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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InterviewsMackenzie's Crooks: David Mackenzie on Starred Up
Director David Mackenzie tells us about working with up-and-coming star Jack O’Connell and the search for authenticity in his powerful prison drama Starred Up Read more »| 06 Mar 2014 -
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Sorcerer
A financial flop lost in the Star Wars summer of 1977, William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, long plagued by legal problems regarding distribution in its comple... Read more »| 06 Mar 2014 -
New ReleasesDrinking Buddies
Joe Swanberg chooses to mash his gently balanced mumble-com Drinking Buddies in a Chicago microbrewery, where marketing manager Kate, rendered in baggy vests... Read more »| 05 Mar 2014 -
Opinion
Hero Worship: Filmmaker Joe Cottrell-Boyce on Andrea Arnold
Filmmaker Joe Cottrell-Boyce sings the praises of Andrea Arnold and the empathy she shows to her heartbreakingly real characters Read more »| 04 Mar 2014 -
New ReleasesWhite Dog
The latest film to be given the Eureka Masters of Cinema love and care is Sam Fuller’s misunderstood and primitive parable White Dog. Scripted by Curti... Read more »| 04 Mar 2014 -
Interviews
Diego Quemada-Díez on The Golden Dream
To mark the 20th edition of ¡Viva!, the UK's largest celebration of Spanish and Spanish-speaking Latin American cinema, we speak to Diego Quemada-Díez, a filmmaker whose debut film is one of the standout titles in this year's programme Read more »| 04 Mar 2014
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InterviewsAussie Rules: Ted Kotcheff reflects on his 1971 classic Wake in Fright
Ahead of the reissue of Wake in Fright, a blistering study of Outback machismo from 1971, we speak to its director Ted Kotcheff about the film's shoot in Broken Hill, New South Wales Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
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The Tale of Iya
Iya is a place, not a person, although it comes to be one over a 169 minute running time which never overstays its welcome. This is the astonishing second fi... Read more »| 01 Mar 2014 -
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CineSkinny Awards 2014
As GFF14 comes to a close, we look back at another successful festival and hand out some of the coveted CineSkinny awards. Who needs the Oscars? Read more »| 01 Mar 2014 -
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Locke
If the close-up is cinema’s most powerful tool, not to be overused, tell director Steven Knight, who focuses intently of the face of Tom Hardy in this ... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
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Directors, Cut: Jake West on Draconian Days
The horror genre has long been plagued by issues of censorship. Director Jake West exhumes its history in his latest film Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
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Far Eastwood: Japan remakes Hollywood
Hollywood isn't the only part of the world with a penchant for remakes, as the Japanese adaptation of Unforgiven reveals Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
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The Golden Dream
The Golden Dream is the debut feature by Mexican director Diego Quemada-Díez, previously a cinematographer and camera operator on 21 Grams and The Con... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
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Mistaken for Strangers
On the surface, Mistaken for Strangers would seem to be a standard tour rockumentary, in this case following Ohio indie outfit The National during the mainst... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
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At Home in The Dark: FrightFest at GFF14
The festival might be in its closing days, but this year's FrightFest line-up shows the thrills are far from over Read more »| 27 Feb 2014