Pedro Almodovar to be AFI Fest guest artistic director

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Director Pedro Almodóvar will serve as the guest artistic director of the American Film Institute’s 25th AFI Fest in Hollywood in November.

Almodóvar, the Spanish writer-director of such films as ‘All About My Mother,’ ‘Talk to Her’ and ‘Volver,’ will present a screening of his film ‘Law of Desire,’ made 25 years ago. He also will curate a program of films that have inspired his work. Those films and other festival programming are to be announced in October.

The institute’s festival is scheduled to run Nov. 3 to 10 at the Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

Almodóvar’s latest film, ‘The Skin I Live In,’ starring Antonio Banderas, opens in October.

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-- Sherry Stern