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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New ReleasesTransit
In Christian Petzold's inventive adaptation of Anna Seghers' Marseille-set WWII novel, past and present fold in on themselves to draw parallels between the fear and paranoia of Nazi-occupied Europe and the treatment of refugees in Europe today Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
OpinionBo Burnham and the Changing Face of Internet Comedy
As Bo Burnham's debut feature film Eighth Grade hits cinemas, we look at how Burnham's comedy has evolved alongside changes in web comedy and the ways in which we interact with the internet Read more »| 21 Feb 2019 -
FestivalsGlasgow-set Wild Rose added to Glasgow Film Festival programme
The Glasgow-set comedy-drama starring Jessie Buckley makes it into the Glasgow Film Festival programme as a very late edition. This gala screening will also include a live country set by Buckley at Glasgow's Grand Ole Opry Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesThe Hole in the Ground
A young boy walks into a mysterious hole in the ground, and when he returns, his mother feels there's something not quite right about the lad in this effective Irish horror Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesI Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
Radu Jude's latest is a darkly comic, politically timely meta-drama following an idealistic theatre director preparing to stage a grand outdoor historical pageant based on 1941's Odessa massacre Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
InterviewsChristian Petzold on WWII drama Transit
Christian Petzold scrambles time and identity in his twist-filled adaptation of Anna Seghers’ WWII novel Transit. The German filmmaker tells us what period films often get wrong about the past and why he's not going to cast Steven Seagal anytime soon Read more »| 20 Feb 2019
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New ReleasesBorder
Ali Abbasi’s second feature – a heady hybrid of romance, Nordic noir and supernatural fantasy – is teeming with ideas, but ends up in conflict with itself Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesStyx
Cinematic migrant crisis drama set on the high seas Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesThunder Road
Jim Cummings writes, directs and stars in this wild and heartfelt story of a cop who goes into a tailspin following the death of his mother Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
InterviewsAlice Rohrwacher on Happy as Lazzaro: “Poetry is politics!”
Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro is one of the most imaginative films of the year. She tells us how she embraced fairytale rhythms and magic realism to tell a politically potent tale about the evils of capitalism Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
CineskinnyRichard Billingham on Ray & Liz
Celebrated British photographer Richard Billingham moves to moving image with first feature Ray & Liz, and its portrait of his own unruly family is as meticulously framed and bursting with detail as his stills. We discuss memory, influences and class Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
InterviewsRadu Jude on I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
Bucharest-born filmmaker Radu Jude (Aferim!) is back on blistering form with meta-fictional satire I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, following a theatre director attempting to re-stage the Odessa Massacre Read more »| 18 Feb 2019 -
InterviewsPhilippe Lesage on his heartfelt coming of age film Genesis
Three teens take romantic leaps of the heart in Quebecois director Philippe Lesage's bruising but tender coming-of-age film Genesis Read more »| 18 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesOnly You
Glasgow-set Only You begins like a soufflé-light rom-com, but director Harry Wootliff has something far more tender and grown-up in mind Read more »| 18 Feb 2019 -
CineskinnyMay Ya!: In praise of Elaine May
The four feature films by Elaine May are among the finest in American cinema, but the poor distribution of the first three and financial failure of the fourth means they're still little seen. Praise be then for GFF's heaven-sent Elaine May retrospective Read more »| 15 Feb 2019