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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FilmThe Painted Bird
The Painted Bird might be difficult to endure, but even harder to ignore Read more »| 27 Feb 2020 -
FilmCook 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 -
OpinionHow we watch movies in the age of streaming
Not a year goes by without some blowhard predicting the death of cinema, but in 2020, the dominance of streaming platforms is becoming hard to ignore. Join us at GFF to discuss how we watch films in the age of streaming Read more »| 20 Feb 2020 -
OpinionDystopian Sci-fi at Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Hoping for a bright, shiny future with flying cars and labour-saving technology? Glasgow Film Festival's daily retrospective suggests some less upbeat possibilities for humanity Read more »| 19 Feb 2020 -
FilmSimon 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 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2020: Our Top Ten Films
Family feuds, apocalyptic absurdism and hard-hitting historical drama – here are our picks from the GFF programme Read more »| 31 Jan 2020
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FilmLiving the Light – Robby Müller
The great Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller is celebrated in poetic new documentary Living the Light Read more »| 16 Mar 2019 -
FilmDo No Harm (fka Eminent Monsters)
The dark legacy of Scottish-born psychiatrist Dr Ewen Cameron is explored in Do No Harm Read more »| 16 Mar 2019 -
FilmSauvage
Camille Vidal Naquet's feature debut is the bruising and beautiful tale of a Strasbourg street hustler Read more »| 15 Mar 2019 -
FilmUnder the Silver Lake
Andrew Garfield leads us down a rabbit hole in David Robert Mitchell's dreamy, gorgeous and at times baffling LA neo-noir Read more »| 12 Mar 2019 -
FilmGuy 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 -
FilmCarol 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 -
FilmGFF19: Arctic
Mads Mikkelsen is excellent in this survivalist thriller following a man stranded in the Arctic Read more »| 06 Mar 2019 -
FestivalsThe best of Glasgow Film Festival 2019: Our Picks
Our writers look back at their highlights from the Glasgow Film Festival, with favorite films including a Nordic fantasy, an Indian action comedy, and music films about the Soviet rock movement and 90s rave culture in West Lothian Read more »| 06 Mar 2019 -
FilmGFF19: Vox Lux
Brady Corbet's sophomore feature is as confident and ambitious as his brilliant debut The Childhood of a Leader, but it's thrown off course by Natalie Portman's shallow performance as a cynical pop star Read more »| 04 Mar 2019