Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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FilmGFF 2010: Vincere
Marco Bellocchio previously explored the impact of national politics on a personal level with Buongiorno, notte, a quietly observed depiction of the kidnappi... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
TheatreUncluttered and Companionable
Clutter Keeps Company has a brilliant lighting design. All nuance and subtle movement, it brings the simple set to life as a pop-up book, clear and coherent.... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
MusicTwo Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
Initially resembling an emo-Foals, Two Door Cinema Club discover unexpected range across their full length debut. Pierce the production sheen and the... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Theatre
Kill Your Timid Notion
For years, Barry Esson and Bryony McIntyre, creative directors of the Arika organisation, have been asked whether their festivals are “experimental mus... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: Pachamama
A father and son tread the old trade route through the Bolivian Andes, bartering salt from the Uyuni flats near their home for regional produce - the corn, q... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
MusicPavement - Quarantine the Past
Emerging amidst the Seattle-centric music scene of the early nineties, Pavement’s breakthrough album, Slanted and Enchanted, eschewed the guts and grit... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010
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Film
GFF 2010: Bringing Up Baby
Filmmakers, critics and cineastes alike can’t give anything but love to this baby, but that wasn’t always the case. Released in 1938, it bombed a... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Music
Poostosh - Herbarium
Herbarium could be a forgotten gem of eastern European cinema; a three-hour epic about one old man's day-to-day struggles in a cold, unforgiving, Com... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: Things That Go Bump in the Night
Parisian electro duo Zombie Zombie talk about their love for the great horror filmmaker John Carpenter. Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Music
Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Following 2007’s The Midnight Organ Fight can hardly be described as a pressure-free endeavour. Frightened Rabbit’s often stark, heart-on-sleeve,... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
Music
The Knife - Tomorrow, In A Year
This radical opera crackles with genius and creativity, even if it does upset the traditionalists. Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
Theatre
What We Wish Was True
Watching What We Know, I am fascinated by the central scene, where the grieving Lucy is confronted by a baleful youth who demands food and dispenses gnomic w... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
Music
Bomb The Bass - Back To Light
Tim Simenon, former poster boy of the DJ sampling revolution in the 1980s, has reinvented himself under the Bomb The Bass moniker with each successive album.... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
Art
Julian Oliver @ Hannah Maclure Centre
For any gallery-goer justifiably wary of safe, cutesy painting, the process behind Julian Oliver’s solo show Back Buffer reveals a welcome hyper-violen... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
MusicGil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Socio-political funk pioneer, revered poet, arguably one of the godfathers of the hip-hop scene, Gil Scott-Heron has suffered at the hands of addiction and i... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010