for career achievement.

Almodóvar was accompanied by British actress Tilda Swinton.The maverick filmmaker will present their latest collaboration The Room Next Door as part of the Donostia Award celebrations this evening.

The press conference room was packed — which isn’t common at San Sebastian — and Almodóvar was swarmed by journalists who rushed to snap his picture. He was even presented with a handmade gift by one of the reporters in the room.

This evening’s Donostia ceremony coincides with Almodóvar’s 75th birthday and is headline news in Spain. Pedro Sánchez, the country’s President, will even attend the ceremony. Almodóvar was asked by one of the journalists in the room this morning if he...

Oscar-winning Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar has made a name for himself with a series of brightly colored, delightfully kinky and unabashedly melodramatic titles, mixing comedy, drama, sex and violence to great success. He shows no signs of slowing down, with his latest outing in 2019 being the Oscar-nominated “Pain and Glory.” Let’s take a look back at all 22 of his films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1949 in Spain, Almodovar came to prominence during La Movida Madrilena, a cultural renaissance that blossomed at the end of Francoist Spain. Staring with his filmmaking debut “Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom” (1980), the openly gay director showed an affinity for oddballs and outsiders, populating his films with transvestites, transexuals and homosexuals, all of whom had previously been relegated to the closet. He also showed a talent for working with women, and throughout his 40 year career has placed actresses such as Penelope Cruz,...

Earlier this year, Christopher Nolan finally won Best Director at the Academy Awards. He picked up prize for helming Best Picture champ “Oppenheimer.” That victory came after five prior Oscar nominations, all of which ended in losses. Anyhow, Nolan has now finally been given the rewards his talents deserve. But there are still plenty of filmmakers who are overdue a Best Director gong. Scroll down for a list of five overdue filmmakers who could compete for the award at the 2025 Oscars.

Pedro Almodóvar

Almodóvar has five Oscar nominations and two victories to his name, so he may not seem overdue. He was nominated for Best Foreign Language Feature Film in 1989 for “Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” and in 2000 for “All About My Mother.” He won for the latter. He was then nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay in 2003 for “Talk to Her,” winning for his writing.

Adan Canto's best movies and TV shows reveal a very talented actor who showed immense promise before his untimely death in 2024. Canto was born in Mexico and got his start in music, performing traditional boleros and mariachi music into his teenage years. After working as a musician in San Antonio and Mexico City, he started appearing in TV commercials. After being cast in the stage play adaptation of Pedro Almodvar's All About My Mother, he turned his sights to acting.

His career lasted just over a decade, starting with smaller Spanish-language movies and TV shows in 2009 and 2010 before getting his first major Hollywood role in the TV series thriller The Following. After a small role in X-Men: Days of Future Past, he mostly appeared in smaller films and some big-name TV shows, working with everyone from Halle Berry and Kevin Bacon to Don Johnson, Keifer Sutherland, and Mel Gibson.

Pedro Almodóvar isn’t getting any younger…but he is still trying to figure out how he can live forever. Many might say he’s already accomplished this with his highly influential and beloved ouevre, which includes “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” “All About My Mother,” “Pain and Glory,” and his upcoming, Golden Lion-winning “The Room Next Door” starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore. However, as reported by The New York Times, in his upcoming collection of short stories, diary entries, and essays, “The Last Dream,” the Spanish filmmaker shared how he still feels he has more searching to do, but it has become a much more difficult process the older he gets.

“In this new century I’ve become more somber, more austere, more melancholic, less certain, more insecure, and more afraid,” Almodóvar wrote in his semi-autobiography.

Explaining in the introduction why he’s choosing to...

Will there be room for two Oscar winners from the same movie this awards season?

Pedro Almodóvar’s exciting melodrama “The Room Next Door” is riding high after winning the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and Sony Pictures Classics is preparing for an aggressive awards campaign for the film. Variety has learned exclusively that the movie’s two Oscar-winning stars, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, will be positioned for lead actress consideration in the upcoming awards season. In addition, co-star John Turturro is set to campaign for his first Oscar bid in the best supporting actor category.

The film is adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel “What Are You Going Through” and tells the story of two women — war correspondent Martha, played by Swinton, and author Ingrid, portrayed by Moore — who reunite after many years under emotionally charged circumstances. The nuanced performances and intimate narrative have garnered critical acclaim.

The Oscars will surely knock on Pedro Almodóvar’s door this awards season.

Pedro Almodóvar’s expansive filmography has shaped international cinema for over four decades. With his English-language directorial debut, “The Room Next Door,” fresh off winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the Spanish auteur and distributor Sony Pictures Classics are setting their sights on landing Almodóvar’s first best picture nomination.

Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel “What Are You Going Through,” the film follows two women — war correspondent Martha (Tilda Swinton) and author Ingrid (Julianne Moore) — who reunite after years apart under challenging circumstances.

Read: You can see all Academy Award predictions in all 23 categories on one page on the Variety Awards Circuit: Oscars

Almodóvar’s body of work has garnered widespread acclaim within the Academy. “All About My Mother” (1999) won the Oscar for international feature, while “Talk to Her” (2002) earned him two noms for directing and original screenplay,...

Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” won the Golden Lion at the 81st Venice Film Festival. The Spanish auteur’s first feature in English took the top prize at the awards ceremony on Saturday, where he accepted the honor in person. Based on Sigrid Nunez’s novel “What Are You Going Through,” the film stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore as friends who reunite after several years.

Though Almodóvar’s latest was not reviewed as enthusiastically as most of his films (a high bar to cross), the drama was still favored to do well at the Venice awards. When it premiered earlier this week, it was met with a lengthy standing ovation of almost 20 minutes — a warm reception even for festival audiences. And few are the cinephiles in Europe who do not consider the director of “All About My Mother,” “Talk to Her,” “Volver,” “Bad Education” and “Parallel Mothers” a living great.

Pedro Almodóvar has dealt with the subject of death throughout his career. Be it as an inciting incident in All About My Mother, a looming threat in Talk to Her, or a cheeky provocation in Matador, an existential darkness has always lurked behind the vibrant, expressive surfaces of his films. Centering the impermanence of human existence in the euthanasia drama The Room Next Door doesn’t indicate resignation to a “late period” style so much as it suggests a natural outgrowth of Almodóvar’s formidable body of work.

The Spanish auteur’s adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s 2020 novel What Are You Going Through begins with Julianne Moore’s Ingrid signing copies of her new book, On Sudden Deaths, describing it as her attempt to process the mystery of her subject. But not long into The Room Next Door, she soon finds that she must grapple with a non-spontaneous end. And...

Last year delivered some truly spectacular short films, so much so, the genre ended up becoming a highlight of the Oscars for many. Among these standout entries, many thought one Pedro and Pedro movie was snubbed. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke, the film was called Strange Way of Life.

Pedro Almodóvar with Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke on the sets of Strange Way of Life Credits: Sony Pictures Classics

This film, which was Almodóvar’s homage to Brokeback Mountain, seemed set to make waves. However, it missed out on an Oscar nod, and critics pointed to its pacing as a likely reason for the snub. Despite the buzz and anticipation, it appears that Strange Way of Life didn’t quite hit the mark with the Academy. Here is why!

Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke’s Queer Western Romance Movie Flew Under the Radar

Pedro Pascal...