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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InterviewsArmando Iannucci reflects on In the Loop
Acclaimed Scottish satirist and film director Armando Iannucci will answer fan questions in a pre-recorded interview to be shown alongside a screening of his 2009 comedy In the Loop at Restless Natives festival this week. First, we posed a few of our own Read more »| 11 May 2016 -
InterviewsRichard Linklater on Everybody Wants Some!!
Indie movie hero Richard Linklater discusses creativity, the 80s, being a jock and Everybody Wants Some!!, his ‘spiritual sequel’ to Dazed and Co... Read more »| 10 May 2016 -
MusicAndrew Hung on Fuck Buttons' future and Beth Orton
The Skinny interrupts Andrew Hung's holiday in Hong Kong to find out what makes the prolific Fuck Buttons man tick. Read more »| 09 May 2016 -
FestivalsHighlander 30th anniversary screening at EIFF
A new 4k print of Russell Mulcahy's 80s fantasy thriller will screen at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 09 May 2016 -
Interviews
Jeremy Saulnier on punks v nazis movie Green Room
Jeremy Saulnier follows up revenge thriller Blue Ruin with Green Room, a nail-biting punks v nazis siege movie. He muses on punk rock, genre labels and casti... Read more »| 06 May 2016 -
New ReleasesEverybody Wants Some!!
Richard Linklater's ‘spiritual sequel’ to Dazed and Confused is a seemingly aimless comedy but it has hidden depths At his best, Richard Linklat... Read more »| 05 May 2016
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Dvd Reviews
Pink String and Sealing Wax
Pink String and Sealing Wax's setup suggests a juicy potboiler but this melodrama from Robert Hamer fails to integrate its subplots Victorian Brighton is th... Read more »| 04 May 2016 -
Interviews
Lucile Hadžihalilović interview: Évolution
There's something lurking in the depths in Lucile Hadžihalilović's Évolution. We sat down with this deeply original French filmmaker to shine a light ... Read more »| 04 May 2016 -
Music
BEAK> on scoring Couple in a Hole
Bristolian krautrock disciples BEAK> provided a menacing and evocative score for the Pyrenees-set drama. Ahead of its screening at Restless Natives, Geoff Barrow and Billy Fuller tell us how they handled the task Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
Man with a Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov's uncategorisable masterpiece Man with a Movie Camera comes to Blu-ray from Masters of Cinema Little can be added to the praise heaped upo... Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Film Events
Northwest Film Event Highlights – May 2016
This month we've two new festivals (one celebrating TV, the other sci-fi), some audiovisual shenanigans at FACT and an opportunity to see a 13-hour epic by a French New Wave master Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
Only Angels Have Wings
Cary Grant stars in Howard Hawks' witty and tragic melodrama Only Angels Have Wings, which comes to UK Blu-ray via the Criterion Collection Hollywood giant ... Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
New Releases
Knight of Cups
Terrence Malick is back with Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman. The film's as beautiful as you'd expect, but plot a... Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Film Events
Scottish Film Event Highlights – May 2016
In Edinburgh and Glasgow's cinemas this month, catch a retrospective of cinema's great visual poet, Andrei Tarkovsky, plus the best of Ibero-American documentary and the return of the Film Folk Gathering Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
Ran
Akira Kurosawa's visually stunning take on Shakespeare's King Lear comes to Blu-ray to mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death A battle rages and the... Read more »| 02 May 2016