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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InterviewsJean-Pierre Jeunet: "It was easy to make Amélie"
Visionary French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet on the epic sets of The City of Lost Children, the freedom of Alien: Resurrection and painting his own version o... Read more »| 09 Mar 2016 -
InterviewsBryan M Ferguson on Caustic Gulp and Flamingo
Chlorine cults and masochistic online dating: welcome to the strange and compelling world of Skinny Short Film Award winner Bryan M Ferguson Read more »| 07 Mar 2016 -
InterviewsGlasgow Short Film Festival: Time to get Transgressive
Glasgow Short Film Festival is back, and it's proposing all film schools be blown up and all boring films never made again. Director Matt Lloyd tells us more Read more »| 04 Mar 2016 -
Festivals
Pablo Larraín on The Club you don't want to join
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín continues to scratch at his nation's dark past with fifth feature The Club, a chilling study of guilt and punishment f... Read more »| 01 Mar 2016 -
Film
Deniz Gamze Ergüven on Mustang
Deniz Gamze Ergüven ruffles feathers with her spiky coming-of-age tale following five young girls who are demonised in a remote Turkish village. She discusses the controversy Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
Film
Miguel Gomes on three-part epic Arabian Nights
Fantasy and reality blend in Miguel Gomes's epic three-part remix of Scheherazade’s Arabian Nights folktales. We gather round the campfire with the Por... Read more »| 21 Feb 2016
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Film
Discovering Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier was a celebrated auteur in his day, but the Frenchman's work and reputation has slipped from our view. Glasgow Film Festival's mini-retrospective hopes to give a boost to this filmmaker ripe for rediscovery Read more »| 16 Feb 2016 -
Festivals
Jerzy Skolimowski: “I’m making films I want to see”
Veteran director Jerzy Skolimowski returns to his native Poland for 11 Minutes, a fragmented thriller concerned with chance and cosmic timing. We find the 77... Read more »| 15 Feb 2016 -
FestivalsCharlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson on Anomalisa
Charlie Kaufman is the king of the oddball movie premise, but he plays it relatively straight with new film Anomalisa. The surprise comes from the fact it's ... Read more »| 10 Feb 2016 -
InterviewsBen Wheatley on High-Rise
With his latest movie, Ben Wheatley takes on JG Ballard science-fiction classic High-Rise. Ahead of the film's screening at Glasgow Film Festival, the genre ... Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
Music
Folk Like Us: Aidan Moffat on Where You're Meant to Be
It may have started life as a tour diary – a celebration of traditional Scottish folk music, looking for a story – but as Aidan Moffat explains, new film Where You’re Meant to Be discovers much more Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Interviews
Lenny Abrahamson interview: on Room and the Oscars
Irish writer-director Lenny Abrahamson is known for his small-scale, dryly funny films, but he's come under a new level of scrutiny with his latest movie Roo... Read more »| 13 Jan 2016 -
Interviews
Adam McKay on The Big Short
Will Ferrell's regular collaborator Adam McKay gets serious with The Big Short, a star-studded and angry look back at the financial meltdown of 2008. We're pleased to report his latest film still has plenty of laughs. McKay talks comedy and the crash Read more »| 11 Jan 2016 -
Interviews
Glasgow Film Festival: Meet the Team
What does it take to put on a film festival? We meet four of the cogs in the machine that is Glasgow Film Festival, one of our favourite UK film events, and find out how their roles help shape the festival. It's not just watching movies, you know! Read more »| 16 Dec 2015 -
Interviews
Terence Davies interview: making Sunset Song
Terence Davies has been trying to adapt Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic Scottish novel Sunset Song for over 15 years. We catch up with the Liverpudlian filmmaker on the eve of its release to find out why he persevered to bring it to the screen Read more »| 08 Dec 2015