Festivals
Step into a vibrant celebration of culture with The Skinny festival guide. We bring you the latest UK and international festival news; you'll find festival information, previews, reviews, features, and interviews.
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Uk FestivalsHail, Caesar!
The glamour and prestige of Golden-era Hollywood may be a thing of the past, but its mythology lives on in the Coen Brothers’ riotous new comedy Hail, ... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
Uk FestivalsLaura Dern: David Lynch's favourite collaborator
Inspired by Glasgow Film Festival's upcoming screening of David Lynch's Wild at Heart at St Luke's – complete with an Elvis tribute – we look bac... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
Uk FestivalsHigh-Rise
Ben Wheatley delivers a ferocious adaptation of JG Ballard’s classic dystopian novel High-Rise It’s the near future, though it (deliberately) se... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
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James White
Searing character study from Borderline Films, the team behind Martha Marcy May Marlene and Simon Killer A troubled, white 20something New Yorker, also an a... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
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11 Minutes
Veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimovski delivers a dazzling multi-strand thriller concerned with chance and chaos Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
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Festival No. 6 announces first acts for 2016
The first acts for this year's Festival No. 6 in Portmeirion in North Wales have been announced. Read more »| 11 Feb 2016
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Uk FestivalsCharlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson on Anomalisa
Charlie Kaufman is the king of the oddball movie premise, but he plays it relatively straight with new film Anomalisa. The surprise comes from the fact it's ... Read more »| 10 Feb 2016 -
Uk Festivals2016 Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema line-up
The programme for the sixth Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema (aka HippFest) was announced today, with films from China, Russia, Germany and the USA, as well as those from the Scottish Screen and BFI archives, screening over the five day festival Read more »| 09 Feb 2016 -
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Parklife announces 2016 line-up
The first acts for this year's Parklife weekender in Manchester have been confirmed, with the Chemical Brothers among the headliners. Read more »| 09 Feb 2016 -
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Stag & Dagger to return for 2016
The Stag & Dagger mini-festival has announced the first bands for its 2016 edition in Glasgow this May. Edinburgh hip-hop outfit Stanley Odd and fo... Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
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No Home Movie
The final film from Belgian innovator Chantal Akerman is a deeply personal documentary about her own mother. Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
Edinburgh Festivals
The Green Inferno
The Green Inferno, Eli Roth’s gleefully grim cannibal tribe exploitation movie, is fun... up to a point While The Green Inferno is unlikely to co... Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
Uk Festivals
The Witch
Robert Eggers’s horror film about a Puritan family under attack from dark forces in a 17th century New England settlement has shades of the Salem witch trials. Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
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Ben Wheatley on High-Rise
With his latest movie, Ben Wheatley takes on JG Ballard science-fiction classic High-Rise. Ahead of the film's screening at Glasgow Film Festival, the genre ... Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
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Fifteen of the Best at Glasgow Film Festival 2016
Sandwich between the Coens’ Hail, Caesar! and Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa is 12 days of cinematic delights. Here are fifthteen films not to miss.... Read more »| 05 Feb 2016