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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CineskinnyGFF 2013: Pablo's Winter
A sustained and intimate portrait absent of cameras or crew, Pablo’s Winter is a documentary posing as fiction. This considered, some of the pithy exch... Read more »| 17 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Breakfast with Curtis
Breakfast with Curtis began life when painter and publisher Theo Green made a series of quirky YouTube videos with teenager Jonah Parker. These vignettes hav... Read more »| 16 Feb 2013 -
CineskinnyGFF 2013: Songs for Amy
Konrad Begg’s debut feature concerns a low-rent songsmith, Sean (Maguire), who inadvertently leaves his bride-to-be, Amy (Lorna Anderson), strande... Read more »| 16 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Margaret Tait, Film Poet
This unassuming documentary from Glasgow Women’s Library is a short and sweet introduction to Scottish filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait. Since her deat... Read more »| 16 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Strings
For a teenager to do anything other than get smashed all day and draw their name on bus stops is pretty impressive. Writing, directing and shooting a feature... Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
CineskinnyGFF 2013: The Final Member
The proud owner of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, Sigurður Hjartarson suffers from a peculiar form of penis envy. His collection could rightly be de... Read more »| 15 Feb 2013
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Local Heroes: Nick Higgins on We Are Northern Lights
Scotland’s first ever mass participation film project, We Are Northern Lights, has its world première at GFF. We spoke to Nick Higgins, the driving force behind the venture Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
CineskinnyCinema's Outer Limits: preview of Crossing the Line @ GFF 2013
We preview Crossing the Line, the GFF strand where movies escape the restraints of traditional genres and narratives Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
CineskinnyNight Movies: Daniel Warren on Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Director Daniel Warren talks to us about creating the moving image element of groundbreaking cross-disciplinary arts project Whatever Gets You Through the Night Read more »| 14 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Populaire
Glasgow Film Festival 2013 opens with Populaire, Régis Roinsard's French take on the Pygmalion myth. Sure to appeal to those with a taste in gend... Read more »| 14 Feb 2013 -
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Opinion: Dear Hollywood
After years of substandard rom-coms we kick Hollywood to the kerb in favour of an exotic stranger Read more »| 14 Feb 2013 -
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Robert Florence on the 'Golden Age of Gaming'
Gaming guru Robert Florence talks about life, games, and what it is to press multi-coloured buttons for a living Read more »| 11 Feb 2013 -
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The We and the I
It's the last day of school and a horde of chattering adolescents squeeze on to a Bronx-bound bus. The backseat is the elongated throne belonging to four bul... Read more »| 11 Feb 2013 -
New Releases
This Is 40
Judd Apatow revives characters from Knocked Up (2005) in this spin-off starring Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd. Attempting a Lena Dunham-esque take on the dreaded... Read more »| 08 Feb 2013 -
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Warm Bodies
Jonathan Levine seems so seduced by the smart premise of his lazy Warm Bodies – tortured hipster zombie starts romance with live and kic... Read more »| 07 Feb 2013