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The Skin I Live In

With The Skin I Live In, based on the novel Mygale by Thierry Jonquet, Pedro Almodóvar continues his career-long examination of the feminine mystique from the outside inward. In this case, that’s a good thing. The skin in question has many meanings here beyond the largest organ of the human body, though that’s certainly on ample display. In this engaging thriller, skin can refer to anything from protection, to pretension, to the last dangling thread of identity in a world that makes no sense....  read more

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Review

Director/Writer: Woody Allen Starring: Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Freida Pinto, Antonio Banderas Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond Studio: Sony Pictures Classics By now even Woody Allen’s most ardent defenders have to admit that for some time now he’s been coasting. Back in the ’70s and ’80s (and ’60s—what a different landscape film was in then) Allen was far more anarchic, with every picture came a sense of vitality and new ideas. Admittedly they weren’t necessarily new in the grand sense, given how much he’s always enjoyed cribbing from authors and directors he’s admired, but at least new to Allen’s...  read more

Antonio Banderas Cast in Harshest Film Pedro Almodóvar's Ever Written

Antonio Banderas and Pedro Almodóvar are working together for the first time since Almodóvar directed Banderas in the controversial 1990 film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, according to The Hollywood Reporter....  read more

Johnny Marr Scoring First Film Soundtrack

The music of guitarist Johnny Marr (The Smiths, The Cribs, Modest Mouse’s We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank) will soon be making its theatrical debut....  read more

Antonio Banderas in talks to play lead in another Dali biopic

By turns adventurous and steadfastly conventional, Antonio Banderas has had a diverse and often puzzling international career, swerving from aberrant sex comedy in early Almodóvar films to old Hollywood lothario stints in movies like The Mask of Zorro. He's been confined mostly to light paternal roles since, but Variety reports that he is in talks to take the title part in Dali, a third new biopic about the famed surrealist painter Salvador Dali that could be one of the biggest parts of his career. ...  read more