Long-time friends Tilda Swinton and Pedro Almodóvar are reuniting for the Oscar-winning director’s first English-language feature, “The Room Next Door.”
It’s hard to believe the Scottish high priestess of playing women unmoored from the people and places around her had never collaborated with the Spanish filmmaker before his proper English-language debut, “The Human Voice.” In that sharp shock of a 30-minute film, based on a Jean Cocteau play, Swinton starred as a woman going through a breakup over the telephone, surrounded by expressive Almodóvarian set design on a soundstage, and eventually a fire.
In “The Room Next Door,” also being released by Almodóvar’s perennial North American distributor Sony Pictures Classics, she’s a woman named Martha grappling with a strained relationship with her mother, and helped by a friend named Ingrid.
Swinton was embargoed from saying too much about the film, now in pre-production and shooting in Madrid next week,...
It’s hard to believe the Scottish high priestess of playing women unmoored from the people and places around her had never collaborated with the Spanish filmmaker before his proper English-language debut, “The Human Voice.” In that sharp shock of a 30-minute film, based on a Jean Cocteau play, Swinton starred as a woman going through a breakup over the telephone, surrounded by expressive Almodóvarian set design on a soundstage, and eventually a fire.
In “The Room Next Door,” also being released by Almodóvar’s perennial North American distributor Sony Pictures Classics, she’s a woman named Martha grappling with a strained relationship with her mother, and helped by a friend named Ingrid.
Swinton was embargoed from saying too much about the film, now in pre-production and shooting in Madrid next week,...
- 2/28/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature film, “The Room Next Door,” has landed at the Spanish filmmaker’s usual North American home: Sony Pictures Classics.
The distributor has acquired all rights in North America, the Middle East, India, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand for the upcoming film starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, and John Turturro. Produced by Almodóvar’s El Deseo, “The Room Next Door” will begin shooting this March in New York and Madrid.
Almodóvar’s relationship with Sony Pictures Classics deepens with the announcement, following the releases of Oscar-nominated “Parallel Mothers” and short films “The Human Voice” and “Strange Way of Life,” among his other features. Both shorts were in English, with “The Human Voice” also starring “The Room Next Door” actress Swinton.
“‘The Room Next Door’ is about a very imperfect mother and her resentful daughter, who live separate lives because of a profound misunderstanding,” Almodóvar said in a press statement.
The distributor has acquired all rights in North America, the Middle East, India, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand for the upcoming film starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, and John Turturro. Produced by Almodóvar’s El Deseo, “The Room Next Door” will begin shooting this March in New York and Madrid.
Almodóvar’s relationship with Sony Pictures Classics deepens with the announcement, following the releases of Oscar-nominated “Parallel Mothers” and short films “The Human Voice” and “Strange Way of Life,” among his other features. Both shorts were in English, with “The Human Voice” also starring “The Room Next Door” actress Swinton.
“‘The Room Next Door’ is about a very imperfect mother and her resentful daughter, who live separate lives because of a profound misunderstanding,” Almodóvar said in a press statement.
- 2/1/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Julianne Moore will star alongside Tilda Swinton in The Room Next Door, the first English-language feature from acclaimed, Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, his production company has confirmed.
Almodóvar first spoke about Swinton’s casting last year. The Scottish actress starred in Almodovar’s 2021 short The Human Voice, which premiered in Venice and was one of the director’s first steps towards an English-language feature. He followed up with the short Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, which screened at Cannes last year. Almodóvar said the shorts were a testing ground to make him more comfortable with directing actors in English. He had been attached to direct the English-language feature A Manual for Cleaning Women, with Cate Blanchett set to star and produce, but pulled out in 2022.
Almodóvar is considered one of the greatest European directors of his generation and has won international acclaim with features...
Almodóvar first spoke about Swinton’s casting last year. The Scottish actress starred in Almodovar’s 2021 short The Human Voice, which premiered in Venice and was one of the director’s first steps towards an English-language feature. He followed up with the short Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, which screened at Cannes last year. Almodóvar said the shorts were a testing ground to make him more comfortable with directing actors in English. He had been attached to direct the English-language feature A Manual for Cleaning Women, with Cate Blanchett set to star and produce, but pulled out in 2022.
Almodóvar is considered one of the greatest European directors of his generation and has won international acclaim with features...
- 1/25/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Julianne Moore has joined Tilda Swinton in the cast of Pedro Almodovar’s first English-language feature The Room Next Door.
The casting was confirmed by Almodovar’s production company El Deseo on Instagram. Swinton first revealed she would be collaborating with Almodóvar in an interview last year.
The plot revolves around a mother (Swinton), a war reporter, and her daughter who are feuding after a misunderstanding. Moore plays the mother’s friend, a novelist. Shooting is scheduled to begin in March in Madrid and New York. John Turturro also has a role.
According to a statement, the film will address “the limitless cruelty of wars,...
The casting was confirmed by Almodovar’s production company El Deseo on Instagram. Swinton first revealed she would be collaborating with Almodóvar in an interview last year.
The plot revolves around a mother (Swinton), a war reporter, and her daughter who are feuding after a misunderstanding. Moore plays the mother’s friend, a novelist. Shooting is scheduled to begin in March in Madrid and New York. John Turturro also has a role.
According to a statement, the film will address “the limitless cruelty of wars,...
- 1/25/2024
- ScreenDaily
Julianne Moore is set to star in “The Room Next Door,” the first full-length English-language feature from Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar.
Moore — whose casting was confirmed by Variety after being posted by Almodóvar’s production company El Deseo on social media — joins Tilda Swinton in the film. Swinton previously starred in Almodovar’s 2021 short “The Human Voice.”
The Instagram post said that the “The Room Next Door” is a “drama between a mother and daughter,” adding that it would be filmed in the spring in New York and Madrid. No other details about the plot or Moore and Swinton’s roles was revealed.
Representatives for Moore did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for comment.
Almodóvar had previously stated that his shorts “The Human Voice” and “Strange Way of Life” — which are both in English — were merely warm-ups so he could grow accustomed to directing English-speaking actors. He had...
Moore — whose casting was confirmed by Variety after being posted by Almodóvar’s production company El Deseo on social media — joins Tilda Swinton in the film. Swinton previously starred in Almodovar’s 2021 short “The Human Voice.”
The Instagram post said that the “The Room Next Door” is a “drama between a mother and daughter,” adding that it would be filmed in the spring in New York and Madrid. No other details about the plot or Moore and Swinton’s roles was revealed.
Representatives for Moore did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for comment.
Almodóvar had previously stated that his shorts “The Human Voice” and “Strange Way of Life” — which are both in English — were merely warm-ups so he could grow accustomed to directing English-speaking actors. He had...
- 1/25/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Julianne Moore will star alongside Tilda Swinton in The Room Next Door, the first English language film from Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar.
The dual casting was confirmed by Almodóvar’s production company, El Deseo, this morning with a re-post on their Instagram story following months of speculation and online rumors.
“The actresses are placed under the command of the director from La Mancha in a drama between mother and daughter that will be filmed in the spring in New York and Madrid and will be his first film shot in English,” the post said.
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The Room Next Door will be Almodóvar’s first feature-length project since 2021’s Parallel Mothers, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival. The film starred Penelope Cruz — who won the Best Actress prize at Venice — and Milena Smit as single mothers...
The dual casting was confirmed by Almodóvar’s production company, El Deseo, this morning with a re-post on their Instagram story following months of speculation and online rumors.
“The actresses are placed under the command of the director from La Mancha in a drama between mother and daughter that will be filmed in the spring in New York and Madrid and will be his first film shot in English,” the post said.
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The Room Next Door will be Almodóvar’s first feature-length project since 2021’s Parallel Mothers, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival. The film starred Penelope Cruz — who won the Best Actress prize at Venice — and Milena Smit as single mothers...
- 1/25/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The Spanish auteur’s first feature-length film in the English language has been announced (kind of) thanks to Tilda Swinton.
We’ve known for a while that Pedro Almodóvar, the legendary Spanish filmmaker, has been planning to make his first feature-length film in the English language. For a while he was attached to A Manual For Cleaning Women, with the plan being for that to be his English language feature debut until he pulled out back in September of last year.
At the time, Almodóvar said it was “a very painful decision” before also adding “unfortunately, I no longer feel able to fully realise this film”.
As far as we know, Cate Blanchett is still attached to that project but we haven’t heard anything since then regarding its status. However, even though he walked away from that one, it was just a matter of time before Almodóvar found another project to his liking.
We’ve known for a while that Pedro Almodóvar, the legendary Spanish filmmaker, has been planning to make his first feature-length film in the English language. For a while he was attached to A Manual For Cleaning Women, with the plan being for that to be his English language feature debut until he pulled out back in September of last year.
At the time, Almodóvar said it was “a very painful decision” before also adding “unfortunately, I no longer feel able to fully realise this film”.
As far as we know, Cate Blanchett is still attached to that project but we haven’t heard anything since then regarding its status. However, even though he walked away from that one, it was just a matter of time before Almodóvar found another project to his liking.
- 12/15/2023
- by Dan Cooper
- Film Stories
Exclusive: Golden Globe winner Emma Corrin (The Crown) and Cesar nominee Lucie Zhang are set to star in Jenny Suen’s English language feature debut Peaches, which Coco Francini (Fingernails) will produce and Oscar winner Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton will executive-produce for Dirty Films.
Set in contemporary Hong Kong, the movie will follow two spoiled best friends who scam sugar daddies for a living. When they discover a Hermes Birkin bag they were gifted is a fake, their “boyfriends” and crimes catch up with them.
The film is an adaptation of Vera Chitylova’s 1966 Czech New Wave comedy Daisies.
Paris-based MK2 Films, whose slate includes Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall and Cannes Un Certain Regard winner How to Have Sex, is handling international sales and discussed the project with buyers at last week’s AFM. The film will start production early next year in Hong Kong.
Set in contemporary Hong Kong, the movie will follow two spoiled best friends who scam sugar daddies for a living. When they discover a Hermes Birkin bag they were gifted is a fake, their “boyfriends” and crimes catch up with them.
The film is an adaptation of Vera Chitylova’s 1966 Czech New Wave comedy Daisies.
Paris-based MK2 Films, whose slate includes Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall and Cannes Un Certain Regard winner How to Have Sex, is handling international sales and discussed the project with buyers at last week’s AFM. The film will start production early next year in Hong Kong.
- 11/6/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman and Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Pedro Almodóvar has been dancing with the idea of directing an English-language movie for decades, but he’s closer than ever to getting there. “I think I’m going to make it sooner or later,” the Spanish filmmaker told IndieWire over Zoom from his apartment in Madrid earlier this month. “I should be more honest about knowing my conditions.”
That admission comes a few months after “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” the adaptation of the Lucía Berlin short stories that Almodóvar spent years hoping to make, fell apart a matter of months before production was set to begin with Cate Blanchett. A series of complications led Almodóvar to cancel the production, leaving the rights to the project with Blanchett’s production company.
Now, Almodóvar is resurfacing with another toe-dip into English with “Strange Way of Life,” a touching gay Western short starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal that follows his first English-language effort,...
That admission comes a few months after “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” the adaptation of the Lucía Berlin short stories that Almodóvar spent years hoping to make, fell apart a matter of months before production was set to begin with Cate Blanchett. A series of complications led Almodóvar to cancel the production, leaving the rights to the project with Blanchett’s production company.
Now, Almodóvar is resurfacing with another toe-dip into English with “Strange Way of Life,” a touching gay Western short starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal that follows his first English-language effort,...
- 5/16/2023
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Ferrés’ debut feature started shooting this week near Barcelona.
Director Carlos Vermut, whose Magical Girl won San Sebastian’s Golden Shell in 2016, has teamed up with director Laura Ferrés to co-write a final version of the script for feature The Permanent Picture.
Ferrés’ feature debut The Permanent Picture started shooting this week in El Prat de Llobregat, near Barcelona. Ferrés previously directed 2017 Cannes Critics’ Week short film winner The Disinherited.
Producer Nadine Rothschild of newly-launched Barcelona-based independent production company Volta has also boarded The Permanent Picture, alongside Adrià Monés at Barcelona’s Fasten Films and Gabrielle Dumon at Le Bureau.
Director Carlos Vermut, whose Magical Girl won San Sebastian’s Golden Shell in 2016, has teamed up with director Laura Ferrés to co-write a final version of the script for feature The Permanent Picture.
Ferrés’ feature debut The Permanent Picture started shooting this week in El Prat de Llobregat, near Barcelona. Ferrés previously directed 2017 Cannes Critics’ Week short film winner The Disinherited.
Producer Nadine Rothschild of newly-launched Barcelona-based independent production company Volta has also boarded The Permanent Picture, alongside Adrià Monés at Barcelona’s Fasten Films and Gabrielle Dumon at Le Bureau.
- 9/15/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Ferrés’ debut feature started shooting this week near Barcelona.
Director Carlos Vermut, whose Magical Girl won San Sebastian’s Golden Shell in 2016, has teamed up with director Laura Ferrés to co-write a final version of the script for feature The Permanent Picture.
Ferrés’ feature debut The Permanent Picture started shooting this week in El Prat de Llobregat, near Barcelona. Ferrés previously directed 2017 Cannes Critics’ Week short film winner The Disinherited.
Producer Nadine Rothschild of newly-launched Barcelona-based independent production company Volta Films has also boarded The Permanent Picture, alongside Adrià Monés at Barcelona’s Fasten Films and Gabrielle Dumon at Le Bureau.
Director Carlos Vermut, whose Magical Girl won San Sebastian’s Golden Shell in 2016, has teamed up with director Laura Ferrés to co-write a final version of the script for feature The Permanent Picture.
Ferrés’ feature debut The Permanent Picture started shooting this week in El Prat de Llobregat, near Barcelona. Ferrés previously directed 2017 Cannes Critics’ Week short film winner The Disinherited.
Producer Nadine Rothschild of newly-launched Barcelona-based independent production company Volta Films has also boarded The Permanent Picture, alongside Adrià Monés at Barcelona’s Fasten Films and Gabrielle Dumon at Le Bureau.
- 9/15/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Replacement directed yet to be announced.
A Manual For Cleaning Women will no longer be Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language feature directorial debut after the Spanish directorr withdrew, citing “a very painful decision”.
Cate Blanchett will star and produce through Dirty Films, however Almodóvar said he was not ready to tackle a project of such magnitude. No replacement director has been announced yet.
A Manual For Cleaning Women is an adaptation of Lucia Berlin’s short story collection of the same name comprising 43 tales of women in challenging jobs. Almodóvar and Berlín co-wrote the screenplay adaptation.
The feature is also being...
A Manual For Cleaning Women will no longer be Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language feature directorial debut after the Spanish directorr withdrew, citing “a very painful decision”.
Cate Blanchett will star and produce through Dirty Films, however Almodóvar said he was not ready to tackle a project of such magnitude. No replacement director has been announced yet.
A Manual For Cleaning Women is an adaptation of Lucia Berlin’s short story collection of the same name comprising 43 tales of women in challenging jobs. Almodóvar and Berlín co-wrote the screenplay adaptation.
The feature is also being...
- 9/13/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Every film directed by Pedro Almodóvar is a special event. He doesn’t seem to be capable of turning in something bland. For better or worse, often for better, the filmmaker presents features that are exciting, unique, and very much in his own voice. So, the idea that he was finally going to take that vision and bring it to an English-language feature, “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” which stars Cate Blanchett, was really compelling.
Continue reading ‘A Manual For Cleaning Women’: Pedro Almodóvar Departs His English-Language Debut Film Starring Cate Blanchett at The Playlist.
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- 9/13/2022
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
While more prolific than many directors working today, Pedro Almodóvar still carefully considers each project and, as a result, every single one of them bears his unique stylistic stamp. For the next feature he was developing, which was to be his most ambitious yet, the director has gotten cold feet. While he was preparing to make his first feature-length English-language project with an adaptation of Lucia Berlin’s stellar short story collection “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” the director has now backed out of the film.
Deadline reports that the Spanish helmer “had all the elements to realize the magnitude” of the film, but he made the decision that “he’s not ready to tackle such a monumental project in” English. Set to be produced by Cate Blanchett, who is attached to star, the project will still move forward with another director and a search is underway. With the collection featuring 43 stories,...
Deadline reports that the Spanish helmer “had all the elements to realize the magnitude” of the film, but he made the decision that “he’s not ready to tackle such a monumental project in” English. Set to be produced by Cate Blanchett, who is attached to star, the project will still move forward with another director and a search is underway. With the collection featuring 43 stories,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Replacement directed yet to be announced.
A Manual For Cleaning Women will no longer be Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language feature directorial debut after the Spanish master withdrew, citing “a very painful decision”.
Cate Blanchett will star and produce through Dirty Films, however Almodóvar said he was not ready to tackle a project of such magnitude. No replacement director has been announced yet.
A Manual For Cleaning Women is an adaptation of Lucia Berlin’s short story collection of the same name comprising 43 tales of women in challenging jobs. Almodóvar and Berlín co-wrote the screenplay adaptation.
The feature is also being...
A Manual For Cleaning Women will no longer be Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language feature directorial debut after the Spanish master withdrew, citing “a very painful decision”.
Cate Blanchett will star and produce through Dirty Films, however Almodóvar said he was not ready to tackle a project of such magnitude. No replacement director has been announced yet.
A Manual For Cleaning Women is an adaptation of Lucia Berlin’s short story collection of the same name comprising 43 tales of women in challenging jobs. Almodóvar and Berlín co-wrote the screenplay adaptation.
The feature is also being...
- 9/13/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Fans of Pedro Almodóvar will have to keep waiting for his first English-language feature. The Oscar winner was set to switch languages when he directed “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” an adaptation of Lucia Berlin’s short-story collection starring Cate Blanchett. But Almodóvar, who is currently finishing a new Western short starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke, has exited the project.
Deadline broke the news. Blanchett’s Dirty Films is still attached to produce the independent project with New Republic Pictures. IndieWire placed a call to Almodóvar’s representative, which was not returned at press time.
Almodovar has been talking about this project for years, first discussing it with IndieWire in 2019 as “five short tales by one American writer” that take place in Texas, Oakland, and Mexico, with a mixture of English and Spanish.
“It’s a wonderful book,” Almodóvar said to IndieWire in 2020. “[Berlin is] not that different from Alice Munro.
Deadline broke the news. Blanchett’s Dirty Films is still attached to produce the independent project with New Republic Pictures. IndieWire placed a call to Almodóvar’s representative, which was not returned at press time.
Almodovar has been talking about this project for years, first discussing it with IndieWire in 2019 as “five short tales by one American writer” that take place in Texas, Oakland, and Mexico, with a mixture of English and Spanish.
“It’s a wonderful book,” Almodóvar said to IndieWire in 2020. “[Berlin is] not that different from Alice Munro.
- 9/12/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Oscar-winning Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar will not be making his first English-language feature directorial debut with A Manual for Cleaning Women, which has Cate Blanchett set to star and produce under her Dirty Films, Deadline has learned.
The filmmaker finally had all the elements to realize the magnitude of this future production. However, he came to the decision that he’s not ready to tackle such a monumental project in English. A search for another director is underway.
The feature project was first announced back in January based on Lucia Berlin’s 43-part collection of short stories, examining the lives of women working a wide variety of demanding jobs.
“It has been a very painful decision for me,” Almodóvar tells Deadline. “I have dreamt of working with Cate for such a long time. Dirty Films has been so generous with me this whole time and I was blinded by excitement,...
The filmmaker finally had all the elements to realize the magnitude of this future production. However, he came to the decision that he’s not ready to tackle such a monumental project in English. A search for another director is underway.
The feature project was first announced back in January based on Lucia Berlin’s 43-part collection of short stories, examining the lives of women working a wide variety of demanding jobs.
“It has been a very painful decision for me,” Almodóvar tells Deadline. “I have dreamt of working with Cate for such a long time. Dirty Films has been so generous with me this whole time and I was blinded by excitement,...
- 9/12/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Ethan Hawke has signed on to star in Pedro Almodóvar’s next film, “Strange Way of Life,” (“Extraña forma de vida”), a half-hour Western.
The Spanish director will shoot the short before making his English-language feature debut, “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” with Cate Blanchett.
Hawke stars opposite Chile’s Pedro Pascal, who portrayed Oberyn Martell in “Game of Thrones,” in a film which will be “another exercise of freedom in the line of ‘The Human Voice,’” said producer Agustín Almodóvar.
The short will be shot in English. Set up at El Deseo, the Almodóvar brothers’ Madrid-based production company, “Strange Way of Life” begins with a man, Silva, riding on a horse across a desert to Bitter Creek. He has come to visit Sheriff Jake. 25 years earlier, the two men worked together as hired gunmen.
Silva comes with the pretext of re-encountering his friend from youth. They celebrate their re-encounter.
The Spanish director will shoot the short before making his English-language feature debut, “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” with Cate Blanchett.
Hawke stars opposite Chile’s Pedro Pascal, who portrayed Oberyn Martell in “Game of Thrones,” in a film which will be “another exercise of freedom in the line of ‘The Human Voice,’” said producer Agustín Almodóvar.
The short will be shot in English. Set up at El Deseo, the Almodóvar brothers’ Madrid-based production company, “Strange Way of Life” begins with a man, Silva, riding on a horse across a desert to Bitter Creek. He has come to visit Sheriff Jake. 25 years earlier, the two men worked together as hired gunmen.
Silva comes with the pretext of re-encountering his friend from youth. They celebrate their re-encounter.
- 6/28/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett is a chameleon of epic proportions: From portraying Phyllis Schlafly in “Miss America” to Bob Dylan in “I’m Not There” and Katharine Hepburn in “The Aviator,” Blanchett doesn’t shy away from being completely unrecognizable on the big screen.
It’s one of her many gifts, in fact, and one that was on full display for 2015’s “Manifesto,” for which Blanchett became a homeless man, a scientist, a funeral speaker, a tattooed punk, a reporter, and a teacher, plus seven more characters ranging from male to female, polished to grunge.
“I’ve realized over the years that my relationship with the costume designer and the hair and makeup people is really profound,” Blanchett told The New York Times in a joint interview with feminist photographer Cindy Sherman. “It’s profound to see what the character looks like, and therefore how a character might move or project.”
Yet...
It’s one of her many gifts, in fact, and one that was on full display for 2015’s “Manifesto,” for which Blanchett became a homeless man, a scientist, a funeral speaker, a tattooed punk, a reporter, and a teacher, plus seven more characters ranging from male to female, polished to grunge.
“I’ve realized over the years that my relationship with the costume designer and the hair and makeup people is really profound,” Blanchett told The New York Times in a joint interview with feminist photographer Cindy Sherman. “It’s profound to see what the character looks like, and therefore how a character might move or project.”
Yet...
- 5/5/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Earlier this year, Film at Lincoln Center announced Cate Blanchett as the recipient of the organization’s 47th Chaplin Award, presented earlier this week (April 25) at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Congrats to her, and in the lead-up to this event, Blanchett appeared on The Film Comment Podcast to discuss her entire career.
While she touched upon many great classic works of the past, including Todd Haynes‘ “I’m Not There” (where she played a version of Bob Dylan) and Jim Jarmusch‘s “Coffee & Cigarettes” (where she played two versions of herself), one of the most exciting parts of the conversation centered on her future projects Pedro Almodóvar‘s “A Manual For Cleaning Women,” and Todd Field‘s long-awaited new feature “Tár,” his first film since 2006’s “Little Children.
Continue reading Cate Blanchett Says Todd Field’s ‘Tar’ Is About A “Fall From Grace” & Talks Finally Working With Pedro Almodóvar at The Playlist.
While she touched upon many great classic works of the past, including Todd Haynes‘ “I’m Not There” (where she played a version of Bob Dylan) and Jim Jarmusch‘s “Coffee & Cigarettes” (where she played two versions of herself), one of the most exciting parts of the conversation centered on her future projects Pedro Almodóvar‘s “A Manual For Cleaning Women,” and Todd Field‘s long-awaited new feature “Tár,” his first film since 2006’s “Little Children.
Continue reading Cate Blanchett Says Todd Field’s ‘Tar’ Is About A “Fall From Grace” & Talks Finally Working With Pedro Almodóvar at The Playlist.
- 4/28/2022
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
After giving us the Penélope Cruz‘s Academy Award-nominated performance in “Parallel Mothers,” Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar is looking to make an adaptation of “A Manual For Cleaning Women“ starring Cate Blanchett (“Nightmare Alley“). The drama is expected to focus on the struggles of multiple working women and will be Almodóvar’s first English-language feature film.
Continue reading Pedro Almodóvar To Shoot A Western Short Before Directing Cate Blanchett In ‘A Manual For Cleaning Women’ at The Playlist.
Continue reading Pedro Almodóvar To Shoot A Western Short Before Directing Cate Blanchett In ‘A Manual For Cleaning Women’ at The Playlist.
- 4/21/2022
- by Christopher Marc
- The Playlist
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSDesigned by Hartland Villa, the official poster for the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival features a still from Peter Weir and Andrew Niccol’s The Truman Show. The festival has also unveiled the lineup for its official selection, which features a hefty list of competitors for the Palme d'Or. Check out the full lineup here.Accompanying the official selection are the Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week lineups, which are not to be overlooked. Pietro Marcello's French-language debut Scarlet will be opening the Directors' Fortnight, while Yann Gonzalez and July Jung will be premiering new films at Critics' Week. Kelly Reichardt will be receiving an honorary Golden Leopard from this year's Locarno International Film Festival in celebration of her distinguished career, throughout which she's "[redesigned] the profile of genres, from western to thriller,...
- 4/20/2022
- MUBI
Following last year’s Oscar-nominated Parallel Mothers, the next full-length film from Pedro Almodóvar will be his feature English-language debut, an adaptation of Lucia Berlin’s stellar short story collection A Manual for Cleaning Women. Set to star Cate Blanchett, who will also produce, the film won’t begin production until next year, so in the meantime, the prolific Spanish director has found a new project.
He’ll embark on a new genre with “a different kind of western, which will be very colorful… very theatrical,” he revealed back in 2020. Now things are moving ahead on the project as Todo Almodóvar reveals more details. The short will be about 30 minutes in length and center on two men who have already been cast, though not revealed yet. The title of the film is Extraña forma de vida (roughly translated to Strange Way of Life), taking inspiration from the below song by Amália Rodrigues.
He’ll embark on a new genre with “a different kind of western, which will be very colorful… very theatrical,” he revealed back in 2020. Now things are moving ahead on the project as Todo Almodóvar reveals more details. The short will be about 30 minutes in length and center on two men who have already been cast, though not revealed yet. The title of the film is Extraña forma de vida (roughly translated to Strange Way of Life), taking inspiration from the below song by Amália Rodrigues.
- 4/18/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Editor’s note: The following essay was written by filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar shortly after he attended the 94th Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday. It was provided for IndieWire in an exclusive English translation. Almodóvar’s 2021 film “Parallel Mothers” was nominated for two awards: Best Actress (Penélope Cruz) and Best Original Score (Alberto Iglesias).
Yesterday was an exhausting day, especially in the evening. One of the secret reasons I have for being in Los Angeles (as well as going hand in hand with Penélope to the Dolby Theatre and experiencing in situ if her nomination still has a road to travel or if the prize was the nomination) is to meet with some actors as I think about the cast for my next film, which is starring Cate Blanchett and based on five stories by Lucia Berlin from her book “A Manual for Cleaning Women.” It’s an open secret, but I can’t discuss it,...
Yesterday was an exhausting day, especially in the evening. One of the secret reasons I have for being in Los Angeles (as well as going hand in hand with Penélope to the Dolby Theatre and experiencing in situ if her nomination still has a road to travel or if the prize was the nomination) is to meet with some actors as I think about the cast for my next film, which is starring Cate Blanchett and based on five stories by Lucia Berlin from her book “A Manual for Cleaning Women.” It’s an open secret, but I can’t discuss it,...
- 3/30/2022
- by Pedro Almodóvar
- Indiewire
Everybody has to start somewhere. Cate Blanchett — long before her two Oscars and starring roles in film, TV and on stage — had an oddball beginning in showbiz.
On March 28, 1994, Variety mentioned “Police Rescue,” a big-screen version of the hit Aussie TV series, in which she appeared. It’s sometimes listed as her film debut. It’s not.
After studying theater in her native Australia, she traveled; running out of money in Cairo, she worked briefly on the 1990 Egyptian film “Kaboria,” dancing in a party scene (which is visible on YouTube).
Variety wrote about other projects in which she appeared, like the TV series “Heartland” and “Bordertown.” But she was not mentioned by name until the 1996 review of the 51-minute film “Parklands.” Variety critic David Stratton disliked it and said Blanchett had “little to work with,” but he noted that she “is on the road to becoming Australia’s next prominent actress,...
On March 28, 1994, Variety mentioned “Police Rescue,” a big-screen version of the hit Aussie TV series, in which she appeared. It’s sometimes listed as her film debut. It’s not.
After studying theater in her native Australia, she traveled; running out of money in Cairo, she worked briefly on the 1990 Egyptian film “Kaboria,” dancing in a party scene (which is visible on YouTube).
Variety wrote about other projects in which she appeared, like the TV series “Heartland” and “Bordertown.” But she was not mentioned by name until the 1996 review of the 51-minute film “Parklands.” Variety critic David Stratton disliked it and said Blanchett had “little to work with,” but he noted that she “is on the road to becoming Australia’s next prominent actress,...
- 3/13/2022
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
Australian actress Cate Blanchett, who was recently seen in ‘Don’t Look Up’ and ‘Nightmare Alley’, has taken the onus for developing film and TV projects as she’s changing the landscape of audio-visual content through the Dirty Films banner she co-founded with her husband, Andrew Upton, reports ‘Variety’. ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women’, her first collaboration […]...
- 3/12/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Cate Blanchett has been named as the latest recipient of Film At Lincoln Center’s Chaplin Award.
The two-time Oscar winner will receive the honor at the 47th Chaplin Award Gala taking place at the Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on April 25 at 7 p.m. Et, following a look back at her career through clips, conversation and speaker tributes.
The Chaplin Award was first introduced back in 1972, when iconic actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin returned to the U.S. from exile to accept the commendation. Other past honorees include Spike Lee, Helen Mirren, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford, Rob Reiner, Barbra Streisand, Catherine Deneuve, Sidney Poitier, Michael Douglas, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Caine, Susan Sarandon, Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Fonda, Al Pacino, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Altman,...
The two-time Oscar winner will receive the honor at the 47th Chaplin Award Gala taking place at the Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on April 25 at 7 p.m. Et, following a look back at her career through clips, conversation and speaker tributes.
The Chaplin Award was first introduced back in 1972, when iconic actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin returned to the U.S. from exile to accept the commendation. Other past honorees include Spike Lee, Helen Mirren, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford, Rob Reiner, Barbra Streisand, Catherine Deneuve, Sidney Poitier, Michael Douglas, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Caine, Susan Sarandon, Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Fonda, Al Pacino, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Altman,...
- 2/18/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’ went home empty-handed.
The Good Boss, directed by Fernando León de Aranoa and starring Javier Bardem, scored big at the 36th edition of the Goyas, the Spanish Academy Awards held on Saturday in Valencia. With a record 20 nominations, it won six wards including best film, best director and screenplay for León de Aranoa and best actor for Javier Bardem.
Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers, nominated for eight awards, left empty handed.
Produced by The Mediapro Studio and Reposado PC, The Good Boss premiered in competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival and went on to...
The Good Boss, directed by Fernando León de Aranoa and starring Javier Bardem, scored big at the 36th edition of the Goyas, the Spanish Academy Awards held on Saturday in Valencia. With a record 20 nominations, it won six wards including best film, best director and screenplay for León de Aranoa and best actor for Javier Bardem.
Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers, nominated for eight awards, left empty handed.
Produced by The Mediapro Studio and Reposado PC, The Good Boss premiered in competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival and went on to...
- 2/13/2022
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
If you’re a reader of this website, you probably are of the same mind as us that anything Cate Blanchett chooses to appear in is something we want to watch. Film, TV show, or if she decides to moonlight as a stand-up comedian, we’re down to give her the benefit of the doubt. So, obviously, we’re all-in on her new film, “The New Boy.”
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According to Dirty Films (Blanchett’s production company) and Scarlett Pictures, the two studios are set to produce the upcoming film, “The New Boy,” written and directed by Warwick Thornton.
Continue reading ‘The New Boy’: Cate Blanchett To Star In Warwick Thornton’s New Drama at The Playlist.
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According to Dirty Films (Blanchett’s production company) and Scarlett Pictures, the two studios are set to produce the upcoming film, “The New Boy,” written and directed by Warwick Thornton.
Continue reading ‘The New Boy’: Cate Blanchett To Star In Warwick Thornton’s New Drama at The Playlist.
- 2/10/2022
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Cate Blanchett is set to star in and produce a film called “The New Boy” that will be set in 1940s Australia and follow the journey of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy.
Indigenous Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton (“Sweet Country”) will write and direct the drama, and filming is set to begin in October of this year in South Australia.
Blanchett will star in “The New Boy” as a renegade nun running a remote monastery who takes in the child after he arrives in the dead of the night. However, the new boy’s presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair also star in the film.
Blanchett is producing through her Dirty Films banner alongside Andrew Upton and Georgie Pym, and Kath Shelper will also produce for Scarlett Pictures. The film was developed by Scarlett Pictures,...
Indigenous Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton (“Sweet Country”) will write and direct the drama, and filming is set to begin in October of this year in South Australia.
Blanchett will star in “The New Boy” as a renegade nun running a remote monastery who takes in the child after he arrives in the dead of the night. However, the new boy’s presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair also star in the film.
Blanchett is producing through her Dirty Films banner alongside Andrew Upton and Georgie Pym, and Kath Shelper will also produce for Scarlett Pictures. The film was developed by Scarlett Pictures,...
- 2/10/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
The Spanish Film Academy announced on Friday that its first-ever International Goya Award will be received by Cate Blanchett.
Currently presided by Mariano Barroso, the Spanish Film Academy created the award to “honor artists that have contributed to cinema as a medium that brings together different cultures and people.” In Friday’s announcement, Blanchett was recognized for her impactful work both on and off the screen worldwide — as an award-winning actor, producer, artistic director and humanitarian. She will receive the award at a gala ceremony on Feb. 12 in Valencia, Spain.
Blanchett has earned two Oscars, three BAFTAs and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. The Australian actor’s recent film credits include Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” and “Don’t Look Up.” Other credits over the years include “Carol,” “Blue Jasmine,” “The Aviator,” and “Elizabeth.” Over the course of her career, she has collaborated with many prominent filmmakers — including Adam McKay,...
Currently presided by Mariano Barroso, the Spanish Film Academy created the award to “honor artists that have contributed to cinema as a medium that brings together different cultures and people.” In Friday’s announcement, Blanchett was recognized for her impactful work both on and off the screen worldwide — as an award-winning actor, producer, artistic director and humanitarian. She will receive the award at a gala ceremony on Feb. 12 in Valencia, Spain.
Blanchett has earned two Oscars, three BAFTAs and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. The Australian actor’s recent film credits include Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” and “Don’t Look Up.” Other credits over the years include “Carol,” “Blue Jasmine,” “The Aviator,” and “Elizabeth.” Over the course of her career, she has collaborated with many prominent filmmakers — including Adam McKay,...
- 2/5/2022
- by Wyatte Grantham-Philips
- Variety Film + TV
Market
With only two months before MipTV kicks off from Cannes, Rx France (formerly Reed Midem) has revealed that more than 100 companies have confirmed their attendence for this year’s in-person TV content market, running April 4-6.
Having faced various Covid-related setbacks over the past two years, MipTV has reinforced its strict health and safety protocols implemented to guarantee a safe and successful event and will require proof of full Covid-19 vaccination for all delegates looking to attend.
Confirmed exhibitors thus far include Arte France, Beta Film, Catalan Films, Cj&em, Dr, Federation Entertainment, France Televisions, Kanal D International, Lionsgate, Newen Connect, Nrk, Red Arrow Studios, Sbs Content, Svt, Telefilm Canada, TF1 Studios, Unifrance, ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group, Warner Bros., Yle and Zdf Enterprises, among others.
Buying and acquisition companies sending executives include, but are in no way limited to, Amazon, BBC, Dr, France Televisions, Globo Brazil, ITV, Mediaset Group Italy,...
With only two months before MipTV kicks off from Cannes, Rx France (formerly Reed Midem) has revealed that more than 100 companies have confirmed their attendence for this year’s in-person TV content market, running April 4-6.
Having faced various Covid-related setbacks over the past two years, MipTV has reinforced its strict health and safety protocols implemented to guarantee a safe and successful event and will require proof of full Covid-19 vaccination for all delegates looking to attend.
Confirmed exhibitors thus far include Arte France, Beta Film, Catalan Films, Cj&em, Dr, Federation Entertainment, France Televisions, Kanal D International, Lionsgate, Newen Connect, Nrk, Red Arrow Studios, Sbs Content, Svt, Telefilm Canada, TF1 Studios, Unifrance, ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group, Warner Bros., Yle and Zdf Enterprises, among others.
Buying and acquisition companies sending executives include, but are in no way limited to, Amazon, BBC, Dr, France Televisions, Globo Brazil, ITV, Mediaset Group Italy,...
- 2/4/2022
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The best picture prize is what every studio and filmmaker covets, whether they publicly admit it or not. But, of course, it would help if you had the star power to make it happen. Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett both have proven that they have said star power with the amount of best picture nominees (and winners) they’ve appeared in over their careers. With DiCaprio starring in “Don’t Look Up” alongside Blanchett, who is co-starring in another awards vehicle, “Nightmare Alley,” both stand a solid chance of getting close to — or possibly breaking — a record.
This year, Blanchett’s double feature outings could have her breaking a significant record for female actors. The two-time Oscar-winning actress currently has had a role in seven former Academy nominees: “Elizabeth” (1998), “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “The Aviator” (2004), “Babel” (2006) and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2008). She’s currently tied...
This year, Blanchett’s double feature outings could have her breaking a significant record for female actors. The two-time Oscar-winning actress currently has had a role in seven former Academy nominees: “Elizabeth” (1998), “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “The Aviator” (2004), “Babel” (2006) and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2008). She’s currently tied...
- 1/27/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in “Cut and Run,” a heist thriller about a group of thieves who use high-powered speed boats to rob super-yachts. Their caper takes a turn when they steal the wrong thing from the wrong group of people.
New Republic Pictures won rights to the spec script, written by John Glenn, after a bidding war with several potential buyers.
In addition to starring, Gyllenhaal will produce the film through his company Nine Stories Productions. New Republic founder Brian Oliver and president Bradley Fischer will also produce alongside Glenn.
A veteran showrunner, film and television writer, Glenn’s credits include “Eagle Eye,” “Law Abiding Citizen” and “Clash of the Titans.” On the TV side, he’s currently adapting “The House on Hoarder Hill” for Sam Raimi and Wiip Studios.
New Republic Pictures is a production and financing company run by Oliver and Fischer. The company recently...
New Republic Pictures won rights to the spec script, written by John Glenn, after a bidding war with several potential buyers.
In addition to starring, Gyllenhaal will produce the film through his company Nine Stories Productions. New Republic founder Brian Oliver and president Bradley Fischer will also produce alongside Glenn.
A veteran showrunner, film and television writer, Glenn’s credits include “Eagle Eye,” “Law Abiding Citizen” and “Clash of the Titans.” On the TV side, he’s currently adapting “The House on Hoarder Hill” for Sam Raimi and Wiip Studios.
New Republic Pictures is a production and financing company run by Oliver and Fischer. The company recently...
- 1/25/2022
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Cate Blanchett delivers two outstanding performances that are both in the awards conversation this year: “Don’t Look Up” and “Nightmare Alley.” The star shepherds grace and a hypnotic trance that has the viewer hanging on every single word she releases.
With another impressive turn in Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” Blanchett is a contender in what is easily our strongest field of supporting actress contenders in the last 30 years. Blanchett was shortlisted at BAFTA for “Don’t Look Up,” and also picked up a SAG Award nod for Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley.”
Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast recently spoke with Blanchett about her double dip in the awards arena this season, and having to turn down the role of Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin’s “Being the Ricardos,” which ultimately went to Nicole Kidman. Plus, the Australian actor talks about her next project with Pedro Almodóvar and why...
With another impressive turn in Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” Blanchett is a contender in what is easily our strongest field of supporting actress contenders in the last 30 years. Blanchett was shortlisted at BAFTA for “Don’t Look Up,” and also picked up a SAG Award nod for Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley.”
Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast recently spoke with Blanchett about her double dip in the awards arena this season, and having to turn down the role of Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin’s “Being the Ricardos,” which ultimately went to Nicole Kidman. Plus, the Australian actor talks about her next project with Pedro Almodóvar and why...
- 1/20/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar is having a bit of a moment after releasing the well-received “Parallel Mothers” last year starring Penélope Cruz and will be making his English-language debut with Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett attached to lead “A Manual For Cleaning Women.” There is yet another lovely project coming from Almodóvar on the horizon but this time is in the realm of streaming television.
Continue reading Gina Rodriguez To Lead Apple’s TV Adaptation Of Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown’ at The Playlist.
Continue reading Gina Rodriguez To Lead Apple’s TV Adaptation Of Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown’ at The Playlist.
- 1/20/2022
- by Christopher Marc
- The Playlist
“Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” Pedro Almodóvar’s hit dark comedy starring Carmen Maura and Fernando Guillén, will be adapted for an Apple TV Plus series.
Gina Rodriguez is attached to star as Pepa Marcos, Maura’s original role in the 1988 film, and Almodóvar is slated to executive produce the show via his El Deseo banner. Rodriguez, in addition to being cast as a lead, will also executive produce via her I Can and I Will Productions banner alongside partner Molly Breeskin.
The Hollywood Reporter, which was the first to report the news, was told by sources that the movie’s adaptation will be bilingual — a mix of English and Spanish. Currently, Almodóvar’s first English-language movie, “A Manual for Cleaning Women” starring Cate Blanchett, is in the early stages of development.
“Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” (“Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios...
Gina Rodriguez is attached to star as Pepa Marcos, Maura’s original role in the 1988 film, and Almodóvar is slated to executive produce the show via his El Deseo banner. Rodriguez, in addition to being cast as a lead, will also executive produce via her I Can and I Will Productions banner alongside partner Molly Breeskin.
The Hollywood Reporter, which was the first to report the news, was told by sources that the movie’s adaptation will be bilingual — a mix of English and Spanish. Currently, Almodóvar’s first English-language movie, “A Manual for Cleaning Women” starring Cate Blanchett, is in the early stages of development.
“Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” (“Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios...
- 1/19/2022
- by Mónica Marie Zorrilla
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Sidney Poitier holding his best actor Oscar, won for his role in Lilies of the Field (1963). The singular actor, director, and civil rights activist Sidney Poitier died last Thursday. An immigrant from the Bahamas who rose to prominence through the American Negro Theatre, then Broadway, Poitier entered Hollywood when few complex roles for Black actors were available. He became the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar in 1963 for Lillies of the Field, but also frequently received criticism for playing roles perceived as overly chaste and stately. Poitier persisted nonetheless, and later directed his own films, such as Buck and the Preacher (1972), starring his friend Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee, and the Gene Wilder-Richard Pryor prison break comedy Stir Crazy (1980). The prolific critic, programmer, and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich also died on Thursday.
- 1/12/2022
- MUBI
Cate Blanchett will produce and star in A Manual for Cleaning Women, the first English-language feature from Oscar-winning Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, Deadline has confirmed.
The film in early stages of development is based on Lucia Berlin’s 43-part collection of short stories, examining the lives of women working a wide variety of demanding jobs. Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Coco Francini will produce for Dirty Films, with Almodóvar for El Deseo, and Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer for New Republic Pictures. Pic is Almodóvar’s follow-up to Parallel Mothers, the Sony Pictures Classic drama starring Penélope Cruz about two mothers who give birth the same day, and the English-language short The Human Voice starring Tilda Swinton, which was shortlisted by the Film Academy last year.
Blanchett is a two-time Oscar winner known who most recently appeared in Adam McKay’s...
The film in early stages of development is based on Lucia Berlin’s 43-part collection of short stories, examining the lives of women working a wide variety of demanding jobs. Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Coco Francini will produce for Dirty Films, with Almodóvar for El Deseo, and Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer for New Republic Pictures. Pic is Almodóvar’s follow-up to Parallel Mothers, the Sony Pictures Classic drama starring Penélope Cruz about two mothers who give birth the same day, and the English-language short The Human Voice starring Tilda Swinton, which was shortlisted by the Film Academy last year.
Blanchett is a two-time Oscar winner known who most recently appeared in Adam McKay’s...
- 1/7/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Cate Blanchett has officially signed on to star in Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature film, “A Manual for Cleaning Women.”
The film is an adaptation of Lucia Berlin’s short story collection of the same name, which includes 43 stories about women in multiple types of demanding jobs.
It was confirmed to Variety exclusively that the project is in the early stages of development, with Blanchett’s production company Dirty Films producing the feature for New Republic Pictures, in association with El Deseo. Andrew Upton and Coco Francini are producing alongside Blanchett for Dirty Films. Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer are producing for New Republic Pictures alongside Almodóvar.
Blanchett is a revered actress who has won two Academy Awards, for “The Aviator” (2004) in supporting actress and “Blue Jasmine” (2013) in lead actress. She’s in the awards conversation again this year for delivering two powerhouse performances in Guillermo del Toro’s...
The film is an adaptation of Lucia Berlin’s short story collection of the same name, which includes 43 stories about women in multiple types of demanding jobs.
It was confirmed to Variety exclusively that the project is in the early stages of development, with Blanchett’s production company Dirty Films producing the feature for New Republic Pictures, in association with El Deseo. Andrew Upton and Coco Francini are producing alongside Blanchett for Dirty Films. Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer are producing for New Republic Pictures alongside Almodóvar.
Blanchett is a revered actress who has won two Academy Awards, for “The Aviator” (2004) in supporting actress and “Blue Jasmine” (2013) in lead actress. She’s in the awards conversation again this year for delivering two powerhouse performances in Guillermo del Toro’s...
- 1/7/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Japanese writer-director Ogigami Naoko has a track record of creating sensitive, emotionally-healing dramas that are serious enough to grab festival attention, but which are spirited enough to also achieve commercial releases.
Her next project, “Blind Forest,” being pitched at the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf), is unlikely to stray far from that track.
Many of the director’s previous works (“Glasses” “Close Knit” “Yoshino’s Barber Shop”) involve the culture-clashing arrival of a stranger and their route to eventual accommodation.
The story in “Blind Forest” focuses on women in an institution (no prizes for guessing what kind) who are busily working on creating Braille texts for blind readers. While most Braille books these days are printed by special machines, the women are doing it the labor-intensive, old-fashioned way, with a needle. When a younger blind woman joins the team she reveals her special ability to see into the past.
Her next project, “Blind Forest,” being pitched at the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf), is unlikely to stray far from that track.
Many of the director’s previous works (“Glasses” “Close Knit” “Yoshino’s Barber Shop”) involve the culture-clashing arrival of a stranger and their route to eventual accommodation.
The story in “Blind Forest” focuses on women in an institution (no prizes for guessing what kind) who are busily working on creating Braille texts for blind readers. While most Braille books these days are printed by special machines, the women are doing it the labor-intensive, old-fashioned way, with a needle. When a younger blind woman joins the team she reveals her special ability to see into the past.
- 3/16/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Some promising updates have arrived regarding two fan favorite auteurs: Pedro Almodóvar and Darren Aronofsky. Both artists appear set to begin work on new feature films in 2021. In an interview with Screen Daily, Almodóvar’s brother and longtime producer Agustin Almodóvar revealed March 2021 is being eyed to start production on “Parallel Mothers,” Pedro’s latest feature. The project is set to reunite the filmmaker with his acting muse Penélope Cruz and will not head to streaming despite multiple offers.
“For those of us who love seeing films on the big screen these are worrying times, as the threat of the theatrical window cracking comes closer and closer,” Augustin said. “However, we think theatrical exhibition should be fought for. Old-school as we are, we are planning Pedro’s next feature for the theatrical circuit despite several offers for it to be original content from streamers.”
The script for “Parallel Mothers” is...
“For those of us who love seeing films on the big screen these are worrying times, as the threat of the theatrical window cracking comes closer and closer,” Augustin said. “However, we think theatrical exhibition should be fought for. Old-school as we are, we are planning Pedro’s next feature for the theatrical circuit despite several offers for it to be original content from streamers.”
The script for “Parallel Mothers” is...
- 12/28/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The most interesting aspect of Pedro Almodóvar’s The Human Voice (in the Spotlight programme of the New York Film Festival), starring Tilda Swinton, is her DVD collection. Or is it his? Douglas Sirk’s Written On The Wind and All That Heaven Allows, Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (Volume 1 or 2), Blake Edwards’s Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Pablo Larraín’s Jackie, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread - do they signal that what is to come is also a story of melodrama and revenge, loneliness and grief and powerful infatuation? Yes. On the bookshelves we see F Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is The Night and Almodóvar inspirations past (Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness; three of her short stories became his Julieta) and future (he is working on an adaptation of A Manual For Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin for 2022).
Swinton, always a...
Swinton, always a...
- 9/28/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Pedro Almodóvar is in the middle of his most productive run in years, with a new short now out in the world and touring the festival circuit, a Lucia Berlin literary adaptation in the works, and an upcoming film with muse Penélope Cruz. But as revealed at the ongoing Venice Film Festival, where his 30-minute Jean Cocteau-based “The Human Voice” world-premiered earlier this month, the Spanish auteur has even more projects in the kiln.
At the press conference for “The Human Voice,” starring a dazzlingly styled Tilda Swinton as a jilted woman waiting on a very important phone call from an old flame, Almodóvar said he has also written an unconventional western, and has plans for two additional short films. One of them is inspired by current events, a dystopian narrative set in a world where arts and cultural centers like theaters have vanished.
Almodóvar told reporters at the...
At the press conference for “The Human Voice,” starring a dazzlingly styled Tilda Swinton as a jilted woman waiting on a very important phone call from an old flame, Almodóvar said he has also written an unconventional western, and has plans for two additional short films. One of them is inspired by current events, a dystopian narrative set in a world where arts and cultural centers like theaters have vanished.
Almodóvar told reporters at the...
- 9/6/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
The first major in-person-only film festival to get underway during the pandemic, plans are full steam ahead for Venice Film Festival to kick off this week, taking place September 2 through September 12. While the lineup surely would’ve looked definitely if it was a standard year, festival director Alberto Barbera and team have delivered an impressive-looking slate of premieres. Ahead of our coverage from the festival (which you can follow here), we’ve rounded up our most-anticipated films.
The Book of Vision (Carlo Hintermann)
Executive produced by Terrence Malick, Carlo Hintermann’s The Book of Vision explores a doctor-patient relationship seen through the eyes of a female medical student named Eva as we jump between the present and the 18th century. Led by Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Lotte Verbeek (Outlander), and Sverrir Gudnason (Borg/McEnroe), the first intriguing trailer showcases beautiful cinematography from Jörg Widmer (A Hidden Life) and extravagant production design from David Crank.
The Book of Vision (Carlo Hintermann)
Executive produced by Terrence Malick, Carlo Hintermann’s The Book of Vision explores a doctor-patient relationship seen through the eyes of a female medical student named Eva as we jump between the present and the 18th century. Led by Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Lotte Verbeek (Outlander), and Sverrir Gudnason (Borg/McEnroe), the first intriguing trailer showcases beautiful cinematography from Jörg Widmer (A Hidden Life) and extravagant production design from David Crank.
- 8/31/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
One of the splashiest debuts of the upcoming, and notably reduced, fall festival scene is Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Human Voice.” His first English-language project is a short film, shot in Madrid in July in full PPE regalia, starring Tilda Swinton as a woman who needs to make an important phone call. The director’s brother and production partner Agustín Almodóvar, via their El Deseo banner, tweeted tantalizing first footage from the film this week. See below.
“The Human Voice” is based on a one-act play by Jean Cocteau, written in 1928 and first mounted in France in 1930. It concerns one woman’s final phone conversation with her longtime lover, who has plans to marry another woman. The clip shows Swinton looking sad in a dazzling red ball gown, compelled behind an opaque sheet by the strings of Almodóvar’s longtime musical collaborator Alberto Iglesias. This woman has something on her mind.
“The Human Voice” is based on a one-act play by Jean Cocteau, written in 1928 and first mounted in France in 1930. It concerns one woman’s final phone conversation with her longtime lover, who has plans to marry another woman. The clip shows Swinton looking sad in a dazzling red ball gown, compelled behind an opaque sheet by the strings of Almodóvar’s longtime musical collaborator Alberto Iglesias. This woman has something on her mind.
- 8/27/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Award-winning Spanish producer Agustín Almodóvar, brother of Oscar-winning filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, has tweeted the first clip of the latter’s upcoming short film “The Human Voice,” starring Academy Award-winning actor Tilda Swinton and produced by the siblings’ El Deseo banner.
Clip de presentación de La Voz Humana de Pedro Almodóvar. pic.twitter.com/321sAPZMvj
— Agustín Almodóvar oficial (@AgustinAlmo) August 27, 2020
The almost one-minute clip is dialogue-free, but shows Swinton in a brilliant red dress walking out from behind an opaque sheet and cross in front of a large, grey backstage wall before sitting down with her hands folded across her lap, a concerned look on her face as she inhales deeply.
In July, Agustín tweeted the first set photos of the production, in which Pedro is seen wearing a stylish black mask with Swinton using a handheld face shield. Agustín commented in Spanish: “Pedro Almodóvar, Tilda Swinton, El Deseo (the brothers...
Clip de presentación de La Voz Humana de Pedro Almodóvar. pic.twitter.com/321sAPZMvj
— Agustín Almodóvar oficial (@AgustinAlmo) August 27, 2020
The almost one-minute clip is dialogue-free, but shows Swinton in a brilliant red dress walking out from behind an opaque sheet and cross in front of a large, grey backstage wall before sitting down with her hands folded across her lap, a concerned look on her face as she inhales deeply.
In July, Agustín tweeted the first set photos of the production, in which Pedro is seen wearing a stylish black mask with Swinton using a handheld face shield. Agustín commented in Spanish: “Pedro Almodóvar, Tilda Swinton, El Deseo (the brothers...
- 8/27/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Well, that was fast. Pedro Almodóvar just finished shooting his English-language debut, a short film adapting Jean Cocteau’s one-act play The Human Voice and starring Tilda Swinton. Now, it’s set to world premiere at this year’s Venice Film Festival and the first image has arrived for the project, which is around 30 minutes in length.
“I am very excited about coming back to Venice in such a special year, with Covid 19 as involuntary guest,” said Pedro Almodóvar. “Everything will be different, and I am looking forward to discovering it in person. It is an honour to accompany Tilda in a year in which she is receiving a very much deserved award. As a matter of fact, The Human Voice is a festival of Tilda, a display of her infinite and assorted registers as an actress. It’s been a spectacle to direct her.”
It’s not the first...
“I am very excited about coming back to Venice in such a special year, with Covid 19 as involuntary guest,” said Pedro Almodóvar. “Everything will be different, and I am looking forward to discovering it in person. It is an honour to accompany Tilda in a year in which she is receiving a very much deserved award. As a matter of fact, The Human Voice is a festival of Tilda, a display of her infinite and assorted registers as an actress. It’s been a spectacle to direct her.”
It’s not the first...
- 8/3/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Pedro Almodóvar has a lot on his plate, with at least three new projects in the mix, but he’s not too busy to do his part during the pandemic and wear a mask, as seen in a recent photo out of Madrid shared by his brother and producing partner Agustín. In the photo, Almodóvar and his star Tilda Swinton are sporting their personal protective equipment while on the first day of shooting “The Human Voice,” the Academy Award-winning director’s latest short film and first screen collaboration with Tilda Swinton. See below.
“The Human Voice” is based on a one-act play by Jean Cocteau, written in 1928 and first mounted in France in 1930. It concerns one woman’s final phone conversation with her longtime lover, who has plans to marry another woman. Almodóvar previously alluded to interest in the material before, including as inspiration for his Oscar-nominated 1988 breakout “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown...
“The Human Voice” is based on a one-act play by Jean Cocteau, written in 1928 and first mounted in France in 1930. It concerns one woman’s final phone conversation with her longtime lover, who has plans to marry another woman. Almodóvar previously alluded to interest in the material before, including as inspiration for his Oscar-nominated 1988 breakout “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown...
- 7/18/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Award-winning Spanish producer Agustín Almodóvar on Thursday tweeted a set photo from the first day of shooting for his brother Pedro Almodóvar’s upcoming short film adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s “The Human Voice,” starring Academy Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton.
Pedro Almodóvar,Tilda Swinton, El Deseo , #LAVOZHumana . Primer día de rodaje. pic.twitter.com/84ZQVmW9d5
— Agustín Almodóvar oficial (@AgustinAlmo) July 16, 2020
In the photo, taken in Madrid, Almodóvar is seen wearing a stylish black mask while Swinton employs a handheld face shield. Agustín Almodóvar comments in Spanish: “Pedro Almodóvar, Tilda Swinton, El Deso (the brothers’ production company), #LAVOZHumana . First day of shooting.”
After years as one of the world’s most-recognized auteurs — who was once offered the chance to direct 1992’s “Sister Act,” but ultimately passed — the short marks the 70-year-old filmmaker’s first English-language production.
When the short was announced in February, Almodóvar said he planned to start shooting in April in Madrid.
Pedro Almodóvar,Tilda Swinton, El Deseo , #LAVOZHumana . Primer día de rodaje. pic.twitter.com/84ZQVmW9d5
— Agustín Almodóvar oficial (@AgustinAlmo) July 16, 2020
In the photo, taken in Madrid, Almodóvar is seen wearing a stylish black mask while Swinton employs a handheld face shield. Agustín Almodóvar comments in Spanish: “Pedro Almodóvar, Tilda Swinton, El Deso (the brothers’ production company), #LAVOZHumana . First day of shooting.”
After years as one of the world’s most-recognized auteurs — who was once offered the chance to direct 1992’s “Sister Act,” but ultimately passed — the short marks the 70-year-old filmmaker’s first English-language production.
When the short was announced in February, Almodóvar said he planned to start shooting in April in Madrid.
- 7/16/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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