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Jamie Dunn

Jamie is the film and TV editor at The Skinny, and you can also find his writing at Sight & Sound and hear his contributions on BBC Scotland’s Afternoon Show. You’ll also find him on Twitter at @jamiedunnesq, where he’ll inevitably be opining about his favourite filmmakers (among them Claire Denis, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Max Ophüls, Terence Davies, Elaine May, Brian De Palma, Shohei Imamura, Jean Renoir, Kelly Reichardt, Chantal Akerman, Jonathan Demme, Alain Resnais, Walter Hill, Tsai Ming-liang, Sam Fuller, Preston Sturges, Andrei Tarkovsky, Agnès Varda, Todd Haynes, Robert Altman, Alfred Hitchcock and more), moaning about the government and sharing funnier people’s memes.

Features

  • Teen odyssey

    14 May 2020

    We talk to Never Rarely Sometimes Always director Eliza Hittman and star Sidney Flanigan about their quietly devastating drama

  • No end in sight

    23 Apr 2020

    Denis Côté on the allegorical nature of Ghost Town Anthology and why he likes to leave his films as 'open objects'

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News and features

Paul Rowley on moving to New York, the Pulse massacre, and Gays Against Guns

Going ape Antonin Niclass on character creation, empathy and animated short Into The Forest

Freeform Will Niava on grief, new immigrant experiences and Jazz Infernal

In silence Emir Kumova on child marriage in Türkiye, moral challenges and making The Witness

Taking a ride into liminal spaces Katharine Round on making documentary Ghost Town

Flying blind Michael Woloson and Scott Tinkham on improvisation, experimental writing and Littermates

In deep water Dominic Curran on internet overexposure and A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing

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Festival coverage

Festivals
Cannes festival coverage, 2026

We're bringing you all the latest news and reviews from the Cheltenham International Film Festival, the Leeds International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and Tallinn Black Nights.



We're looking forward to the French Film Festival and DOC NYC.



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