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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FilmDiscovering 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 -
Festivals
Charlie 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 -
MusicFolk 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 -
InterviewsLenny 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
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InterviewsAdam 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 -
Interviews
Guy Maddin interview: we enter The Forbidden Room
Misfit director Guy Maddin brings cinema's past to life in new film The Forbidden Room. He tells us about trying to create a sense of disinhibited wonder on ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Interviews
Agyness Deyn & Kevin Guthrie on making Sunset Song
Terence Davies' much-anticipated adaptation of Sunset Song finally reaches our screens this month. We speak to the film's stars, Agyness Deyn and Kevin Guthrie, about creating the intimacy in Davies' swooning epic Read more »| 30 Nov 2015 -
Interviews
Todd Haynes interview: bringing Carol to the screen
Todd Haynes has been making films – some of modern cinema's smartest and most daring – for nearly three decades. At this year's London Film Festival he discusses his stunning new picture, Carol, a tremulous love story between two women in 1950s New York Read more »| 10 Nov 2015 -
Interviews
Sean Baker on Tangerine and shooting on an iPhone
Tangerine is the most exciting and invigorating indie film of the year. Its director, Sean Baker, talks us through the ins and outs of creating this vivid slice-of-life comedy about two transgendre LA sex workers and capturing it all on an iPhone lens Read more »| 06 Nov 2015 -
Interviews
Saoirse Ronan on Brooklyn, family & musicals
Saoirse Ronan, Ireland's best young acting export of the last decade, heads into adult leading roles with Brooklyn, an adaptation of Colm Tóibín's beloved novel. The Skinny talks to the star about immigrant stories, career goals and doing a musical Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
Music
David Mackenzie on Starred Up Film Music Reworked
On its release last year, David Mackenzie’s Starred Up turned heads and earned plaudits for its intense portrayal of prison life. Now the film’s score has undergone the remake treatment, Mackenzie explains why he's still immersed in the music Read more »| 02 Nov 2015