It's not that Talk To Her isn't a brilliant film. It's that it only belongs on a list of Valentine's Day movies if you find romantic the major plotline of (spoiler alert) a comatose woman being raped and impregnated. [Via]

Nilina Mason-Campbell ran around Paris to get a fresh look at couture. Not the runway-shot, brand-manicured take we always get. The street-skulking, exhilarating flash-and-grab honesty of the perennial non-ticket-holder! (It's not our fault we don't know any PRs in Paris.)

"Fashion and film used to feed off each other." So says Eugenia Paulicelli, curator of the exhibit Fashion + Film: The 1960s Revisited (which opens at the CUNY Graduate Center next week) in today's New York Times. So what happened?

Penelope Cruz is profiled in Vanity Fair's November issue, and Ingrid Sischy explains that a string of terrible films like Vanilla Sky could have finished her. But Pedro Almodóvar jokes: "I was there to save her."

[Cannes, May 19. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

You know what an Almodvar premiere means: lots of rad dames, Penelope Cruz, and enough eccentricity to keep things interesting! Los Abrazos Rotos, which premiered last night at Madrid's Proyecciones cinema, was no exception.

[Spain, May 27. Image via INFDaily.]

Current muse to Spanish film director/majorcrush Pedro Almodovar (no one has ever narrated mother-daughter relationships quite like him!) Penelope Cruz is set to star in Almodovar's latest offering, a film to be entitled Los Abrazos Rotos. We're not sure if she will be playing a hooker, victim, or doormat, but we do…

Patron saint of gay men who love women and women who love gay men who understand women better than any woman ever will Pedro Almodovar's contemporary classic All About My Mother (which divinely references All About Eve, A Streetcar Named Desire, and the AIDS crisis all) has been adapted for the London stage, where…