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FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Phoenix
Phoenix opens like a horror movie. A disfigured woman, her face swaddled in bloody bandages, is crossing the German border following the fall of the Third Re... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FestivalsEden
Mia Hansen-Løve is a master of party scenes – the standout moments from her two previous features (Goodbye First Love and The Father of My ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FilmHipster Takedown: Noah Baumbach on While We're Young
How would you describe a Noah Baumbach film? The answer to this question would’ve been easier to articulate in 2012. Back then, Baumbach had a clear MO... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival 2015: Teen angst, guerrilla screenings and outrunning capitalism
Short films don’t have to be short on ambition or innovation – anyone who’s been following Glasgow Short Film Festival’s sharply cura... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FestivalsTake to the Road: ¡Viva! Presents New Mexican Cinema (18-22 Jun)
HOME breaks its ¡Viva! cherry this month with a weekend celebrating the cinema of the largest Spanish speaking nation, Mexico. Festivities kick off wit... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FestivalsTen to see at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival
45 Years Andrew Haigh's last film, Weekend, was a deeply felt story of a fledgling gay romance. In this one, a hit at the Berlinale, he's e... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FestivalsMIF15: The Skriker @ Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
The Skriker opens with a verbal assault. In some nightmarish netherworld, the title character, played by a pixie-haired, wild-eyed Maxine Peake, delivers a b... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FestivalsDoc to Doc: Doc/Fest 2015 Festival Round-up
Documentaries come in many shapes and sizes, their genres as plentiful and varied as those of their fiction film cousins. And Doc/Fest, the UK’s premie... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FilmKilling Zoe
It’s easy to guess why audiences are turned off by Roger Avary. He won an Oscar co-scripting Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, but if his two dir... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FilmScottish Film Event Highlights – September 2015
Scalarama Born out of nostalgia for scurrilous London rep house the Scala, Scalarama has become one of the highlights of the UK's cinema calendar. Scotlan... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
FestivalsScalarama: An annual celebration of cinema
Scalarama simultaneously looks back and looks forward. It was initially conceived in honour of the Scala cinema, a London repertory theatre renowned in cinep... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
FilmDVD Gift Guide: What to get that cinephile in your life
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation & Spy (For those with James Bond fatigue) The 007 series felt a bit tired with latest instalment Spectre, bu... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
Festivals¡Viva! Presents New Spanish Cinema: Preview
“Do you know what he did, your cunting son?” Not a line you’d expect from a stop-motion claymation directed by a veteran of Wallace and Gro... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
FilmJohn Niven on music industry satire Kill Your Friends
It’s Sunday afternoon at HOME, Manchester’s hub of independent cinema. The perfect time for a sedate matinee, perhaps. But that’s not on th... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
FilmScottish Horror Films: Seven Caledonian chillers
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian, 1931) Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is not set in Scotland (this... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
FilmScotland Film Event Highlights – March 2016
Hong Kong crime cinema Action fans rejoice! There’s a great programme of Hong Kong crime cinema happening across Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee this mo... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmGavin Scott Whitfield interview
It’s late September 2015 and The Skinny is on the blower to Liverpudlian filmmaker Gavin Scott Whitfield to discuss his upcoming retrospective at HOME ... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmGlasgow Short Film Festival: Time to get Transgressive
“All boring films never be made again.” That’s the gambit adorning the brochure of this year’s Glasgow Short Film Festival (16-20 Mar... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmSpeed Sisters
This lively doc follows five Palestinian women as they vie to be crowned the fastest broad on the West Bank. By either luck or design, each has a very distin... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmScotland Film Event Highlights – January 2016
William Wyler Here’s a good pub quiz question: which director received the most Best Director Oscar nominations? Steven Spielberg? John Ford? The an... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
FilmGoosebumps
Goofy kids' horror-comedy that lets RL Stine's Goosebumps monsters, and a hysterically over-the-top Jack Black, run amok So, you’re making the movie v... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
FilmShort Film Competition: Win €6000 with Nespresso
Think vertically with Nespresso Talents 2016 and your film could be showcased in a private screening during the Cannes Film Festival Cinema doesn’t si... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmDirector Tom Geens on Couple in a Hole
Tom Geens tells us about the tightrope he had to walk getting his moving film debut Couple in a Hole to the screen. The plot of the debut feature from Belgi... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FestivalsFinnish films breaking out internationally
On the first floor of Helsinki’s Ateneum Art Museum, home to the largest collection of classical Finnish art, hangs The Fighting Capercaillies by Ferdi... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FestivalsMichael Caton-Jones: “Pain is temporary, film is forever”
Michael Caton-Jones is back later this year with Urban Hymn, which the Rob Roy director describes as "a sort of Ken Loach musical." Ahead of his "In Conversa... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmBest Film Screenings in the North (15-22 July)
Carrie Arguably the finest adaptation of a Stephen King novel (fans of The Shining might disagree), this is the film that helped a young Brian D... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmBest debut feature films of 2016 so far
Brady Corbet’s behind-the-camera debut, The Childhood of a Leader, arrives in cinemas this week and it’s one of the year’s most impressive ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
FestivalsLittle Men
Gentrification, class tensions and coming of age commingle in this vivid slice of life from Ira Sachs (Love is Strange, Keep the Lights On), who’s slow... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
FestivalsEIFF 2016: Little Sister
Little Sister is a tonic to anyone jaded by the slick, smug and sentimental comedy-dramas (or ‘dramedies’) that have become the mainstay of Ameri... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmScottish Film Event Highlights – July 2016
Bill Forsyth turns 70 Bill Forsyth, Scotland’s greatest living filmmaker, turns 70 on 29 July, and GFT are throwing him a little do in the form of a t... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago