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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Film
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
Radu Jude's latest is a darkly comic, politically timely meta-drama following an idealistic theatre director preparing to stage a grand outdoor historical pageant based on 1941's Odessa massacre Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
Film
Christian Petzold on WWII drama Transit
Christian Petzold scrambles time and identity in his twist-filled adaptation of Anna Seghers’ WWII novel Transit. The German filmmaker tells us what period films often get wrong about the past and why he's not going to cast Steven Seagal anytime soon Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
Film
Border
Ali Abbasi’s second feature – a heady hybrid of romance, Nordic noir and supernatural fantasy – is teeming with ideas, but ends up in conflict with itself Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
Film
Styx
Cinematic migrant crisis drama set on the high seas Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
Film
Thunder Road
Jim Cummings writes, directs and stars in this wild and heartfelt story of a cop who goes into a tailspin following the death of his mother Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
Film
Alice Rohrwacher on Happy as Lazzaro: “Poetry is politics!”
Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro is one of the most imaginative films of the year. She tells us how she embraced fairytale rhythms and magic realism to tell a politically potent tale about the evils of capitalism Read more »| 19 Feb 2019
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Interviews
Richard Billingham on Ray & Liz
Celebrated British photographer Richard Billingham moves to moving image with first feature Ray & Liz, and its portrait of his own unruly family is as meticulously framed and bursting with detail as his stills. We discuss memory, influences and class Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
Film
Radu Jude on I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
Bucharest-born filmmaker Radu Jude (Aferim!) is back on blistering form with meta-fictional satire I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, following a theatre director attempting to re-stage the Odessa Massacre Read more »| 18 Feb 2019 -
Film
Philippe Lesage on his heartfelt coming of age film Genesis
Three teens take romantic leaps of the heart in Quebecois director Philippe Lesage's bruising but tender coming-of-age film Genesis Read more »| 18 Feb 2019 -
Film
Only You
Glasgow-set Only You begins like a soufflé-light rom-com, but director Harry Wootliff has something far more tender and grown-up in mind Read more »| 18 Feb 2019 -
Opinion
May Ya!: In praise of Elaine May
The four feature films by Elaine May are among the finest in American cinema, but the poor distribution of the first three and financial failure of the fourth means they're still little seen. Praise be then for GFF's heaven-sent Elaine May retrospective Read more »| 15 Feb 2019 -
Opinion
The Matrix turns 20 and technology is still to be feared
With your personal data being sold wholesale and election tampering from afar, there's never been a better time to reappraise the pop philosophy and cyberpunk kung fu of The Matrix Read more »| 15 Feb 2019 -
Opinion
Private Dicks: Under the Silver Lake and film noir
Under the Silver Lake is David Robert Mitchell's shaggy riff on the film noir, but it's hardly the first film to play with the codes of the private detective movie. Here are cinema's other feckless sleuths Read more »| 15 Feb 2019 -
Festivals
Bo Burnham on Eighth Grade, teens and the internet
Comedian and early YouTube celebrity Bo Burnham makes his writing and directing debut with Eighth Grade, a tender, funny teen movie; we speak to him about presenting kids realistically and what most films about the web miss Read more »| 14 Feb 2019 -
Reviews
An Elephant Sitting Still
Hu Bo's first and final feature is a quietly devastating reflection on the desperation of the left-behind in modern China Read more »| 11 Dec 2018