CineSkinny
The CineSkinny, launched in 2009, is Glasgow Film Festival’s official publication. Throughout the annual festival, The CineSkinny provides coverage of Glasgow Film Festival in print – copies can be found in GFF venues during the festival, filled with in-depth features, reviews and recognisable by their bespoke illustrated covers. The CineSkinny also reports on Glasgow Film Festival happenings online, with interactive, daily coverage on The Skinny’s website.
The CineSkinny is brought to you by the Glasgow School of Art School of Simulation and Visualisation.
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Love Is All You Need
Yet another wedding-themed romantic comedy, Susanne Bier’s Love Is All You Need thankfully eschews the crass hi-jinks of its recent predecessors to pro... Read more »| 16 Apr 2013 -
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A Late Quartet
Approaching their 25th anniversary concert, a world-renowned string quartet find their world disrupted by the news that cellist Peter (Walken) has been diagn... Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
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Spring Breakers
This candy-coloured delirium opens with a wet and wild montage of well endowed young women gyrating in slow motion as Neanderthal jocks cascade cheap lager o... Read more »| 01 Apr 2013 -
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In the House
After his limp 70s-set comedy Potiche, the latest offering from François Ozon finds the director back on top form. With its exploration of voyeurism a... Read more »| 22 Mar 2013 -
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Compliance
Compliance opens with the words ‘Inspired by True Events’ in giant lettering and later reveals that incidents similar to those it depicts have oc... Read more »| 20 Mar 2013 -
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Beyond the Hills
Cristian Mungiu established himself with the Palme D’Or-winning 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, a gritty tale of illegal abortion and rape in Communist... Read more »| 08 Mar 2013
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The Paperboy
It's Florida in 1969 and in the midst of a summer so hot that “God himself must’ve been sweating", a small-town sheriff is murdered. Hillary Van ... Read more »| 07 Mar 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Arbitrage
With his moneyed exterior and supreme self-assurance, hedge-fund capitalist Robert Miller (Richard Gere) epitomises the maxim that image is everything; that ... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Kuma
Kuma opens with a traditional Turkish wedding, but as events will subsequently underscore, appearances are deceiving. Though ostensibly marrying the young an... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
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GFF 2013: The Artist and the Model
Set in the French-Spanish border during World War II, The Artist and the Model is an understated, slow-burning tale about inspiration and beauty. Shot in cri... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Random Acts
When invited to produce Random Acts, Jacqui Davies stipulated that she was only interested in broadcasting things that were works of art in themselves, and n... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
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GFF 2013: CineSkinny Awards
The most important awards of the weekend, the CineSkinny's GFF awards... Read more »| 23 Feb 2013 -
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Glasgow Kizz: Big Star and Glasgow
Glasgow Film Festival 2013's closing gala party will feature a tribute to Big Star, with DJ sets from Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite and the good folks at Monorail. We take a look at some of the ways Big Star and Glasgow have connected over the years Read more »| 23 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: The History of Future Folk
Arriving on our planet to evaluate it for invasion and resettlement, General Trius (d’Aulaire), later called Bill, is seduced by the sounds of music, a... Read more »| 23 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Vito
The life of the late Vito Russo, an activist for both LBGT rights and AIDS awareness, has particular resonance for cinephiles, being that he was also a film ... Read more »| 23 Feb 2013