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 2013: Stoker
Stoker marks the English language debut of contemporary South Korean cinema poster child Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Thirst), and the film is full of the strikin... Read more »| 17 Feb 2013 -
FilmGFF 2013: Mama
Based on a 2008 short by the same director, Mama is a ghost story with clear roots in Spanish cinema, twisting the classic story of lost children to foc... Read more »| 17 Feb 2013 -
FilmBetter Gate than Never: Heaven's Gate Revisited
The long-maligned Heaven's Gate has seen a critical resurgence in recent years, now aided by a stunning restoration from Park Circus Read more »| 17 Feb 2013 -
FilmDirector Régis Roinsard on Populaire
Fresh from his triumphant opening Gala, we spoke to Populaire director Régis Roinsard about the making of the film Read more »| 17 Feb 2013 -
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Cloud Atlas puts Glasgow on the Map
Cloud Atlas, which has its first UK public screening at GFF, isn't the only big release this year to have used Glasgow as a filming location Read more »| 17 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Pablo's Winter
A sustained and intimate portrait absent of cameras or crew, Pablo’s Winter is a documentary posing as fiction. This considered, some of the pithy exch... Read more »| 17 Feb 2013
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GFF 2013: Breakfast with Curtis
Breakfast with Curtis began life when painter and publisher Theo Green made a series of quirky YouTube videos with teenager Jonah Parker. These vignettes hav... Read more »| 16 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Songs for Amy
Konrad Begg’s debut feature concerns a low-rent songsmith, Sean (Maguire), who inadvertently leaves his bride-to-be, Amy (Lorna Anderson), strande... Read more »| 16 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Margaret Tait, Film Poet
This unassuming documentary from Glasgow Women’s Library is a short and sweet introduction to Scottish filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait. Since her deat... Read more »| 16 Feb 2013 -
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Memory Drawings / Chris Tenz / Talvihorros @ The Banshee Labyrinth, 10 February
Talvihorros, the pen name of Edinburgh musician Ben Chatwin, is described as “a study of guitar and electronics,” on his website. As such, tonigh... Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
MusicDesaparecidos / We Are The Physics @ The Arches, 9 February
With their vaudevillian flair as abundant as ever, We Are The Physics are on fine, frenetic form this evening. Wise-cracking and Orinoco Flow-ing t... Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 15 February
Tony Visconti on the new David Bowie album; 20 years of War Child; new music from Suuns, Kurt Vile, Purity Ring and The Thermals, plus festival bills announced for HebCelt, End of the Road, Bloodstock and Love Supreme Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
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French shoegazers Team Ghost unveil their long-awaited debut
Gallic electro-shoegaze rockers Team Ghost are set to blaze a trail through the year with debut album Rituals. The Skinny got the lowdown from singer Nicolas Fromageau (ex-M83), synth-wizard Benoît DeVilleneuve and guitarist Christophe Guérin Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Strings
For a teenager to do anything other than get smashed all day and draw their name on bus stops is pretty impressive. Writing, directing and shooting a feature... Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: The Final Member
The proud owner of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, Sigurður Hjartarson suffers from a peculiar form of penis envy. His collection could rightly be de... Read more »| 15 Feb 2013