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 2010: American: The Bill Hicks Story
When he died at 32, Bill Hicks had been performing stand-up comedy for almost twenty years. In American: The Bill Hicks Story, family and friends trace his t... Read more »| 20 Feb 2010 -
CineskinnyGFF 2010: No Sex Please - She's Catherine Breillat
Controversial filmmaker Catherine Breillat takes a different approach to shock tactics with her latest feature, Bluebeard. Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
CineskinnyGFF 2010: Hidden Diary
In Hidden Diary, Audrey returns to her parents’ home on the French coast after ten years abroad, keeping her pregnancy secret from her distant mother, ... Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
CineskinnyGFF 2010: Cutting Lines
Cynthia Beatt explores the fading boundary of the Berlin Wall in her two documentaries, The Invisible Frame and Cycling the Frame, which open the Glasgow Shorts Film Festival tonight. Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Cuckoo
With its Hitchcockian leanings and oppressive cinematography, Cuckoo is as tangible a representation of a troubled mind as you are likely to encounter on fil... Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Opening with a Bang (and a crash and a wallop)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest film Micmacs opens this year’s Glasgow Film Festival with a dose of hi-jinks. Read more »| 18 Feb 2010
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CineskinnyGFF 2010: Vincere
Marco Bellocchio previously explored the impact of national politics on a personal level with Buongiorno, notte, a quietly observed depiction of the kidnappi... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Pachamama
A father and son tread the old trade route through the Bolivian Andes, bartering salt from the Uyuni flats near their home for regional produce - the corn, q... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Bringing Up Baby
Filmmakers, critics and cineastes alike can’t give anything but love to this baby, but that wasn’t always the case. Released in 1938, it bombed a... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Things That Go Bump in the Night
Parisian electro duo Zombie Zombie talk about their love for the great horror filmmaker John Carpenter. Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
New Releases
The Headless Woman
In Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman, all it takes is a bump on the head to throw the central character's whole world out of sync. Verónica... Read more »| 15 Feb 2010 -
Opinion
Mark Kermode: It's Only A Movie
Amidst speculation that he is to succeed Jonathan Ross for Film 2010, outspoken film critic Dr Mark Kermode is on usual self-deprecating form tonight, regali... Read more »| 12 Feb 2010 -
New Releases
The Wolfman
Limping into cinemas after a notoriously protracted and problematic shoot, The Wolfman seems to be defeated almost before it has begun. Having lost o... Read more »| 11 Feb 2010 -
New Releases
A Single Man
Tom Ford’s directorial debut attempts to create an emotional portrait of grief through the use of sensual images, textures and colours. Colin F... Read more »| 08 Feb 2010 -
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GFF10 In Focus: Mark Cousins
The Edinburgh-based filmmaker and critic talks about his documentary The First Movie which involved going to Iraq and giving cameras to children to record aspects of their lives Read more »| 08 Feb 2010