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: City of Life and Death
Not since Elem Klimov's Come and See (1985) has a film captured the atrocities of war in such a vivid, powerful fashion. City of Life and Death docum... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
Music
Iain Shaw - May You Live All the Days of Your Life
With a title like May You Live All the Days of Your Life, Iain Shaw’s new LP was always going to be a little fey. Knocked out in four hours, th... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
FilmCapitalism: A Love Story
Capitalism: A Love Story is a Michael Moore film, and by now we know exactly what to expect from this frustrating filmmaker. His take on the financia... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: I Killed My Mother
As writer, director, producer and star of I Killed My Mother, 20-year-old Xavier Dolan has taken most of the inspiration for his first feature from his own l... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
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Yeasayer @ Òran Mór, 17 Feb
Having shed their ‘Enya with bounce’ mantra to become ‘Depeche Mode on peyote,’ as facelifts go Yeasayer have undergone more than a l... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: With One Voice
When erstwhile French rocker Jean-Yves Labat de Rossi decided to bring together musicians from Israel and Palestine, both Jews and Muslims, to form t... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010
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Music
Alphabeat - The Beat Is...
Co-opting the sounds of yesteryear is hardly uncommon in pop, but it works better if the chosen template is, say, eighties electro, rather than the shitty fo... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
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The xx @ Studio 24, 9 Mar.
South London band are down a member but up a whole load of compliments. Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
MusicFour Tet @ The Bongo Club, 13 Mar
Given his messianic status, it’d be fair to hail Hebden’s appearance as something of a must see. Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
Film
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
This month sees the cinematic re-release of the 1953 hit Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, telling the story of Lorelei (Marilyn Monroe) and Dorothy (Jane Russell), ... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Samurai, Sake and Cyber Dogs
Discover a variety of stories and ideas in this year's Japanese film focus. Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Yatterman
There's nothing like a cross between Indiana Jones and LazyTown on cocaine to get audiences talking: Yatterman is a wonderfully kooky film which repr... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Dogtooth
In Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth, the outside world is a terrifying place; at least, that's the fiction two parents have concocted for their three grown... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
Music
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Last year a couple of L.A. producers gathered an all-star cast of guests for an album about peace, love and understanding: N.A.S.A.'s The Spirit of Apollo wa... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
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Vampire Weekend @ HMV Picture House, 14 Feb
Vampire Weekend’s preppy chic was always going to go down a treat on a school night in Edinburgh, but the ecstatic cheers from teenaged girls suggest t... Read more »| 21 Feb 2010