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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InterviewsCeline Song on Past Lives
Celine Song's tender drama Past Lives concerns childhood friends who become separated and then reconnect as adults. Song speaks to us about this decades-spanning love story and the nature of love itself Read more »| 05 Sep 2023 -
InterviewsIra Sachs on Passages
With Passages, Ira Sachs gives us a brutally honest drama about romantic desire centred on a married filmmaker who embarks on an extramarital relationship. Sachs tells us why he wanted to put an incredibly sensual love triangle on screen Read more »| 29 Aug 2023 -
InterviewsCINEMA DESPITE: Celebrating Scottish artists' moving image
New festival CINEMA DESPITE surveys 70 years of artists' moving image work in Scotland, including films by Luke Fowler, Margaret Tait, Henry Coombes, Margaret Salmon and Charlotte Prodger among many others. Curator Marcus Jack explains more Read more »| 28 Aug 2023 -
InterviewsEIFF 2023: Thomas Schubert on Afire
Thomas Schubert is fantastic as Leon, the self-obsessed writer at the heart of Christian Petzold’s Afire. We speak to Schubert about his affinity with his character and the experience of working with Petzold Read more »| 17 Aug 2023 -
InterviewsEIFF 2023: Rodger Griffiths on Kill
Kill, the debut feature from Rodger Griffiths, sees three brothers plan to off their abusive dad while on a hunting trip. Griffiths talks to us about shooting this lean, mean thriller, which has its world premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 15 Aug 2023 -
InterviewsEIFF 2023: Variety’s disruptive voyeurism at 40
On its 40th anniversary, Bette Gordon’s 1983 feminist classic Variety is back in cinemas. Let this subversive, sensuous neo-noir take you to the most uncomfortable places Read more »| 14 Aug 2023
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InterviewsEIFF 2023: Jeanie Finlay on Your Fat Friend
Jeanie Finlay’s intimate portrait of author Aubrey Gordon aims to make us rethink our attitude to the word 'fat'. The filmmaker explains why she wanted to document Gordon's life and activism ahead of Your Fat Friend's Scottish premiere at EIFF Read more »| 14 Aug 2023 -
InterviewsEIFF 2023: Babak Jalali on Fremont
This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival closes with Babak Jalali's Fremont. Jalali tells about his desire to make a film with empathy and compassion, but without the schmaltz Read more »| 14 Aug 2023 -
InterviewsSam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping on Femme
Directors Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping explore myriad modes of masculinity in their bristling queer thriller Femme, which sees a drag artist out to exact revenge on a homophobic thug Read more »| 31 Jul 2023 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Mark Cousins on My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
The prolific Mark Cousins returns with the mischievous documentary My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock, which sees Hitchcock looking back and commenting on his vast career. Cousins tells us how he found a fresh approach to discussing this storied filmmaker Read more »| 18 Jul 2023 -
InterviewsA New Wave: Johnny Barrington on Silent Roar
Johnny Barrington's Silent Roar is a disarmingly leftfield coming-of-age drama that makes evocative use of its setting on the Isle of Lewis. We chat with Barrington ahead of his film's premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 12 Jul 2023 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Simone Smith on The Möbius Trip
Glasgow filmmaker Simone Smith talks us through her stunning new short The Möbius Trip and her drive to make bold, uninhibited work Read more »| 07 Jun 2023 -
InterviewsTom Hardiman on one-shot whodunnit Medusa Deluxe
Medusa Deluxe, a delirious murder mystery set at a hairdressing competition, is the most original British film of the year. We chat to director Tom Hardiman about his ingenious whodunnit, which seemingly unfolds in a single-shot Read more »| 31 May 2023 -
InterviewsTina Satter on NSA whistleblower thriller Reality
Life proves stranger than fiction in Reality, Tina Satter's gripping real-time thriller about NSA whistleblower Reality Winner. Satter tells us why she wanted to dramatise Winner's life by using verbatim transcripts of her interrogation by the FBI Read more »| 30 May 2023 -
InterviewsDavy Chou on Return to Seoul
In Return to Seoul, Cambodian-French filmmaker Davy Chou tells the story of a Korean adoptee travelling to her homeland. Chou explains how the idea initially sprang from a friend's similar journey but eventually realised how personal the film was Read more »| 02 May 2023