Film
The Skinny magazine film guide. We bring you the latest new releases, UK film festivals, previews, reviews, exclusive interviews with film directors and actors, opinion pieces and film features.
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FestivalsEdinburgh Film Festival will open with Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun
The much-anticipated adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun will open EIFF, and the festival also announced that its short film prize will be named in honour of Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker Read more »| 09 May 2024 -
New ReleasesMade In England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger
This Scorsese-guided waltz through the great duo’s work is an absolute delight Read more »| 08 May 2024 -
OpinionShallow Grave is 30, and Edinburgh renting is still a nightmare
Shallow Grave is back in cinemas this month for its 30th anniversary. Looking back at this dazzling landmark in Scottish cinema, we have many thoughts, most of them concerned with the nightmare that is renting a flat in Edinburgh Read more »| 07 May 2024 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Niamh McKeown on Dinosaur
Niamh McKeown tells us how she went from making Black Swan knockoffs with her pals to working with the producers of Fleabag on her first TV show Dinosaur Read more »| 02 May 2024 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: May 2024
We look ahead to three film festivals coming your way in May: Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, The Edinburgh Folk Film Gathering and the inaugural edition of Falastin Film Festival Read more »| 01 May 2024 -
InterviewsRose Glass on Love Lies Bleeding
Saint Maud director Rose Glass is back with crime thriller/smouldering queer romance Love Lies Bleeding. She talks to us about casting Kristen Stewart as a moody antihero and explains how this tale of violence and bodybuilding was almost set in Scotland Read more »| 01 May 2024
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Interviews50 Years of Glasgow Film Theatre
With the much-loved Glasgow Film Theatre celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, we speak to some of the programmers, technical staff and front-of-house workers who help run this wonderful cinema Read more »| 29 Apr 2024 -
InterviewsPalestinian artist Noor Abed on folktales, tension and celluloid
Ahead of a retrospective of her work at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Palestinian artist Noor Abed reflects on how growing up in an occupied nation has informed her practice, which intersects performance art, folklore and filmmaking Read more »| 11 Apr 2024 -
NewsHow Cinema for Gaza channels cinephilia into activism
More huge names from the film world – including Olivia Colman, Paul Mescal, Tessa Thompson, Spike Lee and Susan Sarandon – join the Cinema for Gaza campaign, which has raised over £90,000 so far Read more »| 08 Apr 2024 -
New ReleasesClose Your Eyes
After a three-decade hiatus, Spanish master Victor Erice returns to cinemas with an exquisite, unhurried mystery film where each moment is infused with memory and melancholy Read more »| 08 Apr 2024 -
New ReleasesThe Teachers' Lounge
A series of petty thefts in a German school set off a chain of unfortunate events for a well-meaning teacher in this tightly wound drama that never quite achieves its ambitions as a parable for real-world issues Read more »| 08 Apr 2024 -
OpinionEye for Film: The greatness of Lynne Ramsay's early shorts
Ahead of the 25th-anniversary rerelease of Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher, one writer explores how Ramsay's talent for visual filmmaking was forged in her early shorts like Gasman and Small Deaths Read more »| 04 Apr 2024 -
NewsGFT's 50th Anniversary Screenings: What to See
The much-loved Glasgow Film Theatre celebrates its 50th anniversary with a wide-ranging programme of screenings, including double bills, modern classics, arthouse favourites, late-night cult movies and special 35mm and 70mm presentations Read more »| 03 Apr 2024 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: April 2024
Film clubs, short films and a retrospective on Glasgow's own Lynne Ramsay all feature in April's film events round-up Read more »| 01 Apr 2024 -
New ReleasesEvil Does Not Exist
Evil Does Not Exist, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's follow up to Drive My Car, is another unconventionally but entirely beguiling work from this talented Japanese director Read more »| 01 Apr 2024