{"id":61969,"date":"2019-11-12T06:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T11:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=61969"},"modified":"2019-11-12T06:40:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T11:40:09","slug":"bufs-season-continues-with-almodovars-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/11\/bufs-season-continues-with-almodovars-latest\/","title":{"rendered":"BUFS season continues with Almod\u00f3var\u2019s latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An aging Spanish director revisits his life and work in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pEjFOkCKb3g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria)<\/a>, the latest film from Pedro Almod\u00f3var, screening at BUFS this Thursday at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>After four decades of filmmaking, Salvador Mallo has mostly withdrawn into his lonely apartment due to debilitating illness. A chance encounter leads to a visit with an estranged colleague, which leads to some pain-killing experimentation and a dreamlike wander through all of the moments that led up to this one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there were any doubts that\u00a0Pedro Almod\u00f3var\u00a0wasn\u2019t just a fun, idiosyncratic, indelible and significant filmmaker, but an undeniably great filmmaker \u2014 one for the ages \u2014\u00a0those doubts were dispelled with <em>Julieta<\/em>, his 2016 masterpiece,\u201d said Mick LaSalle of the <em>San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>. \u201cAnd now there\u2019s <em>Pain and Glory<\/em> to raise the possibility that, at 70, Almod\u00f3var is in the midst of a magnificent flowering, that we\u2019re witnessing the best period of his career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Star Antonio Banderas, wearing Almod\u00f3var\u2019s clothes in an apartment decorated with the director\u2019s own furniture and art, gives what may be the performance of a lifetime \u2014 one that has already been recognized with Best Actor awards at Cannes and the Hollywood Film Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for all BUFS shows are available at the Film House in the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre (PAC) on the evening of screenings. General admission is $9.50 or $7 for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstontariopac.ca\/Online\/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=FilmHouseMembership&amp;BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Film House members<\/a>, plus tax. Free BUFS memberships are also available on screening nights.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/cpcf\/brock-university-film-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BUFS web page<\/a>\u00a0for this season\u2019s selection, with additional titles being added to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstontariopac.ca\/Online\/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=filmhouse&amp;BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calendar<\/a>\u00a0as they are confirmed. Look for the red B that indicates a BUFS-hosted screening.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 40 years, BUFS has been bringing the best in independent and art house cinema to the Niagara region. The society is supported by the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Brock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aging Spanish director revisits his life and work in Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria), the latest film from Pedro Almod\u00f3var, screening at BUFS this Thursday at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":61970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,1,38],"tags":[8437,6970,92,1434,522,8435,8436],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61973,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61969\/revisions\/61973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}