With “The Skin I Live in,” Almodovar seems to be playing in his old neighborhood for the first time in a while. I thought he was like a Spanish cross between David Lynch and John Waters, and I loved the idea of this lunatic dropping a culture bomb on us every couple of years. His run since 1995 has been incredible, with “All About My Mother,” “The Flower Of My Secret,” “Live Flesh,” “Bad Education,” “Broken Embraces” and my favorite of this era, “Volver,” all serving to highlight some of his strengths as a director.īut the first film of his I saw was the 1986 film “Matador,” which is dark and crazy and sexually supercharged and just a little bit deranged, and that led me to “Dark Habits” and “What Have I Done To Deserve This?”, and at that point, I was hooked. I think he’s evolved into a great respectable director of women-driven melodrama, and I adore many of his later films. In particular, I love early crazy Almodovar. Drove me crazy, too, since I am fond of Pedro Almodovar as a filmmaker. I saw one of them there, but had to leave town before I could see the other. There are two new trailers online today for movies that will be featured at the festival, and both of these also played at Cannes this summer. I’ve seen a chunk of the movies already at the Cannes Festival and here in Los Angeles, and it’s going to be an exciting fall at the movies as these things start hitting theaters. I spent a chunk of the weekend working on my schedule for the Toronto Film Festival, and I am overwhelmed by how many potentially great films they’ve got on the schedule.
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