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 FestivalsTaking 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 -
TravelAs 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 -
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CineDaily – 25 Feb: Girlhood, Land Ho!, today's reviews and more
Surprise... It’s Wednesday of the second week of Glasgow Film Festival, so that can mean only one thing: it’s Surprise Movie time! This is my f... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Dearest
Based on one specific real life incident, Chinese drama Dearest concerns the aftermath of a child abduction in Shenzhen, China. Starting in 2009, Peter Chan&... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Force Majeure
A Swedish family are on a ski holiday in the French Alps. Everything seems to be going great for Tomas (Kuhnke), Ebba (Kongsli) and their two kids. That is, ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Man from Reno
Tired of her latest book tour, crime novelist Aki (Fujitani) high-tails it from Japan to San Francisco for some peace and quiet. There she meets a seductive ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Life in a Fishbowl
Icelandic ensemble drama Life in a Fishbowl follows three wildly different people, whose lives (and double lives) intersect in strange ways, exploring the ro... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015 -
Uk FestivalsBig Country: Aaron Katz on Iceland road movie Land Ho!
Aaron Katz swaps the aimless 20-somethings of his earlier films for a pair of 60-somethings, who turn out to be similarly directionless, in his joyous comedy Land Ho! Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
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William McIlvanney talks about his life as a writer at Glasgow Film Festival 2015
William McIlvanney provided a classic Glasgow Film Festival Q&A following the premiere of Maurice O’Brien’s Living with Words, which profiles... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
Music
Spiritualized to headline Liverpool Psych Fest
The Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia has announced its first wave of acts for 2015, with Spiritualized set to headline one day of the event. ... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
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CineDaily – 23 Feb: Mommy, William McIlvanney, today's reviews and more
Who needs the Oscars? So, now that the Oscars are over everyone can start getting excited about the real highlight of the awards season: the CineSkinny awar... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Spring
The sophomore feature from directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, Spring is a body horror tale for the hopeless romantic.Stuck in a personal tailspin af... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Wake in Fright
Ted Kotcheff would go on to chalk up major hits with the likes of First Blood and Weekend at Bernie's, but it's this rarely seen gem from 1971 that stands as... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015