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 2012: The Mexican Suitcase
In the mid-nineties, three suitcases were unearthed in a closet in Mexico, containing negatives long-assumed lost: snaps taken during the Spanish Civil War b... Read more »| 18 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: In Darkness
Poland’s foreign language Oscar hopeful is the true story of Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), sewer worker and moonlighting burglar, who hid Jews in... Read more »| 18 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Weimarvellous Preview
A weekend of cabaret, Weimer-era Germany style. Read more »| 17 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Red Dog
Red Dog, based on Nancy Gillespie’s book of the same name charting the impact of a legendary mutt on the lives of assorted roughnecks in a Western Aust... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Gerhard Richter Painting
With a career spanning five decades and the accolade 'one of the greatest living painters', Gerhard Richter – as might be expected – has surpasse... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: On the Ice
Writer/director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean extrapolates the premise of his 2008 short of the same name – a murder and the moral dilemma the reporting or co... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012
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GFF 2012: High Places interview
Glasgow Music and Film Festival kicks off in grand style with a performance from electro-pop duo High Places, a band whose work embodies GMFF's celebration of both music and image Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Reclaiming Mumblecore
Is there any sub-genre more misunderstood than mumblecore? With director Lynn Shelton delivering, with Your Sister's Sister, another film gem that fits the mumblecore M.O., we've decided to reclaim this much maligned moniker Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Terri
Like its eponymous protagonist, Terri sits awkwardly outside mainstream expectations, but is all the more appealing for it. The film opens with fifteen year ... Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: The Youth of Today
Youth is wasted on the young and the same goes for the Glasgow Youth Film Festival, which has an eclectic programme that will delight all age ranges Read more »| 03 Feb 2012 -
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Youth in Revolt – Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2012
Looking at the programme for GFF 2012 you'd be forgiven for thinking that festivities begin 16 Feb with opening gala Your Sister's Sister, but you'd be wrong. Overlook the cinematic delights of the Glasgow Youth Film Festival at your peril Read more »| 19 Jan 2012 -
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Director Let Loose: David Mackenzie
Tennent's lager, tent sex and The Proclaimers accompanied by 85,000 backing singers – all familiar to those who make the annual pilgrimage to Kinross for T in the Park. David Mackenzie brings this experience to the big screen with You Instead Read more »| 14 Sep 2011 -
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Jamie Thraves & Aidan Gillen on Treacle Jr.
Treacle Jr. reunites director Jamie Thraves with his leading man from The Low Down, Aidan Gillen. We talked to the pair back in February when they were in Glasgow for the Scottish premiere of Treacle Jr. at the Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 07 Jul 2011 -
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Oranges and Sunshine
Diplomatic dilemma and political blame-dodging; children being removed from their mothers, dispatched for ‘better lives’ in the colonies only to ... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
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Submarine
Richard Ayoade, of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and The IT Crowd fame, has constructed a quirky, witty and heartfelt debut with Submarine. Based on the novel b... Read more »| 17 Mar 2011