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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Festivals54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: The Highlights
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, central Europe's premiere celebration of cinema, offered up a number of delights in its main competition strand this year, while its expansive Youssef Chahine retrospective overflowed with treasures Read more »| 12 Jul 2019 -
FestivalsWeird Weekend to unearth lost Bill Murray masterpiece
Tom Schiller's lost comic gem Nothing Lasts Forever features in the second Weird Weekend from Matchbox Cineclub, as does Joe Dante's suburban satire The 'Burbs and Věra Chytilová’s teen horror Wolf’s Hole Read more »| 10 Jul 2019 -
New ReleasesKVIFF 2019: The Lodge
The directors of Goodnight Mommy return with an enjoyably twisted psychological horror centred on an extraordinary performance by Riley Keough Read more »| 04 Jul 2019 -
New ReleasesKnife + Heart
Knife + Heart is a vibrantly realised erotic thriller in which a mysterious killer is picking off young actors on the set of a gay porn film Read more »| 04 Jul 2019 -
New ReleasesNever Look Away
Never Look Away is a decades-spanning saga about a German artist whose practice is shaped by the turbulent politics of his home nation during the mid-20th Century Read more »| 03 Jul 2019 -
New ReleasesMonsoon
British-Cambodian writer-director Hong Khaou follows-up his delicate debut Lilting with another elegant study of cultural alienation and displacement as a young man born in Vietnam but raised in the UK returns home after three decades Read more »| 03 Jul 2019
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New ReleasesKVIFF 2019: Lara
Oh Boy director Jan-Ole Gerster returns with a darkly comic and stealthily moving study of a 60-year-old woman who's having trouble accepting her pianist son's success Read more »| 02 Jul 2019 -
New ReleasesManta Ray (Kraben Rahu)
Thai film Manta Ray invokes Hitchcock, Lynch and Kubrick, standing up to the best of those influences. For those with a penchant for the strange and an eye for surrealist beauty, there are rich rewards here Read more »| 02 Jul 2019 -
Interviews
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on Never Look Away
The Lives of Others director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is back with new movie Never Look Away, a decade-spanning epic inspired by Gerhard Richter. The German director talks to us about blurring fact and fiction Read more »| 02 Jul 2019 -
New ReleasesSpider-Man: Far From Home
Spider-Man heads to Europe in the latest instalment featuring the teen superhero. When it feels like a John Hughes-like romance, Spider-Man: Far From Home is a lot of fun Read more »| 01 Jul 2019 -
Film EventsThe Best Film Events in Scotland in July
The Scottish film events you should make time for this month, from screenings based around desire and obsession to open-air cinema at Queen's Park Read more »| 01 Jul 2019 -
NewsNicolas Roeg and Spike Lee seasons coming to GFT
Glasgow Film Theatre have two great retrospectives lined up for their Cinemaster retrospectives this summer: Nic Roeg and Spike Lee Read more »| 01 Jul 2019 -
New ReleasesSchemers
Schemers is the inspiring true-life story of how a Dundee teen set his town's music scene alight – it's just a shame that the film has little interest in the women of that scene Read more »| 29 Jun 2019 -
Festivals10 films to see at Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2019
We survey what to look out for at this year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, including Palme d'Or-winner Parasite and the hallucinatory survivalist thriller Monos Read more »| 28 Jun 2019 -
FestivalsAdewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's Farming wins EIFF's top prize
As well as winning the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film, Farming’s lead actor also picked up an award Read more »| 28 Jun 2019