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‘The Skin I Live In’ On Academy Shortlist…
I have yet to see The Skin I Live In but I’m genuinely looking forward to it. Mr. Disgusting quite liked the film at TIFF and now the Academy is giving it some love.
Now – I’ll be the first to say that the Academy liking/hating/ignoring/loving something usually doesn’t really reflect a film’s quality but rather the internal politics of the organization itself. And I’m sure the case is the same here. It’s probably because of Almodovar’s name that it made the short list for “Best Foreign Language” film. But in a world where films with horror elements struggle to be recognized as legitimate, this could be a good thing.
Per Variety, “Pedro Almodovar’s “The Skin I Live In” has made the Spanish Academy’s three-film shortlist for its foreign-language Oscar contender. ‘Skin’ faces off with Agusti Villaronga’s “Black Bread” and Benito Zambrano’s ‘The Sleeping Voice.’… In a statement after the shortlist was known, Almodovar said that the selection “demonstrated Spanish cinema’s variety,” and that the Spanish Academy’s final choice of its foreign-language Oscar contender was “absolutely unpredictable.
Two-time BAFTA winning filmmaker Joe Wright (Hanna, “Black Mirror“) is set to direct the feature adaptation of post-apocalyptic thriller novel, Juice, Deadline reports today.
Emmy winner Abi Morgan (Shame, “Eric”) will adapt Tim Winton‘s novel for Working Title Films.
In Juice, “A young husband and father is recruited into a top-secret resistance organization, to join the ranks of militia men tasked with targeting the isolated and wealthy culprits responsible for this global catastrophe. When a mission goes wrong, he finds himself on the run, having to fight to the end to survive in this hostile world.”
It’s set in a world ravaged by climate-change disaster.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled that Tim Winton has entrusted us with his extraordinary epic,” Wright told Deadline. “The story is both a thrilling modern family saga and an urgent call to action. I cannot wait for audiences to experience it on the big screen.”
Winton added, “I’m pleased to know a filmmaker of Joe Wright’s calibre has chosen to adapt Juice for the screen. His capacity to portray the turmoil and the turning points of nations and peoples as well as private individuals distinguishes his work as a director and I’m confident that Juice is in good hands.”
Juice was initially published in October 2024 and longlisted for The Climate Fiction Prize 2026.
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