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“Right now, I’m revolting against the conventions of movies,” said New York filmmaker Shirley Clarke when making her first feature, The Con... Read more »

A warped reflection and an almost-voyeuristic montage of attractive young women navigating New York’s busy streets give an appropriately unnerving feel... Read more »

“It was incredible,” says Luke Fowler of his journeys up to Orkney to capture the locale for his new film Being in a Place, a portrait of Scottis... Read more »

Australian stop-motion animator Adam Elliot returns with his sophomore feature film Memoir of a Snail, a distinctive, heart-rending, charming – and now... Read more »

Post-apocalyptic survival has fascinated writers for centuries, and filmmakers for as long as moving images have been around. The particular sub-genre known ... Read more »

In the World Cup Final, Portuguese striker Diamantino (Carloto Cotta), the greatest footballer on the planet, misses a last-gasp penalty and chaos ensues. Hi... Read more »

It may be the most-watched sport on the planet but translating association football to film has been a funny old game. Despite being a topic in moving pictur... Read more »

When Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012, the potential of a rejuvenated Star Wars brand seemed infinite. A decade on, a patchy record has seen ambition curtaile... Read more »

There is a moment very early in Marie Kreutzer’s puckish new period piece Corsage that effortlessly paves the way for what follows. It comes direc... Read more »

“I think my relationship with cinema started from television,” explains Martika Ramirez Escobar, the director of the fantastic and somewhat fanta... Read more »

Impeccably captured against the chilly, rugged beauty of snow-laden Anatolia, About Dry Grasses is another masterclass in deliberate, textured, literary-mind... Read more »

Charlie Shackleton has quietly become one of the most prolific and subversive non-fiction filmmakers in the UK, and his playful and often ingenious docs and ... Read more »

The contemporary world is awash with a consistent torrent of video news. From terrestrial television broadcasts to YouTube and social media, from the MSM to ... Read more »

It may only be 46 seconds long but Louis Lumière’s 1895 short Workers Leaving the Factory, often referred to as the first ever motion picture, c... Read more »

A stuttering romance and the daily travails of the downtrodden working class provide the material for Fallen Leaves, the brief and beguiling new film from Fi... Read more »

“We don’t live in a three-act-structure time,” suggests Naqqash Khalid when trying to convey how he came to make his bold and experime... Read more »

With her blistering documentary debut A Night of Knowing Nothing, Payal Kapadia announced herself on the world stage and she’s only going to win over m... Read more »

“It's an illusion I had when starting this film – that it's going to be a catharsis, that it's going to be therapy for them to heal their wounds.... Read more »

It is safe to say that being the family dog doesn't always bode well in horror films. At the very least, you’re likely to be fundamentally imperilled, ... Read more »

Berwick-upon-Tweed’s border town status makes it a location for a festival that probes at the margins between different media: films, exhibitions, inst... Read more »

Jan Němec’s Diamonds of the Night opens, propulsively, in media res with two boys desperately running for their lives. An intimate handheld camera... Read more »

In 1972 there were two comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe. One you will have heard of, while the other is as important to comedy as anyone else in the UK &nda... Read more »

The lockdown continues, and we're all grasping for ways to stay connected with one another. This month's magazine highlights some of the things we've been ma... Read more »

1. Severance Among the offerings exclusive to Apple’s streaming platform this year, Dan Erickson’s Severance surely sits atop the pile. An intri... Read more »

In our 2021 film of the Year poll, the Skinny’s Film Team collectively voted Céline Sciamma’s beguiling fairytale Petite Maman top of... Read more »

After the Wedding Dir. Bart Freundlich A weepie in the semi-classic, Redford-esque tradition, After the Wedding features some of the best dramatic directio... Read more »

1. Aftersun Dir. Charlotte Wells There is a sense throughout Aftersun of reaching and reaching, of brushing something vital with your fingertips only to ha... Read more »

Find Out The Skinny's Top Ten Films of 2020 Eilidh Akilade 1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma) 2. Rocks (Sarah Gavron) 3. Shirley (Josephi... Read more »

25. Loveless Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Zvyagintsev’s haunting drama centres on a missing child, Alyosha (Matvey Novikov), who vanishes during ... Read more »

30. Blue Valentine (2010) Dir. Derek Cianfrance Back in 2010, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams finally shook off any lingering connections with their tee... Read more »