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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Festivals
IberoDocs' 8th edition celebrates Art as a Need
IberoDocs returns with an online edition of the festival celebrating Ibero-American culture, with a programme of over twenty documentaries, filmmaker Q&As and a virtual exhibition Read more »| 30 Mar 2021 -
Opinion
Nomadland and the American Myth
At last, Oscars frontrunner Nomadland becomes available to UK film fans. We consider the ways in which the film explores the American mythos of work as liberation while offering an alternative way of life outside the shadow of capitalism Read more »| 29 Mar 2021 -
Dvd Reviews
I Was at Home, But...
The great German filmmaker Angela Schanelec returns with another formally dazzling, deeply emotional work Read more »| 26 Mar 2021 -
Interviews
The Springburn Scorsese: James Price interview
Improbably, Glasgow writer-director James Price has directed a wild music video for Michael Imperioli's band, Zopa. Price tells us how he convinced The Sopranos and Goodfellas star to let him loose on the promo Read more »| 25 Mar 2021 -
New Releases
Sound of Metal
Darius Marder's directorial debut is a powerful depiction of deafness and Deaf culture, anchored by a searing performance from Riz Ahmed Read more »| 24 Mar 2021 -
Interviews
Meet the stars of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2021
We speak to some of the filmmakers behind our favourite shorts at this year's Glasgow Short Film Festival Read more »| 22 Mar 2021
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Festivals
Berlinale 2021: Magic and Reality Collide
The best films at this year's Berlinale traded in fairy tale and fable, but the titles that seemed to get Film Twitter and the Berlinale jury most excited were in-your-face works offering a mirror on the ills of society Read more »| 10 Mar 2021 -
Interviews
Short Circuit: Glasgow Short Film Festival interview
Get the lowdown on Glasgow Short Film Festival's second online edition. They tell us what they've learned after a year of digital festivals and give us some hints about this year's event, which includes dogs and dance but absolutely no Zoom-based dramas Read more »| 10 Mar 2021 -
Festivals
Glasgow Short Film Festival announce 2021 programme
Scotland’s premier short film celebration returns with new programmes and old favourites. Some films directly address the strange times we're living in, while others feature cool dogs and reminisce about messy nights out Read more »| 10 Mar 2021 -
Festivals
French Film Festival brings more films online
French Film Festival UK bring us a sequel to their COVID-curtailed 2020 edition, with some of the most anticipated films from last year available online Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
Festivals
Hippodrome Silent Film Festival goes online for 2021
HippFest takes its tenth edition online, with films featuring silent-era icons like Marlene Dietrich, Louise Brooks and Rudolph Valentino, and music from the likes of jazz composer Wycliffe Gordon, the Graves Brothers and HippFest fave Neil Brand Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
Interviews
The Skinny on… Adura Onashile
As Adura Onashile's short film Expensive Shit arrives in film festival programmes this month, we quiz her about dream dinner guests and memories of the before-times Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
New Releases
GFF 2021: Spring Blossom
Spring Blossom, from 20-year-old writer-director-star Suzanne Lindon, tells the story of a teen girl's infatuation with an older man. A young, female perspective on this subject is welcome and timely, but Lindon's film is ultimately unsuccessful Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
New Releases
GFF 2021: Gunda
Victor Kossakovsky's Gunda invites us into the idyllic-seeming life of a massive pig and her brood of rambunctious piglets Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
New Releases
GFF 2021: Dreams on Fire
Dance movie Dreams on Fire occasionally trades in clichés but thrives when working as an unapologetic examination of trying to make it in a precarious industry Read more »| 08 Mar 2021