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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FestivalsCharlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson on Anomalisa
Charlie Kaufman is the king of the oddball movie premise, but he plays it relatively straight with new film Anomalisa. The surprise comes from the fact it's ... Read more »| 10 Feb 2016 -
FestivalsNo Home Movie
The final film from Belgian innovator Chantal Akerman is a deeply personal documentary about her own mother. Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
Film
Ben Wheatley on High-Rise
With his latest movie, Ben Wheatley takes on JG Ballard science-fiction classic High-Rise. Ahead of the film's screening at Glasgow Film Festival, the genre ... Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
Festivals
Fifteen of the Best at Glasgow Film Festival 2016
Sandwich between the Coens’ Hail, Caesar! and Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa is 12 days of cinematic delights. Here are fifthteen films not to miss.... Read more »| 05 Feb 2016 -
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A Girl at My Door
July Jung shows a delicate touch in A Girl at My Door which thrums with love, desire and violence. Read more »| 25 Aug 2015 -
FestivalsTheeb
Revenge, loss of innocence and the conflict between old and new permeate Naji Abu Nowar’s terrific debut, Theeb. Set in the desolate if beautiful lands... Read more »| 04 Aug 2015
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Festivals
52 Tuesdays
52 Tuesdays chronicles the relationship of 16-year-old Billie (Tilda Cobham-Harvey) and her transgender mother, James (Del Herbert-Jane), who makes the diffi... Read more »| 03 Aug 2015 -
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Eden
Mia Hansen-Løve is a master of party scenes – the standout moments from her two previous features (Goodbye First Love and The Father of My ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
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Black Coal, Thin Ice
In Black Coal, Thin Ice, writer-director Diao Yi'nan takes the tropes of a classic noir detective tale – a down-and-out alcoholic cop with a haunted pa... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Following Not Quite Hollywood, his 2008 documentary about the Australian exploitation cinema of the 1970s and 80s, writer-director Mark Hartley returns to pr... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Girlhood
The inaccurate English retitling of Céline Sciamma’s Bande de filles has led some to draw comparisons with Boyhood, but where Richard Linklater&... Read more »| 27 Apr 2015 -
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Girl Power: Céline Sciamma on Girlhood
Despite their similar titles, Girlhood is not a female version of Richard Linklater's recent coming-of-ager. Director Céline Sciamma's take on adolescence is far less cosy, but just as emotionally resonant Read more »| 27 Apr 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Junkies, dealers, swindlers, pimps and chancers, all shimmering in the dark night. As Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez did with their decidedly masculine Si... Read more »| 27 Apr 2015 -
Videos
X + Y director Morgan Matthews at Glasgow Film Festival
Director Morgan Matthews discusses his understated drama X + Y at its Scottish premiere in Glasgow. The film centres on a young maths prodigy with autism, pl... Read more »| 13 Mar 2015 -
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Small Faces cast reunite for 20th anniversary screening at Glasgow Film Festival
Tongs ya bass! Glasgow Film Festival 2015 came to a close in style on 1 Mar with a cast and crew reunion for Small Faces – which screened on ... Read more »| 05 Mar 2015