Almodóvar’s Deep Dive Into … Almodóvar

Bitter Christmas is Pedro Almodóvar’s 24th feature film over the course of 46 years. There’s never been more than a three-year gap between his releases. He won Cannes’ best director prize in the 1990s (All About My Mother), an Oscar for best screenplay in the 2000s (Talk to Her) and the Venice Film Festival’s top prize, the…

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Mercedes Ron Discusses Prime Video’s New YA Romantic Thriller ‘Drawn Together’ and What’s Next for Her

Banijay‘s Pokeepsie Films and Amazon Prime Video continue to build out the “House of Ron,” the audiovisual empire of bestselling Argentine-born Spanish YA romance author Mercedes Ron. The film adaptations of her popular enemies-to-lovers Culpables romance trilogy (Culpa Mía, Culpa Tuya, Culpa Nuestra) became not only the most-watched Spanish, but also the most-watched international original, for the streamer…

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Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller on Making ICE Doc ‘They’re Here’ Like a “Horror Movie”

Life under ICE is like a horror movie. That’s the message of Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras, whose new short documentary They’re Here chronicles how Immigration Customs Enforcement troops invaded and occupied Minneapolis last year, and the anonymous residents who resisted. Poitras co-directed They’re Here with Minneapolis-based journalist and documentarian Rachel Lauren Mueller. Using dashcam footage,…

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‘Primetime,’ Chris Rock’s ‘Misty Green’ and Latest Paul Thomas Anderson Movie Join London Film Festival Lineup

Hot off its Venice Film Festival premiere, Robert Pattinson‘s Primetime is set to take on the BFI London Film Festival next month. The Oct. 7-18 event has unveiled even more additions to its starry, jam-packed lineup, including the U.K. premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall, the Oscar winner’s intimate recording of…

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