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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CineskinnyPhoenix Rises: George Sluizer on River Phoenix's final film Dark Blood
Director George Sluizer discusses his 1993 film Dark Blood, which makes its UK premiere at GFF two decades after production stoped when its young star, River Phoenix, died Read more »| 24 Feb 2014 -
CineskinnyThe Choice to See: Salvo
Salvo co-director Antonio Piazza waxes lyrical about the meaning and mysteries behind his thoughtful debut Read more »| 23 Feb 2014 -
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The Heart of Bruno Wizard
Cultural histories are inevitably filled with the non-descript attempts by the unlucky, untalented and generally pathetic to grasp the attention/fame/securit... Read more »| 23 Feb 2014 -
Cineskinny1939 Continued
We look beyond the Best Picture Oscar nominees that make up GFF's ace Hooray for Hollywood strand and pick some of the other gems from 1939 Read more »| 23 Feb 2014 -
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Driver
Steven Knight's Locke represents an 'anti-genre' of films that uses just one figure to explore the human condition Read more »| 23 Feb 2014 -
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The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears
This bastard child of Argento and Dali had audience members streaming out of its Toronto festival screening, as those expecting something comparable to Berbe... Read more »| 23 Feb 2014
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Based on the bestselling novel by Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man – let’s call it that for short – chronicles the fanciful escapa... Read more »| 23 Feb 2014 -
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The Dance of Reality
For a man with a huge cult following and clear influence on many filmmakers, the Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky has actually made very few film... Read more »| 22 Feb 2014 -
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Jia Zhangke: Tales of Truth in Modern China
Jia Zhangke's films all comment on the state of modern China; his latest, A Touch of Sin, could be the most controversial yet Read more »| 22 Feb 2014 -
Cineskinny20 Feet from Stardom
Morgan Neville has roped in an impressive rostrum of superstars as talking heads for this lively music doc – Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Won... Read more »| 22 Feb 2014 -
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The Lön Rängers – Jessica Oreck on Aatsinki: The Arctic Cowboys
Jessica Oreck discusses her unique experience making Aatsinki: The Arctic Cowboys Read more »| 21 Feb 2014 -
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Salvo
Cutting a scene a little long can render it dull; somehow, elongating it further leads to intrigue. So what of Salvo, a Sicilian hitman tale, which stretches... Read more »| 21 Feb 2014 -
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Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys
The Aatsinki brothers, Aarne and Lasse are men of very few words, but even if they were to wax lyrical about their lives as reindeer herders (”poromies... Read more »| 21 Feb 2014 -
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Blue Ruin
Blue Ruin is a revenge film filled with enough unpredictability to keep your attention and violence that serves the story rather than being gratuitous &ndash... Read more »| 21 Feb 2014 -
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Run & Jump
Run & Jump is a story of family devotion, disease and dysfunction: all things that can, at times, challenge even the best of us. The story unfolds initia... Read more »| 20 Feb 2014