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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GFF's Best Fiend: Werner Herzog
The CineSkinny profiles filmmaking genius Werner Herzog, whose new documentary, Into the Abyss, plays at the festival Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Bob and the Monster
To be a junkie in L.A.’s eighties rock scene “was so important, it was so de rigueur,” drawls Courtney Love in new documentary Bob and the ... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: The Somnambulists
Inspired emotionally by his anger over the Iraq war, and stylistically by Joanna Kane’s photography exhibition of the same name, Richard Jobson’s... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: 85A Presents Jan Svankmajer
The Glue Factory becomes a surreal playground as 85A collective take over the venue to bring to life the nutty images of legendary Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer Read more »| 22 Feb 2012 -
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Into The Abyss
Werner Herzog's latest enquiry into human nature takes him to Texas, where he explores the fallout from a decade-old murder. Into the Abyss is built around i... Read more »| 22 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Chinese Take-Away
Chinese Take-Away might well boast the oddest opening of the festival: on a serenely beautiful lake, an attempted proposal is interrupted by a cow falling fr... Read more »| 21 Feb 2012
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GFF 2012: Comic book writer Mark Millar in interview
We meet with the prolific Glaswegian comic book writer and GFF ambassador, Mark Millar, to discuss his future projects Read more »| 21 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest brings the story behind the titular rap group, featuring Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad,... Read more »| 21 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Moments of Being – Anne-Marie Copestake in interview
The GFF is hosting the world premiere, and only screening, of Anne-Marie Copestake's specially commissioned film. We meet with the director to discuss her inspirations Read more »| 21 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Michael
Avoid basements – that’s what cinema has taught us. It is the room of the house reserved for horror, and that’s its function in Michael, Ma... Read more »| 20 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Hunky Dory interview: Marc Evans and Jon Finn
The CineSkinny speaks to Marc Evans and Jon Finn, respectively director and producer of Hunky Dory, one of GFF’s delights Read more »| 20 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy
Rob Heydon’s adaptation of The Undefeated, one of three novellas in Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, clearly has affection for the source mate... Read more »| 19 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Finisterrae
Crossing the Line, the new strand at this year's festival, brings experimental and avant-garde films to the Glasgow, exploring the crossover between cinema a... Read more »| 19 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
TBEMH opens with a series of subversions. Half-a-dozen grey-haired archetypes (including Penelope Wilton, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith) stick two fingers up t... Read more »| 18 Feb 2012 -
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GFF: Glasgow on Celluloid
The CineSkinny examines how Glasgow, an increasingly popular shooting location, has been portrayed in cinema over the years Read more »| 18 Feb 2012