The Excavations of Pedro Almodóvar
The 72-year-old is still making movies that shock.
The 72-year-old is still making movies that shock.
Marcela Valdes The New York Times Magazine Dec 2021 30min Permalink
After two decades spent making movies, including last year’s record- breaking Girls Trip, Malcolm D. Lee wishes he could stop paying his dues.
Allison P. Davis California Sunday Aug 2018 15min Permalink
An experimental story of travel, quotations, and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.
"Two scenes intervene between Cypress Point and San Juan Bautista: one in Midge’s apartment, when Midge reveals her self-portrait-as-”Portrait of Carlotta” to Scottie, and, following it, a scene in Scottie’s apartment, “early dawn” the following day, when Madeleine comes to visit him to tell him about her dream. One scene attempts to conceal what it in actuality reveals, the other conceals that which it is supposed to reveal; Midge’s feelings for Scottie are clearest here, where her gesture is meant to be seen as ironic, and Madeleine’s are most calculated in the scene following it, just when she is supposed to be at her most vulnerable (“supposed to” according to her script, that is, the one written by Elster)."
Gabriel Blackwell The Collapsar Sep 2013 15min Permalink
A profile of filmmaker Michael Haneke.
John Wray New York Times Magazine Sep 2007 Permalink
Inside the five-year (so far) production of the Ilya Khrzhanovsky film Dau:
Khrzhanovsky came up with the idea of the Institute not long after preproduction on Dau began in 2006. He wanted a space where he could elicit the needed emotions from his cast in controlled conditions, twenty-four hours a day. The set would be a panopticon. Microphones would hide in lighting fixtures (as they would in many a lamp in Stalin's USSR), allowing Khrzhanovsky to shoot with multiple film cameras from practically anywhere — through windows, skylights, and two-way mirrors. The Institute's ostensible goal was to re-create '50s and '60s Moscow, home to Dau's subject, Lev Landau. A Nobel Prize–winning physicist, Landau significantly advanced quantum mechanics with his theories of diamagnetism, superfluidity, and superconductivity. He also tapped epic amounts of ass.
Michael Idov GQ Nov 2011 15min Permalink
A profile of Spike Lee.
John Colapinto New Yorker Sep 2008 40min Permalink
A profile of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar during the 2004 Cannes International Film Festival.
A profile of Zack Snyder, director of Watchmen, Dawn of the Dead, and the upcoming Superman series.
Alex Pappademas New York Times Magazine Mar 2011 10min Permalink