Broken Embraces

Cannes: Antonio Banderas as a suave neo-Frankenstein

Pedro Almodovar's latest reunites him with an '80s star in a twisty tale of a mad doctor and his female subject

Andrew O'Hehir Thursday, May 19, 2011 7:01 PM UTC
Entertainment Cannes Film Festival

There are too many Academy members -- and too few who actually watch movies. Plus: The foreign-film paradox

Jeff Lipsky Tuesday, Feb 9, 2010 1:30 AM UTC 10
Entertainment Oscars, Film Salon, Avatar

I said: Bring me Filipina transgender hookers, opaque Jewish fables and class warfare! And here they are

Andrew O'Hehir Monday, Dec 28, 2009 2:01 AM UTC 21
Entertainment Best of 2009, An Education

Pedro Almodóvar gives us a gorgeous melodramatic fantasy about what it means to live for movies

Stephanie Zacharek Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 12:19 AM UTC
Entertainment Broken Embraces

The Spanish director on his delirious new movie-movie with Penelope Cruz, and how the New York Dolls fought Franco

Andrew O'Hehir Saturday, Nov 14, 2009 12:14 AM UTC
Entertainment Pedro Almodovar