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The Quiet Earth
Post-apocalyptic survival has fascinated writers for centuries, and filmmakers for as long as moving images have been around. The particular sub-genre known ... Read more »| Updated almost 4 years ago -
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Diamantino
In the World Cup Final, Portuguese striker Diamantino (Carloto Cotta), the greatest footballer on the planet, misses a last-gasp penalty and chaos ensues. Hi... Read more »| Updated about 3 years ago -
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Get experimental at Edinburgh International Film Festival
“Right now, I’m revolting against the conventions of movies,” said New York filmmaker Shirley Clarke when making her first feature, The Con... Read more »| Updated almost 4 years ago -
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Most Beautiful Island
A warped reflection and an almost-voyeuristic montage of attractive young women navigating New York’s busy streets give an appropriately unnerving feel... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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Back in the News: Dziga Vertov’s Kino-Pravda at GSFF
The contemporary world is awash with a consistent torrent of video news. From terrestrial television broadcasts to YouTube and social media, from the MSM to ... Read more »| Updated 2 months ago -
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Ten Films to Watch this International Workers Day
It may only be 46 seconds long but Louis Lumière’s 1895 short Workers Leaving the Factory, often referred to as the first ever motion picture, c... Read more »| Updated 20 days ago -
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Preview: Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2018
Berwick-upon-Tweed’s border town status makes it a location for a festival that probes at the margins between different media: films, exhibitions, inst... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
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Diamonds of the Night
Jan Němec’s Diamonds of the Night opens, propulsively, in media res with two boys desperately running for their lives. An intimate handheld camera... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
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John Dowie: Before Comedy Captured the Edinburgh Fringe
In 1972 there were two comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe. One you will have heard of, while the other is as important to comedy as anyone else in the UK &nda... Read more »| Updated almost 4 years ago -
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Get The Skinny's February 2021 issue!
The lockdown continues, and we're all grasping for ways to stay connected with one another. This month's magazine highlights some of the things we've been ma... Read more »| Updated over 1 year 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 5 months ago -
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Misunderstood Movies: 10 Overlooked Films from 2019
After the Wedding Dir. Bart Freundlich A weepie in the semi-classic, Redford-esque tradition, After the Wedding features some of the best dramatic directio... Read more »| Updated over 2 years 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 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 3 years ago -
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The 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 3 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 4 years ago -
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Faking Bad: Ben Mendelsohn on Black Sea
Over the past few years, Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn has become a familiar face to British cinemagoers, often playing variations on a particularly unhing... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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The Look of Silence
The prospect of crafting a worthy successor to the phenomenal The Act of Killing is a daunting one, but with The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer has rise... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Ant-Man
As self-aware as the name demands, Marvel's latest hero belies his size to be a hugely enjoyable addition to the studio's growing superhero universe. Helmed ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
Half a century ago, Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut sat down together for a week to discuss the former’s career in its entirety. The... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Snow is Coming: Game of Thrones' Kit Harington on his new film Testament of Youth
Kit Harington would seem to have been catapulted to star status by his lead heartthrob role in the wildly successful Game of Thrones. It’s not been qui... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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The Martian
Damon lays on his all-American charm as Mark Watney, a botanist left stranded on the surface of the red planet after he's hit by debris and presumed dead by ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Anomalisa
Over the course of Charlie Kaufman's cinematic career, he's been fascinated with the complexities of the human mind and the vehicles – whether they be ... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Film on Film: Five great movies about movies
Inspired by critic Kent Jones' Hitchcock/Truffaut, we pay tribute to those great ouroboroi of cinema: films about film. Below are five of the best, from a do... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Personal Shopper
Three little dots. There's little in contemporary society as adept at inducing anxiety as the pulsating ellipsis that represents a friend composing a respons... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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Things to Come
Isabelle Huppert stars as a philosophy professor going through a crisis in the new work from Eden director Mia Hansen-Løve “I’m luc... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Rosewater
Absurdity is Jon Stewart's weapon of choice in his directorial debut, Rosewater. It recounts the ordeals of London-based Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari (Be... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Catch Me Daddy
Daniel and Matthew Wolfe's Catch Me Daddy opens to a creation myth recited with childlike naivety over images of a windswept, almost primeval landscape. Thou... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago