In conjunction with a career retrospective that kicked off at the Museum Of Modern Art earlier this week, the entire professional feature filmography of Spanish director Pedro Almódovar has become available on iTunes. As Variety reports, the films are being distributed by Sony Pictures, whose Sony Pictures Classics division has been Almódovar’s American distributor for some time. The company bought up the remainder of his catalog in August, with the exception of Fuck Me, Fuck Me, Fuck Me, Tim, a no-budget feature he made on Super-8 during his 12-year stint as an office drone for the national telephone company Telefónica.
Almódovar, whose early ambitions to make film were forestalled by the realities of life under the regime of Francisco Franco, emerged as the enfant terrible of Spanish cinema in the years that followed the dictator’s death. He attracted international attention with his 1988 film Women On The Verge ...
Almódovar, whose early ambitions to make film were forestalled by the realities of life under the regime of Francisco Franco, emerged as the enfant terrible of Spanish cinema in the years that followed the dictator’s death. He attracted international attention with his 1988 film Women On The Verge ...
- 12/1/2016
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
Spanish director dies following a stroke: Best known for his nearly two hundred underground, "exploitation" films "I think I was born because my father and my mother had sex ... ." Nope, that has nothing to do with the anti-censorship lectured delivered by Oz the Great and Powerful and Interior. Leather Bar's James Franco online. The words above were uttered by another Franco, a Spaniard. No, not the foaming-at-the-mouth right-wing military ruler Francisco Franco, but multitasking filmmaker Jesús Franco, aka Jess Franco aka dozens of other aliases, including those in honor of jazz performers Clifford Brown and James P. Johnson. His oeuvre included about 200 films, among them The White Slave, The Sexual History of O, Macumba Sexual, , Emmanuelle Exposed, Vampyros Lesbos, The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll, and White Cannibal Queen. The director died today in Malaga, a city in southern Spain, after suffering a stroke. According to reports, he had never truly...
- 4/3/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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