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: 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 -
FilmGFF 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 -
FilmGFF 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
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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 -
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GFF 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 -
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Pleasure 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 -
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Pleasure Palaces: Mother Ganga
In the third installment of Errors' 'Pleasure Palaces' series on creative spaces, Mother Ganga's Lewis Cook tells how he gets the joss sticks out round his girlfriends flat Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Reclaiming Mumblecore
Is there any sub-genre more misunderstood than mumblecore? With director Lynn Shelton delivering, with Your Sister's Sister, another film gem that fits the mumblecore M.O., we've decided to reclaim this much maligned moniker Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
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In Pictures: Frightened Rabbit / We Are Augustines / Fatherson @ HMV Picture House, 10 February
In Pictures: Frightened Rabbit / We Are Augustines / Fatherson @ HMV Picture House, 10 February This sold out leg of HMV's 'Next Big Thing' showcase brought... Read more »| 15 Feb 2012