Pedro Almodóvar has had a fairly busy year, shooting a mysterious new project in the fall and even having the time to premiere a short movie titled “The Human Voice,” starring Tilda Swinton, at the Venice Film Festival this past September. Hell, he even spilled his thoughts during the pandemic, via the mighty force of the pen, for a weekly IndieWire column.
The maverick Spanish director of such classics as "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” and “Talk to Her” has revealed his list of the 8 best movies of 2020. The list is composed of 4 American movies, “The Devil All the Time,” “Swallow,” “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” and “First Cow.” Other titles include Jessica Hausner’s trippy anti-pharma diatribe “Little Joe,” Thomas Vinterberg’s drinking buddies movie “Another Round,” and Benjamin Ree’s Sundance doc “The Painter and the Thief.”
Look out for my top 10 of 2020 to be published this week. It shares two titles from Almodóvar’s own list. weekly IndieWire column. Contrary to what you may have read, it’s been a good year for movies, theaters or no theaters, and an excellent year for independent cinema. This was the year when the smaller-scaled movies were given room to breathe and be shown to a more populous audience.