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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FestivalsThe Pass
BFI Southbank's LGBT film festival Flare kicked off in fine style last night with The Pass, a sharp and richly emotional drama about a closeted Premier Leagu... Read more »| 17 Mar 2016 -
Dvd ReviewsThe City of Lost Children
Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's cult classic The City of Lost Children comes to Blu-ray It’s Christmas Eve and a young child beams as Santa slides ... Read more »| 16 Mar 2016 -
InterviewsFive Great Short Filmmakers & Five to See at GSFF
Glasgow Short Film Festival director, Matt Lloyd, suggests five great filmmakers making short films and we choose our picks from this year's Glasgow Short Film Festival programme. Read more »| 14 Mar 2016 -
Interviews
Scott Graham on Iona
Scott Graham follows up 2012's Shell with Iona, another wind-swept rural tale of familial malcontent, this time set on the elemental Hebridean island of the ... Read more »| 14 Mar 2016 -
Interviews
Gavin Scott Whitfield interview
Gavin Scott Whitfield is a vibrant new voice in British independent filmmaking. His shorts are vivid and humane portraits of outsiders and the vulnerable in today's society. We speak to him ahead of a showcase of his work at HOME in Manchester Read more »| 10 Mar 2016 -
Interviews
Jean-Pierre Jeunet: "It was easy to make Amélie"
Visionary French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet on the epic sets of The City of Lost Children, the freedom of Alien: Resurrection and painting his own version o... Read more »| 09 Mar 2016
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Cineskinny
Peace Officer
Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber's Peace Office is a timely documentary investigating the militarisation of law enforcement in America’s police for... Read more »| 08 Mar 2016 -
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The Clan
Pablo Trapero’s real-life Argentinian drama is at once a thrilling and haunting look at the country's dark history Read more »| 08 Mar 2016 -
New Releases
Celebrating the Cinematography of The Witch
Ahead of its UK release, we take a look at the wickedly good visuals of period horror film The Witch via stills from the film and onset photography. The Wit... Read more »| 08 Mar 2016 -
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One Floor Below
In this slow-burn thriller from Romanian director Radu Muntean, a bourgeois family man is left with a moral conundrum Read more »| 08 Mar 2016 -
Opinion
Most Exciting Women Directors of the Last Decade
To mark International Women's Day, we take the opportunity to sing the praises of 14 of the most talented female filmmakers to have emerged over the last decade. Read more »| 07 Mar 2016 -
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16 Years Till Summer
Simple but powerful documentary Read more »| 07 Mar 2016 -
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Bridgend
Haunting drama portraying the ecstasy and nihilism of youth in Bridgend, a Welsh town that has been rocked by its real-life epidemic of teen suicides Read more »| 07 Mar 2016 -
CineskinnyThe Daughter
Geoffrey Rush and Paul Schneider star in this familial drama inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck The Daughter begins with a father-son tension. A... Read more »| 07 Mar 2016 -
Interviews
Bryan M Ferguson on Caustic Gulp and Flamingo
Chlorine cults and masochistic online dating: welcome to the strange and compelling world of Skinny Short Film Award winner Bryan M Ferguson Read more »| 07 Mar 2016