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Breakthrough anime director Mamoru Hosoda on Mirai
In conversation with Japanese writer-director Mamoru Hosoda, he cites childhood and how young people change as a recurring theme that unites all of his origi... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Festivals
Locarno Film Festival 2019: The Skinny's Highlights
Founded in 1946, Switzerland’s Locarno Festival is one of the world’s longest-running film festivals, known for its arthouse-favouring programmin... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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John Waters on his new book, Pink Flamingos and his TV cameos
“I never wanted to do cult,” John Waters says in reference to his filmography in light of the question of whether genuine cult films are still po... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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Simon Bird on directing Days of the Bagnold Summer
Best known for his leading roles in The Inbetweeners franchise and the still ongoing Friday Night Dinner, actor Simon Bird delivers a gentler comedic offerin... Read more »| Updated about 4 years ago -
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I'm Your Man
Maria Schrader’s funny and touching I’m Your Man is a German romantic dramedy with light sci-fi touches that purposefully draws attention to its ... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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French Film Festival 2019: Five highlights
From some of the cream of the Cannes crop to restored classics and mainstream hits, the French Film Festival is a much-appreciated annual event for the UK&rs... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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20 Underrated Films from 2022
Ambulance Dir. Michael Bay Once derided as the exemplar of all that was coarse and dumb in American cinema, Michael Bay’s high-octane style now feels... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2020
10. I’m Thinking of Ending Things Dir. Charlie Kaufman Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons star as a couple on the brink of a messy break-up in Charlie ... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
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The Skinny's Best TV Shows of 2022
1. Severance Among the offerings exclusive to Apple’s streaming platform this year, Dan Erickson’s Severance surely sits atop the pile. An intri... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2020: Our Writers' Top 10s
Find Out The Skinny's Top Ten Films of 2020 Eilidh Akilade 1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma) 2. Rocks (Sarah Gavron) 3. Shirley (Josephi... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
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Films of 2018: Mid-year report
Phantom Thread Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson There are blatant shades of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean in Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, but the mo... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2021: Our Writers' Top 10s
In our 2021 film of the Year poll, the Skinny’s Film Team collectively voted Céline Sciamma’s beguiling fairytale Petite Maman top of... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2022
1. Aftersun Dir. Charlotte Wells There is a sense throughout Aftersun of reaching and reaching, of brushing something vital with your fingertips only to ha... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2019: Our Writers' Top 10s
Thomas Atkinson 1. Transit (Christian Petzold) 2. Atlantics (Mati Diop) 3. Homecoming (Beyoncé) 4. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) 5. High Life (Clair... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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Films of 2017: The 25 Best Films of the Year
25. Paddington 2 Dir. Paul King Once again Paul King marries Michael Bond’s genteel charms with his own hugely imaginative visual style to create a... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2022: Our Writers' Top 10s
Collectively, our Film team voted Aftersun the film of the year. You can read a rundown of our full top ten here. If you’re looking for more idiosyncra... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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Film writers' individual top tens of the year 2018
You've probably read The Skinny's Top 25 Films of 2018 list, but our Film team is a broad church. Phantom Thread, The Skinny's Film of 2018, was ubiquitous o... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2023: Our Writers' Top 10s
By now, you've probably seen The Skinny's top ten films of 2023 list featuring much-praised titles like Past Lives, Killers of the Flower Moon and All the Be... Read more »| Updated 5 months ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2019
30. Zombi Child Dir. Bertrand Bonello After the frustrations of Bertrand Bonello’s blithe attitude towards pretty compelling ideas in 2016&rsq... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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More Than Bricks and Mortar: Filmmakers on Filmhouse and EIFF
No one will miss Scotland’s self-appointed Centre for the Moving Image, the charity that fell into administration on 6 October. But anyone who cares ev... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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The Skinny's Top 25 Films of 2018
25. Loveless Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Zvyagintsev’s haunting drama centres on a missing child, Alyosha (Matvey Novikov), who vanishes during ... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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GFF 2013: The Thieves
This South Korean blockbuster incorporates stars and locations from across Asia, though is most strongly influenced by the American Ocean’s and Mission... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: We Are the Freaks
Following three teenage friends on a night out in 1990, after Thatcher has just stepped down, We Are the Freaks opens with self-reflexive narration that posi... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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One. Two. One
In an Iranian society that places heavy emphasis on beauty regarding a woman’s worth, Ava (Amiri) finds herself the victim of an acid attack to the fac... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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The Dance of Reality
For a man with a huge cult following and clear influence on many filmmakers, the Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky has actually made very few film... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Bastards
Noir-infused tragedy Bastards sees director Claire Denis back in her more polarising mode as the dark queen of French cinema, with a work of bewitc... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: The Infinite Man
When anal-retentive Dean (McConville) brings his girlfriend Lana (Marshall) to the desert motel where they once enjoyed a perfect anniversary, his desire to ... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: Au revoir l’été
Japanese writer-director Kôji Fukada's excellent previous feature, screened internationally under the name Hospitalité, had a hint of Luis Bu&nt... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Edge of Tomorrow
Based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s more memorably titled novel All You Need Is Kill, director Doug Liman's Edge of Tomorrow is basically a mash-up... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Belated (and noticeably cheaper-looking) Sin City sequel A Dame to Kill For opens with the line, “This doesn’t look good at all. I’ve gone ... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago