One Punk’s Guide to the Films of Pedro Almodovar by Billups Allen

Almodovar films are an unyielding orgasm of color and anarchy. His movies are simultaneously an exploration and cannibalism of genre. Almodovar stuck with his vision through an obstacle course of financial barriers, making an astoundingly minimal number of compromises. There is not a film he created solely for a paycheck and not a frame of his work that is not worth seeing.

Billups Allen spent his formative years in and around the Washington D.C. punk scene. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a creative writing major and a film minor and has worked in seven different record stores around the country. He currently lives in Memphis, Tenn. where he works for Goner Records, publishes Cramhole zine, contributes regularly to Razorcake, Ugly Things, and Lunchmeat magazines, and writes fiction. (cramholezine.com, billupsallen@gmail.com)

Illustrations by Amy Shapiro who can be reached @amy_shapiro and at
World Tattoo Studio, 246 6th Ave., Denver, CO 80204

Originally ran as “Madrid’s Dreaming: The Films of Pedro Almodovar” in Razorcake #57, Aug./Sept. 2010.

5.5” x 8.5”
34pp.