Pedro Almodovar

4th Annual Festival of New Spanish Cinema

The Skin I Live In

A mad-scientist tale without the moral compass.

Festival of New Spanish Films

Features, shorts and documentaries get the screen treatment

Volver

It’s time to cut those apron strings, Penélope

Mighty Aphrodites in Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces — and some other stuff — in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest

The Man Who Loved Women

Gynocentric director returns with a lighthearted ghost story

Misdirected

Almodóvar shoots for noir and misses the mark

Fahrenheit 2004

Remembering the movies that heated up cinemas this year

Leaning Sideways

In a year when small movies came up big, picking the best was a Payne

Johnny's Show

Depp saves the day in Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Old News

Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded a good harvest

Far from Happy

The year's best featured plenty of sad white guys

Back to the Future

Most of this year's best won't be seen until next

Silence Equals Death

Before Night Falls recounts an imprisoned Cuban writer's struggle to keep his voice alive

Birth of a (Fascist) Nation

Butterfly explores the tensions in 1936 Spain via an old teacher and his young pupil

Screwball Drama

Almodovar leans toward the dark side in this often funny meditation on the bond of all women

Mark of the Zzzzs

Lame Mask of Zorro lacks cojones

After the Obsession

Is Pedro Almodvar at an awkward in-between stage? Or is he just lost?

World of Film

Smaller, and with shorts, WorldFest/Houston cranks up its projectors

Foreign Affairs

Smaller, and with shorts, WorldFest/Houston cranks up its projectors

Seaside Bliss

In Miami Rhapsody, just about everything goes right

The Sucking Game

Monsters that go dull in the night

Lady of Spain

Monsters that go dull in the night

Despite its Oscar,

Fernando Trueba's new film isn't a prizewinner

WorldFest's World View

Hunter Todd returns with a slimmed-down film festival

Hollywood Lives, Hollywood Lies

Barry Levinson takes a loopy look at the realities of Tinsel Town