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The Substance is a satirical body horror film written and directed by Coralie Fargeat. The 2024 film follows the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a popular star renowned for an aerobics show but on her 50th birthday, she gets fired from her boss for being old. She soon finds a laboratory that offers her a drug that promises to transform her into a better and younger version of herself. The Substance stars Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley in the lead roles with Dennis Quaid, Hugo Diego Garcia, Oscar Lesage, Tiffany Hofstetter, and Alexandra Papoulias Barton starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the body horror, biting commentary, and compelling characters in The Substance here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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“Perverso” es un thriller spin-off de “Parot”, que se estrenó hace tres años. La nueva serie cuenta la historia de Haro (Massagué), un refinado y maquiavélico aristócrata que cumple condena por violación y asesinato, y que es amenazado de muerte por Óscar (Cornet), un secuestrador que actúa contra la élite empresarial, de la que forma parte la mexicana Mariana (Pimentel). Aprovechando esa conexión, Haro negocia beneficios penitenciarios a cambio de colaborar en la investigación de los secuestros, pero en realidad prepara su venganza contra Lucía (Miró), la jueza que lo encarceló.

Un thriller protagonizado por Iván Massagué (“Culpa Mía”) junto a Kira Miró (“De Perdidos a Río”), Esmeralda Pimentel (“Montecristo”) y Jan Cornet (“The Gold”). Completan el reparto Guillermo Bedward (“Tolkien”), Dalexa Meneses (“Senda Prohibida”), Carlos Ponce (“Blue Beetle”), Jorge Kent (“Reina Roja”), Pepe Ocio (“El Reino”), Diana Palazón...

Filmax has acquired the Spanish and international rights to a psychological thriller about a woman in the middle of a marital crises who is stalked by an unknown entity on return to her hometown.

Called “Visitor,” the film is the directorial debut of Alberto Evangelio, a producer and director of shorts and branded content, as well as the 13-part Catalan TV series “Sunday Paella.”

Currently in post production, the producer-distributor’s latest pick up will be among the thrillers it is set to show buyers a glimpse of during the Pre-Cannes Screening.

The film stars Iria del Río, from Spanish riot police drama “Antidisturbios,” Miquel Fernández (“Adú”), Jan Cornet (“The Skin I Live In”) and Sandra Cervera, (“Old Bridge’s Secret”).

The feature was made through two fiction and commercials production companies: Beniwood Producciones – which Evangelio cofounded – and Madrid’s Chester Media Producciones as well as The Otherside Films and Barcelona-based Life&Pictures.

Slowly but surely, Rambo 5 is finally – finally – beginning to fall into place.

Omega Underground has today uncovered a series of audition tapes to prove that, yes, casting is now officially underway for Sylvester Stallone’s action sequel (codenamed Rambo: Last Blood), in which his beefed-up John Rambo will be coming up against the Mexican cartel.

He won’t be doing so alone, mind you, as the newly-uncovered synopsis indicates that Rambo will be currying favor from an unnamed member of the press as he seeks to dismantle the dangerous trafficking ring responsible for kidnapping his friend’s daughter. Imagine Taken… on steroids.

Rambo teams up with a journalist to track down and rescue a group of local girls that have been kidnapped by a Mexican sex trafficking ring, after trying to settle down to a quiet peaceful life stateside at the family ranch in Arizona after spending decades abroad.

Tasting Menu begins without offering much detail about its story or thematic effort, and it ends without ever showing its cards. It’s the story (sort of) of the last night at the world’s best restaurant, which is closing for uncertain reasons, and with the owner/chef’s future unknown. Said chef, the world-renowned Mar Vidal (Vicenta N’Dongo), thinks it’s time for a change, though the decision to close the restaurant has rocked the culinary world.

But, there is only a sideways sense in which the film can legitimately be said to have anything to do with this restaurant, this night, or this chef. The official synopsis only talks about Marc (Jan Cornet) and Rachel (Claudia Bassols), who happen to have a reservation that they made a year ago. Despite having split up several months ago, they decide they can’t miss the historic last night. It might be awkward,...

Finger Food: Gaul’s Latest Effort Staunchly Unappetizing

Spanish filmmaker Roger Gaul (known for his 2002 debut, the co-directed Smoking Room) returns with this Irish co-produced venture, Tasting Menu, its cast dictated primarily by geographic funding. Utilizing the banal workings of several intersecting storylines over the course of one evening, this petit bourgeois offering is as unabashedly pretentious as it is stilted, attempting to jackdaw cinematic magic via food porn and various romantic clichés. Several notable cast members are as poorly served as their lesser known counterparts, an ensemble that can’t ever emulsify as neatly as Javier Clavo’s screenplay so desperately wants it to.

Chef Mar (Vicenta N’Dongo) is a reluctant celebrity in her realm, owner of a highly successful restaurant that seats only thirty and is booked for months in advance. However, after finding herself in a creative rut, she decides to close the restaurant, much to...

So sloppy it can't even adequately follow through on cooking its various plot strands to completion, Tasting Menu concerns the dreary goings-on at the closing night of world-renowned chef Mar's (Vicenta N'dongo) seaside Barcelona restaurant.

There, a motley collection of guests engage in lifeless mini-dramas, from author Rachel's (Claudia Bassols) reunion with her ex-husband, Marc (Jan Cornet) — a meeting complicated by the surprise arrival of Rachel's obnoxious editor boyfriend, Danny (Timothy Gibbs) — to a widowed countess (Fionnula Flanagan) showing up with her husband's urn and involving herself in Rachel and Marc's affairs, to two Japanese investors (Togo Igawa and Akihiko Serikawa) suffering through the company of a grating Spanish guide (Marta Torn&eac...

Title: Tasting Menu Menú degustació) Magnolia Pictures Director: Roger Gual Screenplay: Roger Gual, Javier Calvo based on an original idea by Sílvia González Laá Cast: Jan Cornet, Claudia Bassols, Vicenta N’dongo, Andrew Tarbet, Fionnula Flanagan, Stephen Rea, Togo Igawa, Marta Torné, Akihijo Serikawa, Timothy Gibbs, Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 4/3/14 Opens: April 18, 2014 “Tasting Menu” might be compared by some to “Babette’s Feast,” Gabriel Axel’s film about a remote, 19th Century Danish community whose religious views forbid them to eat more than gruel but who are upended by a fantastic meal prepared by their French housekeeper. But Roger Gual’s movie does not center on food. That’s too bad. [ Read More ]

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The 25th Galway Film Fleadh is to open with Spanish dramedy Tasting Menu, directed by Roger Gual, and close with John Banville adaptation The Sea, directed by Stephen Brown.

Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell, Bonnie Wright and Sinead Cusack star in Independent-produced The Sea, about a man dealing with the loss of his wife.

Tasting Menu, which stars Fionnula Flanagan, Stephen Rea, Claudia Bassols, Jan Cornet, Rodrigo Cortés and Togo Igawa, follows a couple whose romantic evening at the world’s best restaurant takes an unusual turn.

Producers on the latter are Zentropa and Subotica.

The 25th Galway Film Fleadh runs from July 9-14.

Cillian Murphy, Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver and Elizabeth Olsen starrer "Red Lights" gets a ninth poster. The Rodrigo Cortés (Buried) thriller opens via Millennium Entertainment on July 13, 2012 and is also scripted by Cortés, who in turn produces alongside Adrián Guerra. Joelly Richardson, Craig Roberts, Burn Gorman, Karen David and Jan Cornet also star. This comes after several character posters and the trailer we added last week. In "Red Lights", Veteran paranormal researchers Dr. Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy) debunk fraudulent claims of ghost whispering, faith healing and other psychic phenomena by detecting what Matheson calls “red lights,” the subtle tricks behind every staged supernatural occurrence. But when the legendary blind psychic Simon Silver (Robert De Niro)comes out of retirement after 30 years, his once-fearless adversary Matheson warns Buckley to back off, fearing reprisal from the powerful Silver.

Cillian Murphy, Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver and Elizabeth Olsen starrer "Red Lights" gets a ninth poster. The Rodrigo Cortés (Buried) thriller opens via Millennium Entertainment on July 13, 2012 and is also scripted by Cortés, who in turn produces alongside Adrián Guerra. Joelly Richardson, Craig Roberts, Burn Gorman, Karen David and Jan Cornet also star. This comes after several character posters and the trailer we added last week. In "Red Lights", Veteran paranormal researchers Dr. Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy) debunk fraudulent claims of ghost whispering, faith healing and other psychic phenomena by detecting what Matheson calls “red lights,” the subtle tricks behind every staged supernatural occurrence. But when the legendary blind psychic Simon Silver (Robert De Niro)comes out of retirement after 30 years, his once-fearless adversary Matheson warns Buckley to back off, fearing reprisal from the powerful Silver.

In some films, particularly of the twists and turns variety, a significant event, moment or even line of dialogue, can be summarized by the phrase “This changes everything”. This is known as a Game Changer, where the established landscape of the movie’s plot is irrevocably and dramatically altered, with no chance of ever going back. Audience reaction can range from emotional sledgehammer to Wtf?

Often this single moment can encapsulate the whole film, and become its most famed component: everybody who has heard of The Crying Game is also familiar with its reveal. This isn’t the Twist Ending we’re talking about; this is the story shaking, ultimately defining wham moment.

Here are six great examples.

Obviously contains extensive spoilers.

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A feast of noir murder mystery and crusading character development, Curtis Hanson’s adaptation of James Ellroy’s labyrinth novel...

Directed by Pedro Almodovar and starring Antonio Banderas, The Skin I live In will be available in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack on March 6th. We’ll be publishing our review tomorrow, but until then, we have a photo gallery and videos for you to check out.

Oscar® winning Writer/Director Pedro Almodóvar (Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Talk To Her, 2002) and three-time Golden Globe® nominee Antonio Banderas (The Mask of Zorro, Desperado) team up for the sixth time on The Skin I Live In, debuting on Blu-ray™ + DVD Combo Pack March 6th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. This psycho-sexual thriller, which also stars Elena Anaya (Savage Grace, Van Helsing), Marisa Paredes (High Heels, All About My Mother), Jan Cornet (There Be Dragons) and Roberto Álamo (Take My Eyes), follows a brilliant plastic surgeon (Banderas) who is haunted by past tragedies and by his present patient: a mysterious woman (Anaya) who...

No Rest for the Wicked (No habrá paz para los malvados) and the other winners for the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) have been announced. The 26th Annual Goya Awards (Premios Goyas), presented by the Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences), is “Spain’s main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internationally, to be the Spanish equivalent of the American Academy Awards.”

The full listing of the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) winners is below.

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No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked), Enrique Urbizu

Director

Enrique Urbizu, No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked)

New Director

Kike Maillo, Eva

Original Screenplay

Enrique Urbizu and Michel Gaztambide, No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked)

Adapted Screenplay

Angel de la Cruz, Ignacio Ferreras, Paco Roca and Rosanna Cecchini,...

Antonio Banderas' thriller The Skin I Live In was among the big winners at Spain's Goya Awards on Sunday night, landing four of the event's prizes.

Pedro Almodovar's movie gained a massive 16 nominations ahead of the glitzy prizegiving, but lost out in several categories to cop drama No Rest for the Wicked, which won Best Film, Best Director for Enrique Urbizu, and Best original screenplay, while Jose Coronado trumped Banderas to take the Best Actor trophy.

The Skin I Live In, which won the Best Foreign Language Film prize at the recent British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards, triumphed in four categories.

Elena Anaya took the Best Actress trophy and Jan Cornet was named Best Breakthrough Actor, while the film also scooped awards for make-up and original music.

Oscar-tipped silent movie The Artist was also honoured at the ceremony in Madrid, winning the award for Best European Film.

José Coronado, No Rest for the Wicked Pedro Almodóvar didn't have much luck at the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Goya Awards this evening in Madrid: Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In won a total of four Goyas, but none for its director/writer. Starring Antonio Banderas as a plastic surgeon, Elena Anaya as his captive woman, and Jan Cornet as the good-looking young man whom the doctor blames for the death of his daughter, the sex-bending mystery melodrama won Goyas for Best Actress (Anaya), Best New Actor (Cornet), Best Original Music (Alberto Iglesias, his tenth Goya win), and Best Makeup/Hair. [Full list of Premios Goya winners/nominations.] Instead of the internationally renowned (and BAFTA winner) The Skin I Live In, the 2012 Goyas' big winner was Enrique Urbizu's No habrá paz para los malvados / No Rest for the Wicked, the story of a murderous, corrupt cop. No Rest for the Wicked won Goyas for Best Picture,...

Fernando Tejero, Salma Hayek, As Luck Would Have It No Rest For The Wicked, The Artist, Un Cuento Chino: Goya Award Winners Pt.1 Best Actor Daniel Brühl, Eva Antonio Banderas, The Skin I Live In Luis Tosar, Mientras duermes * José Coronado, No Rest for the Wicked Best Actress Verónica Echegui, Katmandu: un espejo en el cielo * Elena Anaya, The Skin I Live In Inma Cuesta, The Sleeping Voice Salma Hayek, La Chispa de la vida / As Luck Would Have It Best Supporting Actor Juan Diego, 23-f: la película * Lluís Homar, Eva Juanjo Artero, No Rest for the Wicked Raúl Arévalo, Cousins Best Supporting Actress Goya Toledo, Maktub Maribel Verdú, De tu ventana a la mía Pilar López de Ayala, Intruders * Ana Wagener, The Sleeping Voice Best New Actor José Mota, As Luck Would Have It * Jan Cornet, The Skin I Live In Adrián Lastra, Cousins Marc Clotet, The Sleeping...

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I see a lot of movies. My fandom has a dark side too, I’ve seen so many plots play out that I can usually guess how things are going to go. When I sound glib while reviewing a trailer, it’s because I’ve seen the story play out before and I know where it’s going to go. So I love a movie that can shock me, whether in laughter, horror, sadness or empathy. This year I’ve had an abundance of these moments. These scenes knocked the complacency right out of me.

Be warned, this list is rife with Spoilers. If you don’t want to know key plot twists from the movies below, skip over them.

7. Shame (2011)

Recap: Brandon’s (Michael Fassbender) sexual addiction controls his life. Whether he’s calling a prostitute, looking at so much porn...

Red Lights Trailer. Rodrigo Cortés‘ Red Lights (2012) movie trailer stars Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy, Elizabeth Olsen, Sigourney Weaver, and Joely Richardson. Red Lights‘ plot synopsis: “Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins.

Simon Silver, a legendary blind psychic, reappears after an enigmatic absence of 30 years to become the greatest international challenge to both orthodox science and professional sceptics. Tom starts to develop an intense obsession with Silver, whose magnetism becomes stronger with each new manifestation of inexplicable events. As Tom gets closer to Silver, tension mounts, and his worldview is threatened to its core.”

Red Light also stars Toby Jones, Craig Roberts, Karen David, Burn Gorman, Jan Cornet, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Jeany Spark, Garrick Hagon, and Peter Brooke.

Watch Red Lights movie trailer and leave your thoughts...

A couple of weeks ago we brought you the first news regarding the Blu-ray and DVD release of the much talked about film The Skin I Live In, and now we've sunk our claws into the official artwork. Dig it!

Sony's Blu-ray/DVD combo pack presents the film in its 1.85:1 original aspect ratio with Spanish (w/English subtitles) and French 5.1 DTS-hd Master Audio tracks.

From the Press Release

Oscar® winning Writer/Director Pedro Almodóvar (Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Talk To Her, 2002) and three-time Golden Globe® nominee Antonio Banderas (The Mask of Zorro, Desperado) team up for the sixth time on The Skin I Live In, debuting on Blu-ray™ + DVD Combo Pack March 6th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. This psycho-sexual thriller, which also stars Elena Anaya (Savage Grace, Van Helsing), Marisa Paredes (High Heels, All About My Mother), Jan Cornet (There Be Dragons) and Roberto Álamo (Take My Eyes...

The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) and the other nominations for the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) have been announced. The 26th Annual Goya Awards (Premios Goyas), presented by the Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences), is “Spain’s main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internationally, to be the Spanish equivalent of the American Academy Awards.” The awards will be handed out on February 19, 2012 in Madrid, Spain.

The full listing of the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) nominations is below.

Film

La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In), Pedro Almodovar

No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked), Enrique Urbizu

La voz dormida (The Sleeping Voice), Benito Zambrano

Blackthorn. Sin destino (Blackthorn), Mateo Gil

Director

Pedro Almodovar, La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In)

Benito Zambrano, La voz dormida...

Oscar® winning Writer/Director Pedro Almodóvar (Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Talk To Her, 2002) and three-time Golden Globe® nominee Antonio Banderas (The Mask of Zorro, Desperado) team up for the sixth time on The Skin I Live In, debuting on Blu-ray™ + DVD Combo Pack March 6th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. This psycho-sexual thriller, which also stars Elena Anaya (Savage Grace, Van Helsing), Marisa Paredes (High Heels, All About My Mother), Jan Cornet (There Be… More...

The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) Directed by: Pedro Almodovar Written by: Pedro Almodovar (screenplay), Thierry Jonquet (book) Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Blanca Suarez, Jan Cornet I’m unabashedly honest about my shortcomings, and I’ll freely admit I’ve never been a huge fan of Pedro Almodóvar’s films. Go ahead and slap my wrist, I deserve it. I haven’t tried that many, but I have never been able to get fully immersed in one of his films, until now. Almodóvar slithers into a dreamy tale of horror, revenge, obsession and betrayal with the superb The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito). It’s exquisitely depraved. Antonio Banderas plays Robert, a wealthy surgeon who lives on a sprawling estate equipped with its own surgical treatment room. There’s also an observation room that houses a mysterious woman (Vera, played by...

Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar is internationally known for his darkly humorous and often perverse explorations into gender and sexuality, but even more so about relationships between women and the men who love (while still often hating) them. His latest film, The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito), is no different in its general themes, but is the most stylized and visually and emotionally impacting of all his movies. Based on the novel Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet, The Skin I Live In effectively blends so many genres -- thriller, erotica, drama, horror and sci-fi -- that it will hopefully appeal to a wide audience.

Secured in his operating lab at his isolated home El Cigarral, plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) has made a breakthrough in his research to improve methods of repairing disfigurement of burn victims. Through transgenesis -- the process of introducing an exogenous gene, from a...

The Skin I Live In

Directed by: Pedro Almodovar

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet

Running Time: 1 hr 58 mins

Rating: R

Release Date: October 21, 2011 (Chicago)

Plot: A scientist (Banderas) uses the body of another woman (Anaya) to try to recreate the entire body of his dead wife.

Who’S It For? Anyone who has seen an Almodovar movie will have an idea of what to expect from tone, including the movie’s “telenovela” tendencies. Fans of psychological dramas might be sucked into this movie, so long as they are patient with its step-by-step storytelling. However, there’s no guarantee for anyone as to how the ending will settle with you.

Expectations: Outside of Banderas and Almodovar, I knew little about this movie. Those two names were all I needed to dive curiously into the director’s followup to the quite good Broken Embraces.

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Actors:

Antonio Banderas as Robert Ledgard: Simply put,...

Many of us have had our eye on Spanish actress Elena Anaya even before last year’s provocative Room In Rome, as the actress is also known for her co-starring role in Van Helsing as well as for sexing up Justin Timberlake’s "SexyBack" video. Now audiences will take even closer notice of Anaya for her co-starring role with Antonio Banderas in Pedro Almodóvar’s disturbing but compelling new film, The Skin I Live In.

In the film, Anaya plays Vera, a woman being held against her will in the luxurious home of Dr. Robert Ledgard for initially unclear reasons. While the first half of the film raises many questions about who Vera is, what her relationship to the whacked Doctor is and why she’s being held here (and why she wears a tight-fitting body suit, which shows off every curve of Anaya’s amazing body), the second half...

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Pedro Almodovar’s new film, “The Skin I Live In,” stars Antonio Banderas as Dr. Robert Ledgard, a plastic surgeon who is on a mission to create an artificial skin and keeping a beautiful woman captive in a sealed chamber.

The cinematographer on the 117-minute film is Almodovar’s longtime collaborator, Jose Luis Alcaine. The film also stars Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo, Elena Anaya and Blanca Suarez.

Read some reviews here.

“This is clearly not Mr.

Some of Spain's greatest contributions to the world include Picasso, the modern acoustic guitar, sangria, and filmmaker, Pedro Almodóvar. All make life richer, all are world renowned, and all are delightfully refreshing — especially the sangria.

Add to the list of Awesome Things from Spain: the enchanting actress Elena Anaya (last seen checking out of her Room in Rome), who stars with Antonio Banderas in Almodóvar's newest film, The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito).

Anaya plays Vera, a beautiful, strange young woman being held prisoner in an upscale villa owned by Dr. Robert Ledgard (Banderas). The doctor is a prominent plastic surgeon who's using her as a human guinea pig for the secret experiments he's carrying out in a customized operating theater in his basement.

The isolated villa provides the privacy Ledgard needs to work on his obsession: a supple, flawless, artificial skin impervious to injury, especially burns.

Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar

Written by: Pedro Almodóvar

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet

This film slices right to the brain.

I don’t know a single person who walked out of the screening for Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In who wasn’t at least fascinated. Many were thoroughly disturbed. I was delighted. Almodóvar assembled the kind of story I never thought would dare to see the mainstream screen, with a technical mastery that’s as good as any film that has.

My joy over The Skin I Live In has many roots. One is the style of horror film it is. Another is how bizarre and outrageously brave it is, but I’ll touch on that later. For all you eager genre film fans out there, I want to assure you right off the mark that the winding plot and psychological shocks are a deliciously unsettling experience.

The Skin I Live In is directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and stars Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes and Jan Cornet. Sony Classic Pictures will release the Spanish language thriller The Skin I Live In to theaters in both Los Angeles and New York on October 14, 2011. According to the official site the film will also be shown in cities across the country soon. The Skin I Live In is based on the book entitled Mygale by Thierry Jonquet.

Title: The Skin I Live In Directed By: Pedro Almodóvar Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes, Bárbara Lennie, Eduard Fernández, Roberto Álamo Ever since the release of the film’s trailer, it’s been quite apparent that The Skin I Live In doesn’t play by the industry’s standard rules of story telling. While this is generally a stellar characteristic in terms of innovation, it also runs the risk of, well, being confusing. The Skin I Live In isn’t too tough to follow, but the storyline does delve into some elements particularly deeply and glosses over others, and while this recipe might work for some, for others it...

Title: The Skin I Live In Director: Pedro Almodóvar Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suarez, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo and Marisa Paredes. Pedro Almodovar has made an entire career of embracing the melodrama. With most every one of his films gravitating to highly emotional points, exaggerated plotting (almost to the point of a soap opera treatment) and vastly interesting characters driven by their emotions and yet, these decisions are often ambiguous and not clear why they were eventually driven this way. His new film, “The Skin I Live In,” is no different, but what is worth watching this time around with a new film by Pedro Almodovar is the...

New clips from Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes, Bárbara Lennie, Roberto Álamo, Fernando Cayo and Eduard Fernández, star in the Sony Pictures Classics' drama helmed and scripted by Almodóvar, based on the novel by Thierry Jonquet. The Skin I Live In can be seen at the Toronto Film Festival on September 11th and opens in limited U.S. theaters on October 14th. Pic was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's Palm d'Or prize and we have 4 clips in standard and high definition up for your viewing pleasure. Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault.

New clips from Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes, Bárbara Lennie, Roberto Álamo, Fernando Cayo and Eduard Fernández, star in the Sony Pictures Classics' drama helmed and scripted by Almodóvar, based on the novel by Thierry Jonquet. The Skin I Live In can be seen at the Toronto Film Festival on September 11th and opens in limited U.S. theaters on October 14th. Pic was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's Palm d'Or prize and we have 4 clips in standard and high definition up for your viewing pleasure. Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault.

The trailer for Pedro Almodovar's latest, The Skin I Live In has arrived at Yahoo! Movies and is viewable in the player below. Antonio Banderas headlines the drama as Dr. Robert Ledgard, a plastic surgeon seeking to perfect a new kind of artificial skin and needing a human guinea pig on which to test it. Scheduled for a limited release on October 14th, the cast also includes Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Álamo and Blanca Suárez.

The trailer for Pedro Almodovar's latest, The Skin I Live In , has arrived at Yahoo! Movies and is viewable in the player below. Antonio Banderas headlines the drama as Dr. Robert Ledgard, a plastic surgeon seeking to perfect a new kind of artificial skin and needing a human guinea pig on which to test it. Scheduled for a limited release on October 14th, the cast also includes Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Álamo and Blanca Suárez.

The Skin I Live In (15)

(Pedro Almodóvar, 2011, Spa) Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes. 120 mins.

Almodóvar's silky skills and supreme confidence tempt respectable audiences into an elegantly twisted tale of surgical obsession that few others could pull off. It's best not to spell things out too much about this; suffice to say Banderas's project to create a new form of skin, with Anaya his captive guinea pig, doesn't go where you'd expect.

As usual, there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

One Day (12A)

(Lone Scherfig, 2011, Us) Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Rafe Spall. 108 mins.

Fans might not have had Hathaway's migratory trans-Pennine accent in mind when they fell in love with David Nicholls's calendar-crossing odd-couple romance on paper, and the equally wayward period details detract even further. A pity, given the promising material, but Grazia readers will lap it up just the same.

Conan The Barbarian (15)

(Marcus Nispel,...

Now in its 36th year, the Toronto International Film Festival announced a selection of films in the 2011 Galas and Special Presentations programmes. The selection comprises 10 Galas and 43 Special Presentations, including 31 World Premieres.

The festival has become a hot spot for a number of big films - and this year is no exception. The Brad Pitt film Moneyball will debut at the festival, as well as, Butter starring Jennifer Garner and Hugh Jackman; A Dangerous Method, starring Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, and Viggo Mortensen, and The Ides of March from George Clooney, who also stars in the film.

The 10-day festival will run from September 8 to 18 and feature world premieres from a number of esteemed directors including, Cameron Crowe, Roland Emmerich, Francis Ford Coppola, Marc Foster, Alexander Payne, Sarah Polley, Jennifer Westfeldt, and Wang Xiaoshual.

“The international scope and diversity of voices in these programmes are impressive and inspiring,” said Piers Handling,...

The Toronto International Film Festival is once again proving to be a major stop on the festival circuit. The announcement was released yesterday of 53 titles, including 31 world premieres, and some of the biggest names of the year are among them. Most, if not all, of the films I am most looking forward to will be in attendance, and with the festival just around the corner, the time to get excited for these offerings is now.

Check out the full release below.

Now in its 36th year, the Toronto International Film Festival® today unveiled a selection of films in the 2011 Galas and Special Presentations programmes. The selection comprises 10 Galas and 43 Special Presentations, including 31 World Premieres. Running from September 8 to 18, this year’s Festival presents the world premieres of films from directors Bruce Beresford, Luc Besson, Rémi Bezancon, Cameron Crowe, Terence Davies, Mathieu Demy, Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass, Roland Emmerich, Julian Farino,...

Some like their romantic comedies and others love period dramas or science fiction; I've got a long thing going with twisted tales--not quite horror--but seriously dark drama. Dead Ringers, The Comfort of Strangers, Blue Velvet, The Music of Chance are a few old favorites and I'm always in search of a new fix. This year's Venice Film Festival will premiere two entries that sound promising: Steve McQueen's Shame and Roman Polanski's Carnage, while Cannes has already seen the debut of Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In. As with most controversial films the reviews have been mixed, but more importantly, Skin had people talking ("disturbing," "operatic," "perverse,"). The muddled premise descriptions have had me curious from the outset and the short teaser left me wanting more. So no matter that we don't entirely understand the storyline (Antonio Banderas = surgeon/madman(?) seeking revenge against men who raped his...

The full trailer for The Skin I Live In has just been released. Directed and co-written by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya and Jan Cornet, it looks intriguing. Synopsis: Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his...

Michael Fassbender in Steve McQueen's Shame The Artist — Michel Hazanavicius, Toronto Premiere — Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a very successful silent movie star. The arrival of talking pictures will mark the end of his career. Peppy Miller, a young woman extra, becomes a major movie star. Starring Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, Malcolm McDowell, James Cromwell and John Goodman. Shame — Steve McQueen, North American Premiere — Brandon is a thirty-something man living in New York who is unable to manage his sex life. After his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment, Brandon’s world spirals out of control. From director Steve McQueen (Hunger), Shame is a compelling and timely examination of the nature of need, how we live our lives and the experiences that shape us. Stars Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale and Nicole Beharie. Jeff, Who Lives at Home — Jay and Mark Duplass, World Premiere — Jeff, Who Lives at Home stars Jason Segel,...

It looks like we're in for another great year at the Toronto International Film Festival, and I'm excited to be just a little bit closer to the action this time around. The very first titles from the 2011 fest were announced today, and there were definitely a lot of familiar faces among the 10 Galas and 43 Special Presentations. George Clooney is back with two films this year (The Ides of March and The Descendants) and many other Tiff alumni are returning with their latest works including David Cronenberg (A Dangerous Method), Lars Von Trier (Melancholia), Todd Solondz (Dark Horse), Fernando Meirelles (360), Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive), Steve McQueen (Shame), Pedro Almodóvar (The Skin I Live In), Michael Winterbottom (Trishna) and Sarah Polley (Take This Waltz). Both Moneyball and 50/50 fill the requisite "big September release with awards potential" slots, while Roland Emmerich's Anonymous was a bit of a surprise pick. However, for the first time ever,...

The tentative schedule for the Toronto International Film Festival has just been released. The festival, which runs from September 8th to the 18th, will be held in Toronto, Canada, and will feature a total of 53 Gala and Special Presentation films. There are some films that have been anxiously sitting on the shelves like A Dangerous Method and new and upcoming films like Moneyball and 50/50. You can check out the current schedule over at the Tiff website.

Opening Night:

From the Sky Down

(dir. Davis Guggenheim, USA)

Twenty years after the release of U2′s Achtung Baby (1991), Davis Guggenheim (Waiting for Superman, An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud) charts this groundbreaking album with new interviews, stories and unseen footage from Berlin and Dublin. Now a key chapter in their career, Achtung Baby was in Bono’s words “the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree.” “For the first...

Now in its 36th year, the Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled a selection of films in its 2011 Galas and Special Presentations programmes. The Festival runs Sept. 8-18, and while we wait for the Midnight Madness schedule to be announced, we thought we'd share the handful of genre offerings to be found at Tiff 2011.

“The international scope and diversity of voices in these programmes are impressive and inspiring,” said Piers Handling, Director and CEO of Tiff. “We eagerly anticipate welcoming these filmmakers and their provocative works to Toronto and sharing them with audiences in September.”

Melancholia - Lars von Trier, Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany (North American Premiere)

In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgard) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best...

The Toronto International Film Festival, which has become an increasingly important platform for awards-seeking titles in recent years (Both The King’s Speech and Black Swan played there last year), announced its 2011 line-up this morning.

The 11-day festival, set to kick off on Sept. 8, will feature the world premieres of Moneyball, a baseball drama starring Brad Pitt; 50/50, a cancer dramedy with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen; Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, a drama starring George Clooney; Butter, a butter-carving satire featuring Jennifer Garner and Hugh Jackman; Albert Nobbs, an Iris-set period drama starring Glenn Close; and Francis Ford Coppola’s murder-mystery Twixt,...

Update: A batch of new photos from some of the films below have been released. Check them out here.

After Cannes kicks off in the spring, Venice and Toronto are the two biggest kickstarters for the 2011 awards race. This morning the latter festival have announced their initial line-up, and it is fantastic. Toronto International Film Festival will run from September 8th to 18th, and you can see the full line-up below, but I’m most excited for new films from David Cronenberg, Steve McQueen, Sarah Polly, Francis Ford Coppola, Oren Moverman and many more. Davis Guggenheim’s U2 documentary From the Sky Down will open the fest. Check out the full list of gala and special presentations below, along with each synopsis. We’ll be there covering the fest as well.

Galas

Albert Nobbs Rodrigo Garcia, Ireland

World Premiere

A witty Irish-set period drama about the lives of staff at...

Now in its 36th year, the Toronto International Film Festival® today unveiled a selection of films in the 2011 Galas and Special Presentations programs. The selection comprises 10 Galas and 43 Special Presentations, including 31 World Premieres. Running from September 8 to 18, this year‟s Festival presents the world premieres of films from directors Bruce Beresford, Luc Besson, Rémi Bezancon, Cameron Crowe, Terence Davies, Mathieu Demy, Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass, Roland Emmerich, Julian Farino, Jim Field Smith, Francis Ford Coppola, Marc Foster, Rodrigo Garcia, Lasse Hallstrom, Huh Jong-ho, Cédric Khan, Jonathan Levine, Jamie Linden, Derick Martini, Fernando Meirelles, Bennett Miller, Oren Moverman, Daniel Nettheim, Pawel Pawlikowski, Alexander Payne, Sarah Polley, Malgoska Szumowska, Jonathan Teplitzky, Jennifer Westfeldt, Michael Winterbottom and Wang Xiaoshuai.Filmmakers Pedro Almodóvar, George Clooney, David Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes, William Friedkin, Ann Hui, Madonna, Steve McQueen, Nanni Moretti, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, Lynne Ramsay, Todd Solondz, Morten Tyldum and Lars von Trier...

20th Century Fox have unveiled the official UK trailer and poster for Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In.

Based on Thierry Jonquet’s novella Mygale, The Skin I Live In stars Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Álamo, Blanca Suárez, Eduard Fernández, Bárbara Lennie and Fernando Cayo.

Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Banderas), an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault.

In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice.

Sony Pictures has set a limited release date for Pedo Almodovar's The Skin I Live In. Bloody Disgusting is reporting that the film will recieve an October limited release in Los Angeles and New York with expansion planned after that.

Synopsis:

Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault.

In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And as for the human guinea pig…

The film also stars Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes,...