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Arte hat heute sein Programm für das erste Halbjahr 2025 präsentiert.

Arte hat heute sein Programm für das erste Halbjahr 2025 vorgestellt, zu dem auch Jasmila Zbanic‘ Serie „I Know Your Soul“ (im Bild) gehört (Credit: Deblokada/Arte G.E.I.E.)

Arte hat heute sein Programm für das erste Halbjahr 2025 präsentiert, in dem man u.a. Sandra Hüller und Lars Eidinger mit jeweils einem Filmabend würdigen will.

Beim „Abend mit Lars Eidinger“ wird am 12. Februar Lars Kraumes Drama „Familienfest“ mit Eidinger, Hannelore Elsner, Jördis Triebel, Marc Hosemann und Michaela May in den Hauptrollen sowie Rainer Holzemers Dokumentarfilm „Lars Eidinger – Sein oder nicht sein“ zu sehen sein.

Am 7. März, dem „Abend mit Sandra Hüller“, zeigt Arte Frauke Finsterwalders „Sisi & ich“ mit Hüller und Susanne Wolff in den Hauptrollen sowie Antje Harries Dokumentarfilm „Hüllers Geheimnis“.

Zur Berlinale und zum Festival de Cannes präsentiert Arte darüber hinaus Spielfilme wie Robert Schwentkes „Seneca, Oder: Über die Geburt...

Netflix has launched a full official trailer for the Keira Knightley-led series ‘Black Doves.’

Set against the backdrop of London at Christmas, the series is a sharp, action-filled, and heartfelt story of friendship and sacrifice. It follows Helen Webb (Keira Knightley), a quick-witted, down-to-earth, dedicated wife and mother — and professional spy.

For 10 years, she’s been passing on her politician husband’s secrets to the shadowy organisation she works for: the Black Doves. When her secret lover Jason (Andrew Koji) is assassinated, her spymaster, the enigmatic Reed (Sarah Lancashire), calls in Helen’s old friend Sam (Ben Whishaw) to keep her safe. Together, Helen and Sam set off on a mission to investigate who killed Jason and why, leading them to uncover a vast, interconnected conspiracy linking the murky London underworld to a looming geopolitical crisis.

Coming from writer/creator Joe Barton, the series stars Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw,...

Netflix is building buzz for its spy thriller series Black Doves starring Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw.

The streamer has unveiled trailer and a slew of images promoting the show from Joe Barton, while revealing a premiere date of December 5.

Black Doves, which also stars Sarah Lancashire, is set against the backdrop of London at Christmas. It follows Helen Webb (Knightley), a quick-witted, down-to-earth, dedicated wife and mother — and professional spy. For 10 years, she’s been passing on her politician husband’s secrets to the shadowy organization she works for: the Black Doves. When her secret lover Jason (Andrew Koji) is assassinated, her spymaster, the enigmatic Reed (Lancashire), calls in Helen’s old friend Sam (Whishaw) to keep her safe.

Andrew Buchan (Carnival Row), Adeel Akhtar (Fool Me Once), Tracey Ullman (The Tracey Ullman Show), Finn Bennett (True Detective: Night Country) and Luther Ford (The Crown), Koji (Warrior), Kathryn Hunter, Sam Troughton, Ella Lily Hyland, Adam Silver Ken Nwosu (Look the Other Way and Run), Gabrielle Creevy and Omari Douglas also star.

The show is the latest splashy offering from Netflix UK, which has made a slew of hits this year including Baby Reindeer and The Gentlemen. It is being co-produced by Sister, which has just seen its previous Netflix show, Kaos, axed after one season. Barton’s outfit Noisy Bear is co-producing.

EPs for Black Doves are Knightley, Barton, Jane Featherstone and Chris Fry. Directors are Alex Gabassi (The Crown) and Lisa Gunning (The Power). Series producer is Harry Munday.

Netflix has revealed the official trailer and key art for the spy thriller Black Doves, which will premiere globally on December 5, 2024. The streaming service previously confirmed that the series will return for a second season.

The trailer features new music from award-winning British singer Raye, who has recorded a cover of Nancy Sinatra’s “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down).” This song will be featured throughout the first season of Black Doves.

Set against the backdrop of London at Christmas, Black Doves is a sharp, action-filled, and heartfelt story of friendship and sacrifice. It follows Helen Webb (Keira Knightley), a quick-witted, down-to-earth, dedicated wife and mother — and professional spy.

For 10 years, she’s been passing on her politician husband’s secrets to the shadowy organization she works for: the Black Doves.

When her secret lover Jason (Andrew Koji) is assassinated, her spymaster, the enigmatic Reed (Sarah Lancashire), calls in...

Starz has announced the movie and TV titles that will be available on the service in November. The Starz November 2024 schedule includes the season finales of Sweetpea and Three Women, the season seven part two premiere of Outlander, and new episodes of Fat Joe Talks every week.

On the film front, The Perfect Christmas, Inside, A Thousand and One, and several other notable titles join the Starz app this month.

To kick off the holiday season, a special action-packed collection will be released Thanksgiving weekend, including favorites like Avengers: Age of Ultron, Jurassic World Dominion: Extended Version, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Riddick, and Chronicles of Riddick.

Outlander Season 7 Part 2 Starz Highlights

Fat Joe Talks

“Fat Joe Talks” is hosted and executive produced by the multi-hyphenate Grammy award-nominated artist and cultural icon Fat Joe. In each weekly 30-minute episode, Fat Joe will bring the audience along for intimate conversations and...

Netflix has debuted a set of first-look images alongside a premiere date of the 5th of December for the Keira Knightley-led series ‘Black Doves.’

Set against the backdrop of London at Christmas, the series is a sharp, action-filled, and heartfelt story of friendship and sacrifice. It follows Helen Webb (Keira Knightley), a quick-witted, down-to-earth, dedicated wife and mother — and professional spy.

For 10 years, she’s been passing on her politician husband’s secrets to the shadowy organisation she works for: the Black Doves. When her secret lover Jason (Andrew Koji) is assassinated, her spymaster, the enigmatic Reed (Sarah Lancashire), calls in Helen’s old friend Sam (Ben Whishaw) to keep her safe. Together, Helen and Sam set off on a mission to investigate who killed Jason and why, leading them to uncover a vast, interconnected conspiracy linking the murky London underworld to a looming geopolitical crisis.

Coming from writer/creator Joe Barton,...

Playing both sides when you’re a spy is a dangerous game. You must keep your lies straight if you hope to survive, and knowing who to trust is a constant struggle. People you coordinate missions with say they have your best interests and protection in mind, but do they? Who’s to say they won’t throw you to wolves to save their skin when everything goes south? Keira Knightley will find out who has her back and who wants her dead in the upcoming spy thriller series Black Doves, premiering globally on Netflix on December 5, 2024.

Here’s the official logline for Black Doves courtesy of Netflix:

Set against the backdrop of London at Christmas, Black Doves is a sharp, action-filled, and heartfelt story of friendship and sacrifice. It follows Helen Webb (Keira Knightley), a quick-witted, down-to-earth, dedicated wife and mother — and professional spy. For ten years, she’s...

Netflix has announced the premiere date for the spy thriller Black Doves alongside a first look at the series starring Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw, and Sarah Lancashire.

Black Doves Season 1 will premiere globally on Netflix on December 5, 2024. The streaming service has already confirmed that the series will return for a second season.

Set against the backdrop of London at Christmas, Black Doves is a sharp, action-filled, and heartfelt story of friendship and sacrifice. It follows Helen Webb (Keira Knightley), a quick-witted, down-to-earth, dedicated wife and mother — and professional spy.

For 10 years, she’s been passing on her politician husband’s secrets to the shadowy organization she works for: the Black Doves.

When her secret lover Jason (Andrew Koji) is assassinated, her spymaster, the enigmatic Reed (Sarah Lancashire), calls in Helen’s old friend Sam (Ben Whishaw) to keep her safe.

Together, Helen and Sam set off on a mission to...

The BFI and BAFTA have unveiled the 2024 intake for its 10th BFI Flare x BAFTA professional development program, supporting six emerging Lgbtqia+ creatives working on their debuts in film and TV.

They comprise writer and performer Travis Alabanza, creative producer Isabella Bassett, actor and writer Zak Ghazi-Torbati, filmmaker Cherish Oteka, writer and actor Miles Sloman and screenwriter and director Charlie Tidmas. (see full bios below)

The participants benefit from industry mentorship, bespoke events and workshops at BAFTA and BFI as well as wellbeing and career coaching and access to BAFTA Connect, the academy’s membership programme for emerging and mid-level talent.

They will also be given networking opportunities during the BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival, running from March 13 to 24 March.

BFI and BAFTA noted that the festival’s opening night film, Layla, was created by two alumni of the scheme.

“The BFI Flare x BAFTA mentorship had a profound impact on my career and,...

‘Paddington’s’ Ben Whishaw and Sarah Lancashire have joined Keira Knightley on the cast for Netflix’s ‘Black Doves.’

The six-part series, which began filming in central London last week, will also star Andrew Buchan (Carnival Row), Andrew Koji (Warrior), Kathryn Hunter (Andor), Sam Troughton (Chernobyl, Mank), Ella Lily Hyland (Fifteen Love, Silent Roar), Adam Silver (The Diplomat, Masters of The Air, Eric), Ken Nwosu (Look the Other Way and Run) and Gabrielle Creevy (In My Skin).

Set against the backdrop of London at Christmas, the series is said to be a sharp, action-filled and heartfelt story of friendship and sacrifice.

It follows Helen Webb (Keira Knightley), a quick-witted, down-to-earth dedicated wife and mother — and professional spy. For 10 years, she’s been passing on her politician husband’s secrets to the shadowy organisation she works for: the Black Doves. When her secret lover Jason is assassinated, her spymaster, the enigmatic...

Lucy Forbes, lead director of The End of The F***ing World’s second season, has spent much of the last 12 months in the woods and forests of deepest, darkest Wales, where she has been shooting four episodes of the Channel 4/Netflix drama and BBC dark comedy In My Skin.

She has been creating rules to ensure that the nihilism of the Jessica Barden-fronted graphic novel adaptation and the Kayleigh Llewellyn-penned coming-of-age story look right and ultimately “trying not to fuck it up”.

Having achieved this, she also came home to London to find a nice surprise, a slew of messages from young, female directors following the launch of The End of The Fxxking World earlier this month.

“The really lovely thing is that loads of young female directors have been reaching out to me saying that they love the show and it’s nice to see...

Netflix has revealed the global premiere date for the second season of The End of the F***ing World and launched a trailer.

The Svod service is to debut the series, which stars Jessica Barden and Alex Lawther, on November 5 in all territories outside of the UK. It launches on Channel 4 in the UK on November 4.

The trailer features a cover of Billy Idol’s White Wedding by Blur guitarist Graham Coxon.

Alyssa (Barden) is still dealing with the fallout of the events of the first series. The second series sees the introduction of the new character of Bonnie, played by Naomi Ackie (Lady Macbeth). Bonnie is an outsider with a troubled past and a mysterious connection to Alyssa.

British writer Charlie Covell returns to write the second season of the series which is inspired by the characters from the comic books by Charles Forsman. British directors Lucy Forbes...

Netflix dropped the trailer for Season 2 of “The End of the F***ing World” Wednesday, which featured Graham Coxon’s cover of Billy Idol’s “White Wedding.” And yes, the show used the song in pretty much the most depressing way you could possibly imagine.

In the 1-minute, 31-second video above, you’ll see an even-more-depressed-than-usual Alyssa (Jessica Barden) is getting married, though we don’t get to see to who. And she’s obviously still grieving the apparent death of her boyfriend James (Alex Lawther) at the end of Season 2. For those of you who were hoping that cliffhanger meant he could still be alive, looks like that’s not the case. And based on a telling image in the trailer of Alyssa looking at a bullet with “James” engraved on it, we’re concerned she’s now considering taking her own life.

Here’s the description for the second season,...

“The End of the F***ing World” became an unexpected smash hit on Netflix in January 2018 thanks to the breakout chemistry between its breakthrough actors Jessica Barden and Alex Lawther. The premise was simple and addictive: Lawther’s sociopathic James agrees to run away with Barden’s reckless Alyssa with the intent of killing her at some point, but their blossoming relationship complicates things. Braden and Lawther’s connection was irresistible, which is why “The End of the F***ing World” faces a challenge in its upcoming second season.

The first season of “The End of the F***ing world” ended with James attempting to save Alyssa’s life by running off to attract the attention of armed police officers chasing them down. As James runs across the beach being chased, his voiceover reveals that his relationship with Alyssa has shown him the value of what human connection means. The...

Honourees include ‘Dirty God’ actress Vicky Knight and ‘Saint Maud’ writer-director Rose Glass.

Bafta has named 20 promising stars of the film, TV and games industries as its Breakthough Brits of 2019.

The initiative, conducted in partnership with Netflix, will see honourees celebrated at a special event in London on November 17.

Those selected are:

● Abubakar Salim - Actor (Raised By Wolves)

● Chance Perdomo - Actor (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)

● Chris Cox - Art Director (Ordain)

● Coco Jackson - Producer (Dancing On Ice)

● Daniel Dewsbury - Director (The Mighty Redcar)

● Gemma Langford - Writer / Indie Games Studio Manager (Overcooked 2)

● Jen Kenwood - Producer...

Honourees include ‘Dirty God’ actress Vicky Knight and ‘Saint Maud’ writer-director Rose Glass.

Bafta has named 20 promising stars of the film, TV and games industries as its Breakthough Brits of 2019.

The initiative, conducted in partnership with Netflix, will see honourees celebrated at a special event in London on November 17.

Those selected are:

● Abubakar Salim - Actor (Raised By Wolves)

● Chance Perdomo - Actor (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)

● Chris Cox - Art Director (Ordain)

● Coco Jackson - Producer (Dancing On Ice)

● Daniel Dewsbury - Director (The Mighty Redcar)

● Gemma Langford - Writer / Indie Games Studio Manager (Overcooked 2)

● Jen Kenwood - Producer...

Sex Education creator Laurie Nunn, Pure creator Kirstie Swain and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina actor Chance Perdomo are among the latest crop of BAFTA’s Breakthrough Brits.

The award, presented by the TV and film body in association with Netflix, consists of the most promising future stars of film, TV and gaming from the UK. Full list below.

Nunn, who created the Netflix comedy drama Sex Education, is currently in post-production for the second series, having become an exec producer. Swain wrote Channel 4 comedy drama Pure and is developing a raft of projects in the UK and U.S., while Perdomo plays Ambrose Spellman in the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

Others on the list include Raised By Wolves star Abubakar Salim, In My Skin writer Kayleigh Llewellyn, Chernobyl Production Designer Luke Hull and Trigonometry director Stella Corradi.

Nunn said, “Being a Breakthrough Brit makes me feel more secure,...

Naomi Ackie, who is starring in forthcoming Star Wars: Episode IX movie and Game of Thrones prequel, has joined the cast of the second season of The End of the F***ing World.

Ackie, who starred in Lady Macbeth, plays Bonnie, an outsider with a troubled past and a mysterious connection to Alyssa, played by Jessica Barden in the second season of the Channel 4 and Netflix drama.

The second season is set two years on from the end of the first, which saw James, played by Alex Lawther, shot on a beach, with Alyssa dealing with the fallout of the events.

The show will premiere on Channel 4 in November before moving to Netflix, which has global rights. The broadcaster has unveiled the first-look of the second season (see above).

Charlie Covell returns to write The End of the F***ing World, which is inspired by the characters from the...

Pica, or the compulsion to consume things nowhere to be found on the food pyramid — like handfuls of dirt, stray pieces of jewelry, or a juicy double-a battery — serves as a metaphor for one woman’s struggle against the patriarchy in Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ “Swallow.” A bold and unconventional thriller made real by the evolution of lead actress Haley Bennett (a prize winner at the Tribeca Film Festival) from porcelain housewife to jagged-edged reactionary, this striking debut (not counting earlier shorts or co-directed behind-the-music doc ”The Swell Season”) ignores the medical side of the eating disorder in favor of a far more radical psychological reading.

While not as graphic as 2013 German shocker “Wetlands” (with its grimy public toilet seats and queasy scenes of tampon swapping) nor as gory as 2002’s “In My Skin” (which took the concept of “cutting” to extremes), “Swallow” adopts the same basic strategy as those films, using...

Expectation Entertainment has not only met expectations but exceeded them in the two years since it was set up, but given the track-record of its co-CEOs perhaps this should not be such a surprise.

The company, led by Peter Fincham, formerly controller of BBC One and director of television at ITV, and Tim Hincks, latterly president of Endemol Shine Group, is making 13 series this year, spread across all genres, with more set to follow.

Its series include “The Big Narstie Show,” a chat-show hosted by a grime artist, ordered by Channel 4, “Superkids: Breaking Away from Care,” a documentary series about kids in care who take part in a public performance, again ordered by Channel 4, a coming-of-age sitcom about a gay school-kid, “In My Skin,” produced for the BBC, and cookery challenge show “The Brigade,” another BBC show.

Speaking Sunday at MipFormats, which runs as an appetizer to this week...

Comedy Central is celebrating International Women’s Day with the launch of all-female sketch comedy series Flaps.

The company’s international division has partnered with Viacom Digital Studios International to launch the digital short-form series.

The nine-part series features a lineup of female comedians, including Maddie Rice, who starred in the theatrical version of Fleabag, Beth Rylance (Plebs), Bronwyn James (Harlots), Danielle Vitalis (Attack The Block) and Elinor Lawless (The End of Hope). Each sketch is written by different female writers, including Harriet Kemsley, Sarah Morgan, Gemma Arrowsmith, Kat Butterfield and Cassie Atkinson.

Topics covered include when to fly the flag for feminism, joining a bride tribe, running late for work, social detoxing and dealing with a hangover from hell. Flaps was produced by Viacom Digital Studios International, and was produced and directed by Lucy Forbes (In My Skin).

The series is premiering across Comedy Central International’s Facebook and...

With influences as diverse as Kramer vs. Kramer, The Shining, and The Night of the Hunter, Xavier Legrand’s directorial debut Custody is one of the year’s most intense dramas. Also known by its French title Jusqu’à la garde, the story of a custody battle during a messy divorce earned Legrand Best Picture at the Venice Film Festival, and it’s now in theaters in NYC and will expand in the coming weeks. Courtesy of Kino Lorber, we’re pleased to debut an exclusive clip which highlights what Legrand does so well with vantage point and suspense in both his feature and the Oscar-nominated short it is based on.

Our own Jared Mobarak caught Custody in Toronto, and still names it his favorite film of 2018 thus far. In his review, he spoke highly of the film’s depth, saying, “The intensity is too much to bear in the best possible way.

A David Tennant-fronted comedy drama, a multi-character sitcom from the writer of Paddington 2, a comedy crime thriller featuring Episodes’ Daisy Haggard and a raft of new talent form part of the BBC’s latest comedy drive.

The British public broadcaster has unveiled its new slate of comedies across its channels BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four. This comes as BBC comedy chief Shane Allen tells Deadline that by making shows that are quintessentially British, they are increasingly traveling to the U.S. and internationally without the need to be remade.

On BBC One, Paddington 2’s Simon Farnaby and his colleagues behind Horrible Histories and Yonderland are producing Ghosts, a multi-character sitcom. Farnaby, Mathew Baynton, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond are working with Monumental Television on the six-part horror comedy, which follows a group of restless spirits squabbling in a crumbling country house.

Custody, also known by its French title Jusqu’à la garde, tells the seemingly familiar story of a messy divorce, and the inherent conversation of child custody that comes along with it. However, director Xavier Legrand ups the ante by shifting the tone to be electrifying rather than simply dramatic, and this tonal augmentation can be seen clearly in the first U.S. trailer.

As far as feature-length directorial debuts go, Custody is a fantastic achievement for Legrand. The film has been selections at a wide range of film festivals including the distinguished Toronto International and Venice Film Festival (at which Legrand took home the Best Director award). Our own Jared Mobarak caught Custody in Toronto and spoke highly of the film’s depth: “The intensity is too much to bear in the best possible way. Legrand knows exactly where to position his characters and what’s necessary to break them.

I am a woman who has watched many repellant films in my time, in fact it is my hobby to watch as many as I can and then write about them. There is something very satisfying about watching repellant movies – it’s like levitating – a bizarre unique experience – except for the Japanese and Italians for whom watching repulsive movies is a national pastime respectively.

I have catalogued below a wide range of repellant films. Despite their putridness, each of them have a cult following, proving that there are a lot of cinema viewers out there who like watching disgusting things happen on the screen. It’s not just me and rotten.com.

20. Dans Ma Peau (2002)

A seemingly ordinary young woman has an accident which requires stitches. She becomes fascinated by her wound and unpicks all of the stitches. Whilst juggling career concerns and the pressure of a romantic relationship, she...

The full Fantasia 2013 lineup has now been revealed, and we have here the third and final wave of titles to share. Prepare to drool!

From the Press Release:

The Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to announce the rest of our 120-feature lineup that comprises our 2013 event, along with a string of additional details that mark our 17th edition as a standout. Fantasia will engulf the city of Montreal from July 18-August 6, 2013. Be sure to visit the Fantasia Film Festival website for detailed essays on every title announced here, as well as all films previously disclosed over the last weeks.

Before we get started on titles... Meet Our 2013 Juries

Main Competition For The Cheval Noir Award For Best Film

Jury President: Laura Kern (Critic, Curator, managing editor, Film Comment)

Jean-Pierre Bergeron (Actor, Director, Screenwriter)

Samuel Jamier (Co-Director of the New York Asian Film Festival, Programmer at Japan Society)

Jarod Neece (Senior Programmer and Operations Manager,...

The Fantasia Film Festival is taking place from July 18th to August 6th in Montreal and will feature over 100 films from around the world. We gave you a look at the initial lineup last month and now have an additional list of Fantasia 2013 films that will be screening, including Curse of Chucky, You’re Next, and Frankenstein’s Army:

Horror Is Child’S Play – Don Mancini’S Curse Of Chucky (World Premiere)

A rarity among genre franchises, the Child’S Play series (begun in 1988) has retained the sure-handed guidance of original screenwriter/creator Don Mancini throughout killer doll Chucky’s decades’-long reign of horror. Mancini, who will be hosting our “scar-studded” world premiere, graduated to the director’s chair with 2004’s Seed Of Chucky, after having co-written or written every entry in the series. His longevity with the project is, of course, matched by the fiendish voiceover work by...

Dans Ma Peau (In My Skin)

Written by Marina de Van

Directed by Marina de Van

France, 2002

Though his niche is most frequently described as “body horror,” the self-annihilating characters who populate David Cronenberg’s films tend to be driven, at least at first, by external stimuli, usually of the pseudo-scientific sort; the faulty teleporter in The Fly; the pirate signals of Videodrome, the mutant computer game of eXistenZ, the epidemic disease in Rabid, etc. Sure, the more horrific aspects tend to manifest themselves on, in or through the physical body of these films’ protagonists, but the evil began from without. That’s not the case in In My Skin, a true body horror film in content if not in form; in fact, in tone and tempo, it’s essentially a chamber drama – only one that it’s impossible to imagine anyone other than hardcore genre buffs getting through thanks...

The co-director of the newest horrifying French thriller In Their Sleep talks French horror, character development, and her new suspense film Totem in our interview.

Caroline du Potet’s new horror film Dans Ton Sommeil (In Iheir Sleep) has just hit American audiences, and it’s got a relentless, nerve-wracking, desperate tone that embodies what it means to make a modern French horror film.

"Ten years ago, it was almost impossible to make a horror film in France," admits Caroline. "There were only comedies or dramas. Then, a new generation of filmmakers, like Alexandre Aja, started to initiate the movement."

In the past ten years, French horror cinema has grown by leaps and bounds. The films Inside, Dans Ma Peau, Frontiers, Martyrs, and Haute Tension made French horror a staple of the current genre. French horror films have retained the mystique and creativity that Hollywood horror movies and remakes are sorely lacking these days.

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Writer-Director Marina de Van’s follow-up to body horror In My Skin Takes an even bolder step into the mysteries of identity.

French director Marina de Van's thriller Don't Look Back (Ne me retourne pas) plays with identity and body doubles a la David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. De Van directed the weirdly grotesque personal jouney In My Skin (Dans Ma Peau) in 2003, which shocked audiences with its brutal display of self-mutilation and self-discovery in the lead female character. This is the next film she's tackled, which stars Jeanne Sophie Marceau (The World Is Not Enough and Braveheart) and Monica Bellucci (The Matrix Reloaded, , Irreversible and The Passion of the Christ), two of France's most celebrated modern actresses.

It's on DVD in the USA from on November 16, 2010.

You may have noticed a recent news item here on the site. Wyck Godfrey (producer of the abortion fest that is Twilight) is planning to remake the film Martyrs. I won’t say too much about it except that Will and myself, your loyal scribes, have come out strongly against said remake. You can see our comments here.

This news clearly got my blood boiling, and I’ve decided to use this Hump-Day Threesome to get y’all to watch the original film, so you’ll know what’s being corrupted. And while you’re at, you might as well check out these other two stellar films as well.

For those of you who may not know, all three of these films fit into the category called New French Extremism—a certain school of French-language films that… shall we say, go there? (Ten bonus dork points to the person who places that reference.

If the debilitating after-effects of a stroke weren't bad enough (she miraculously gave birth to not one (The Last Mistress) but two films when you add the Nyff selection Bluebeard) now comes word that the Bad Love (a project which she mentioned to us the last time she came to Nyff for a film), a remake of Breillat's own film, is Doa. - Thanks to Fin De Cinema's Joe Bowman for piecing together an update on provocatrice filmmaker Catherine Breillat. If the debilitating after-effects of a stroke weren't bad enough (she miraculously gave birth to not one (The Last Mistress) but two films when you add the Nyff selection Bluebeard) now comes word that the Bad Love (a project which she mentioned to us the last time she came to Nyff for a film), a remake of Breillat's own film, is Doa. It would have starred model Naomi Campbell,...

NEW YORK -- Continuing a flurry of recent deals under its new head of acquisitions, Marie Therese Guirgis, indie banner Wellspring has acquired U.S rights to Dans ma peau (In My Skin), the first feature directed by Marina de Van. Peau, which follows a young woman's increasing fascination with her body after sustaining an injury at a party, premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain and will be released theatrically at the end of the year. De Van, who co-wrote Francois Ozon's 8 Women and Under the Sand, penned the script and stars in Peau. Laurence Farenc served as producer. The deal was brokered by Guirgis and Pierre Menahem of Paris-based sales outfit Celluloid Dreams. Also this month, Wellspring snapped up international rights to Billy Corben's controversial documentary Raw Deal as well as another documentary, Horns and Halos, by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley (HR 3/18).