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 FestivalsCara Comedian: Josie Long on her new show Cara Josephine
She comes and goes. Embarking on her sixth nationwide tour Cara Josephine, Josie Long talks to us about growing up standing up Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Uk FestivalsSICK! Festival: Tackling the Art of Difficult Conversation
As it expands from Brighton to Manchester, directors Helen Medland and Tim Harrison discuss the issues and the impetus behind SICK! Festival Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Uk FestivalsFestival Watch – March 2015
Behold, the return of our hand-selected guide to festivals both local and terrifyingly imminent Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
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Ibibio Sound Machine confirmed for Africa Oyé 2015
London-based Ibibio Sound Machine have been confirmed for the 23rd edition of Liverpool's Africa Oyé festival, taking place this June in the city's Se... Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
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CineSkinny 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 -
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CineDaily – 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
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VideosBritish 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 -
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Bringing 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 -
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Swans, 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