CineSkinny
The CineSkinny, launched in 2009, is Glasgow Film Festival’s official publication. Throughout the annual festival, The CineSkinny provides coverage of Glasgow Film Festival in print – copies can be found in GFF venues during the festival, filled with in-depth features, reviews and recognisable by their bespoke illustrated covers. The CineSkinny also reports on Glasgow Film Festival happenings online, with interactive, daily coverage on The Skinny’s website.
The CineSkinny is brought to you by the Glasgow School of Art School of Simulation and Visualisation.
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Festivals
Enter David Lynch's Factory Photography with HEXA
A GFF17 highlight looks to be HEXA's sonic response to David Lynch's Factory Photographs, the legendary director's collection of black-and-white st... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
Film
The Road to Mandalay
Burmese director Midi Z's vivid new film follows a pair of illegal immigrants in Bangkok. Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
Film
My Life as a Courgette
Swiss stop-motion animation following a young orphan from the pen of Girlhood director Céline Sciamma After debuting at the Cannes Film Festival last... Read more »| 14 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 -
Film
Lady Macbeth
Darkly comic Victorian drama featuring hypnotising newcomer Florence Pugh as a disaffected young bride Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
Film
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Trollhunter director André Øvredal's first English-language feature begins as a cerebral thriller before losing its way towards the finishing line Read more »| 13 Feb 2017
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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 -
Festivals
John Waters on bad taste & Multiple Maniacs
John Waters' little-seen sophomore feature Multiple Maniacs is getting a revival. Despite its new polish, it's as outrageously grotesque as ever. The filmmaker takes us back to its making at the tail end of the 60s Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Film
Rules Don’t Apply
Warren Beatty’s belated return to filmmaking isn't worth the wait Read more »| 18 Jan 2017 -
Film
Jon Nguyen on his David Lynch doc The Art Life
With Twin Peaks coming back to TV, we have David Lynch on our mind. But where has he been for the last decade? Jon Nguyen, director of brilliant new doc Davi... Read more »| 04 Nov 2016 -
Festivals
Voyage of Time
Terrence Malick's spectacular nature documentary spans time and space Read more »| 13 Oct 2016 -
Reviews
Couple in a Hole
A mysterious study in the devastating power of loss Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
Peace Officer
Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber's Peace Office is a timely documentary investigating the militarisation of law enforcement in America’s police for... Read more »| 08 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
The Clan
Pablo Trapero’s real-life Argentinian drama is at once a thrilling and haunting look at the country's dark history Read more »| 08 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
One Floor Below
In this slow-burn thriller from Romanian director Radu Muntean, a bourgeois family man is left with a moral conundrum Read more »| 08 Mar 2016