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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FilmCineSkinny Awards: The Best of GFF15
We've studied our ticket stubs from two weeks of covering Glasgow Film Festival and have chosen our winners for the annual CineSkinny Awards. For the first time, our readers have got involved too and told us their film of the festival Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
FilmCineDaily – 1 Mar: Force Majeure, Small Faces, today's reviews and more
Film of the Day: Force Majeure [GFT, 7.30pm] What we said: "In a formally playful fashion and manner largely free of didacticism, Östlund skewer... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
Videos
British Sea Power discuss putting on A Night at the Regal
Glasgow Film Festival celebrated the Glasgow ABC's past and present with A Night at the Regal, an evening of live sonic cinema paying tribute to the Sauchieh... Read more »| 28 Feb 2015 -
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CineDaily – 28 Feb: Eden, Dreamcatcher, today's reviews and more
Film of the Day: Eden [GFT, 8.40pm] What we said: "It’s a kind of vampire movie, with our protagonist [Paul] trapped in the crepuscular purgatory of... Read more »| 28 Feb 2015 -
FilmBringing Da Funk to GFF: Mia Hansen-Løve on Eden
This year's GFF music on film strand, Sound and Vision, is headlined by Mia Hansen-Løve's brilliant new film Eden, an intimate epic telling the history of the French Touch music scene through one DJ's bloodshot eyes Read more »| 28 Feb 2015 -
MusicSwans, The Cribs and Peace added to Liverpool Sound City
Reactivated post-punk experimentalists Swans have been announced among the latest additions to the Liverpool Sound City bill. Fellow new announcements ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: On the Trail of the Far Fur Country
The integrity of early documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty’s work has been debated by film scholars for decades. Nevertheless his 1922 debut Nanook o... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Revenge of The Mekons
After decades of sustained critical acclaim, The Mekons remain an obscure cult band with few commercial prospects. This is a grave injustice, and one which J... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
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CineDaily – 27 Feb: Wake In Fright, Kim Longinotto, today's reviews and more
GFF15 Audience Award By tonight all of the films up for Glasgow Film Festival's inaugral Audience Award will have been seen at least once. Here's who we t... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Radiator
Radiator ranks British film venerates Barbara Broccoli and Rachel Weisz among its squad of executive producers. Though this muscle is scarcely to be seen in ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Dreamcatcher
Globe-trotting documentarian Kim Longinotto hits the streets of Chicago for Dreamcatcher, the study of Brenda Myers-Powell, a former prostitute who now couns... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
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Taking Us on Journeys: Kim Longinotto
Kim Loginotto brings two typically great films to GFF – archive film Love is All and Sundance-winner Dreamcatcher. The British documentarian reveals how these two very different films came to fruition Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
Travel
As Seen on Screen: Glasgow and Edinburgh in Film
As Glasgow Film Festival enters its final throes, our Glasgow and Edinburgh Venues editors take the opportunity to highlight a selection of visitable local venues that have appeared on the big screen Read more »| 26 Feb 2015 -
Videos
Yasmin Fedda discusses new film Queens of Syria at Glasgow Film Festival 2015
At the UK premiere of her new film Queens of Syria at Glasgow Film Festival, director Yasmin Fedda discusses the film's conception and the experien... Read more »| 26 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: The Falling
Carol Morley’s woozy, eerie, 1969-set girls’ school mystery has proved divisive on the festival circuit – at London Film Festival, where it... Read more »| 26 Feb 2015