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 2012: Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy
Rob Heydon’s adaptation of The Undefeated, one of three novellas in Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, clearly has affection for the source mate... Read more »| 19 Feb 2012 -
FilmGFF 2012: Finisterrae
Crossing the Line, the new strand at this year's festival, brings experimental and avant-garde films to the Glasgow, exploring the crossover between cinema a... Read more »| 19 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
TBEMH opens with a series of subversions. Half-a-dozen grey-haired archetypes (including Penelope Wilton, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith) stick two fingers up t... Read more »| 18 Feb 2012 -
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GFF: Glasgow on Celluloid
The CineSkinny examines how Glasgow, an increasingly popular shooting location, has been portrayed in cinema over the years Read more »| 18 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: In Darkness
Poland’s foreign language Oscar hopeful is the true story of Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), sewer worker and moonlighting burglar, who hid Jews in... Read more »| 18 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: The Mexican Suitcase
In the mid-nineties, three suitcases were unearthed in a closet in Mexico, containing negatives long-assumed lost: snaps taken during the Spanish Civil War b... Read more »| 18 Feb 2012
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GFF 2012: Weimarvellous Preview
A weekend of cabaret, Weimer-era Germany style. Read more »| 17 Feb 2012 -
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Pleasure Palaces: Errors
In the conclusion of Errors' five-part series on musicians' spaces in Glasgow, Steev Livingstone talks to, er, Steev Livingstone about making records in his bandmate's flat Read more »| 17 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Red Dog
Red Dog, based on Nancy Gillespie’s book of the same name charting the impact of a legendary mutt on the lives of assorted roughnecks in a Western Aust... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
FilmGFF 2012: Gerhard Richter Painting
With a career spanning five decades and the accolade 'one of the greatest living painters', Gerhard Richter – as might be expected – has surpasse... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
FilmGFF 2012: On the Ice
Writer/director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean extrapolates the premise of his 2008 short of the same name – a murder and the moral dilemma the reporting or co... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
MusicPleasure Palaces: Jamie Grier
Steev Livingstone talks to The Glue Factory's resident live engineer Jamie Grier in the fourth part of Errors' series on musicians' spaces Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
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GZA/Hector Bizerk @ The Arches, 13 February
The Arches is already near capacity, with a crowd in boisterous mood when Hector Bizerk take to the stage. It's the kind of environment where many support ac... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
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Justice @ O2 Academy, 12 February
A brightly lit cross, two French guys whose haircuts bob like violent metronomes, and faux-Marshall amps that double as strobes piercing an otherwise Spartan... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: High Places interview
Glasgow Music and Film Festival kicks off in grand style with a performance from electro-pop duo High Places, a band whose work embodies GMFF's celebration of both music and image Read more »| 16 Feb 2012