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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CineskinnyQuiet Revolution: Haifaa al-Mansour on Wadjda
"The ultimate goal is just to make a film, not to create conflict with people" – Haifaa al-Mansour Read more »| 18 Jul 2013 -
Dvd ReviewsPost Tenebras Lux
Many interpreted Silent Light’s Dreyer-referencing classicism as indicative of a shift in Carlos Reygadas’ methods; a shake-up that would temper ... Read more »| 15 Jul 2013 -
Interviews
Persona non Greta: Greta Gerwig on Frances Ha
In the last few years Greta Gerwig has graduated from the queen of the lo-fi mumblecore movement to US indie's most exciting young actor. We speak to the Californian about her brilliant new film Frances Ha Read more »| 15 Jul 2013 -
New Releases
Citadel
With ominous guitar chords, piercing shrieks and howls featuring heavily throughout, Citadel is uncomfortable viewing at the best of times. The film opens wi... Read more »| 12 Jul 2013 -
FestivalsFrances Ha
Frances (Gerwig) is in freefall. At the grand old age of 27, her hopes of becoming a professional dancer hang by a ballet pump. She’s broke, has no per... Read more »| 12 Jul 2013 -
CineskinnyWadjda
Wadjda is the simple tale of a ten year-old girl whose only desire is to buy a bicycle so she can race with her friends. This précis admittedly sugges... Read more »| 12 Jul 2013
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Festivals
Baltasar Kormákur on The Deep
Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur returns to his home nation for The Deep, a true life tale of survival on the high seas. We spoke to Kormákur while he was in Edinburgh for the city's International Film Festival Read more »| 12 Jul 2013 -
New Releases
Pacific Rim
Fantasy man Guillermo del Toro’s latest, Pacific Rim, is a large-scale love letter to Japanese sci-fi, but also an accessible blockbuster imbued w... Read more »| 11 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
EIFF 2013: The Complex (Kuroyuri danchi)
Once a feted pioneer of the horror genre (thanks primarily to Ringu’s ground-breaking success), a series of missteps has since seen Hideo Nakata’... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
EIFF 2013: Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
Bizarre doesn’t begin to cover Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari’s collection of wild and weird vignettes, filmed on location with the Mari peop... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
EIFF 2013: Consequence (Gegenwart)
Despite its English title, a sense of consequence – indeed, causality of any kind – is absent from German director Thomas Heise’s subtle do... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
EIFF 2013: Natan
When a person is murdered and the body burned, all that is left is a name and a sum total of everything said about them; distort the shape of their life's ou... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
Felicity Jones on Breathe In
Rising star Felicity Jones talks to us about Breathe In, her second collaboration with Like Crazy director Drake Doremus Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
OpinionHero Worship: Sam Raimi
Edgar Wright, director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and the forthcoming The World's End, enthuses about his filmmaking idol, Sam Raimi Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
New Releases
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Arriving in cinemas just after the NSA surveillance scandal and the one-year anniversary of Julian Assange's stay in the Ecuadorian embassy, the release of W... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013