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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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TravelAs Seen on Screen: Glasgow and Edinburgh in Film
As Glasgow Film Festival enters its final throes, our Glasgow and Edinburgh Venues editors take the opportunity to highlight a selection of visitable local venues that have appeared on the big screen Read more »| 26 Feb 2015 -
VideosYasmin Fedda discusses new film Queens of Syria at Glasgow Film Festival 2015
At the UK premiere of her new film Queens of Syria at Glasgow Film Festival, director Yasmin Fedda discusses the film's conception and the experien... Read more »| 26 Feb 2015 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: The Falling
Carol Morley’s woozy, eerie, 1969-set girls’ school mystery has proved divisive on the festival circuit – at London Film Festival, where it... Read more »| 26 Feb 2015 -
FestivalsCineDaily – 25 Feb: Girlhood, Land Ho!, today's reviews and more
Surprise... It’s Wednesday of the second week of Glasgow Film Festival, so that can mean only one thing: it’s Surprise Movie time! This is my f... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Dearest
Based on one specific real life incident, Chinese drama Dearest concerns the aftermath of a child abduction in Shenzhen, China. Starting in 2009, Peter Chan&... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Force Majeure
A Swedish family are on a ski holiday in the French Alps. Everything seems to be going great for Tomas (Kuhnke), Ebba (Kongsli) and their two kids. That is, ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015
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Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Man from Reno
Tired of her latest book tour, crime novelist Aki (Fujitani) high-tails it from Japan to San Francisco for some peace and quiet. There she meets a seductive ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Life in a Fishbowl
Icelandic ensemble drama Life in a Fishbowl follows three wildly different people, whose lives (and double lives) intersect in strange ways, exploring the ro... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015 -
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Big Country: Aaron Katz on Iceland road movie Land Ho!
Aaron Katz swaps the aimless 20-somethings of his earlier films for a pair of 60-somethings, who turn out to be similarly directionless, in his joyous comedy Land Ho! Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
Videos
William McIlvanney talks about his life as a writer at Glasgow Film Festival 2015
William McIlvanney provided a classic Glasgow Film Festival Q&A following the premiere of Maurice O’Brien’s Living with Words, which profiles... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
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A glimpse of the Cat Video Festival at Glasgow Film Festival 2015
Who can resist a good cat video? Not many of you apparently, judging by the emphatic turnout at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art on 21 Feb for the UK pre... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
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CineDaily – 23 Feb: Mommy, William McIlvanney, today's reviews and more
Who needs the Oscars? So, now that the Oscars are over everyone can start getting excited about the real highlight of the awards season: the CineSkinny awar... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Spring
The sophomore feature from directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, Spring is a body horror tale for the hopeless romantic.Stuck in a personal tailspin af... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Pictures of the Old World
Dušan Hanák’s award-winning documentary, available with English subtitles for the first time, examines the lives of elderly villagers in ... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Wake in Fright
Ted Kotcheff would go on to chalk up major hits with the likes of First Blood and Weekend at Bernie's, but it's this rarely seen gem from 1971 that stands as... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015