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Benedetta
“Your worst enemy is your body,” a nun tells a young Benedetta upon her arrival at a convent in Pescia. “Best not to feel too at home with ... Read more »| Updated 5 months ago -
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Kim Knowles on EIFF retrospective Reframing the Gaze
Fifty years ago, Edinburgh International Film Festival hosted its highly influential Women's Event. Helmed by revolutionary film theorists Laura Mu... Read more »| Updated 7 days ago -
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Titane
If you’ve heard anything about Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or-winning Titane, it probably sounded a little insane. Dancer-slash-serial killer... Read more »| Updated 10 months ago -
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Memoria
The films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul are impossibly tender and beguilingly strange – reorienting the way we relate to the mundane, they heighten the ... Read more »| Updated 10 months ago -
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EIFF 2021: Faceless
The summer of 2019: the citizens of Hong Kong pour into the streets dressed in black, their faces hidden behind masks. Two million voices protest against the... Read more »| Updated 12 months ago -
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Why Palme d'Or-winning horror Titane is all about love
A girl with a titanium plate in her skull. Dancers pressing themselves against the bodies of automobiles, metal and flesh drenched seductively in neon light.... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago -
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What's On Scotland 19-26 Nov: LeithLate's Pics n Mix & more
Festival vibes take over Leith this week with Pics n Mix, a three-day celebration of live music, cinema, theatre and conversation by the folks over at LeithL... Read more »| Updated 9 months ago -
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The Skinny's Peripheral Visions
Our Peripheral Visions season of free events at our new home in Codebase offer a chance to interact, explore and engage with the arts as the Edinburgh Festiv... Read more »| Updated 15 days ago -
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16 Overlooked and Underrated Films from 2021
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Josh Greenbaum) The Bridesmaids team is back with a bang in this kaleidoscopic, sublimely silly and criminall... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2021
20. Sound of Metal (Darius Marder) "Director Darius Marder has crafted a profound story about deafness, intimately exploring the nuances of hearing loss a... Read more »| Updated 9 months 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 8 months ago