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Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 1:00PM | Weekend Box Office [Actuals] Oct 4th -6th 🔺 = New or Expanding / ★ = Recommended |
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 Joker |
 Pain & Glory |
| 1 🔺 Joker $96.2 *new* REVIEW |
1 🔺 War $1.6 on 305 screens *new* |
Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 8:00PM 
Salvador Mallo, the director and lead character in Pain and Glory, tells one of his actors that holding back tears in emotional scenes instead of crying makes actors better. Yet Pedro Almodóvar, who wrote and directed and based this film partially on his life, does not. He goes deep, he explores honestly and elicits a deeply emotional and cathartic reaction.
In this thesis on his life and his work, he finds the generous space to include many of his collaborators in front and behind the camera. On screen we have Antonio Banderas as Mallo, Cecilia Roth, from All About My Mother (1999), appears as an actress from Mallo’s past who’s eager to work with him again. And most poignantly Peneope Cruz, his muse of many years and movies, plays a version of his mother...
Sunday, August 11, 2019 at 11:28AM • Variety RIP Piero Tosi one of the great costume designers. His film credits include Death in Venice, La Traviata, La Cage Aux Folles and The Night Porter so he's the one responsible for Charlotte Rampling at her most sexually provocative
• BuzzFeed good piece on Brad Pitt's talent and why he shines in weirder sideline roles as opposed to leads... though we object to any notion that he isn't a leading man in Once Upon a Time... but this battle is already lost since critics keep calling him supporting even before the Oscar campaign does. (sigh)
more after the jump including The Hunt, a fun conversation on Hobbs & Shaw, Tarantino and Almodóvar...
Monday, June 24, 2019 at 11:43AM by Nathaniel R
At the beginning of the month we shared a collection of disparate lists from various websites on the "best LGBTQ films ever" and since that got such a good response let's return to the well for something more personal as Pride month winds down. Naturally when you make personal lists the order can be justifiably odd, even to your own eyes, so we must acknowledge first and foremost that this is by no means definitive: I haven't seen every queer movie ever made, and were the list to have been made on a different day or perhaps a different hour, it might be noticeably different, at least in ranking.
Nevertheless here's to hoping you enjoy this imperfect list of...
Nathaniel's 125 Favourite Queer Movies
Monday, May 20, 2019 at 8:00AM by Nathaniel R
Antonio, Penelope, and Pedro together once again.
Hang this photo in the Louvre, s'il vous plaît. Loyal readers know that Pedro Almodóvar is my favourite living director so I bring you glorious news from Cannes -- Pedro's latest, Pain and Glory, starring his only real male muse Antonio Banderas and featuring his current female muse Penélope Cruz, is winning reviews that are much closer to glorious than painful. It could well be in contention for prizes with the jury...
