Pedro Almodóvar
Author
Series
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Este libro es lo más parecido a una autobiografía fragmentada. [...] El lector acabará obteniendo la máxima información de mí como cineasta, como fabulador y el modo en que mi vida hace que una cosa y las otras se mezclen". Así define el autor este volumen, en una brillante introducción que sirve también de puesta en perspectiva: los doce relatos que lo componen abarcan varias épocas, desde finales de la década de los sesenta hasta la...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories spanning memoir, comedy, autofiction, parody, pastiche, and gothic fiction. With this debut collection, film legend Pedro Almodovar delivers a tantalizing glimpse into his world, formed by twelve stories carefully selected from his personal writings dating...
Series
Criterion collection volume 722
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
A rambunctious dark comedy. An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a B-movie porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him. A highly unconventional romance that came on the spike heels of Almodovar's international sensation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, this is a splashy, sexy central work in the career of one of the world₂s most beloved and provocative auteurs.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
It tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 160s, 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.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A short film by director Pedro Almodovar. After twenty-five years, Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend Sheriff Jake. A lifetime after their shared stint as hired gunmen, they celebrate their reunion. However, the next morning, it is revealed the trip is not to revel in the memory of their friendship.
Publisher
Cameo Media
Pub. Date
D.L.. 2013.
Language
Español
Description
Un grupo de pasajeros con circunstacias muy distintas viven una situación de riesgo dentro de un avión que se dirige a México D.F. La situación de alarma acaba provocando una catarsis generalizada que a su vez acaba convirtiéndose en el mejor modo de escapar a la idea de la muerte
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
Filmmaker Enrique gets a visit from an aspiring actor claiming to be his old school friend Igancio, who has written a story about their traumatic childhood spent at Catholic school. In the story, a drag performer attempts to blackmail a predatory priest by exposing their scandalous past. When Enrique produces a film based on the story, the villainous priest from their school days arrives to tell his own version of the events.
10) Julieta
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Julieta lives in Madrid with her daughter Antia. They both suffer in silence over the loss of Xoan, Antia's father and Julieta's husband. At times, grief doesn't bring people closer, it drives them apart.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
"Leo writes romance novels - but with a loveless marriage, she finds herself fresh out of inspiration. Angel is a tough and gruff journalist with an iron will and a heart of gold. When their paths cross, they discover something neither had expected - a real-life love affair"--Container.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
A bourgeois woman is driving alone on a dirt road when she becomes distracted and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident, she becomes dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life. She becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone. The police confirm that there were no accidents reported in the area and everything returns to normal. That is until a gruesome discovery is...
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