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Festivals¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival 2017 preview
Imagine political oppression, strict control of the press, repression of the arts. If you think we have it tough now, this was the atmosphere in Spain for 36... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
FestivalsManchester Film Festival: Three Films to Catch
Katie Says Goodbye Dir. Wayne Roberts Wayne Roberts' debut centres on the titular truck stop waitress, who lives in a remote corner of Arizona and i... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
FestivalsGSFF 2017: Five short film programmes not to miss
Is it GSFF’s tenth anniversary or only its ninth? Well to tell you the truth, during all the exciting previous editions of the festival, we kind of los... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
FilmFive Great Short Filmmakers & Five to See at GSFF
In many ways, it's never been easier to make a film. Getting hold of a decent digital camera is relatively easy; you've probably got one in your pocket.... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
FilmLouder than Bombs director: “You’ve got to find your own take”
Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier makes his way across the Atlantic for Louder than Bombs, a New York-set family drama starring Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrn... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmScottish Film Event Highlights – June 2016
AiM: African Hopes, Beats and Dreams The mighty Africa in Motion are heading to CCA in June to shed some light on pertinent and contemporary issue... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmNicolas Winding Refn on the films that have shaped his style
To celebrate the release of The Neon Demon, HOME in Manchester screen NWR Presents, a season of films personally curated by Nicolas Winding Refn, all of whic... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmMatinee
Joe Dante's 1993 film Matinee, a celebration of art over war, movies over Armageddon, is the closest thing the Gremlins director has to a lost masterpiece. S... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmJustin Kelly on gay porn drama King Cobra
We speak to filmmaker Justin Kelly about true-crime tale King Cobra, in which James Franco stars as a porn producer ready to kill to work with the hottest ne... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
FilmBest film screenings in the North (26 Aug-1 Sep)
The best film events happening in Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester this week, including Paris is Burning at FACT, the final film from Chantal Akerman at Hyde ... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmBest Film Screenings in the North (23-30 Sep)
The Skinny presents: Trouble Every Day With Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis immerses us in an atmosphere engorged with desire and dread. Essentially a twi... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmPeter Mackie Burns on vibrant comedy Daphne
Everyone reading this sentence knows a Daphne, the young woman at the heart of Glaswegian filmmaker Peter Mackie Burns' new comedy-drama of the same name. Vi... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
FilmLast Flag Flying
Richard Linklater has always been mercurial, but lately his career has been particularly unpredictable. Just look at his last three features: there&rsqu... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
FilmThe Howling
For lycanthrope nuts, 1981 was a banner year. American Werewolf in London is the high water mark; a funny, sexy, scary comic-horror-tragedy about an eas... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
FilmFaces Places
We would follow Agnès Varda anywhere, but tagging along with the octogenarian filmmaker on a breezy journey across rural France for this whi... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
FilmAnother Year
For four decades Mike Leigh has been exploring, with a mischievous relish, the lives and loves of the inhabitants of London’s urban sprawl. His latest ... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
FilmMike Leigh: Bard of Bleakness
Arriving at the GFT’s Art Deco bar to meet perhaps our finest indigenous filmmaker, Mike Leigh, I’m greeted warmly by a large fleece pullove... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
FilmStarter for eleven: Aidan Gillen
Q1. In 2005 The Wire was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing on a Drama Series. Who won? I’d say the West Wing, if it was even still going? A... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
FestivalsGlasgow Youth Film Festival needs your help
Glasgow Youth Film Festival (GYFF) needs your help. The GYFF is unique among festivals aimed at younger audiences in that at every stage, from curating the p... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
FilmAmer (Bitter)
Amer is a glorious celebration of giallo, those feverish Italian thrillers of the 60s and 70s. Stripping away the whodunit plots and violent murders, direct... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
FilmGFF 2011: Layers of Ozon
After last year’s riotous opening gala Micmacs, Glasgow Film Festival continues its auld alliance with our cousins across the channel by bring you... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
FilmPotiche
Potcihe is a perfume scented doodle, as fluffy and pretty as candyfloss, with as little substance. Set in 1977, Deneuve plays the bourgeois trophy wife ... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
FilmKilling Bono
For many there’ll be no more tantalising film title this year than this one based on Neil McCormick’s autobiographical tale of his rivalry with h... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
FilmReel Talk: Film distributors love the smell of easy money in the morning
Everyone loves 70s American cinema, right? The scattershot chaos of Altman, the swaggering rock and roll of Scorsese, those DePalma fever dreams; a golden ag... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
FestivalsCan Cinema Change The World?
Holly Lubbock Director: Fezeka’s Voice Cinema is an immersive experience. Within a couple of hours we can be transported to someone else's ... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
FilmCinema Odyssey: An Interview with Mark Cousins
I’m on Woodlands Road, Glasgow. It’s scorching hot and I’m a bit late for an interview, and a bit lost. Despite walking this street many ti... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
FilmWeekend
Weekend is your atypical (in Movieland) boy meets boy love story. On an impromptu Friday night cruising a cheesy nightclub in unglamorous Nottingham, Russell... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago -
FilmTaking Off
Between the bittersweet brilliance of A Blonde in Love and the Oscar glory of Cuckoo's Nest, Milos Forman made this riotous 1971 oddity about America’s... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago -
FilmGood Rep - October
I experienced a crippling twang of cineaste envy recently while reading Multiglom, the ace blog by film critic Anne Billson. The particular post that induced... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago -
FilmSteampunk Horror: An Interview with Leigh Whannell and James Wan
As I make my way down the spiral staircase of Glasgow’s Malmaison Hotel, I'm apprehensive about the two men I'm about to meet. These are the sick, twis... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago