THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (2024) - Trailers, Clips, Featurettes, Images and Posters

"The Room Next Door" ("La Habitacion de al lado") is a drama written and directed by Pedro Almodovar in his English-language feature debut based on the novel "What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez. The film stars Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro and Alessandro Nivola. "The Room Next Door" premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival where it won the Golden Lion. It opened in select theaters in the US on December 20, 2024.

Find out more about the movie after the jump.

Venice Film Festival 2024 Awards Winners - The Complete List

After a week and a half, we now have the winners of the prestigious Venice Film Festival awards. The Golden Lion award for Best Film went to Pedro Almodovar's "The Room Next Door", the filmmaker's first English-language feature, which received a 17-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the festival. The film is an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez's novel "What Are You Going Through", and it stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.

The Silver Lion best director prize went to Brady Corbet for "The Brutalist" starring Adrian Brody and Felicity Jones. Nicole Kidman took home the best actress actress award for her role in the erotic thriller "Babygirl" opposite Antonio Banderas and Harris Dickinson, while Vincent Lindon won best actor for his performance in "The Quiet Son". The Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize went to "Vermiglio" by Maura Delpero, and The Special Jury Prize went to "April", directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili.

The Venice Film Festival's 81st edition jury was presided over by Isabelle Huppert and comprised filmmakers James Gray, Andrew Haigh, Agnieszka Holland, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Abderrahmane Sissako, Giuseppe Tornatore, Julia von Heinz and actress Zhang Ziyi.

Read the complete list of 2024 Venice Film Festival awards after the jump.

DVD & Blu-ray: Pedro Almodóvar's PARALLEL MOTHERS (2021) Starring Penelope Cruz

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Product Description: Two women, Janis (Penélope Cruz) and Ana (Milena Smit), coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way.

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Cate Blanchett to Star in Pedro Almodovar's A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN

Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett has signed on to star in Pedro Almodovar's English-language feature debut titled "A Manual for Cleaning Women", which is an adaptation of the 2015 collection of short stories by Lucia Berlin.

The book includes 43 stories about women working a wide variety of demanding jobs. The project is in early stages of development. Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Coco Francini will produce for Dirty Films, with Almodóvar for El Deseo, and Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer for New Republic Pictures.

Almodovar recently directed the drama "Parallel Mothers" starring Penelope Cruz, and the English-language short "The Human Voice" that starred Tilda Swinton, both released by Sony Pictures Classics.

Blanchett recently starred in Adam McKay's Netflix flick "Don't Look Up", and Guillermo del Toro's "Nightmare Alley". Upcoming projects for the actress include Eli Roth's video game adaptation "Borderlands" and the animated adaptation of "Pinocchio" from Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson.

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DVD & Blu-ray: Pedro Almodóvar's ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (1999)

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Product Description: This Oscar-winning melodrama, one of Pedro Almodóvar’s most beloved films, provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) loses the teenage son she raised on her own. Grief-stricken, she sets out to search for the boy’s long-lost father in Barcelona, where she reawakens into a new maternal role, at the head of a surrogate family that includes a pregnant, HIV-positive nun (Penélope Cruz); an illustrious star of the stage (Marisa Paredes); and a transgender sex worker (Antonia San Juan). Beautifully performed and bursting with cinematic references, All About My Mother is a vibrant tribute to female fortitude, a one-of-a-kind family portrait, and a work of boundless compassion.

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DVD & Blu-ray: PAIN AND GLORY (2019) Starring Antonio Banderas

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Product Description: PAIN AND GLORY tells of a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas), a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films.

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PAIN AND GLORY (Dolor Y Gloria) - Trailers, Clips, Images and Posters

"Pain and Glory" (Dolor y gloria) is a drama written and directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Pedro Almodovar.

Inspired by Federico Fellini's "8½", the film follows a film director (Antonio Banderas) who reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him. Penelope Cruz, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Roth, Nora Navas and Julieta Serrano co-star. This is Almodovar's eighth collaboration with Banderas, and his sixth with Cruz. Both Cruz and Banderas have previously starred together in Almodovar's 2013 film "I'm So Excited!".

"Pain and Glory" premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the awards for Best Actor (Banderas), and Soundtrack (Alberto Iglesias). The film opened in theaters on March 22, 2019 in Spain, and received a limited release in the U.S. on October 4, 2019.

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Cannes Film Festival 2019 Awards: PARASITE Wins Palme D'Or

The 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival is now over, and the coveted Palme d'Or has been awarded to the South Korean satire "Parasite" from acclaimed filmmaker Bong Joon-ho. The decision was unanimous by this year's jury, which was presided by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and it is the first time in the history of the festival that a South Korean movie receives the Palme d'Or. It's also the second year in a row that the award has gone to an Asian film, after Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Shoplifters" earned the top honor last year.

Inarritu explained the love for "Parasite" at the post-ceremony press conference:

"We all shared the mystery of the unexpected way this film took us through different genres and spoke in a funny, humorous, tender way — with no judgment — of something so relevant and urgent, so global in such a local film, with such a beautiful efficiency of media, and an understanding of what film really is. We were all fascinated when we saw it, and it kept growing and growing: that’s why it was a unanimous decision.".

The Grand Prix award went to French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop for her debut film "Atlantics". Diop is the first black woman director ever to participate in the Cannes competition.

Antonio Banderas won best actor for his performance in Pedro Almodovar's semi-autobiographical "Pain and Glory", while best actress went to British star Emily Beecham for her role in Jessica Hausner's critically divisive sci-fi film "Little Joe".

The Jury Prize was shared by both Ladj Ly's drama "Les Miserables" and Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho's weird western "Bacurau".

Two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne took home the award for best director for the disturbing teen drama "Young Ahmed". The screenplay award went to French writer-director Celine Sciamma for the lesbian-themed period film "Portrait of a Lady on Fire".

Read the complete list of 2019 Cannes Film Festival awards after the jump

JULIETA Soundtrack (Alberto Iglesias)

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Composer
Alberto Iglesias

Conducted by
Robert Ziegler

Performed by
London Metropolitan Orchestra

Total Time:
62:22

Label:
Quartet Records

Format:
MP3

Release Date
April 4, 2016

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and track list after the jump.

WILD TALES Trailer, Clip and 7 Posters

Today we have a trailer, clip and seven posters for the Argentinian anthology film "Wild Tales" which is nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award this year. Produced by Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar, and directed by Damián Szifron, the film is a collection of six stories about people dealing with inequality, injustice and the demands of the world we live in. A lover's betrayal, a return to the repressed past and the violence woven into everyday encounters drive the characters to madness as they cede to the undeniable pleasure of losing control. The film stars Erica Rivas, Liliana Ackerman, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Luis Manuel Altamirano García, Darío Grandinetti, Alejandro Angelini, Cristina Blanco and Camila Sofía Casas.

"Wild Tales" opens today in theaters in the U.S. (limited release)

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Movie Review: VOLVER (2006)

VOLVER

Review by Amelia

FILM DETAILS

Review Score: 100% (Perfect)
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Blanca Portillo, Chus Lampreave, Carlos Blanco
Runtime: 121 min
Rating: R for some sexual content and language

Almoldovar’s "Volver" is one of my favorite movies of all times. I will try to explain why, but I am not sure that the feeling that I get every time I think about Penelope Cruz singing while her mother listens and cries could be explained or demonstrated, it is either there or it is not. To a movie expert such as fellow reviewer Gabriel, "Volver" is a technically imperfect film, with flaws and the stigma of not having met the expectations of the critics accustomed with "Talk to Her" or "Bad Education", which compared to this one seem more meticulous and better directed, better thought. But here, the heart is stronger than the mind. And the flaws make it perfect, especially for someone who, until this movie, did not know anything about its creator.

2012 BAFTA Winners

Once again, "The Artist" proves to be an unstoppable force, this time at the 2012 British Academy Film Awards. The french silent movie won seven BAFTAs, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor (Jean Dujardin). The film is enjoying quite a hot streak after winning at the Golden Globes, the Producers Guild Awards, the Directors Guild Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards (Leading Role). Jean Dujardin also won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival last year. All things considered, it's easy to see why I feel that "The Artist" will be a big hit at the Academy Awards, where it stands nominated for no less than 10 awards.

Another string of predictable wins follows on the list : Mery Streep for Best Actress ("The Iron Lady"), Christopher Plummer won for Best Supporting Actor ("Beginners") and Octavia Spencer for Best Supporting Actress ("The Help"). The british spy thriller "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" managed to score two wins, for Best British Film and Best Adapted Screenplay. The Foreign Film (Best Film Not in the English Language) category offered quite a surprise as Pedro Almodovar's "The Skin I Live in" took home the award and not the favorite, so far, the iranian drama "A Separation". I have a feeling that the Oscars will favor the iranian film, though, as Almodovar already has an Oscar for 2002s "Hable Con Ella" (Best Writing, Original Screenplay). And another (pleasant) surprise was that "Rango" won the award for Best Animated Film.

After the jump you can read the full list of BAFTA winners.

In Theaters : THE SKIN I LIVE IN (2011)

Official Synopsis : Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And as for the human guinea pig...

THE SKIN I LIVE IN (2011) - Trailer and Poster

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Official Synopsis: Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And as for the human guinea pig…

Genre: Drama

Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Fernando Cayo, Jan Cornet

Director: Pedro Almodóvar ("Talk to Her", "Volver")

Screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar, based on a novel by Thierry Jonquet

Rated R for disturbing violent content including sexual assault, strong sexuality, graphic nudity, drug use and language

Release Date: October 14, 2011 (US - Limited)

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