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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InterviewsInner 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 -
VideosX + 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 -
VideosBehind the Scenes of Misery Guts: Rory Alexander Stewart and Cast
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 »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
Simian Stop Motion: Interview with Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson
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 »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
Sci-Fi on a Shoestring: Skinny Short Film Competition-winner Rory Alexander Stewart
Rory Alexander Stewart, winner of The Skinny's inaugural Short Film Competition, tells us how he made prize-winner Good Girl ahead of its follow-up's world premiere at Glasgow Short Film Festival Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
Taking Us on Journeys: Kim Longinotto
Kim Loginotto brings two typically great films to GFF – archive film Love is All and Sundance-winner Dreamcatcher. The British documentarian reveals how these two very different films came to fruition Read more »| 27 Feb 2015
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Festivals
Big Country: Aaron Katz on Iceland road movie Land Ho!
Aaron Katz swaps the aimless 20-somethings of his earlier films for a pair of 60-somethings, who turn out to be similarly directionless, in his joyous comedy Land Ho! Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
Videos
Cliff Curtis discusses triumphant biopic The Dark Horse at Glasgow Film Festival
New Zealand actor Cliff Curtis, best known for his roles in Whale Rider and Once Were Warriors, is a commanding presence in The Dark Horse, which tells the t... Read more »| 22 Feb 2015 -
Interviews
Dreaming Bigger, Screaming Louder: Xavier Dolan on Mommy
Québécois firecracker Xavier Dolan says he sees cinema as revenge against the mundanities of everyday life. With his brilliant new melodrama Mommy, that revenge is served piping hot Read more »| 22 Feb 2015 -
InterviewsSaluting Hollywood's Maverick: Ron Mann and Kathryn Reed Altman discuss the Nashville director
Altman director Ron Mann and Kathryn Reed Altman discuss the "Indestructible" filmmaking force of nature, Robert Altman Read more »| 19 Feb 2015 -
Interviews
Girls Behaving Badly: Desiree Akhavan on Appropriate Behaviour
It's not in every debut that you find a bisexual Iranian woman angrily brandishing a strap-on in public – but you'll find this and more in Desiree Akhavan's boundary-pushing comedy Appropriate Behaviour. Just don't call her the new Lena Dunham Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
FestivalsLove and Death: David Robert Mitchell on horror movie It Follows
David Robert Mitchell tells us how he turned his childhood dream into indelible cinematic nightmare It Follows Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
Interviews
Esoteric Horror at GFF 2015
Are we going through a mini horror renaissance? Upcoming releases, including inventive slasher It Follows and allegorical animal-uprising oddity White God, suggest a resounding yes Read more »| 10 Feb 2015 -
Interviews
Role Play: Director Peter Strickland on his latest unconventional project
Peter Strickland, the director of Berberian Sound Studio and Katalin Varga, is back bending genre and defying expectations with his new film, The Duke of Burgundy. Much to some YouTube commenters' annoyance, it's not about some French dude Read more »| 09 Feb 2015 -
Music
Variations on a Theme: John Carpenter interviewed
'The Master of Fear' John Carpenter meditates on recording Lost Themes, going digital, and who should be the next Snake Plissken (spoiler: nobody) Read more »| 30 Jan 2015