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It immediately says something about the differences between Jean Cocteau's brilliant 1928 dramatic monologue The Human Voice — as first put on screen in 1948 by Roberto Rossellini with the immortal Anna Magnani — and Pedro Almodovar's new version of it starring Tilda Swinton, that the latter features six costume…

Pedro Almodovar, Agnieszka Holland and Paweł Pawlikowski are among 592 signatories to a letter calling for the introduction of a levy that would see streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon be forced to re-invest at least 25% of their turnover in European countries back into local independent industry. This…

EXCLUSIVE: Keeping intact its long relationship with filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired The Human Voice, the 30-minute short film that stars Tilda Swinton that will be unveiled during the New York Film Festival. It’s an adaptation of the Jean Cocteau play La voix humaine. In the short, a…

Pedro Almodovar and Tilda Swinton heated things up at the Venice Film Festival this afternoon, speaking to the press after the screening of the Spanish maestro's first English-langauge project, The Human Voice. "Freely" based on the 1930 Jean Cocteau play, the 30-minute movie was shot after the coronavirus lockdown…

A wide group of global entertainment figures have signed a letter supporting the Polish LGBT+ community in the face of growing controversy in the country. On Tuesday, the government stepped in to support the Polish town of Tuchow, which recently lost financial support from the EU after it set up a 'LGBT-free' zone…

As suggested by Venice Film Festival chief Alberto Barbera last week, the 77th edition has added to its lineup. Both Pedro Almodovar’s The Human Voice and Regina King’s One Night In Miami are now among the Out of Competition titles for the Lido event that runs September 2-12. Almodóvar’s latest, a 30-minute adaptation…

Pedro Almodovar’s Pain and Glory, a double Oscar nominee for star Antonio Banderas and the film itself in the Best International Feature race, swept the top categories Saturday at Spain’s Goya Awards. Scroll down for the full list. Banderas, up for Best Actor at the Oscars, won best actor award at the Spanish film…

EXCLUSIVE: Viacom International Studios has set a co-development deal with El Deseo, the Spanish production company owned by brothers Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar, for an eight-episode series, Mentiras Pasajeras (White Lies). The companies will co-develop the series under the direction of Spanish screenwriters Nerea…

Antonio Banderas’ first Oscar nomination came in Monday morning for his leading role in Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory. “I was surprised” Banderas said, not only because he had been fairly absent from the campaigning scene due to the opening of his new theater, Teatro del Soho Caixabank, in his native Malaga, but…

Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar made his return at Cannes this year with Pain & Glory, a deeply personal and semi-autobiographical film about an aging filmmaker reflecting on his life and legacy and dealing with the loss of his youth. The movie stars frequent Almodóvar collaborator Antonio Banderas as Spanish director…

EXCLUSIVE: Heavyweight Oscar contenders Quentin Tarantino and Pedro Almodóvar are among those who will not be going to the WGA Awards this year. And get your knives out, FilmTwitter, because one of the high-profile female directors ignored by the Golden Globes’ directing category, Lulu Wang for The Farewell, won’t…

Prolific Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar (21 features and counting) has spoken about how at one point he believed his films could be “too outrageous” for some audiences, and why he would like to return to the comedy genre in the near future. The director, whose latest film Pain And Glory just got nominated for 16 Goya…