Directors in focus : Movie love : Almodóvar and his inspirations

Document source:

Harvard Film Archive

Publication date:

2004 Aut

Document language:

English

Document type:

program note

Number of pages:

2

Document name subject:

Pedro Almodóvar

Document contains:

bibliography, box info, and production co

Related films:

• Mildred pierce — Curtiz, Michael — No country known — 1945
• Duel in the sun — Vidor, King; Brower, Otto; Dieterle, William; Franklin, Sidney; Von Sternberg, Josef; Selznick, David O.; Menzies, William Cameron — United States — 1946
• All about Eve — Mankiewicz, Joseph L. — United States — 1950
• Johnny Guitar — Ray, Nicholas — United States — 1954
• The Incredible shrinking man — Arnold, Jack — United States — 1957
• Matador (The bullfighter) — Almodóvar, Pedro — Spain — 1986
• Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown) — Almodóvar, Pedro — Spain — 1988
• Tacones lejanos (High heels) — Almodóvar, Pedro — Spain; France — 1991
• Todo sobre mi madre (All about my mother) — Almodóvar, Pedro — Spain; France — 1999
• Hable con ella (Talk to her) — Almodóvar, Pedro — Spain — 2002

Film country(ies):

France, Spain, and United States

Film language(s):

English and Spanish

Film production company:

Antena 3 Televisión, CIBY 2000, Compañia Iberoamericana de TV, Deseo S.A., France 2 Cinéma, Good Machine International, Laurenfilm S.A., Renn Productions, Republic Pictures Corporation, Selznick International Pictures, Studio Canal +, TF1 Films Production, Televisión Española, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Universal Pictures, and Vía Digital

Film genre(s):

Adaptation, Comedy, Dark comedy, Drama, Family, Feature, Horror, Romance, Science fiction, Show business, Thriller, Western, and Women

Film subject(s):

• Actresses -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
• Aging -- Drama
• Bergner, Elisabeth, 1897-1986 -- Drama
• Body size -- Drama
• Broadway (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama
• Brothers -- Drama
• Bullfighters -- Spain -- Drama
• Busch, Niven, 1903- Duel in the sun -- Film and video adaptations
• Coma -- Patients -- Spain -- Drama
• Female friendship -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Drama
• Indians -- Mixed descent -- Drama
• Jealousy -- Drama
• Male friendship -- Spain -- Drama
• Male nurses -- Spain -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- Spain -- Drama
• Matheson, Richard, 1926- Incredible shrinking man -- Film and video adaptations
• Mistresses -- Spain -- Drama
• Mothers and daughters -- Spain -- Drama
• Mothers and sons -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Drama
• Murder -- Spain -- Drama
• Necrophilia -- Drama
• Nurse and patient -- Spain -- Drama
• Nurses -- Spain -- Drama
• Racially mixed people -- Drama
• Religious fanaticism -- Spain -- Drama
• Repression (Psychology) -- Drama
• Sexual deviation -- Spain -- Drama
• Spiders -- Drama
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Spain -- Drama
• West (U.S.) -- Drama
• Wolcott, Alexander -- Drama
• Women -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Drama
• Women -- Spain -- Drama
• Women -- West (U.S.) -- Drama

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