Cineskinny: Film Interviews
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The Female Gaze: Mark Cousins on Women Make Film
With his epic 14-hour documentary Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema, Mark Cousins offers a rapturous celebration of women filmmakers Read more »| 03 Mar 2020 -
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Justin Kurzel on True History of the Kelly Gang
George MacKay plays Aussie folk hero/villain Ned Kelly in the latest attempt to tell the Kelly Gang's story on the big screen. Director Justin Kurzel tells us why he was somewhat daunted to take on the project, and why he wanted MacKay for the role Read more »| 28 Feb 2020 -
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Cook F**k Kill
Cook F**k Kill has an arresting opening, but as it moves through its repeating narrative chapters, there's the distinct feeling of diminishing returns Read more »| 26 Feb 2020 -
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Oliver Hermanus on Moffie
South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus returns with Moffie, an extraordinary drama about a gay teen conscripted to fight in the Angolan war in Apartheid-era South Africa Read more »| 26 Feb 2020 -
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Riot Girls: Michael Caton-Jones on Our Ladies
Veteran filmmaker Michael Caton-Jones returns to filmmaking in Scotland for the first time since 1995's Rob Roy for Our Ladies, his long-in-the-making adaptation of Alan Warner’s The Sopranos Read more »| 24 Feb 2020 -
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Masculinity in Crisis: Peter Mackie Burns on Rialto
Daphne director Peter Mackie Burns returns with fine-grained drama Rialto, which follows a middle-aged Dublin dock worker going through a crisis. The Glaswegian director tells us how the likes of Chekhov, Mike Leigh and David Bowie influence his work Read more »| 21 Feb 2020
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Alice Winocour on Glasgow Film Festival opener Proxima
Disorder director Alice Winocour tells how new film Proxima, which follows an astronaut juggling space training with raising her young daughter, is still very much an "earthy" movie Read more »| 20 Feb 2020 -
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Simon Bird on directing Days of the Bagnold Summer
The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird introduces us to his debut feature film Days of the Bagnold Summer, a sweet comedy focused on the precarious relationship between a well-intentioned librarian mother and her metalhead teen son Read more »| 17 Feb 2020 -
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Guy Maddin on skew-whiff Vertigo remake The Green Fog
The endlessly inventive Guy Maddin has crafted a skew-whiff remake of Vertigo from clips of films set in San Francisco. The result is both loving homage and sly critique, and the Canadian director cheekily suggests he's improved on Hitchcock's original Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
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Carol Morley on her dream-like noir Out of Blue
Carol Morley's latest film is a hard-boiled police drama based on a Martin Amis novel and it unfolds like a Lynchian dream noir. We speak to the Salfordian director about the art of adaptation, gender and taking female-driven stories seriously Read more »| 08 Mar 2019 -
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Christian Petzold on WWII drama Transit
Christian Petzold scrambles time and identity in his twist-filled adaptation of Anna Seghers’ WWII novel Transit. The German filmmaker tells us what period films often get wrong about the past and why he's not going to cast Steven Seagal anytime soon Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
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Alice Rohrwacher on Happy as Lazzaro: “Poetry is politics!”
Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro is one of the most imaginative films of the year. She tells us how she embraced fairytale rhythms and magic realism to tell a politically potent tale about the evils of capitalism Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
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Richard Billingham on Ray & Liz
Celebrated British photographer Richard Billingham moves to moving image with first feature Ray & Liz, and its portrait of his own unruly family is as meticulously framed and bursting with detail as his stills. We discuss memory, influences and class Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
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Radu Jude on I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
Bucharest-born filmmaker Radu Jude (Aferim!) is back on blistering form with meta-fictional satire I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, following a theatre director attempting to re-stage the Odessa Massacre Read more »| 18 Feb 2019 -
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Philippe Lesage on his heartfelt coming of age film Genesis
Three teens take romantic leaps of the heart in Quebecois director Philippe Lesage's bruising but tender coming-of-age film Genesis Read more »| 18 Feb 2019