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	MovieMaker Magazine \| Issue #48 \| The Man From La Mancha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Pedro Almodóvar left his family home in sleepy, provincial La Mancha for the big city, he was a boy of 16.
		As the days of dictatorship came to a close, and the doors to a new democracy were thrown open, Pedro was busy scripting a colorful life for himself: he wrote for underground magazines, performed in a local punk band, did a bit of acting and, above all, made movies.
		Pedro Almodóvar (PA): Right from the beginning, Talk to Her was intended to be a story about men.
	www.moviemaker.com /issues/48/almodovar.html (2125 words)

	<Pedro Almodovar's Biography>
		Pedro Almodóvar was born in 1951 in Calzada de Calatraba, a small town in La Mancha, Spain.
		Pedro went to an all boys boarding school and his mother, Doña Paquita, was scared that he might want to become a priest as a result of this.
		Doña Paquita bought a house in Madrid for Pedro and she went back to live in Calzada, where the neighbours complained to her every time Pedro made a film, which was seen as controversial amongst the Calatrava neighbours.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /ibercine/almobio.htm (520 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - A Tribute thread for all things Pedro ... ALMODOVAR (show some love people!)
		Almodovar's ability to write completely original scripts that challenge you both intellectually and emotionally was not only noticed by critics but by the Academy as he scored the Oscar in that category.
		Pedro and I are very happy to work again with Sony Pictures Classics, a team who continue to support the work of Pedro Amodovar, that they started years ago, comments Agustin Almodovar.
		As Pedro¹s producer and the person who has been working the longest with him, having Sony Pictures Classics distribute VOLVER is a testament to their work on promoting and expanding Pedro¹s films.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?p=5224428 (1157 words)

	Mala educación, La (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Almodovar's latest film is a tantalizing, hypnotic and sexy mixture of VERTIGO, MEMENTO and MULLHOLLAND DRIVE.
		It's Almodovar's meatiest and most complex script in years.
		Although you may be confused early on as you're trying to figure out whats going on, its all revealed later and very satisfyingly.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0275491 (363 words)

	Pedro Almodovar
		However, unable to be taken seriously by the police, Angel decides to confess to a series of murders after viewing the crime scene photographs on the commissioner's (Eusebio Poncela) desk, and in the process, unwittingly unites the paths of the crippled, morbidly aroused Diego and the fatally seductive María.
		Pedro Almodóvar creates a highly sensual, deliriously overripe, and stylistically audacious portrait of love, death, fate, and violence in Matador.
		Almodóvar further uses environmental elements to underscore emotional state, from the idyllic clouds that precipitate Angel's consuming, morbid visions, to the portentous inclement weather that punctuates his encounter with Eva, to the total eclipse that materializes during the final encounter.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/almodovar.html (578 words)

	Film Review - Live Flesh - He is pleased with his work
		Almodovar's film is about a number of relationships that have their origin in a tragic incident.
		Almodovar is certainly not the only one guilty these days of making such sweeping and unsubstantiated pronouncements.
		Almodovar suggests that Elena's relationship with David and her donations of time and money to charity are the results merely of a guilty conscience, and that it is an act of self-liberation when she dumps him and presumably starts spending money on herself.
	www.wsws.org /arts/1998/mar1998/live-m07.shtml (1431 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Talk to Her at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For Almodovar, long respected for his particularly conflicted and complex sensitivity towards women, Talk To Her is a change of pace because it's really about the men.
		At their heart, Almodovar's films are about how the modern world has changed gender roles, but people haven't noticed and they try to embark in traditional human relationships that are inevitably warped by modernity.
		Almodovar gets away with some of the problematic sexual politics because of his periodic sensitivity to the female characters and because of his portfolio.
	www.epinions.com /content_83918163588 (1445 words)

	Pedro Almodovar Biography / Biography of Pedro Almodovar Biography Biography
		Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar (born 1949) was a leader of New Spanish Cinema in the post-Franco era.
		Almodovar was born on September 25, 1949 (some sources say 1951), in Calzada de Calatrava, La Mancha, Spain.
		Almodovar moved with his family to Extremadura, Spain, when he was eight.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-pedro-almodovar (237 words)

	Groupstores - DVD Hyper Store - DVD - Genres - Art House & International - By Director - Pedro Almodovar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pedro Almodóvar scored his first international hit with What Have I Done to Deserve This?, cementing his reputation as Spain's bad-boy director of darkly comedic melodramas.
		Pedro Alomodóvar made this misfired, rambling comedy about a romance novelist (Marisa Paredes) whose crumbling marriage has left her depressed and unable to work.
		Pedro Almodovar broke into the art-house mainstream with this wild, manic comedy about a gaggle of women and their various problems with men, be they married lovers, cheating husbands, fiancés...
	dvdhyperstore.groupstores.com /DVD/Genres/Art_House_and_International/By_Director/Pedro_Almodovar.aspx (336 words)

	The History of Cinema. Pedro Almodovar: biography, reviews, links
		Almodovar si diverte a mettere in scena una serie di simmetrie impostate sul rapporto fondamentale di madre-figlio.
		By this time, Almodovar's films were still somewhat unconventional, but had become less and less unpredictable, and certainly much more aligned with Hollywood standards than they used to be.
		Almodovar's perverted voyeuristic journey has achieved the status of a meditation not on the decadence of western morality but on narrative art itself.
	www.scaruffi.com /director/almodova.html (9452 words)

	Pedro Almodóvar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pedro Almodóvar (born on September 24, 1949 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain) is a Spanish filmmaker.
		His films are centred around relationships that occur around improbable circumstances and are accompanied by melodrama and high camp.
		Pedro Almodovar was born in Calzada de Calatrava in Ciudad Real, a province of Castile-La Mancha, the administrative district of Almagro, but migrated with his family to Caceres in Extremadura, when he was 8.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pedro_Almod%F3var (576 words)

	The Christian Century: Masterful melodrama.(Pedro Almodovar) @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		PEDRO ALMODOVAR, the one-time enfant terrible of the Spanish cinema, has matured into one of the most sublime voices on the international film scene, and in the process has become a great moralist.
		(Almodovar is openly gay.) But after years of placing these rebels in fl comedies or over-the-top sex farces, he began to work them into more subdued fare, such as The Flower of My Secret (1995), about a middle-aged female journalist facing a potential break down as she confronts marital problems with her soldier husband.
		Almodovar maintained the same serious posture in Live Flesh (1997), which is about a lonely man who falls in love with a crippled policeman's wife.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:99186904&refid=ip_almanac_hf (741 words)

	The Antonio Banderas Web Mall - Pedro Almodovar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pedro above welcomed Melanie to Spain in the summer of 1995, and having kissed Melanie first, planted a kiss on a slightly off-balanced Antonio.
		Pedro is known for being a difficult taskmaster.
		Pedro liked Antonio to act instinctively as if by osmosis rather than by method, and occasionally Antonio would begin to question Pedro as to the sense and motivation of his role.
	www.banderas-mall.com /theatre/stars/almodovar.html (989 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| Educating Pedro
		Pedro Almodóvar used to be the king of kitsch.
		There's also a sweet sincerity to the message: Pedro doesn't think he is in a state to give you his best.
		Pedro Almodóvar has been making films for 20-odd years, and giving his best for most of the past decade.
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,1210646,00.html (2866 words)

	N.Y. Film Fest honors Pedro Almodovar - Movies - MSNBC.com
		Gael Garcia Bernal as Angel Juan Zahara is seen in Pedro Almodovar's "Bad Education." The New York Film Festival will present the film and honor Almodovar with a look back at his work.
		Almodovar’s new film, a highly personal reflection on Catholic upbringing starring up-and-coming Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal (“The Motorcycle Diaries,” “Y Tu Mama Tambien”), plays Oct. 9 as the festival’s centerpiece film.
		Previous Almodovar films that have appeared at the festival include “Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown” (opening night 1988), “All About My Mother” (opening night 1999) and “Talk to Her” (closing night 2002).
	msnbc.msn.com /id/6152773 (845 words)

	Pedro Almodovar, filmmaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pedro Almodovar: I think the film makes itself very clear and puts everything in its place.
		Almodovar: We chose Lucrecia (Martel)'s film ("Santa") because I really liked the script, and I loved her first film ("La Cienaga").
		Almodovar: For me on a personal level and from the point of view as a producer, it means a lot, and it's the best privilege we could have in France.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/interviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000552292 (903 words)

	Literature Film Quarterly: Rewriting Rendell: Pedro Almodovar's Carne tremula
		According to Almodovar, his adaptation "has almost nothing from the novel anymore, but at least it served as a stimulus" [ya no tiene casi nada de la novela, pero ha servido por lo menos de estimulo] (Strauss 162-63).
		As such, Almodovar's rendering of Rendell's text falls within the bounds of what Karen Kline calls the "transformation paradigm" of film adaptation, wherein the novel is considered "raw material which the film alters significantly, so that the film becomes an artistic work in its own right" (72).
		The events of both Rendell's novel and Almodovar's film unfold as a result of a shooting incident in which a policeman (David) is paralyzed while trying to save a young woman being held at gunpoint by an assailant (Victor) who has entered her apartment.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_200201/ai_n9032974 (983 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Almodovar on Almodovar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Almodovar became the enfant terrible during the '80s for his outrageous actions on and off the film set.
		Almodovar burst on to the scene with "Pepi, Luci, Bom," a film renowned for a woman in it being urinated upon, and Almodovar's films have been doused in controversy ever since.
		Almodovar was denied funding for "Matador" due to his critique of the machismo inherent in the world of bullfighting.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0571175449?v=glance (1200 words)

	Bad Education review - movie review of the Pedro Almodovar film starring Gael Garcia Bernal
		It is on the word "passion" that Pedro Almodovar's incandescent film closes: Bad Education, the sum of a work preceded by a sulfurous reputation.
		Almodovar equally borrows from film noir, from which he diverts the motives to reach a true power of visual figuration.
		Enrique Goded (Fele Martinez), Pedro Almodovar's alter ego, sees his artistic course joining that of the director in numerous places.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/lamala.html (521 words)

	Pedro Almodovar takes a rare look back in 'Bad Education' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pedro Almodovar brings a small white pad to an interview, and while he speaks, he quietly sketches a detailed drawing of a pen sitting on the table.
		But Almodovar is already looking forward not just to his next film, but his next four, one of which is a return to comedy -- if for no other reason than to satisfy the masses.
		If it seems like Almodovar is having difficulty putting down "Bad Education," it's because he is. The film ends somewhat abruptly with another memorable image (this time a symbolically closed, green gate) and an epilogue.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/11/09/entertainment1710EST0608.DTL (814 words)

	'Bad': Almodovar at His Best (washingtonpost.com)
		In "Bad Education," Pedro Almodovar's uniquely flavored tribute to the genre, the Spanish filmmaker adds some thematic favorites of his own, including cross-dressing, transsexuality, heroin addiction and ecclesiastical hypocrisy.
		The result is one of Almodovar's darkest films since the early days of "Law of Desire" and "Matador," and certainly one of his finest.
		But Almodovar isn't making a film about priestly transgressions, per se, he's telling a story of humankind's darkest impulses with the relish of a campfire (emphasis on camp) storyteller, trying to keep his listeners bug-eyed with wonder.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A6521-2005Jan13.html (646 words)

	Pedro Almodovar´s Retreat from Spanish Movie Academy Irreversible - Prensa Latina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Spanish Movie Academy will make the withdrawal intention of the Almodovar brothers public in the next 48 hours, but in a very precise gesture, they were the first to make the decision public, which was let known Monday.
		Pedro Almodovar´s decision is narrowly linked to the lack of recognition for his work by the Spanish Movie Academy, with which the famous filmmaker keeps tense relations since the Academy reformulated the voting system for the Goya Awards.
		Almodovar´s film "La Mala Educacion" (Bad Education), a polemic one as all his films, and regarded as a masterpiece by many experts, did not receive any of the Goya Awards, and Spanish Alejandro Amenabar (Mar Adentro) was the clear winner, with 14 awards.
	www.plenglish.com /article.asp?ID={8FA8D6EF-A0E2-432B-ABC0-6E919CA7472E}&language=EN (358 words)

	Pedro Almodóvar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A small town boy from La Mancha, the internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar worked his way up through Madrid’s underground culture scene—established as a stark reaction to General Franco's fascist regime.
		Since film schools were closed by the government, Almodóvar bought a Super 8 camera, devoted himself to short filmmaking and became a star of La Movida — the late ‘70s pop culture movement.
		Characters such as dance teacher Katarina (Geraldine Chaplin), iconic Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso and famed modern dancer Pina Bausch are interwoven into this scenario in such a seamless way that minor reality/time shifts don’t feel uncomfortable.
	home.comcast.net /~tatemanor/feature_makers/almodovar_talk2her_balfour.htm (819 words)

	BBC NEWS \| In Depth \| Oscars 2000 \| Spain's enfant terrible
		Pedro Almodovar's Oscar for best foreign film has sealed his transition from kitsch cult favourite to respected - if not always totally respectable - auteur.
		Almodovar attributes his skill in creating red-blooded female characters to the women of his native La Mancha - the arid, conservative region of central Spain where he grew up with his mother and a bevy of strong women who battled daily with the machismo of Spanish society in the 1950s and 60s.
		Regardless of whether Almodovar wins the Academy's vote on 26 March, he already has the Hollywood seal of approval.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/in_depth/entertainment/2000/oscars_2000/newsid_677000/677394.stm (908 words)

	Pedro Almodovar
		Director, screenwriter, composer and actor, PEDRO ALMODOVAR is the most celebrated Spanish director since Luis Bunuel and Carlos Saura.
		He was a member of the parodic punk-rock group "Almodovar and McNamara," etc. He was lucky that the opening of his first feature film coincides with the birth of democracy in Spain.
		Tie Me Down!," "High Heels" and "Kika." Almodovar is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Glauber Rocha Award for Best Director, Rio Film Festival, and L.A. Film Critics Association "New Generation" Award.
	www.sonypictures.com /classics/flower/crew/almodovar.html (401 words)

	Parla con lei - PARLA CON LEI di Pedro Almodovar - PEDRO ALMODOVAR
		Abbandonati i ruspanti eccessi degli esordi, Pedro Almodovar sembra essere arrivato ad una piena maturita' stilistica che predilige i toni pacati e le sfumature.
		In "Parla con lei" costruisce un vero e proprio melodramma, svecchiando i ruoli e attribuendo alle figure maschili le passioni e le lacrime che siamo stati abituati a riscontrare in eroine d'altri tempi.
		Pare quasi che l'originalita' della vita, di cui Almodovar e' sempre stato (pur con alti e bassi) sensibile interprete, sia filtrata da una razionalita' che finisce con l'avere un peso ingombrante.
	www.centraldocinema.it /Recensioni/16/c/parla_con_lei.htm (883 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Almodovar's films, he argues, seek "truth in travesty," partly by calling attention to cinematic artifice and representing gender and sexuality as stylized performance.
		He notes, for example, that Spanish audiences particularly appreciate the casting of straight actor Antonio Banderas in a gay role and of "genuine girl" Carmen Maura as a transsexual, communicating "a certain bracketing of gender identity" that might be missed elsewhere.
		Beautifully designed, this book is not only a treat to Almodovar fans worldwide, but also it is a must have for any serious film student/buff who wants to know the forces of creativity from a non-American director.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0860914976 (581 words)

	Review: All About My Mother (Todo Sobre mi Madre) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Pedro Almodovar of the late 1990s is not the same director who once engaged audiences with his kinky and offbeat views of sex and relationships.
		This new, kinder, gentler Almodovar is more concerned about conventional film elements like plot and character, and less determined to shock his viewers.
		Almodovar has used her several times before, but never has she been as vibrant as she is here.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/a/all_about.html (1085 words)

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