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 The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Bu?uel was born in a small town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impoverished Spanish region of La Mancha. He arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in the flea-market called El Rastro. Almod��var couldn't study filmmaking because he didn't have the money to afford it. Besides, the filmmaking schools were closed in early 70s by Franco's government. Instead, he found a job in the Spanish phone company and saved his salary to buy a Super 8 camera. From 1972 to 1978, he devoted himself to make short films with the help of of his friends. The "premieres" of those early films were famous in the rapidly growing world of the Spanish counter-culture. In few years, Almod��var became a star of "La Movida", the pop cultural movement of late 70s Madrid. His first feature film, Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980), was made in 16 mm and blown-up to 35 mm for public release. In 1987, he and his brother Agust��n Almod��var established their own production company: El Deseo, S. A. The "Almod��var phenomenon" has reached all over the world, making his films very popular in many countries.
Bio:
The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Bu?uel was born in a small town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impoverished Spanish region of La Mancha. He arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in the flea-market called El Rastro. Almod��var couldn't study filmmaking because he didn't have the money to afford it. Besides, the filmmaking schools were closed in early 70s by Franco's government. Instead, he found a job in the Spanish phone company and saved his salary to buy a Super 8 camera. From 1972 to 1978, he devoted himself to make short films with the help of of his friends. The "premieres" of those early films were famous in the rapidly growing world of the Spanish counter-culture. In few years, Almod��var became a star of "La Movida", the pop cultural movement of late 70s Madrid. His first feature film, Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980), was made in 16 mm and blown-up to 35 mm for public release. In 1987, he and his brother Agust��n Almod��var established their own production company: El Deseo, S. A. The "Almod��var phenomenon" has reached all over the world, making his films very popular in many countries.
Tivia:
Has expressed his desire to work with Marion Cotillard and Catherine Deneuve.The Lady from Shanghai (1947) is one of his favourite films.Turned down an offer to direct Sister Act (1992).Celebrity chef Rachael Ray is a big fan of his and named a chicken dish after him.By his own admission, he usually starts writing his movies with a really important scene that ends up placed in the middle of the movie.Directed 2 actors in Oscar nominated performances: Pen��lope Cruz (twice) and Antonio Banderas.Often films rehearsals of his movies and includes them in the movie if he likes the scene better that the one shot during proper production. Especially in comedies, when the actors would improvise things, if something would happen unexpectedly, they would incorporate it into the scene.Was approached to direct at some point both Brokeback Mountain (2005) and The Paperboy (2012).In the film Bad Education (2004), Almod��var mix past and present, fiction and reality in a manner very similar to that used by writer Zlatko Topcic earlier in the hit film Remake (2003).Mother Francisca Caballero and brother Agust��n Almod��var often appear in cameo roles in his movies.Has been romantically involved with photographer Fernando Iglesias, whom he frequently casts in small roles in his films, since 2002.His favourite Spanish films are: Main Street (1956), It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958), The Executioner (1963), Aunt Tula (1964), Strange Voyage (1964), Peppermint Frapp�� (1967), Furtivos (1975), Arrebato (1979), El Sur (1983), Jam��n, Jam��n (1992), Thesis (1996), Blancanieves (2012) and Magical Girl (2014).Attended a Catholic boarding school in the 1960s where some of his fellow students were abused by priests. He asserts that he himself wasn't abused.1992: Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival.Favorite American actress is Meryl Streep.He was president of the jury at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.Born on the 24th of September, his parents officially registered him the next day.The Snitch (1962) and The Red Circle (1970) are two of his favorite movies directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.Even though he doesn't watch TV, a lot of the main cast of 7 vidas (1999) have appeared on his movies: Blanca Portillo, Carmen Machi, Javier C��mara, Paz Vega, Guillermo Toledo, Leandro Rivera and Yolanda Ramos. Toni Cant�� and Anabel Alonso have also worked with him, but before the show started.Lead singer of the infamous music duo "Almod��var & McNamara", a legendary bizarre project that personified the image of "la movida madrile?a" during the early 1980s in Madrid. He appears in that role in his own film Labyrinth of Passion (1982) (a.k.a. "Labyrinth of Passion") wearing women's clothes and lots of black makeup.New York, NY: Interviewed by journalist Lorne Manly as part of TimesTalks series at the New York TimesCenter building. (June 2013)Was judged Best Director at the 2002 European Film Awards. |
| Name: |
Pedro Almod��var |
Type: |
Writer,Director,Producer (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
Platform: |
IMDB |
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Business scope: |
Writer,Director,Producer |
| Products for sale: |
Writer,Director,Producer |
| Model rank: |
498 |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 03:47:42 |
| Height: |
5' 9?' (1.77 m) |
| Biography: |
The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Bu?uel was born in a small town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impoverished Spanish region of La Mancha. He arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in the flea-marke |
| Trivia: |
Has expressed his desire to work with Marion Cotillard and Catherine Deneuve.The Lady from Shanghai (1947) is one of his favourite films.Turned down an offer to direct Sister Act (1992).Celebrity chef Rachael Ray is a big fan of his and named a chicken dish after him.By his own admission, he usually starts writing his movies with a really important scene that ends up placed in the middle of the movie.Directed 2 actors in Oscar nominated performances: Pen��lope Cruz (twice) and Antonio Banderas.Often films rehearsals of his movies and includes them in the movie if he likes the scene better that the one shot during proper production. Especially in comedies, when the actors would improvise things, if something would happen unexpectedly, they would incorporate it into the scene.Was approached to direct at some point both Brokeback Mountain (2005) and The Paperboy (2012).In the film Bad Education (2004), Almod��var mix past and present, fiction and reality in a manner very similar to that used by writer Zlatko Topcic earlier in the hit film Remake (2003).Mother Francisca Caballero and brother Agust��n Almod��var often appear in cameo roles in his movies.Has been romantically involved with photographer Fernando Iglesias, whom he frequently casts in small roles in his films, since 2002.His favourite Spanish films are: Main Street (1956), It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958), The Executioner (1963), Aunt Tula (1964), Strange Voyage (1964), Peppermint Frapp�� (1967), Furtivos (1975), Arrebato (1979), El Sur (1983), Jam��n, Jam��n (1992), Thesis (1996), Blancanieves (2012) and Magical Girl (2014).Attended a Catholic boarding school in the 1960s where some of his fellow students were abused by priests. He asserts that he himself wasn't abused.1992: Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival.Favorite American actress is Meryl Streep.He was president of the jury at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.Born on the 24th of September, his parents officially registered him the next day.The Snitch (1962) and The Red Circle (1970) are two of his favorite movies directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.Even though he doesn't watch TV, a lot of the main cast of 7 vidas (1999) have appeared on his movies: Blanca Portillo, Carmen Machi, Javier C��mara, Paz Vega, Guillermo Toledo, Leandro Rivera and Yolanda Ramos. Toni Cant�� and Anabel Alonso have also worked with him, but before the show started.Lead singer of the infamous music duo "Almod��var & McNamara", a legendary bizarre project that personified the image of "la movida madrile?a" during the early 1980s in Madrid. He appears in that role in his own film Labyrinth of Passion (1982) (a.k.a. "Labyrinth of Passion") wearing women's clothes and lots of black makeup.New York, NY: Interviewed by journalist Lorne Manly as part of TimesTalks series at the New York TimesCenter building. (June 2013)Was judged Best Director at the 2002 European Film Awards. |
| Trademarks: |
Often uses symbolism and metaphorical techniques to portray circular storylines.
His films often portrays strong female characters and transsexuals
Uses only his last name for his "Film By" credit ("Un film de Almod��var") |
| Quotes: |
All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular. Something in me--probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism--stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically.
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Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew. When I got out of a movie with my sisters, I retold them the whole story. In general they liked my version better than the one they had seen.
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Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.
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[on his experience in the Catholic boarding school he lived in as a young man and on which Bad Education (2004) is based] The education we received was about guilt, sin, punishment.
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[on why it took ten years to finish the script for Bad Education (2004)] [It] deals with my own biography . . . it took time to remove myself from it. Now it's not me. I changed the tone of the story, but the main situation is the same. |
| Job title: |
Writer,Director,Producer |
| Others works: |
La gorda Carmela, in "Star" iss. 25, 1977.
Toda tuya, in "El V��bora", summer 1982.
Pepi, Luci, Bom: tres mujeres con un pasado turbulento..., in "Alphaville", iss. 13-14, January-February 1982.
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| Children: |
No Children |
| Parents: |
Antonio Almodovar
Francisca Caballero |
| Relatives: |
Agust��n Almod��var (Sibling)
Antonia Almod��var (Sibling) |
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