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: The Ghost Show
Roll up, roll up, and experience a unique show about fairgrounds, vaudeville, cinema and an elephant's day out. Read more »| 21 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: About Elly
The true nature of About Elly sneaks up on the audience. Asghar Farhadi's Silver Berlin Bear winner begins as a light-hearted affair with a group of friends ... Read more »| 21 Feb 2010 -
FilmGFF 2010: Sights and Sounds
We explore the eclectic Music and Film Festival programme. Read more »| 20 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: Beyond the Pole
Poking fun at recent po-faced, Ben Fogle style documentaries, Beyond the Pole follows friends and every-men Brian and Mark (Rhys Thomas and Stephen M... Read more »| 20 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Court (13) in Session
They make boats which barely float and machines which hardly fly: who on earth are the Court 13 collective? Read more »| 20 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: American: The Bill Hicks Story
When he died at 32, Bill Hicks had been performing stand-up comedy for almost twenty years. In American: The Bill Hicks Story, family and friends trace his t... Read more »| 20 Feb 2010
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Theatre
The Return of the The Wanderer: 11 and 12
One of the greatest directors of any generation comes back to the venue he helped to found. Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: No Sex Please - She's Catherine Breillat
Controversial filmmaker Catherine Breillat takes a different approach to shock tactics with her latest feature, Bluebeard. Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
FilmGFF 2010: Hidden Diary
In Hidden Diary, Audrey returns to her parents’ home on the French coast after ten years abroad, keeping her pregnancy secret from her distant mother, ... Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Cutting Lines
Cynthia Beatt explores the fading boundary of the Berlin Wall in her two documentaries, The Invisible Frame and Cycling the Frame, which open the Glasgow Shorts Film Festival tonight. Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
MusicThe Boy Who Trapped The Sun - Home EP
Home is an incredibly mature effort for sun-trapping boy Colin MacLeod, considering that he was last spotted drunkenly dishing out Deep Purple covers in an A... Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: Cuckoo
With its Hitchcockian leanings and oppressive cinematography, Cuckoo is as tangible a representation of a troubled mind as you are likely to encounter on fil... Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
Theatre
Back Beat
The Beatles are not only one of the most celebrated artistic sparks in history; they are also one of the most romanticised. Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Theatre
One More For The Road
Lucille Burn steps out from the fan dances and feathers to salute the heart-broken with her first solo show Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Music
Archie Bronson Outfit – Coconut
With 2006’s aptly titled Derdang Derdang, Archie Bronson Outfit hit a seemingly effortless groove of knuckle-bruising, country-soaked rock with... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010