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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FilmParadise
Veteran Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsy stretches plausibility with an experimental take on the Holocaust drama Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
FilmSalt and Fire
Werner Herzog reunites with Michael Shannon for a fitfully amusing but largely stilted eco-thriller Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
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Louise by the Shore
Veteran French animator Jean-François Laguionie's latest centres on a septuagenarian who finds herself abandoned in an off-season holiday resort Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
FilmSoul on a String
A beguiling combination of Western and Buddhist parable, Zhang Yang’s latest is a beautiful and thought-provoking work which suffers from being overlong and narratively unfocused Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
FilmPaul Verhoeven on sex, satire and Isabelle Huppert
Paul Verhoeven has been shocking and thrilling audiences for 46 years. He's back after a ten year absence with Elle, which might be his most daring work yet. We sit down with the Dutch auteur to talk sex, satire and Isabelle Huppert Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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SICK! Festival 2017: 5 must-see shows
Life, death and survival are explored in one of the UK's most exciting multi-arts festivals. Here are five shows you shouldn't miss Read more »| 17 Feb 2017
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Sharlto Copley and Ben Wheatley on Free Fire
Free Fire's director and one of its stars on single-location thrills and spirited scumbags. Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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Free Fire
Shades of Sam Peckinpah in this star-studded action film about an arms deal gone wrong from Sightseers director Ben Wheatley Jean-Luc Godard once said that ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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O Canada: GFF celebrates New Canadian Cinema
Welcome to Glasgow Film Festival's celebration of New Canadian Cinema, the weirder but much more friendly neighbour of Hollywood Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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Five daring female coming-of-age films
Inspired by All This Panic, Jenny Gage’s spellbinding documentary following seven teenage girls growing up in Brooklyn, we look back at some of cinema'... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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Folk Hero & Funny Guy
Disappointingly generic buddy road movie starring Alex Karpovsky, Wyatt Russell, Meredith Hagner and Melanie Lynskey. Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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Warren Beatty: New Hollywood survivor
Warren Beatty helped kick off an American cinema renaissance in the late 60s with Bonnie and Clyde, now he's back after two decades with Rules Don't Apply, a... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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Fresh Blood: 5 mindblowing vampire movies
Not all screen vampires wear capes and sleep in coffins. Ahead of GFF's screening of inventive teen vampire tale The Transfiguration, we take a look at five ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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Mindhorn
Julian Barratt's performance is almost Partridge-esque in its clueless pomposity in this hilarious British comedy Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
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Olivier Assayas on Kristen Stewart & Personal Shopper
The ever versatile Olivier Assayas returns to genre territory with strange and mysterious ghost story Personal Shopper, which centres on a knockout performan... Read more »| 16 Feb 2017