The world is Australia's stage Nov 7, 2009
But it seems to be positioning itself in the middle with mainstream offerings such as Wendy Hughes in Almodovar's All About My Mother and also covering neglected areas. The company is presenting David Williamson's Let the Sunshine, spurned by Sydney, with Jackie Weaver, but it's also for the first time presenting a play by Daniel Keene and one by Marius Von Mayenburg. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
A dramatic imbalance Oct 18, 2009
All about My Mother, directed by Simon Phillips. Life without Me, directed by Peter Evans. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Key winners at Cannes, Berlin festivals compete for foreign-language honors at Oscars Oct 16, 2009
Notably absent is Oscar winner Pedro Almodovar, whose "All About My Mother" took the 1999 foreign-language trophy. Spain chose Fernando Trueba's "The Dancer and the Thief" as its Oscar entry over Almodovar's "Broken Embraces," which co-stars last year's supporting-actress winner Penelope Cruz. (FOX61, CT)
Object of a new desire Aug 31, 2009
Pedro Almodovar's award-winning film All about My Mother features a Spanish-language version of the play. Matt Groenig has nominated A Streetcar Named Marge as his all-time favourite episode of The Simpsons. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Broken embraces Aug 26, 2009
Page last updated at 07:10 GMT, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 08:10 UK. Almodovar's love affair with Cruz. (BBC News -- Europe)
Recalling the films of 1999 Jul 12, 2009
Cronenberg s a Canadian, and 1999 looks even better when you open the discussion to non-American movies: Mike Leigh s Topsy-Turvy, the Dardenne brothers Rosetta, Hou Hsiao-hsien s Flowers of Shanghai, Tsai Ming-Liang s The Hole, Pedro Almodovar s All About My Mother, Olivier Assayas s Late August, Early September, and Jane Campion s Holy Smoke. If you want to know how spooky a year 1999 was, the director who should have been prophesying doom and uncertainty instead made The Straight Story, a... (Boston Globe)
Penelope Cruz lights up Cannes' 'Broken Embraces' May 24, 2009
The movie is Cruz's fourth collaboration with Almodovar, who first cast the actress as a prostitute in 1997's "Live Flesh" and has since had her play a pregnant nun with AIDS in "All About My Mother" and a passionate, volatile cook in "Volver.". She has become something of a muse to the Spanish director, whom she first met when she was 17. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
LIVE FROM ... BLOG May 21, 2009
Almodovar and Cruz have worked together on Volver, Live Flesh, and All About My Mother. Last year, she won the supporting actress Oscar for Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, a film that made its debut at Cannes. (USA Today -- Life)
Cruz, Almodovar collaborate for fourth time May 20, 2009
CANNES, France - Expect more male characters from Pedro Almodovar, whose credits include such female-centered films as All About My Mother, Volver and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ... So far, my male characters intimidated me somewhat, because for a male character, I had to take myself as a reference, said Almodovar, who won Academy Awards for foreign-language film with All About My Mother and original screenplay for Talk to Her ... They could not be more... (MSNBC -- Movies)
Cannes 2009: Great — or the Greatest — Festival? May 14, 2009
Cannes 2009: Great Festival. Or the Greatest Festival. (Time.com)
THEY'RE BACK: Cannes' favorite sons and daughters May 12, 2009
Almodovar won the screenplay prize for 2006's Volver and best director for 1999's All About My Mother. Lee will premiere the comedy Taking Woodstock, starring Comedy Central's Demetri Martin, Paul Dano and Eugene Levy in the haphazard true story behind the organizing of the 1969 festival of hippies, music and free love. (USA Today -- Life)
Heath Ledger wins Oscar for The Joker Feb 23, 2009
" Other nominees included Viola Davis for Doubt, Marisa Tomei for The Wrestler, Taraji P. Henson for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Amy Adams for Doubt. Born in Madrid in 1974, Cruz appeared destined for a career in the entertainment industry almost as soon as she could walk. As a child she entertained family members by mimicking popular television commercials. Her initial creative outlet was dancing however, and she was soon enrolled at Spain's National Conservatory where she studied... (The Age, Australia)
Penelope Cruz: Love, sweat and tears Feb 7, 2009
He hired me for his film Live Flesh, and I went on to work with him on All About My Mother, which helped me to get noticed outside Spain. He knows everything there is to know about me. (Times Online)
