Cineskinny: Film Opinion
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Festivals
RD Laing and Psychiatry on Screen
With RD Laing biopic Mad to be Normal closing the Glasgow Film Festival, we take a look at other films which shed light on the controversial psychiatrist's a... Read more »| 23 Feb 2017 -
Opinion
Way of the Gun: Cinema's most underrated shootouts
Ahead of Ben Wheatley's new film Free Fire, we pay tribute to some of cinemas great, but under-appreciated, gun fights. Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
In Praise of the visionary Gore Verbinski
Ahead of GFF's screening of A Cure for Wellness, one writer takes a look at the career of its mercurial director, Gore Verbinski, one of the more divisive Hollywood directors regularly handed big budgets Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
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O Canada: GFF celebrates New Canadian Cinema
Welcome to Glasgow Film Festival's celebration of New Canadian Cinema, the weirder but much more friendly neighbour of Hollywood Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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Five daring female coming-of-age films
Inspired by All This Panic, Jenny Gage’s spellbinding documentary following seven teenage girls growing up in Brooklyn, we look back at some of cinema'... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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Warren Beatty: New Hollywood survivor
Warren Beatty helped kick off an American cinema renaissance in the late 60s with Bonnie and Clyde, now he's back after two decades with Rules Don't Apply, a... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017
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Festivals
Fresh Blood: 5 mindblowing vampire movies
Not all screen vampires wear capes and sleep in coffins. Ahead of GFF's screening of inventive teen vampire tale The Transfiguration, we take a look at five ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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Cinema Smackdowns: 5 of the funniest film fights
Glasgow Film Festival’s screening of Catfight, in which two former college friends (Sandra Oh and Anne Heche) fight each other after an awkward encount... Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
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Return to form: The Stop Motion animation revival
Why the palpable reality of stop motion animations like My Life as a Courgette – which screens at this year's Glasgow Film Festival – are essenti... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Femme fatales, Dangerous Dames & female film archetypes
Ahead of Glasgow Film Festival's celebration of the femme fatale in its Dangerous Dames strand, we consider what's required for the job, along with some of the other movie archetypes offered up to women Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
In Praise of Toshiro Mifune, the last samurai
Toshiro Mifune is a film icon – we take a look at what made him so special. Read more »| 13 Feb 2017 -
Opinion
The Daughter
Geoffrey Rush and Paul Schneider star in this familial drama inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck The Daughter begins with a father-son tension. A... Read more »| 07 Mar 2016 -
Opinion
Francofonia
Another night at the museum (this time the Louvre) with Russian auteur Alexander Sokurov Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
Opinion
Five to see at GFF, 27 Feb: Neil Young's Human Highway
It's the penultimate day of Glasgow Film Festival, but the gems just keep coming. There's feisty festival hit Mustang, acutely observed documentary Finders K... Read more »| 27 Feb 2016 -
Opinion
Five to see at GFF, 26 Feb: Top Gun & more
A day of horror movies (FrightFest), artists' films (Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog, Ben Rivers' The Sky Trembles...) and bombastic 80s homoerotica&n... Read more »| 26 Feb 2016