“The best is always yet to come, that’s what I feel.” Looking backTo make “Bad Education,” Almodovar had to look to the past. It’s a highly personal film, 10 years in the ...

From there, “Bad Education” digresses into the film-within-the-film, and then to the flashback within that film to the boys’ childhood, which could be from the point of view of Manolo himself.

The director discusses his comedy “I’m So Excited!”, and explores the use of music and sexuality in his films. The director discusses his comedy “I’m So Excited!”, and explores the use ...

In "Bad Education," Pedro Almodovar's uniquely flavored tribute to the genre, the Spanish filmmaker adds some thematic favorites of his own, including cross-dressing, transsexuality, heroin ...

Pedro Almodovar's long-gestated, instantly identifiable "Bad Education" welds autobiographical matter relating to his troubled religious education onto a classic noir structure, repping a generic ...

Bad Education Mondello says the film — on its surface — is about abuse and sexual transgression, but it is also a film about filmmaking.

Superficially, “Bad Education” comes off as a collection of Pedro Almodovar’s greatest hits — junkies and drag queens and Catholics, oh my! — with an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink ...

For the record, the films under discussion here are “Volver” (2006), “Bad Education” (2004), “Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap” (1980), “Law of Desire” (1987), “The Fl ...

It seemed only a matter of time before the two periods would come together, so it isn't a surprise that Bad Education, a provocative noir on sex and Catholicism, also represents Almodóvar's most ...

MADRID — Helmer Pedro Almodovar’s next pic will be the Spanish-lingo “La mala educacion” (Bad Education). Produced by El Deseo, the Madrid-based production shingle of Almodovar and brother ...