Continuing their series of Archive books Tashcen’s look at the work of Pedro Almodovar is an essential purchase for followers of the Spanish director, featuring a candid look behind the scenes of his films and his life.
Taking its journey through each of Almodovar’s films one by one, with contemporary notes and essays from writers and critics as well as interviews and recollections from the director himself, a picture emerges of a man whose reaction to religious ether of his country and the exciting, burgeoning counterculture is given fine form in the films he makes and the stories he tells.
The characters change and warp, identities shift and are transferred and explosions of love and colour permeate his work and are all addressed sincerely in this book. Having Almodovar’s voice is crucial to the allure of this book. He speaks openly, eloquently and bluntly about the trials with censorship,...
Taking its journey through each of Almodovar’s films one by one, with contemporary notes and essays from writers and critics as well as interviews and recollections from the director himself, a picture emerges of a man whose reaction to religious ether of his country and the exciting, burgeoning counterculture is given fine form in the films he makes and the stories he tells.
The characters change and warp, identities shift and are transferred and explosions of love and colour permeate his work and are all addressed sincerely in this book. Having Almodovar’s voice is crucial to the allure of this book. He speaks openly, eloquently and bluntly about the trials with censorship,...
- 11/16/2012
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The world is not enough for James Bond: Skyfall is earning huge box office in Europe and Asia and is poised to dominate the U.S. box office this weekend. The brand-new olive in his shaken-not-stirred martini, Skyfall is earning the best reviews for a Bond flick in years, and the third outing for Daniel Craig sees the 44-year-old star hitting his stride as 007.
"I think that what they've done cleverly with Daniel Craig is that you get the sense that he is a blue-collar hero, but with this veneer of class around him; he's still wearing the suit, and he's learning how to wear the suit," says Paul Duncan, editor of The James Bond Archives by Taschen Books, out November 9. "The action hero model in cinema changed in the '80s, so you get people like Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the much more blue-collar heroes. But Bond remained the same. … [The producers] have always...
"I think that what they've done cleverly with Daniel Craig is that you get the sense that he is a blue-collar hero, but with this veneer of class around him; he's still wearing the suit, and he's learning how to wear the suit," says Paul Duncan, editor of The James Bond Archives by Taschen Books, out November 9. "The action hero model in cinema changed in the '80s, so you get people like Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the much more blue-collar heroes. But Bond remained the same. … [The producers] have always...
- 11/7/2012
- Entertainment Tonight
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