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: Our Children
The wounds left behind by colonial Europe are still taking their time to heal and it’s arguable whether cinema has soothed or aggravated them. France i... Read more »| 18 Feb 2013 -
CineskinnyMuch Ado About Whedon
We make much of ado about Joss Whedon ahead of his visit to Glasgow Film Fest for the UK première of his latest film, Much Ado About Nothing Read more »| 18 Feb 2013 -
CineskinnyGFF 2013: Stoker
Stoker marks the English language debut of contemporary South Korean cinema poster child Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Thirst), and the film is full of the strikin... Read more »| 17 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Mama
Based on a 2008 short by the same director, Mama is a ghost story with clear roots in Spanish cinema, twisting the classic story of lost children to foc... Read more »| 17 Feb 2013 -
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Better Gate than Never: Heaven's Gate Revisited
The long-maligned Heaven's Gate has seen a critical resurgence in recent years, now aided by a stunning restoration from Park Circus Read more »| 17 Feb 2013 -
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Director Régis Roinsard on Populaire
Fresh from his triumphant opening Gala, we spoke to Populaire director Régis Roinsard about the making of the film Read more »| 17 Feb 2013
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Cloud Atlas puts Glasgow on the Map
Cloud Atlas, which has its first UK public screening at GFF, isn't the only big release this year to have used Glasgow as a filming location Read more »| 17 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 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 -
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GFF 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 -
CineskinnyLocal 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 -
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Cinema'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