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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Dvd ReviewsSpecial Forces
To watch Special Forces is to go to war with your own incredulity. Individual tolerances for cliché are rigorously tested as an elite team of French s... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
InterviewsReflections in a Golden Eye: An Interview with Christopher Doyle
Legendary cinematographer Christopher Doyle tells us about his creative partnership with Wong Kar Wai, being inspired by the spaces in Hong Kong and the beauty of Maggie Cheung, and how he now longer sees the world through human eyes Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Film Events
Film Event Highlights – March 2012
Write Shoot Cut's inaugural Short Film Networking Night sees the light of day on 12 Mar at the Banshee Labyrinth Cinema, deep in the bowels of Edinburgh's mo... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Festivals
For Your Consideration...
With the award season pantomime over for another year, we consider the merit of film awards Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Film Events
All Night Horror Madness 4!
All Night Horror Madness is back, and this time, it’s pissed Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Cineskinny
GFF 2012: Herzog at the Festival
Werner Herzog's films have become a staple of GFF's programme. We examine why the man who once ate his own shoe continues to excite festival-goers everywhere. Read more »| 27 Feb 2012
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GFF 2012: Livid
Bustillo and Maury’s follow-up to their delightfully twisted Inside sticks to a similar recipe of awkward laughs and chills, but with less inspired res... Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Bel Ami
Bel Ami, based on a Guy de Maupassant novel, marks the feature debut of directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod. The quality of the sets, costumes and ca... Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
CineskinnyGFF 2012: Omar Killed Me
It’s obvious Omar Killed Me is based on fact; no fictional equivalent would make its central injustice so glaring. The film presents the murder convict... Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Weimarvellous
Weimarvellous attempts to recall the heady decadence of 1920s Berlin through a programme of burlesque, readings and cabaret karoake. The Blue Angel, whi... Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Urban Decay – Death Watch unearthed
As the long forgotten Death Watch returns to the big screen at GFF, we examine its connection with Glasgow Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Cry Parrot presents Umberto
With the contents of Umberto's special performance still shrouded in mystery, we talk to Cry Parrot's Fielding Hope about their collaboration for GMFF Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
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GFF's Best Fiend: Werner Herzog
The CineSkinny profiles filmmaking genius Werner Herzog, whose new documentary, Into the Abyss, plays at the festival Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Bob and the Monster
To be a junkie in L.A.’s eighties rock scene “was so important, it was so de rigueur,” drawls Courtney Love in new documentary Bob and the ... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: The Somnambulists
Inspired emotionally by his anger over the Iraq war, and stylistically by Joanna Kane’s photography exhibition of the same name, Richard Jobson’s... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012