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Women grab Cannes spotlight with disturbing tales
Friday 13 May 2011
Female directors, famously shut out of the Cannes film festival's main competition in 2010, dominated the opening of this year's event with dark tales of murder, prostitution, rape and suicide.
DVD: Biutiful (15)
Friday 13 May 2011
Biutiful is Alejandro González Iñárritu's first film since the underwhelming Babel. It couldn't be a more different affair.
Win VIP tickets to the premiere of Pirates Of The Caribbean
Wednesday 04 May 2011
Disney's latest blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" premieres at London’s Westfield on 12 May and, thanks to Spanish carmaker SEAT, you could be there!
Go off the beaten track in Ibiza
Saturday 04 September 2010
After a night on the dancefloor it is time to sample the other side of the island on an 18-mile cycle route of jaw-dropping beauty
Dom Joly: Señor Bullwinkle and a very tall tale from a Spanish hotel
Monday 16 August 2010
Weird World of Sport: 'I was wondering whether it might be possible for you to forget I stayed here'
Actors Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz wed in Bahamas
Wednesday 14 July 2010
Spanish actors Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz have joined the ranks of Oscar-winning married couples after tying the knot in the Bahamas earlier this month, according to several celebrity magazines.
Blood, bulls and boycott: Manolete strikes again
Tuesday 30 March 2010
In his lifetime, Manolete, the legendary bullfighter, caused a stir living with his exuberant left-wing mistress beneath the disapproving glare of staunchly Catholic, 1940s Spain. Manolete, a film about this romance starring Adrien Brody and Penelope Cruz, is raising eyebrows again – this time among the anti-bullfighting camp.
DVD: Broken Embraces, For retail & rental (20th Century Fox)
Sunday 31 January 2010
A love letter to all aspects of movie-making, Pedro Almodovar's latest is also a heightened, noirish melodrama revolving around an affair between a director (Lluis Homar) and the star of his new film (Penélope Cruz), who also happens to be the mistress of that film's producer.
La bolshie vita: Fury in the Fellini family
Sunday 24 January 2010
The late, great Italian film director's niece resigns in high dudgeon from his foundation – taking four of his Oscars with her
Film in 2009: Cheers for sink-estate misery. Jeers for a boat that plopped
Sunday 27 December 2009
'Fish Tank' by Andrea Arnold dazzled, but Richard Curtis seemed to have lost his golden touch
Broken Embraces, Pedro Almodovar, 128 mins, (15)<br/>The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, 131 mins, (15)
Sunday 30 August 2009
Almodovar pays homage to Hitchcock, Sirk – and himself
Broken Embraces (15)
Friday 28 August 2009
After a run of world-class films that began 10 years ago with All about My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar has slightly taken his foot off the pedal here.
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