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 2012: Gerhard Richter Painting
With a career spanning five decades and the accolade 'one of the greatest living painters', Gerhard Richter – as might be expected – has surpasse... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: On the Ice
Writer/director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean extrapolates the premise of his 2008 short of the same name – a murder and the moral dilemma the reporting or co... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
CineskinnyGFF 2012: High Places interview
Glasgow Music and Film Festival kicks off in grand style with a performance from electro-pop duo High Places, a band whose work embodies GMFF's celebration of both music and image Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
CineskinnyGFF 2012: Reclaiming Mumblecore
Is there any sub-genre more misunderstood than mumblecore? With director Lynn Shelton delivering, with Your Sister's Sister, another film gem that fits the mumblecore M.O., we've decided to reclaim this much maligned moniker Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Terri
Like its eponymous protagonist, Terri sits awkwardly outside mainstream expectations, but is all the more appealing for it. The film opens with fifteen year ... Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsHer Private Hell
When a naïve Italian beauty accepts modelling work in 60s London she's drawn into a sleazy world of booze, jazz parties, free loving, and... dirty pictu... Read more »| 10 Feb 2012
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Dvd Reviews
The Ozu Collection: The Student Comedies
This box set of four of Ozu's early silent comedies is part of the BFI's ongoing project to release all of the master director's work on dual-format Blu-ray/... Read more »| 09 Feb 2012 -
New Releases
A Dangerous Method
Where is the danger in A Dangerous Method? This exploration of the relationship between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) sh... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
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Urbanized
With smutty infographs and high-rise money shots, Urbanized slips the panties down on modern city living. This documentary has no sexy Grand Designs narrator... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: The Youth of Today
Youth is wasted on the young and the same goes for the Glasgow Youth Film Festival, which has an eclectic programme that will delight all age ranges Read more »| 03 Feb 2012 -
New Releases
The Muppets
Old-fashioned dastardly danger is threatening the, now abandoned, Muppet studios as a maniacally laughing oil tycoon (Chris Cooper) looks set to plunder the ... Read more »| 02 Feb 2012 -
New Releases
Bombay Beach
After an outstanding festival journey, a Tribeca World Documentary Award, and praise from Alec Baldwin, music video director Alma Har'el's debut feature Bomb... Read more »| 01 Feb 2012 -
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Restless
Gus Van Sant presents an unusual romance in Restless. Annabel Cotton (Wasikowska) sparkles with a curiosity for life in the face of terminal cancer. Enoch Br... Read more »| 31 Jan 2012 -
New Releases
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Sean Durkin’s astonishingly assured debut as writer/director is a haunting meditation on identity, manipulation and abuse. Martha (Olsen), long-since a... Read more »| 31 Jan 2012 -
New Releases
Carnage
Roman Polanski's classy farce centres on the petty squabbles of four bourgeois Manhattanites. Following an attack on the Longstreets' (Foster, Reilly) son by... Read more »| 30 Jan 2012