Interviews
Immerse yourself in behind the scene brilliance with The Skinny’s film interviews. Directors, actors, musicians, and more share their stories and artistic approaches to film. You’ll also find interviews with film festival producers.
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InterviewsAudio Terror: Carnival of Souls at HOME
There are several great cinema screenings and events at HOME over its opening weekend, but perhaps the most innovative is one in which the film has been removed from the equation. Welcome to the audio-only adaptation of 1962 horror Carnival of Souls Read more »| 20 May 2015 -
InterviewsPast and Present: Olivier Assayas on Clouds of Sils Maria
Olivier Assayas's new film centres on a middle-age movie star (played by Juliette Binoche) who's reassessing her place in the showbiz world. The French director discusses this new feature, and working with Binoche and her co-star Kristen Stewart Read more »| 14 May 2015 -
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Genre-bender: François Ozon on comic thriller The New Girlfriend
François Ozon's new film, The New Girlfriend, is another of the French provocateurs playful studies of genre and gender. We find out what makes this mischievous filmmaker tick Read more »| 07 May 2015 -
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Keeping It Reel: HOME's artistic director of film, Jason Wood
Ahead of HOME's grand launch, we pick the brains of new artistic director of film Jason Wood, who reveals his ambitions for the cinema programme at the freshly minted arts venue Read more »| 04 May 2015 -
InterviewsLouder than Words: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy on The Tribe
Set in a boarding school for deaf teens, there is no spoken dialogue in The Tribe, the latest from Ukrainian filmmaker Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, but it still makes a bold statement Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
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Mistaken Identity: Christian Petzold on Phoenix
The collaboration between German director Christian Petzold and Nina Hoss, his go-to leading lady, has proved one of the most artistically fruitful in contemporary cinema. The Petzold discusses their latest film, Phoenix Read more »| 29 Apr 2015
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Festivals
What the Folk?: Folk Film Gathering 2015
“Is there a folk cinema?” Jamie Chambers, curator the Folk Film Gathering, the world’s first festival of folk cinema, considers this question Read more »| 28 Apr 2015 -
FestivalsGirl 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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The enduring influence of David Lynch's Twin Peaks
It's been 24 years since Twin Peaks was cancelled, but such is its influence it feels like it's never been away. With recent talk of new episodes and an upcoming conference devoted to the series, we delve back inside its surreal world Read more »| 21 Apr 2015 -
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“I want to be unpredictable”: Roy Andersson Interview
A filmmaker sat on a chair reflecting on cinema – we speak to deadpan poet Roy Andersson about his new film and the human condition Read more »| 21 Apr 2015 -
InterviewsSchool Daze: Carol Morley on The Falling
A fainting epidemic befalls a strict girls' school in 60s Britain in The Falling. Director Carol Morley invites you into this balmy world of teenage secrets and mass hysteria Read more »| 09 Apr 2015 -
Interviews
Masculinity in Crisis: Ruben Östlund on Force Majeure
A perfect bourgeois family is rocked to its core in relationship-in-crisis drama Force Majeure. Director Ruben Östlund describes how his pin-sharp black comedy dissects perceptions of masculinity with laser-like precision Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
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Hipster Takedown: Noah Baumbach on While We're Young
While We're Young, the wise and witty new comedy from Noah Baumbach, throws a Gen X couple into Brooklyn's twenty-something hipster milieu. The Frances Ha director explains why young people both thrill and terrify him Read more »| 30 Mar 2015 -
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Inner Lives: Onscreen disability in Eskil Vogt's Blind
As Sundance prize-winner Blind makes its way to UK cinemas, its writer-director explains how he found humour in his harrowing subject matter and why Al Pacino's Oscar-winning turn in Scent of a Woman is the epitome of bad blind acting Read more »| 25 Mar 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