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<p>Vera (Elena Anaya) is both patient and obsession for plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), who is bent on creating a synthetic skin that can resist any kind of damage. </p>

Almodovar Gets Under The 'Skin,' But How Deeply?

Pedro Almodovar's film The Skin I Live In reunites him with actor Antonio Banderas, who first came to international attention as an obsessive lover in the director's 1987 film Law of Desire. This time, Banderas plays a scientist driven to replace his dead wife with a carbon-based copy.

<p>Matt Marek, 9, climbs to the top of a structure on the roof of the 600,000-square-foot City Museum, a former shoe factory turned avant-garde museum in St. Louis, Mon. Bob Cassilly, the museum's founder, died in late September.</p>

Bob Cassilly Remembered: Part Sculptor, Part Kid

A driving force behind City Museum in St. Louis, the sculptor created spaces that invite adults and children to interact with his creations. He died in late September, working on a massive project he called Cementland.

Latina Moms Find Advice, Community In 'MamiVerse'

The news and lifestyle website MamiVerse launched this summer. It features Latina journalists, writers, entrepreneurs and everyday moms who are just trying to keep it all together. The site is also for the moms' daughters and their families.

<p><strong>Wild Child:</strong> Neglected by a mother who is busy turning tricks, Little Anne (Chloe Grace Moretz) becomes a target for a killer in <em>Texas Killing Fields.</em></p>

'Texas Killing Fields': Deadly Tales, Darkly Told

A local homicide cop (Avatar's Sam Worthington) and his ex-New Yorker partner (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) track a killer in a moody thriller inspired by true events. With Chloe Grace Moretz and Jessica Chastain.

<p><strong>Take her or leave her:</strong> Patti Smith's boldly unapologetic take on "Gloria" transformed a garage-rock staple into an enduring punk anthem.</p>

Three Remakes That Made Real Differences

Bob Mondello's essay on why remakes aren't always regrettable got us thinking: Why do some work better than others? We explore three examples — and invite you to do the same.

Three-Minute Fiction: The Final Countdown

The clock is ticking and there are only a few hours left before this round of our Three-Minute Fiction writing contest closes. All stories must be submitted by 11:59 Eastern Time tonight. Our Round 7 judge, Danielle Evans, issued this challenge: One character must come to town and one character must leave town. For the full rules go to npr.org/threeminutefiction.

<strong>Shade-y Figure?</strong> Peter Gatien, charged with drug crimes in the Manhattan club empire but convicted only of tax evasion, is chief witness for the defense in a film seemingly designed to rehabilitate his image.

A Club King Returns Himself To The 'Limelight'

A documentary, named for one of Peter Gatien's iconic '80s nightclubs, recounts the rise and fall of a clubland king who ran afoul of the DEA.

<strong>Made For Each Other?</strong> In <em>Restless, </em>the cancer-stricken Annabel (Mia Wasikowska) falls for Enoch (Henry Hopper), a death-haunted funeral crasher who's best friends with a ghost.

'Restless': Love And Death, Hand In Hand Again

Gus Van Sant's latest is the tale of a terminally ill teenage girl, her funeral-loving new boyfriend, and her other new acquaintance: the ghost of a World War II kamikaze pilot.

<p><strong>Innocence Abroad:</strong> Entranced by their music, Larry (Kris Marshall) leaves Newark for life (and love?) among hunter-gatherer pygmies in the Central African Republic — even though his jungle survival skills aren't up to scratch.</p>

'Oka!': Among The Pygmies, A Jersey Boy At A Loss

Loosely based on the career of a real-life ethnomusicologist, this film takes an alternately warm and jaundiced look at a Central African people whose forest homeland is threatened by industrial logging — and the Newark native who goes to live (and listen, and eventually love) among them.

An Otis Redding concert inspired a Texas high school teacher to turn the Kashmere High School Stage Band into a soul powerhouse. In Mark Landsman's film, one former student — a keyboardist, not the unidentified trombonist pictured — says he'd be a felon today if the band hadn't given him a constructive focus.

'Thunder Soul': '70s Sensation Dusts Off Its Groove

Former members of the Kashmere High School Stage Band, known for embracing jazz and blues while their peers exhausted '40s big band, honor their eminent 92-year-old music teacher, Conrad O. Johnson, as the man who gave their lives rhythm and soul.

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