Edinburgh Festivals
The Skinny guide to art, book and film festivals in Edinburgh. The latest previews, reviews and features.
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Film
Future My Love
Maja Borg's first feature film is a poetic blend of doc, road trip and love story Read more »| 11 Nov 2013 -
Film
Horror at Sea: Lucien Castaing-Taylor on Leviathan
Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s eye-popping documentary Leviathan screens at Abandon Normal Devices before its UK-wide theatrical release in November. He describes a gruelling shoot Read more »| 01 Oct 2013 -
Film
500 Smiles: Dexter Fletcher on Sunshine on Leith
Adapting a stage play built around The Proclaimers’ back catalogue, actor-turned-director Dexter Fletcher gets musical for his second feature behind the camera. We spoke to him while he was in Edinburgh for the film’s international premiere Read more »| 30 Sep 2013 -
Film
Mister John
This cinematic enigma opens with reflections dissolving into one another on the surface of a lake. And like those merging images the film shows a distorted ... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
Film
Identity in Flux: Aidan Gillen on Mister John
Aidan Gillen discusses his performance in Mister John, the enigmatic and bracingly original new film from Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy Read more »| 20 Sep 2013 -
International
L.O.V.E. @ Assembly Roxy
S.E.X. - not L.O.V.E. - should be the title of this frenzied revival of a piece which was a physical theatre landmark in 1993, originally choreographed... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013
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International
Don Quichotte du Trocadéro @ Festival Theatre
A video of Don Quichotte riding a horse and later a donkey on a platform of the Paris Metro whilst a bemused gentleman watches (who later turns out to be Ce... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
International
Heads Up @ Dance Base
Heads Up is a smorgsbord of delights over 3 days, each day a new, last-minute programme of extracts of what's on at Dance Base, but also a cornucopia of... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
International
Fidelio @ Festival Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival
Re-settings in historical eras seem to be de rigueur for opera productions nowadays, so why not set Fidelio in futuristic outer space, with 21st centur... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
Books
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Grant Morrison
Ah, Grant Morrison. Ever since we saw you coming up on ecstasy and talking about sigil magic at Disinfo.Con in 1999, we've loved you. No, scratch that. Ever ... Read more »| 06 Sep 2013 -
Books
Edinburgh International Book Festival: John Gray
Political philosopher John Gray enjoys a reputation as something of an intellectual curmudgeon – he's a man everyone loves to disagree with, often port... Read more »| 06 Sep 2013 -
Books
Edinburgh International Book Festival: The 9th Art Award
Journalist Paul Gravett, writer Mary Talbot, and Gordon Robertson of Graphic Scotland are joined by host Billy Kirkwood to present the inaugural 9th Art Awar... Read more »| 06 Sep 2013 -
Books
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Grant Morrison
Ah, Grant Morrison. Ever since we saw you coming up on ecstasy and talking about sigil magic at DisinfoCon in 1999, we've loved you. No, scratch that. Ever s... Read more »| 01 Sep 2013 -
Books
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Joanne Harris
Another sell out event in the Baillie Gifford Theatre, this time welcoming the enormously popular Joanne Harris in conversation with Steven Gale. Harris is p... Read more »| 29 Aug 2013 -
Books
Edinburgh International Book Festival: DBC Pierre
“Day by day, I think we’re fucking doomed.” DBC Pierre’s verdict on the future of humanity is typical of the cynical humour that char... Read more »| 29 Aug 2013