PEDRO ALMODOVAR'S FAVOURITE FILMS

Chosen by the colourful Spanish director for the Time Out Film Guide poll in 1995, the 1992 Sight & Sound poll (picked twice: Rules of the Game, Leave her to Heaven, North by Northwest, Out of the Past), and now further films chosen for Nickelodeon in 1994, El Pais, in 2010, for AFI Fest in 2012, and his Spanish favourites for BFI. I’m also including a few from his recent annual favourites.

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Pedro Almodovar

“Splashing his colorful films across the dour post-Franco Spanish landscape with the irreverent glee of a prostitute arriving late to church after a long night, Pedro Almodóvar has been called the...