EIFF 2013: The Deep
By . Published 20 June 2013
Trawler fishing has enjoyed something of a cultural boom of late, with shows depicting the hi-octane escapades of burly men with magnificent facial hair popping-up on the telly with the...
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EIFF 2013: Frances Ha
By . Published 19 June 2013Frances (Gerwig) is in free fall. At the grand old age of 27, her hopes of becoming a professional dancer hang by a ballet pump. She’s broke, has no permanent...
EIFF 2013: A Long Way from Home
By . Published 19 June 2013Among things a young woman never wants to hear from a septuagenarian male acquaintance, “You can come over and use our pool any time” ranks highly. Exactly the reason face-curdling...
EIFF 2013: I Am Breathing
By . Published 17 June 2013With composure and compassion, I Am Breathing documents the final months of husband and father Neil Platt, diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease at the age of 33. Served a bleak...
EIFF 2013: The Retrospectives
By . Published 17 June 2013Chris Fujiwara, Edinburgh Film Festival’s artistic director, tells us about this year's two EIFF retrospectives: one celebrates a forgotten master (Jean Grémillon), the other makes the case for auteur status...
Top Ten Events Scotland 13-20 Jun: LeithLate, Edinburgh Film Festival + Coming Into Fashion
By . Published 13 June 2013Getting things off on an artful note, we trail the length and breadth of Leith Walk taking in the varied art, film, music, and spoken word on offer as part...
EIFF 2013: Drake Doremus on Breathe In
By . Published 10 June 2013The 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival opens with Drake Doremus's intimate family drama Breathe In. The Skinny spoke to the director ahead of his film's European premiere at EIFF
EIFF 2013: Noah Baumbach on Frances Ha
By . Published 07 June 2013Noah Baumbach speaks to The Skinny about Frances Ha, his latest collaboration with Greta Gerwig, ahead of the film's UK première at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013: The Picks
By . Published 31 May 2013The brochure for the 67th Edinburgh Film Festival is hot off the presses and Chris Fujiwara and his team's selection has proved as eclectic and exciting as last year's programme....
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 29 May
By . Published 29 May 2013Edinburgh International Film Festival launches; Trent Reznor shocks fans with new Nine Inch Nails album announcement; music from CHVRCHES, Gold Panda, Glass Candy and Sparrow & The Workshop; plus the...
Lore
By . Published 27 May 2013Adapted from Rachel Seiffert’s 2001 novel The Dark Room, Lore presents the dissolution of the Third Reich through the eyes of a teenage girl raised in its midst, her family’s...
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 22 May
By . Published 22 May 2013In today's Bulletin: The Clash to release 5-disc box set; details from the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Scottish Opera programmes; plus new music from Icarus Line,...
Festival Roundup: Southside Film Festival 2013
By . Published 22 May 2013The lights go down on another successful Southside Film Festival. Here are our highlights...
Something in the Air (Après mai)
By . Published 17 May 2013Set in 1971, Something in the Air is French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’s ebullient tribute to the kids who had to follow in the footsteps of those student firebrands who helped bring his country...
Southside Film Festival, 17-19 May
By . Published 13 May 2013Just in time for Cannes kicking off, Glasgow's south side gets its own celebration of cinema as the Southside Film Festival returns for its third year. Here's what's on offer...
Youth in Revolt: Olivier Assayas on Something in the Air
By . Published 13 May 2013Olivier Assayas talks to The Skinny about his new feature Something in the Air (Après Mai), the frustration of politics and his journey into cinema
Village at the End of the World
By . Published 03 May 2013Many small-town teens dream of moving to the big city, but few experience as profound an isolation as 16-year-old Lars. Living in the remote Inuit settlement of Niaqornat in northern...
Bernie
By . Published 19 April 2013Indie darling Richard Linklater returns home with Bernie, a bizarre true story of murder and community spirit in a small Texan town. Jack Black (in superb, restrained, creepy form) plays...
Love Is All You Need
By . Published 16 April 2013Yet another wedding-themed romantic comedy, Susanne Bier’s Love Is All You Need thankfully eschews the crass hi-jinks of its recent predecessors to produce something far more entertaining: a tale featuring...
A Late Quartet
By . Published 05 April 2013Approaching their 25th anniversary concert, a world-renowned string quartet find their world disrupted by the news that cellist Peter (Walken) has been diagnosed with the early stages of Parkinson’s disease....
