Interviews

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Last year, The Skinny teamed up with Innis & Gunn to launch a competition to find the best micro-budget short film (a short film produced for less than &... Read more »

With their respective debut short films, Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson seemed to pick up more silverware on the festival circuit than the US team do at the Olympics. They're both in the director's chair for new collaboration Monkey Love Experiments Read more »