Italian Film Festival, Scotland, 13-26 Apr
By . Published 09 April 2012
With an exquisitely judged blend of contemporary and classic films, the Italian Film Festival returns to showcase the cinema from one of the great filmmaking nations
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GFF 2012: Bonsái
By . Published 02 April 2012Chilean directing talent Cristián Jiménez's second feature film is one for the bookish. Bonsai's protagonist Julio (Diego Noguera) is more of a leader-on than a leading man, using his cultural...
Deadpan Poet: Director Aki Kaurismäki in interview
By . Published 02 April 2012Finnish master of deadpan Aki Kaurismäki discusses his new film, Le Havre, and his future as a filmmaker
Edinburgh International Science Festival: Future Human – the movies
By . Published 30 March 2012What does it mean to be human, past, present and future? The sci-fi films in the Future Human strand of Edinburgh International Science Festival attempt to answer this question
GFF 2012: This Is Not a Film
By . Published 29 March 2012In 2009, Iranian director Jafar Panahi was arrested for supporting anti-Ahmadinejad protests; in 2010, he was arrested a second time, sentenced to six years imprisonment, and banned from making films...
GFF 2012: Babycall
By . Published 27 March 2012Noomi Rapace (Millennium Trilogy) turns in another ferociously intense performance as Anna, a traumatised mother relocated with her young son to escape an abusive husband. Under the unnecessarily sinister watch...
GFF 2012: Wild Bill
By . Published 22 March 2012Treading the line between gritty social realism and slick gangster action, Wild Bill brings drugs, guns and family drama to Stratford, London. This directorial debut from actor Dexter Fletcher follows...
GFF 2012: The Kid With a Bike
By . Published 22 March 2012All you really need to know about the Dardenne brothers' new film is that it concerns a kid and his bike. Watching the work of this extraordinary filmmaking team with...
Know thy doom, for Dundead Film Festival is nigh
By . Published 19 March 2012It has been foretold: the Dundead film festival will rise again this April
Bill Cunningham New York
By . Published 12 March 2012For four decades New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham has cruised the Big Apple on his Schwinn bicycle like a fashionista superhero. His batcave is a studio in Carnegie Hall that...
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
By . Published 12 March 2012Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a film of two halves, and regrettably, one half is so much richer than the other, which leaves Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest picture...
GFF 2012: Death of a Superhero
By . Published 02 March 2012A refreshingly unsentimental account of a teenager dealing with terminal cancer, Death of a Superhero sees Donald (Thomas Brodie-Sangster, in an excellent turn) retreat into a dark comic-book fantasy as...
A Finnish Delight: DocPoint 2012
By . Published 29 February 2012Our writer treks to Helsinki to take in DocPoint 2012, the largest documentary festival in all of Scandinavia
GFF 2012: Herzog at the Festival
By . Published 27 February 2012Werner Herzog's films have become a staple of GFF's programme. We examine why the man who once ate his own shoe continues to excite festival-goers everywhere.
GFF 2012: CineSkinny Awards
By . Published 24 February 2012GFF doesn't go in for awards, but we do. Here are The CineSkinny's awards for GFF 2012
GFF 2012: Weimarvellous
By . Published 24 February 2012Weimarvellous attempts to recall the heady decadence of 1920s Berlin through a programme of burlesque, readings and cabaret karoake. The Blue Angel, which is opening the event, launched Dietrich's career and reflects the carnivalesque...
GFF 2012: Omar Killed Me
By . Published 24 February 2012It’s obvious Omar Killed Me is based on fact; no fictional equivalent would make its central injustice so glaring. The film presents the murder conviction of Moroccan gardener Omar Rassad...
GFF 2012: Bel Ami
By . Published 24 February 2012Bel Ami, based on a Guy de Maupassant novel, marks the feature debut of directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod. The quality of the sets, costumes and cast belies the...
GFF 2012: Livid
By . Published 24 February 2012Bustillo and Maury’s follow-up to their delightfully twisted Inside sticks to a similar recipe of awkward laughs and chills, but with less inspired results. Lucie (Chloe Coulloud) is on the...
GFF 2012: Urban Decay – Death Watch unearthed
By . Published 24 February 2012As the long forgotten Death Watch returns to the big screen at GFF, we examine its connection with Glasgow
