Pedro Almodovar Chooses 'The Murders,' 'Nightmare Alley' to Screen at AFI Fest

Jean-Pierre Melville's crime tale Le Cercle Rouge and Edmund Goulding's circus-set film noir Nightmare Alley are probably the films that Pedro Almodovar has selected to screen at AFI Fest, which runs from November. 3-10 in Hollywood. VIDEO: Pedro Almodovar on 'The Skin My Home Is' -- and What It Really's Like to reside in His Skin The The spanish language director, who's becoming the festival's guest artistic director, will attend the festival November. 7 for any 25th anniversary screening of their own film What The Law States of Desire, where he'll be became a member of through the movie's star Antonio Banderas, who also stars in Almodar's current film Your Skin My Home Is. VIDEO: Pedro Almodóvar, Antonio Banderas Reunite in 'The Skin My Home Is' Trailer Almodovar's film choices tend to be heavy on horror films and crime thrillers: Additionally to Le Cercle Rouge and Nightmare Alley, he's selected Georges Franju's Eyes Wihout a Face, by which Pierre Brasseur plays a mad physician, and Robert Siodmak's The Murders, an adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner. Related Subjects Antonio Banderas Pedro Almodovar