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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InterviewsOwen Kline on Funny Pages
Wanna feel old? Owen Kline, who played the onanistic younger brother in The Squid and the Whale, is making movies now. His debut feature, Funny Pages, is a bleakly hilarious dive into the world of underground comic books. Kline tells us more Read more »| 12 Sep 2022 -
InterviewsTake One Action returns for its 15th edition
Take One Action, Scotland's festival for social change, is back for its 15th edition. The festival is more compact this year but it's as radical and hopeful for our future as ever. We caught up with festival programmer Xuanlin Tham to find out more Read more »| 02 Sep 2022 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Alan Cumming and Jono McLeod on My Old School
Jono McLeod's My Old School takes us back to the 90s for the stranger-than-fiction story of how Bearsden Academy student Brandon Lee became the most notorious schoolboy in Britain. Alan Cumming lip-syncs to Lee's testimony Read more »| 12 Aug 2022 -
FestivalsAntonia Campbell-Hughes on It Is in Us All
We delve into the dark psychological thriller It Is in Us All with Irish filmmaker Antonia Campbell-Hughes, who directed, wrote, and acted in the film Read more »| 10 Aug 2022 -
InterviewsCooking With Gas: Peter Strickland on Flux Gourmet
Avant-garde sonic caterers? Nipple-twisting kinks? The melancholy of flatulence? You'll find all and more in Flux Gourmet from Peter Strickland, one of the most visionary voices in British cinema Read more »| 09 Aug 2022 -
InterviewsEIFF 2022: Amanda Kramer interview
Amanda Kramer brings not one but two jaw-dropping films to EIFF this year, Please Baby Please and Give Me Pity! She talks to us about embracing theatricality, bringing an art school cool back to cinema and the iconic awesomeness of Terminator 2 Read more »| 09 Aug 2022
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FestivalsKim Knowles on EIFF retrospective Reframing the Gaze
Kim Knowles introduces EIFF's Reframing the Gaze retrospective which responds to the 50th anniversary of the festival's legendary 1972 Women’s Event Read more »| 09 Aug 2022 -
InterviewsEIFF 2022: Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson on A Cat Called Dom
Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson, whether as a duo or going solo, have long been two of the most exciting filmmakers working in Scotland. They make their feature debut with A Cat Called Dom, a thrilling blend of animation, doc and meta-fiction Read more »| 08 Aug 2022 -
InterviewsPanah Panahi on his debut feature, Hit the Road
Iranian filmmaker Panah Panahi – the son of Jafar Panahi – makes his debut with bittersweet family road movie Hit the Road. He speaks to us about creating cinema within Iran's oppressive regime and the importance of combining heartbreak with humour Read more »| 19 Jul 2022 -
FestivalsScotland on Screen: EIFF Creative Director Kristy Matheson
After 13 years of taking place in June, Edinburgh International Film Festival is moving back to join the August festivities. Ahead of EIFF's programme launch, we chat to Kristy Matheson, the Creative Director overseeing the festival's new era Read more »| 11 Jul 2022 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Mark Lyken on Notes From a Low Orbit
During a six-month residency with Alchemy Film & Arts, Mark Lyken developed Notes from a Low Orbit, a feature-length study of Hawick in the Scottish Borders, where Alchemy is based. Lyken reflects on making the film and its rapturous hometown premiere Read more »| 16 Jun 2022 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Jack Lowden on Benediction
From that infamous Irn-Bru ad to his current role in spy thriller Slow Horses, Jack Lowden has always been a sparky and compelling screen presence. We speak to him about his finest performance yet, as tortured war poet Siegfried Sassoon in Benediction Read more »| 09 May 2022 -
InterviewsThe Price is Right: The soulful short films of James Price
Ahead of our retrospective of short films by talented Glasgow filmmaker James Price, we look at what makes 'The Springburn Scorsese' so special Read more »| 05 May 2022 -
InterviewsJuho Kuosmanen on Compartment No.6
Juho Kuosmanen's new film Compartment No.6 has been described as Finland's answer to Before Sunrise. We chat to this talented young filmmaker about this spiky, complex and rather delightful romantic drama Read more »| 11 Apr 2022 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Bryan M. Ferguson
We catch up with Bryan M. Ferguson, one of the most distinct voices on the Scottish short film scene, to discuss his ridiculously prolific filmmaking practice and hear about his planned coming-of-age feature set in a funeral home Read more »| 25 Mar 2022