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Top Ten Events 9-15 Aug: LuckyMe, Speed of Light + Unbound
Top Ten Events 9-15 Aug: LuckyMe, Speed of Light, + Unbound THE WEEK AHEAD... This we... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
Film
Kate Dickie, Peter Mullan triumph at Scottish Baftas
Crime drama Shetland wins big at the Scottish Baftas, while EIFF opener Tommy’s Honour takes home best film award Last night, The British Academy Scot... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 29 May
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAMME UNVEILEDThis morning, the programme for EIFF 2013 was announced by festival director Chris Fujiwara. This is ... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
Film
T2 Trainspotting dominates Bafta Scotland nominations
The nominations for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in Scotland's annual celebration of Scottish cinema and television have been announced th... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Things To Do
What's On Scotland 21-28 Sep: SQIFF
The return of the SQIFF (Scottish Queer International Film Festival) sets the tone for a particularly cinematic Zap this week. We're truly buzzing ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Festivals
Rhys Ifans interview: Under Milk Wood
Great screen actors need iconic moments; the images that cement them in the public’s consciousness. Rhys Ifans has one, and it was achieved while weari... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Things To Do
What's On Scotland: EU Referendum
Each week The Skinny team hand pick a selection of events from the Scottish cultural calendar to provide you with this guide to the most exciting goings on i... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Festivals
One. On. One: Filmmaker Mania Akbari in conversation
The last few years have seen a noticeable rise in Iranian cinema’s international profile, both through relatively mainstream breakthrough success for f... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
Students
Big Screen Education
The Old One I’ll say one thing about Edinburgh International Film Festival (June): it has stamina. Held in Auld Reekie each year since 1947, it’... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Festivals
Secret Master: Chris Fujiwara on the Cinema of Dominik Graf
A perennial joy of Chris Fujiwara’s tenure as Edinburgh International Film Festival’s artistic director have been the retrospectives. In his shor... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
Festivals
Michael Moore on Trump, Blair and Brexit
Sheffield Doc/Fest, the UK's number one documentary festival, kicked off yesterday with opening film Where to Invade Next and a stirring Q&A with its dir... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Festivals
Five Animated Years of Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson
What if Michael Powell had never met Emeric Pressburger? Or Mr and Mrs Coen decided to not have any more children after their son Joel was born? The world wo... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Things To Do
Things To Do Scotland 18-25 Jun: West End Festival All-Dayer, Mogwai + Cake Fest
1. MUSIC | West End Festival All-Dayer Òran Mór, Glasgow. 21 Jun, 3pm, £20 (£18) he... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Film
The World and Bobby Fischer: an interview with Liz Garbus
At the height of the cold war, the world’s news cameras focused on a solitary figure sitting at a small chessboard in Iceland. Broadcasters and spectat... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
Festivals
Wang Bing: The Mystery of a Fact Clearly Described
In a wonderful scene from Doctor Zhivago, Strelnikov (Tom Courtenay) schools Yuri (Omar Sharif) on just how the world has turned. “The private lif... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
Film
Withnail & I at 30: Richard E Grant on the classic
Richard E Grant is looking angelic. The 60-year-old Swazi-English actor is sitting framed inside a huge arched window of an empty dining room in Edinburgh&rs... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 13 May
AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.After being picked up for broadcast by US network ABC, the first teaser trailer for Joss Whedon's hotly-anticipated Agents of S.H.I.E.L... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 19 November
KICKSTARTER NEWS: NEW DOCUMENTARIES ON STONESTHROW & CLASSIC SHOEGAZEKicking off today's Bulletin, we bring you news of two fascinating new documentaries... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Film
John Boorman: turning money into light
There’s reason to celebrate this week. John Boorman, the great director of Point Blank, Deliverance and Arthurian epic Excalibur, has a new film out. E... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Film
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 22 May
THE CLASH UNVEIL 5-ALBUM BOX SETThe Clash are in many ways the quintissential punk band - raw, politicised, and with a dedicated army of followers who worshi... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
Film
Films of 2015: Hippies, Road Warriors and STD Hauntings
Once again our writers draw lines in the cinematic sand to choose 2015's essential films. Our top ten has a curious gender divide: the male protagonists (The... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Film
Paradigm Shift: Beyond the Silver Screen
In the early years of the film industry, films were projected onto a screen embedded with particles of reflective silver or aluminium. These silver lenticula... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
Whats On
Belmont Filmhouse
What is now Belmont Filmhouse was built in 1896 as a trades hall. The first film was shown on the premises in 1898 and featured footage of Queen Victoria at ... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago