The seeds of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s later cinematic work are scattered throughout the pages of “The Last Dream,” his newly published collection of short writings. Book Review: ‘The Last Dream,’ short stories scattered with the seeds of Pedro Almodovar films The stories and essays were gathered together by Almodóvar’s longtime assistant, including many pieces he said he forgot about long ago. One, called “The Life and Death of Miguel,” dates back more than a half-century to the period shortly after he graduated from high school. The screenwriter and director of iconic films like “Volver,” “Everything About My Mother,” and the breakout hit “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” writes that reading these shorter pieces again gave him new insights about himself and his work. “Everything is in this book,” Almodóvar writes. “In it, I discover that, when I first got to Madrid in the early seventies, I was already the person I would become.” He said his story “The Visit” was transformed in 2004 into “Bad Education,” a Spanish drama film he …