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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Edinburgh FestivalsEIFF 2015: Maggie
After decades of zombies being used for satirical commentary, a new wave of films seems concerned with heavy exploration of the emotional undercurrent of lov... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2015: The Chambermaid Lynn (Das Zimmermädchen Lynn)
Writer-director Ingo Haeb observes his film's eponymous character in much the same way as she views the world and the people around her: distant, chilly, alm... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh Festivals45 Years
There’s a ghost in the attic in Andrew Haigh’s haunting relationship drama 45 Years, but not the kind that can be vanquished with a séance... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
Film
EIFF 2015: She's Funny That Way
Peter Bogdanovich’s movies come marinaded in his love of Hollywood's Golden Age. In this dizzy soufflé he’s channelling Lubitsch, Sturges ... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
Uk FestivalsDoc to Doc: Doc/Fest 2015 Festival Round-up
Joining the docs at this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest, from a haunting movie about mass murder in 60s Indonesia to girl gearheads from Palestine Read more »| 18 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2015: The Stanford Prison Experiment
The results of Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s famous and controversial 1971 psychological study, in which various Stanford University-attending males play-acted... Read more »| 18 Jun 2015
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Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2015: Sleeping with Other People
It’s hard to settle on a low point of this scumbag manifesto from writer-director Leslye Headland, but one scene in particular springs to mind. It invo... Read more »| 18 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2015: Amy
Prior interest in the life, music and untimely passing of Amy Winehouse is not required for Asif Kapadia’s second documentary to floor you completely. ... Read more »| 18 Jun 2015 -
Uk Festivals
EIFF 2015: The Legend of Barney Thomson
Fifty-something barber Barney Thomson (Robert Carlyle, playing the lead in his directorial debut) lives a life of desperate mundanity and awkward interaction... Read more »| 17 Jun 2015 -
Videos
FutureEverything 2015: Koreless & Emmanuel Biard – The Well
Even for a producer who revels in fracturing recognisable electronic tropes into loosely connected flotsam, Young Turks-signed producer Koreless aka London-b... Read more »| 15 Jun 2015 -
Uk FestivalsEast India Youth and Happy Meals join The Skinny stage at Electric Fields
SAY Award-nominated Glasgow duo Happy Meals and Bournemouth electronic producer East India Youth are amongst the final announcements for Electric Fields... Read more »| 12 Jun 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Patti Smith @ Field Day, 7 June
Forty years ago, Patti Smith released her debut album Horses, a slim eight tracks of distinctive poet-punk rock. Four decades on and the sheer exuberanc... Read more »| 12 Jun 2015 -
Uk Festivals
24:7 Theatre Festival reveals its 2015 programme
Back at the start of the year, it looked like 24:7 wasn’t going to happen; after losing its regular funding, Manchester’s always vital festival o... Read more »| 11 Jun 2015 -
Videos
FutureEverything 2015: Memo Akten – Simple Harmonic Motion for 16 Percussionists
The result of an artistic residency at FutureEverything, Simple Harmonic Motion for 16 Percussionists by digital artist Memo Akten featured 16 percussionists... Read more »| 11 Jun 2015 -
Uk FestivalsRide @ Field Day, 7 June
Just before shoegaze veterans Ride launch into the galvanizing opening notes of Seagull, frontman Mark Gardener prefaces the opening track from their 1990 de... Read more »| 11 Jun 2015