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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FilmFrench Film Festival 2015: Preview
The annual French Film Festival returns for its 23rd edition, with another diverting, varied programme – we select some highlights Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
FilmLFF 2015 Highlights: The Discoveries
We've already shared our Best of LFF featuring the established filmmakers, now is the turn of the six less-celebrated filmmakers who screened kickass films this year Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
Uk FestivalsManchester Literature Festival: An Ape’s Progress
A Rake’s Progress is a series of eight paintings by 18th-century artist William Hogarth. Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Film¡Viva! Presents New Spanish Cinema: Preview
Some highlights of HOME's final ¡Viva! weekender, with New Spanish Cinema on the menu Read more »| 30 Oct 2015 -
ArtLiverpool Homotopia 2015: Preview
AIDS contraction is on the rise, more than half of the Commonwealth criminalises homosexuality and transphobia is as present as ever. Gary Everett, artistic director of Homotopia, explains how theatre and the arts can help. Read more »| 30 Oct 2015 -
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LFF 2015 Highlights: The Auteurs
Six films from some of our favourite filmmakers who knocked it out of the park with their latest work at this year's London Film Festival Read more »| 30 Oct 2015
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Uk Festivals
Luke Wright: Chester Literature Festival
Luke Wright’s poetic monologue What I Learned from Johnny Bevan is a frenzied jumble of voices, characters and weird descriptions, endeavouring to jolt... Read more »| 26 Oct 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Molly Naylor & John Osborne: Chester Literature Festival
Molly Naylor and John Osborne’s appearance at Chester Literature Festival comes just before their sitcom, After Hours, debuts on Sky1 and tow... Read more »| 26 Oct 2015 -
Festival Guide
What's On: The Saltire Festival 2015
We’ve all, at least once, looked up at the sky on a clear blue day and, seeing two criss-crossing vapour trails, called out, “here that looks lik... Read more »| 22 Oct 2015 -
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London Film Festival: Steve Jobs
A breakneck Aaron Sorkin script combined with a performance of subtlety, ease and confidence from Fassbender results in a meticulously constructed character study Read more »| 21 Oct 2015 -
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London Film Festival: Room & Queen of Earth
Two films from London Film Festival centred on female protagonists who are trapped: Alex Ross Perry's Queen of Earth and Room, based on Emma Donoghue's novel of the same name Read more »| 20 Oct 2015 -
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London Film Festival: My Skinny Sister & Take Me to the River
Two debut features from LFF: Sanna Lenken's My Skinny Sister and Matt Sorbel's Take Me To The River. Read more »| 19 Oct 2015 -
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London Film Festival: Yakuza Apocalypse
Takashi Miike's vampire yakuza movie has some great ideas, but overall it's a narrative and conceptual mess from the director of Audition and Ichi the Killer Read more »| 19 Oct 2015 -
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Rhys Ifans interview: Under Milk Wood
Rhys Ifans tells us how his new film, Under Milk Wood, a cinematic version of Dylan Thomas's radio play of the same name, blows the dust off the 1954 text and visualises its dark, erotic core Read more »| 19 Oct 2015 -
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London Film Festival: The Assassin and The Witch
Two genre films that upend audience expectation catch our eye at BFI London Film Festival: Robert Eggers' period horror The Witch and The Assassin, from great Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien Read more »| 16 Oct 2015