The Cineskinny

BFFs & female friendship on screen, Hello Dankness and Rye Lane

Anahit's written a book! BFFs is about the radical potential of female friendship, so your best podcast pals are here for a pals' chat about a pal's book (except for Jamie, who is waylaid on another project we'll tell you about later...)

Elsewhere, we take a big ol' honk on Hello Dankness, the latest from mash-up nouveau-agitprop legends Soda_Jerk, ahead of its Glasgow Short Film Festival screening, and Anahit fills us in on the lovely Rye Lane.

Thanks to the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival for sponsoring The Cineskinny! hippfest.co.uk

TIMESTAMPS:

What We've Been Watching (Rye Lane, The Origin) (3:30)
Hello Dankness review (9:50)
BFFs chat (20:30)

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Recorded at Upload Studios, uploadstudios.co.uk

Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

GFF 2023: Sanctuary and War Pony (w/ Iana Murray and Rory Doherty)

Glasgow Film Festival is nearing its close, so we've asked two of our favourite critics, Iana Murray and Rory Doherty, to join us to share their favourite films of the festival.

We also review Sanctuary, a kinky chamber piece starring Christopher Abbott as a hotel heir who’s become reliant on regular bouts of humiliation, and Margaret Qualley as the dominatrix who clearly relishes making her client feel like a worm.

We also react to this year's Surprise Movie, which turned out to be War Pony, the debut feature from Gina Gammell and actor Riley Keough following parallel stories about two young Native Americans who live on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.

Glasgow Film Festival runs 1-12 March, get full details and tickets at glasgowfilm.org

TIMESTAMPS:

War Pony (GFF's Surprise Film) review (2:32)

Sanctuary review (13:46)

Rory and Iana's favourite films of GFF 2023 (22:30)

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Recorded at Upload Studios, uploadstudios.co.uk

Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

GFF 2023: Matt Johnson on telling the rise and fall of BlackBerry

In hilarious fashion, BlackBerry chronicles the rise and sharp decline of the world’s first smartphone. We down with writer-director and star Matt Johnson while he was attending the UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival to discuss the film.

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GFF 2023: Daniel Goldhaber and Daniel Garber on How to Blow Up a Pipeline

We've broken away from our usual recording schedule to visit the Glasgow Film Festival, which is currently in full swing. 

One of the most exciting films to emerge from the programme this year has been How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Daniel Goldhaber’s ticking time bomb thriller following an idealistic group of young people drawn from all across America who gather in Texas for a bout of sabotage on a key oil pipeline. 

While they were in Glasgow for the UK premiere of the film, we spoke to Goldhaber and editor Daniel Garber. 

Glasgow Film Festival runs 1-12 March, get full details and tickets at glasgowfilm.org

TIMESTAMPS:

Adapting Andreas Malm’s political manifesto of the same name into a nail-biting heist thriller (1:35)

Creating the film's urgent quality through editing and pacing (3:55)

Hitting upon the film's structure combining cliffhangers and flashbacks (5:38)

Visual influences (8:55)

16mm cinematography (10:15)

The stunning cast of up-and-coming actors (11:35)

Giving young audiences hope (15:26)

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Recorded at Upload Studios, uploadstudios.co.uk

Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

 

Glasgow Film Festival 2023: How To Blow Up A Pipeline, Ramona, I Like Movies + Skin Deep

GFF is back, so The Cineskinny team take a large dive into the 2023 programme. We’re blowing up pipelines, we’re taking breezy trips to Madrid, we’re Liking Movies – here we Glas-go again, etc etc

Glasgow Film Festival runs 1-12 March, get full details and tickets at glasgowfilm.org

TIMESTAMPS:

How To Blow Up A Pipeline review (4:10)

I Like Movies review (15:05)

Ramona review (26:00)

Skin Deep review (35:05)

Additional GFF picks - more films, good bars, tasty falafel (44:45)

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Recorded at Upload Studios, uploadstudios.co.uk

Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

 

Broker, Best in Show, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, and Silent Cinema! It’s Back!

The Cineskinny returns with news of Hirokazu Kore-eda's new film Broker, a chat about the weird and wolf-filled world of mockumentaries, and a whole bunch of fun movie chat...

TIMESTAMPS:

What We've Been Watching - 2:25
Broker review - 7:45
Mockumentaries (Culloden, Popstar, This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show) - 18:35
What We're Looking Forward To - 36:30

Thanks to Hippodrome Silent Film Festival for sponsoring The Cineskinny! hippfest.co.uk for all the details

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Recorded at Upload Studios, uploadstudios.co.uk

Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Blue Jean, Saint Omer, and the Dread Spectre of Margaret Thatcher

Back once again, the team review Alice Diop's award-winning Saint Omer and Georgia Oakley's Section 28 drama Blue Jean, before ripping into Margaret Thatcher for a good 20 minutes via a discussion of noted 'normal country' Great Britain.

We're talking hauntology, male dance troupes, light-to-mid gangsterism, Bill Nighy shouting into the distance, and films that can make even the saddest amongst you smile. A fun time all round...

TIMESTAMPS:
What We've Been Watching [The Last of Us, All Quiet on the Western Front] (1:20)
Saint Omer (11:05)
Blue Jean (27:05)
Thatcher and British Cinema [The Long Good Friday, Pride, Adam Curtis, The Full Monty] (39:25)
What We're Looking Forward To (59:00)

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Recorded at Upload Studios, uploadstudios.co.uk

Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool)
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Tár, and AI in film

We kick off 2023 with a pair of excellent new releases – the *incredible* Nan Goldin documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Tár, starring the excellent Cate Blanchett.

The gang also take a dive into Artificial Intelligence in cinema with some help from a Mr. ChatGPT, Jamie and Anahit talk about the new official 'Best Film of All Time', and Peter has some fun with puns.

TIMESTAMPS:

What We've Been Watching (Jeanne Dielman, Summer of Soul) - 0:30
All the Beauty... review - 11:40
Tár review - 25:30
AI in cinema chat (Wall-E, The Matrix, Stepford Wives, I'm Your Man) - 37:15

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Cool Kids, Hot Guys, Great Knitwear: The Cineskinny End of Year Round-up

After our *proper* 2022 round-up, the gang takes a slightly more chaotic look back on the past year.

We've got Barry Keoghan chat! We talk about The Northman! We put together a whole '2022 in film fashion' retrospective! The 'fits! The knits! etc etc

Big festive fun from the whole gang – we were all a bit ill and woozy when we recorded this one, and you can tell...

Read more about The Skinny's Films of 2022 at theskinny.co.uk/film/opinion/films-of-the-year-2022

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Films of 2022: from Licorice Pizza to Aftersun via Everything Everywhere All at Once

It's that time of year again. Anahit, Jamie, Lewis and Peter are rounding out 2022 by running through The Skinny's top ten films of the year, which include a few titles we didn't get to review on the pod, like Licorice Pizza, Happening and Nope. 

 

TIMESTAMPS:

Licorice Pizza - 2:46
The Worst Person in The World - 11:20
Happening - 14:04
Hit The Road - 20:52
The Banshees of Inisherin - 24:36
Nope - 29:40
Memoria - 40:16
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 43:25
Decision to Leave - 47:23
Aftersun - 49.59

Read more about The Skinny's Films of 2022 at theskinny.co.uk/film/opinion/films-of-the-year-2022

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License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license