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FilmThe Skinny's Films of the 2010s
30. Blue Valentine (2010) Dir. Derek Cianfrance Back in 2010, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams finally shook off any lingering connections with their tee... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FilmThe 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 7 years ago -
Film“I want to be unpredictable”: Roy Andersson Interview
“Why should we care about one another?” This was the slogan of Sweden’s Socialdemokraterna party when eccentric filmmaker Roy Andersso... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
FilmA New Grammar: Josephine Decker
“Oh my god, what an honour.” There’s no hiding the glee in Josephine Decker’s voice when discussing the praise that has been bestowed... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
FilmEat Drink Man Woman
The final chapter in Ang Lee’s 'Father Knows Best' trilogy completes the director’s tenderly ironic chronicle of the compromise between tradition... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FilmAquarius
In his critically acclaimed debut, Neighbouring Sounds, Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho presented audiences with a multifaceted portrait of a... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmSon of Saul director: “It had to be raw”
Hungarian director László Nemes tells us how he approached filming the unfilmable with blistering Holocaust drama Son of Saul Set in the Ausch... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
FilmLife of Riley
Alain Resnais’ final film, Life of Riley, premiered just three weeks before the director’s passing. An adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's play o... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
FilmTrainwreck
Amy Schumer, renowned for her subversive humour, makes her screenwriting debut with a romantic comedy disguised as a takedown of gender constructs. Schu... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FilmStory of My Death
Albert Serra’s mischievous allegory for the death knell of the Enlightenment and the dawning of Romanticism is a truly singular work. Serra expresses t... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
FestivalsLouder Than Bombs
Memories can be distorted to reframe the past in a more favourable light, but what happens when the truth becomes unavoidable? Joachim Trier’s Louder t... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FestivalsOdessa International Film Festival 2016 report
A look back at the best on offer at this year's Odessa International Film Festival, from Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake to the festival’s Golden Duke winn... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
FilmStuff and Dough
When Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr. Lazarescu won the Prix un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2005, international critics began to take notice of the exciting re... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
FilmI, Daniel Blake
When did it become unfashionable to discuss class and social inequality? Earlier this year, certain parts of the British media were quick to voice their shoc... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmPaterson
Jim Jarmusch’s films have always been fascinated with outsiders. His characters are often loners (Only Lovers Left Alive), reprobates (Down by Law) or ... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FestivalsFive daring female coming-of-age films
Inspired by All This Panic, Jenny Gage’s spellbinding documentary following seven teenage girls growing up in Brooklyn, we look back at some of cinema'... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FestivalsBerlinale: The Good, the Bad and the Infuriatingly Opaque
The 64th Berlinale kicked off in style with opening film Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson’s twee follow-up to Moonrise Kingdom. It was the ... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
FilmMasculinity in Crisis: Ruben Östlund on Force Majeure
“One of the goals of the film is to increase the number of divorces in society,” says Force Majeure's director Ruben Östlund. The 40-year-ol... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
FilmInner Lives: Onscreen disability in Eskil Vogt's Blind
In his debut feature, Norwegian screenwriter-turned-director Eskil Vogt imbues cognitive visualisations with narrative trickery to achieve what many have tri... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
FilmPortrait of the Artist as an Abhorrent Young Man: Alex Ross Perry on Listen Up Philip
The title of Alex Ross Perry’s third feature, Listen Up Philip, a witty New York-set literary comedy, refers to the film’s tremendously narcissis... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
FilmMistaken Identity: Christian Petzold on Phoenix
Despite making his debut 15 years ago, with The State I Am In, and being widely considered the most talented director of post-1989 Germany, Christian Pe... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
FestivalsBerlinale 2016: refugee crisis & family strife
The decision to open the 66th Berlin International Film Festival with Hail, Caesar!, a star-studded paean to Golden-era Hollywood, felt like an unorthodox ch... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
FestivalsWar on Everyone
Like a self-aware feature-length episode of Starsky & Hutch, John Michael McDonagh’s War on Everyone transfers the distinctively confrontational hu... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FilmRams
The sibling rivalry between two ageing sheep farmers provides the backdrop to Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams, a tender comedy about the struggl... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FilmSebastian Schipper on single-shot crime flick Victoria
Sitting down with German actor-turned-director Sebastian Schipper to discuss his latest film, Victoria, is like reminiscing with an old friend abou... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
FilmKnight of Cups
Terrence Malick is back with Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman. The film's as beautiful as you'd expect, but plot a... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
FilmChevalier
What does 'being a man' mean in 2016? That's the question asked by Athina Rachel Tsangari's Chevalier, an absurd buddy-comedy that reduces the masculinity-in... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
FilmChi-Raq
The number of gun-related deaths in the United States has become impossible to ignore. No more so than in Chicago, where the homicide count has now surpassed... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmTaxi Tehran
Ingeniously circumventing the Iranian state’s ban on his filmmaking, Jafar Panahi’s Golden Bear winner Taxi Tehran is filmed almost entirely with... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FestivalsHail, Caesar!
The glamour and prestige of Golden-era Hollywood may be a thing of the past, but its mythology lives on in the Coen Brothers’ riotous new comedy Hail, ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago