International Festivals
Welcome to The Skinny international festival guide. We bring you previews, reviews, and 2019 line-up information for international festivals such as Primavera Sound, Le Guess Who and Toronto Film Fest.
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International Festivals
10 films to see at Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2019
We survey what to look out for at this year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, including Palme d'Or-winner Parasite and the hallucinatory survivalist thriller Monos Read more »| 28 Jun 2019 -
International Festivals
Roskilde 2019: Festival Preview
Denmark's Roskilde Festival starts almost as soon as Glastonbury finishes; we take a closer look at the 2019 line-up Read more »| 18 Jun 2019 -
Music
Primavera Sound: Going global or selling out?
With global expansions of the Barcelona festival's brand amidst the hip dystopia of commodified identity politics, we look back on the 2019 edition of Primavera Sound Read more »| 12 Jun 2019 -
Music
Mogwai to play Portugal’s NOS Alive festival in July
Mogwai are set to join The Cure, Robyn, Hot Chip, Vampire Weekend and Sharon Van Etten for the 2019 edition of Portugal's NOS Alive festival Read more »| 07 Jun 2019 -
Cannes
The Best Films at Cannes Film Festival 2019
With another Cannes in the rearview mirror, we look back at the films that delighted us from this year's edition, including Celine Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Xavier Dolan's Matthias & Maxime and worthy Palme d’Or winner Parasite Read more »| 28 May 2019 -
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Parasite
The great Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho returns with a thrilling and moving satire concerned with two families at opposite ends of the social spectrum Read more »| 24 May 2019
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Film
Matthias & Maxime
Xavier Dolan's last few films have been disappointments, but he's back to his best with this tender study of a male friendship which may be developing to something more romantic Read more »| 23 May 2019 -
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The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse is a relentless piece of maritime madness, with transcendent performances from Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe Read more »| 23 May 2019 -
Film
Cannes 2019: Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood sees the Pulp Fiction director at his most emotional and reflective in a film that intersects the life of a TV actor with the Manson Family in the Hollywood of 1969 Read more »| 23 May 2019 -
Cannes
Cannes 2019: Little Joe
Little Joe is an unnerving horror movie about a flower that's been designed in a lab to help curb depression, but it turns out to have sinister side-effects Read more »| 20 May 2019 -
Cannes
Cannes 2019: The Dead Don't Die
The star-studded The Dead Don't Die is exactly the kind of zombie movie you would expect from Jim Jarmusch, for better or for worse Read more »| 15 May 2019 -
Venice Biennale
Anything Can Be News: Venice Biennale 2019 review
The Venice Biennale 2019 is a (mostly) topical and politicised edit of artists' practices from across the world, and its best artworks challenge audiences' complacent world views borne of hands-off and uncritically smartphone-based spectatorship Read more »| 14 May 2019 -
Venice Biennale
Tracking Shot: Charlotte Prodger on their Venice Biennale work
Charlotte Prodger's new work is a development of their enquiries into experimental artistic film movements, while at the same time prioritising queer subjectivity within a constellation of aesthetic, political, social and personal narratives Read more »| 07 May 2019 -
Venice Biennale
Charlotte Prodger’s Venice Biennale work to tour Scotland
Charlotte Prodger’s new Scotland + Venice Biennale work will tour Scotland at the same time as it premieres at the 58th International Art Exhibition Read more »| 01 May 2019 -
International Festivals
Beat Hotel: 2019 Review
Set in a 72-acre boutique hotel on the outskirts of Marrakech, the inaugural Beat Hotel is an ambitious blend of DJs, live acts, literary icons and culinary outlandishness Read more »| 18 Apr 2019