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Glasgow Short Film Festival: First events for 2023
We love short films at The Skinny, so we’re super excited to see Glasgow Short Film Festival back next month, running 22 to 26 March. We still have to ... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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What's On Scotland 10-16 Mar: Glasgow Comedy Festival & more
Glasgow International Comedy Festival It feels like everyone could do with a laugh right now. No, not one of those cry-laughs you have when your energy... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
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Glasgow Short Film Festival: The 2023 Awards
Glasgow Short Film Festival ended on Sunday (26 Mar), and we’re pleased to report it’s back to its lively self. After two online editions (2020 a... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
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Julia Parks on her Alchemy residency in Hawick
Film festivals can sometimes feel airdropped into their surroundings. No such charge could be laid at the feet of Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. Sin... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
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Scottish Film Events: April 2023
To Hawick this month as Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival returns for its 13th edition! As ever, it’s a beautifully curated lineup of experimental... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Few films can boast the urgency of How to Blow Up a Pipeline. It’s based on Andreas Malm’s political manifesto of the same name from last year, b... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
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James Price on the films that influenced Dog Days
We knew James Price was a formidable writer-director thanks to short films like Boys Night, his bittersweet drama in which a young teen escorts his drunk dad... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
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Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival: 2023 Report
Artistry and community go hand in hand at the thirteenth edition of Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. This annual showcase of experimental film and art... Read more »| Updated 12 months ago -
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Scottish Film Events: June 2023
The Folk Film Gathering (12-29 Jun) is back in Edinburgh with a sharply curated lineup celebrating community, place and people. Running through the programme... Read more »| Updated 12 months ago -
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Scottish Film Events: July 2023
On 21 July, cinema fans have a choice to make because it’s Barbie v Oppenheimer! Will you be in Greta Gerwig or Christopher Nolan's corner as they vie ... Read more »| Updated 11 months ago -
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A New Wave: Johnny Barrington on Silent Roar
There’s a distinctly bittersweet flavour to Silent Roar, the soulful and gently comic debut feature from Johnny Barrington, which is due to have its wo... Read more »| Updated 10 months ago -
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Scottish Film Events: August 2023
It looked a bit touch and go there for a while but Edinburgh International Film Festival will return this month (18-23 Aug) for its 76th edition. Pick up a c... Read more »| Updated 10 months ago -
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What's On Scotland 15-21 Sep: V&A Dundee and Collective Gallery turn five
It feels like just yesterday – and in other ways, like aeons – since the V&A Dundee opened their doors. This weekend marks the... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago -
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Sea Change: The Tiree festival spotlighting female filmmakers
The Hebridean island of Tiree has become the unlikely home to Scotland’s only annual film festival dedicated to female filmmaking. Titled Sea Change, t... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago -
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Scottish Album of the Year Award 2023: Shortlist revealed
Today, the 20 artists competing for The SAY (Scottish Album of the Year) Award has been cut down to ten, with the official shortlist revealed. Nine of the ac... Read more »| Updated 7 months ago -
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The Skinny's Scottish Films of 2023
This time last year, The Skinny, along with pretty much every other right-minded arts publication, was declaring Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun as the film ... Read more »| Updated 5 months ago -
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Scottish Film Events: February 2024
We’re entering the third month of a miserable winter, so the annual Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme has come along just in time to lift us... Read more »| Updated 4 months ago -
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Edinburgh Film Festival announce £50,000 Sean Connery Prize
Scotland’s biggest film star Sean Connery was a long-time supporter of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and a regular attendee. The Oscar-win... Read more »| Updated 3 months ago -
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Ten films to see at Glasgow Film Festival 2024
La Chimera Dir. Alice Rohrwacher In an Alice Rohrwacher film, myth and fable sit side by side with biting social commentary, and that is certainly the... Read more »| Updated 3 months ago -
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Scottish Film Events: May 2024
Three film festivals – two old favourites, one mint fresh – should keep Scottish film fans occupied throughout May. Over the month’s... Read more »| Updated 14 days ago -
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The best film events in Scotland in April
1. Wes Anderson: CineMaster With Wes Anderson’s ace new stop-motion animation Isle of Dogs currently in cinemas, Glasgow Film have chosen the p... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Finding love in a hopeless place… with The Inner Circle
The best thing about standard dating apps is that they open you up to a world of people you might never meet IRL. And the worst thing about standard dating a... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Brian Wilson heading to Edinburgh Summer Sessions
The inaugural Edinburgh Summer Sessions, a series of gigs taking over the city’s Princes Street Gardens during August, is starting to heat up, with Bea... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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My Friend Dahmer
Coming-of-age biopic My Friend Dahmer will get under your skin. Its subject is a teenage Jeffrey Dahmer, who will go on to rape and murder 17 young men, and ... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Theatre
Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland: Rhinoceros wins big
Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) have announced their winners for 2018, with Edinburgh International Festival’s production of Rhino... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Bill Murray is making a Zombie Movie with Jim Jarmusch
The news that Bill Murray and Jim Jarmusch will be back working together this summer would have been tantalising enough, but Murray has let slip th... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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A closer look at DUST, a multi-media show from The Melomaniacs
The highways that criss-cross the USA and its immense landscapes, ranging from seemingly boundless deserts and lakes to vast forests and towering mountain ra... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Pussy Riot head to Edinburgh by car after Putin flight ban
One of the most anticipated events at this years Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the imminent arrival of Russian activists, artists and performers Pussy Ri... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Paddington 2
Mighty Boosh alumnus Paul King worked wonders with his 2014 live-action adaptation of Paddington Bear, Michael Bond’s tale of a marmalade-loving and ev... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Sorcerer
Practically every great filmmaker of the New Hollywood – that moment in the 1970s when directors’ power was equal to their ambitions – has ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago