Film
The Skinny magazine film guide. We bring you the latest new releases, UK film festivals, previews, reviews, exclusive interviews with film directors and actors, opinion pieces and film features.
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GFF 2012: Livid
Bustillo and Maury’s follow-up to their delightfully twisted Inside sticks to a similar recipe of awkward laughs and chills, but with less inspired res... Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Bel Ami
Bel Ami, based on a Guy de Maupassant novel, marks the feature debut of directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod. The quality of the sets, costumes and ca... Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Omar Killed Me
It’s obvious Omar Killed Me is based on fact; no fictional equivalent would make its central injustice so glaring. The film presents the murder convict... Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Weimarvellous
Weimarvellous attempts to recall the heady decadence of 1920s Berlin through a programme of burlesque, readings and cabaret karoake. The Blue Angel, whi... Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Urban Decay – Death Watch unearthed
As the long forgotten Death Watch returns to the big screen at GFF, we examine its connection with Glasgow Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Cry Parrot presents Umberto
With the contents of Umberto's special performance still shrouded in mystery, we talk to Cry Parrot's Fielding Hope about their collaboration for GMFF Read more »| 24 Feb 2012
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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: 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: 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