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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CineskinnyExhibition
After two impressive features that established Joanna Hogg as a distinctive voice in British cinema, her third film, Exhibition, finds the filmmake... Read more »| 18 Apr 2014 -
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Richard Ayoade on The Double: Video interview at Glasgow Film Festival
Richard Ayoade follows up Submarine with The Double, a nightmarish adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella of the same name. It stars Jesse Eisenber... Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
CineskinnyThe Past
After experiencing the near-perfect construction of Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning A Separation and his belatedly released About Elly, one might be inclined ... Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
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Tom at the Farm
In its setup and execution, Tom at the Farm, the fourth film from Québécois wonderkid Xavier Dolan, is pure Polanski. The title character (play... Read more »| 19 Mar 2014 -
VideosRoger Christian on Black Angel: Video interview at Glasgow Film Festival
Black Angel, a 25 minute short made in Scotland by legendary British art director Roger Christian (Alien, Star Wars), has become a piece of celluloid folklor... Read more »| 19 Mar 2014 -
CineskinnyThe Double
Richard Ayoade deftly crafts humanist comedy from dark, Kafkaesque absurdity in his Dostoyevsky adaptation The Double. Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg... Read more »| 19 Mar 2014
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Starred Up
A star is born in Starred Up. From the minute Jack O’Connell swaggers onscreen he electrifies the picture with the kind of fearless and commanding perf... Read more »| 17 Mar 2014 -
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Terry Gilliam on The Zero Theorem: Video interview at Glasgow Film Festival
We caught up with Terry Gilliam at Glasgow Film Festival ahead of the Scottish premiere of The Zero Theorem to talk about the film and some of the concepts w... Read more »| 13 Mar 2014 -
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The Meaning of Life: Terry Gilliam on the Zero Theorem
We get philosophical with director Terry Gilliam ahead of the Scottish premiere of his latest film at the Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 12 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
Sorcerer
A financial flop lost in the Star Wars summer of 1977, William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, long plagued by legal problems regarding distribution in its comple... Read more »| 06 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
The Tale of Iya
Iya is a place, not a person, although it comes to be one over a 169 minute running time which never overstays its welcome. This is the astonishing second fi... Read more »| 01 Mar 2014 -
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CineSkinny Awards 2014
As GFF14 comes to a close, we look back at another successful festival and hand out some of the coveted CineSkinny awards. Who needs the Oscars? Read more »| 01 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
Locke
If the close-up is cinema’s most powerful tool, not to be overused, tell director Steven Knight, who focuses intently of the face of Tom Hardy in this ... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
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Directors, Cut: Jake West on Draconian Days
The horror genre has long been plagued by issues of censorship. Director Jake West exhumes its history in his latest film Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
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Far Eastwood: Japan remakes Hollywood
Hollywood isn't the only part of the world with a penchant for remakes, as the Japanese adaptation of Unforgiven reveals Read more »| 28 Feb 2014