UK Festivals
Welcome to The Skinny UK festival guide. We bring you previews, reviews, and line-up information for arts, film, music and comedy festivals around the UK.
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FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2015: I Need a Dodge! Joe Strummer on the Run
Back in 1985, The Clash frontman Joe Strummer didn't have the luxury of being dead and revered. In fact he was regarded by many as an embarrassing anachronis... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
FilmCineDaily – 20 Feb: It Follows, Stop Making Sense, today's reviews and more
Day three of Glasgow Film Festival and it’s starting to feel like we’re in full swing. CCA’s Saramago, the GFF’s official post-cinema... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Uzumasa Limelight
Uzumasa Limelight is a heartfelt tribute to the samurai-saturated chanbara films of Japanese cinema, particularly the largely unsung, intensely physical pros... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
FilmCineDaily – 19 Feb: Appropriate Behaviour, today's reviews and more
Glasgow Film Festival kicked off in grand style last night with Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young. It was a brilliantly judged opener. Baumbach c... Read more »| 19 Feb 2015 -
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Beacons Festival relocates to Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds
Beacons Festival is set to move away from its Skipton home, relocating to Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester. After three years in its current location at Hesl... Read more »| 19 Feb 2015 -
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Saluting Hollywood's Maverick: Ron Mann and Kathryn Reed Altman discuss the Nashville director
Altman director Ron Mann and Kathryn Reed Altman discuss the "Indestructible" filmmaking force of nature, Robert Altman Read more »| 19 Feb 2015
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The Pop Group, Wildbirds and Peacedrums confirmed for Supersonic Festival 2015
Experimental music and arts festival Supersonic has unveiled a first wave of line-up announcements for its 12th edition, to take place in Birmingham this Jun... Read more »| 18 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: It Follows
As horror premises go, this one is delicious – a sexually transmitted curse that causes a monster to follow its victims to the death, assuming any form... Read more »| 18 Feb 2015 -
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Still Making Sense: why Stop Making Sense is "the Citizen Kane of concert movies"
Even after three decades, Jonathan Demme's Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense feels mint fresh. With Glasgow Film Festival's late night screening coming up, we take the opportunity to sing its praises. Plus: five other great concert films Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: The New Girlfriend
Francois Ozon's favourite subject is the fluidity of sexual identity and desire. He's been playing with this theme since early short The Summer Dress ri... Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
FilmGirls Behaving Badly: Desiree Akhavan on Appropriate Behaviour
It's not in every debut that you find a bisexual Iranian woman angrily brandishing a strap-on in public – but you'll find this and more in Desiree Akhavan's boundary-pushing comedy Appropriate Behaviour. Just don't call her the new Lena Dunham Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
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Love and Death: David Robert Mitchell on horror movie It Follows
David Robert Mitchell tells us how he turned his childhood dream into indelible cinematic nightmare It Follows Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Appropriate Behaviour
"That was a present," protests Shirin (writer/director/star Desiree Akhavan) when her girlfriend returns a mysterious box to her amidst an acrimonious break-... Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
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Caribou, Wu-Tang Clan, FKA Twigs lead Parklife 2015 lineup
Caribou, The Roots, Metronomy and the Wu-Tang Clan are among a host of big names announced for the Parklife weekender in Manchester on 6 and 7 June. Dan Sna... Read more »| 12 Feb 2015 -
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Wayne Coyne heads up keynote speakers at Liverpool Sound City
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has been announced as a keynote speaker at this year's Liverpool Sound City Conference. Taking 'The Unsing Hero' as its th... Read more »| 11 Feb 2015