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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GFF 2010: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Oh, what a joy it is that Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage have found each other! Their Bad Lieutenant runs along broadly similar lines to Abel Ferrara's film ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
You know what to expect from this film. A terrifying insect, standing 100 ft tall, wrecks havoc on Japan’s capital city: the results of genetic... Read more »| 24 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Striking a Chord
1234 takes inspiration from Giles Borg's musical background, but you don't have to be an indie connoisseur to appreciate the story at its heart. Read more »| 24 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Family Ties
We talk to French filmmaker Nathan Miller about his critically acclaimed feature I’m Glad My Mother is Alive. Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: City of Life and Death
Not since Elem Klimov's Come and See (1985) has a film captured the atrocities of war in such a vivid, powerful fashion. City of Life and Death docum... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
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Capitalism: A Love Story
Capitalism: A Love Story is a Michael Moore film, and by now we know exactly what to expect from this frustrating filmmaker. His take on the financia... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010
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GFF 2010: I Killed My Mother
As writer, director, producer and star of I Killed My Mother, 20-year-old Xavier Dolan has taken most of the inspiration for his first feature from his own l... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: With One Voice
When erstwhile French rocker Jean-Yves Labat de Rossi decided to bring together musicians from Israel and Palestine, both Jews and Muslims, to form t... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
This month sees the cinematic re-release of the 1953 hit Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, telling the story of Lorelei (Marilyn Monroe) and Dorothy (Jane Russell), ... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Samurai, Sake and Cyber Dogs
Discover a variety of stories and ideas in this year's Japanese film focus. Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Yatterman
There's nothing like a cross between Indiana Jones and LazyTown on cocaine to get audiences talking: Yatterman is a wonderfully kooky film which repr... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Dogtooth
In Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth, the outside world is a terrifying place; at least, that's the fiction two parents have concocted for their three grown... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: The Ghost Show
Roll up, roll up, and experience a unique show about fairgrounds, vaudeville, cinema and an elephant's day out. Read more »| 21 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: About Elly
The true nature of About Elly sneaks up on the audience. Asghar Farhadi's Silver Berlin Bear winner begins as a light-hearted affair with a group of friends ... Read more »| 21 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Sights and Sounds
We explore the eclectic Music and Film Festival programme. Read more »| 20 Feb 2010