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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ReviewsHyena Road
Paul Gross's film shines a light on soldiering in Afghanistan, but the result is an apolitical rabble-rouser Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
InterviewsDiscovering Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier was a celebrated auteur in his day, but the Frenchman's work and reputation has slipped from our view. Glasgow Film Festival's mini-retrospective hopes to give a boost to this filmmaker ripe for rediscovery Read more »| 16 Feb 2016 -
ReviewsÉvolution
Uncanny horror from Lucile Hadžihalilović with shades of HP Lovecraft and David Cronenberg. Read more »| 16 Feb 2016 -
Reviews
The Brand New Testament
Whimsical comedy imagining God as a misanthropic oaf living in Belgium. Read more »| 16 Feb 2016 -
ReviewsArabian Nights
Miguel Gomes's three-part remix of Scheherezade’s classic tales explores a contemporary Portugal post-financial crash Read more »| 16 Feb 2016 -
Reviews
How to Win Enemies
Meta mystery movie from Argentina that looses its charm in its final act Read more »| 16 Feb 2016
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Festivals
The Road to Civil War: Marvel Renaissance
Documentary charting the rise and fall of Marvel comics Read more »| 15 Feb 2016 -
Festivals
Louder Than Bombs
Norwegian director Joachim Trier's first English-language film centres on a family trying to cope with the loss of their mother. Read more »| 15 Feb 2016 -
Festivals
Patrick Stewart as a neo-nazi & 5 more unlikely roles
Lovable thespian and king of Twitter Patrick Stewart as a violent white supremacist? Really? This wrinkle of film casting in Jeremy Saulnier’s upcoming... Read more »| 15 Feb 2016 -
Festivals
Jerzy Skolimowski: “I’m making films I want to see”
Veteran director Jerzy Skolimowski returns to his native Poland for 11 Minutes, a fragmented thriller concerned with chance and cosmic timing. We find the 77... Read more »| 15 Feb 2016 -
Festivals
Hail, Caesar!
The glamour and prestige of Golden-era Hollywood may be a thing of the past, but its mythology lives on in the Coen Brothers’ riotous new comedy Hail, ... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
Festivals
Laura Dern: David Lynch's favourite collaborator
Inspired by Glasgow Film Festival's upcoming screening of David Lynch's Wild at Heart at St Luke's – complete with an Elvis tribute – we look bac... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
Festivals
High-Rise
Ben Wheatley delivers a ferocious adaptation of JG Ballard’s classic dystopian novel High-Rise It’s the near future, though it (deliberately) se... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
Festivals
James White
Searing character study from Borderline Films, the team behind Martha Marcy May Marlene and Simon Killer A troubled, white 20something New Yorker, also an a... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
Festivals
11 Minutes
Veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimovski delivers a dazzling multi-strand thriller concerned with chance and chaos Read more »| 12 Feb 2016