The pleasures of the new Pedro Almodovar film “Volver,” and they are many, have less to do with deep wells of feeling than they do with mastery of craft and a magnificent sort of artifice. It’s odd, ...

Pedro Almodóvar is the most prominent Spanish filmmaker currently working. With the release of Volver, which won best screenplay at Cannes last year, along with best actress award for the entire ...

The Festival de Cannes loves Pedro Almodovar and audiences seem to love his new film. At this morning’s first screening of “Volver,” some journalists in the Lumiere Theater clapped when his name came ...

The independent/specialty film market in general had a strong weekend, as overall gross for the 80 films listed on the iWBOT jumped more than $1 million – to just under $7.9 million – from the $6.83 ...

On almost every level, Pedro Almodovar’s “Volver” proves you can go home again. The title — “Volver,” or “Coming Back” — suits not only the writer-director’s rich, nuanced comic drama of women coping ...

Oscar-winning Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar has made a name for himself with a series of brightly colored, delightfully kinky and unabashedly melodramatic titles, mixing comedy, drama, sex and ...

The actress, who died this week, was the oldest and canniest of the Spaniard’s squad of fabulous chicas, the Edith Massey to his John Waters. Though Lampreave became a part of the estrogen army that ...