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EIFF line up female filmmakers & 80s horror retrospectives
The retrospective for this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival has been announced, and organisers say they’ve been inspired by current a... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Kim Knowles on EIFF retrospective Reframing the Gaze
Fifty years ago, Edinburgh International Film Festival hosted its highly influential Women's Event. Helmed by revolutionary film theorists Laura Mu... Read more »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
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Scotland on Screen: EIFF Creative Director Kristy Matheson
Is there a tougher job in UK cinema exhibition than being head of the Edinburgh International Film Festival? From the outside, it appears not. This venerable... Read more »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
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EIFF bring Drive-In cinema to Edinburgh Airport
Like many of our colleagues and friends in Scotland's creative community, The Skinny have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. We're asking for your su... Read more »| Updated almost 4 years ago -
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EIFF 2021 will close with Billy Crystal comedy
We at The Skinny are very excited to discover what shape Edinburgh International Film Festival will take this year. After the cancellation of the 2020 event ... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
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EIFF 2021: The Man Who Sold His Skin
In 2007, Belgian artist Wim Delvoye – infamous for tattooing pigs in the name of artistic genius – turned his needle to the then-unknown Tim Stei... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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Fancy being a student film critic at EIFF?
Getting started in film journalism can be tricky, but a fine place to learn the ropes is as part of Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Student Cri... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 13-20 Jun: EIFF and more
If last year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival Opening Gala film Puzzle left something to be desired, it looks like we’re in for a treat th... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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EIFF and RSNO team up for Jaws in concert
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF)'s collaborations with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) have become one of the most popular events at... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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EIFF plan outdoor festival by the Firth of Forth
We’re very much looking forward to the return of Edinburgh International Film Festival after the long-running event took a hiatus last year due to the ... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
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EIFF announce free Film Fest in the City line-up
Edinburgh International Film Festival kicks off on 20 June this year, and Film Fest in the City – EIFF’s annual outdoor screening season in colla... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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More Than Bricks and Mortar: Filmmakers on Filmhouse and EIFF
No one will miss Scotland’s self-appointed Centre for the Moving Image, the charity that fell into administration on 6 October. But anyone who cares ev... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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All change at EIFF as artistic director Mark Adams steps down
It’s been announced today that Mark Adams is stepping down from his role as Artistic Director of Edinburgh International Film Festival after five years... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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Filmhouse and EIFF closure leaves Scottish film community in shock
The film community in Scotland was knocked sideways yesterday by the news that two of the most important and most-loved arts institutions in Edinburgh &ndash... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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EIFF 2022: Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson on A Cat Called Dom
In the year that Edinburgh International Film Festival’s annual Michael Powell Award is retooled to become the Powell and Pressburger Award, there&rsqu... Read more »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
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EIFF 2022: A E I O U - A Quick Alphabet of Love
Nicolette Krebitz’s A E I O U - A Quick Alphabet of Love borrows from a rich history of cinematic love stories told from the perspective of women (if r... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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Edinburgh Film Festival 2022: 15 Must-See Films
Leonor Will Never DieDir. Martika Ramirez EscobarFiction and reality blur in this surreal comedy from the Philippines. The Leonor of the title is an age... Read more »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
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Edinburgh Film Festival announce £50,000 Sean Connery Prize
Scotland’s biggest film star Sean Connery was a long-time supporter of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and a regular attendee. The Oscar-win... Read more »| Updated 3 months ago -
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Toy Story 4 coming to Edinburgh Film Festival
Good news, Toy Story fans. Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), Rex (Wallace Shawn), Jessie (Joan Cusack), Hamm (John Ratzenberger) and the gang will be back... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
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Showing Up
Kelly Reichardt has made a career from mapping out entire worlds from the slight bursts of tension in everyday relationships. Showing Up, with its contempora... Read more »| Updated 9 months ago -
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Edinburgh Film Festival: Read the Student Critics
The 2019 Edinburgh International Film Festival is in full swing, with the festival's annual Best of The Fest selection bringing down the curtain on Sunday 30... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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A New Wave: Johnny Barrington on Silent Roar
There’s a distinctly bittersweet flavour to Silent Roar, the soulful and gently comic debut feature from Johnny Barrington, which is due to have its wo... Read more »| Updated 10 months ago -
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Get experimental at Edinburgh International Film Festival
“Right now, I’m revolting against the conventions of movies,” said New York filmmaker Shirley Clarke when making her first feature, The Con... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Edinburgh Film Festival: The 2018 programme
We already know that the 72nd edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival will begin with Marc Turtletaub’s indie drama Puzzle, which reportedly f... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Au revoir, Agnès: EIFF's Agnès Varda retrospective
“I tried to be a joyful feminist, but I was very angry,” says Agnès Varda, the mother of the French New Wave, in her film The Beaches of A... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Puzzle to open Edinburgh International Film Festival
Last year Edinburgh International Film Festival opened with the wonderful Yorkshire set gay romance God’s Own Country. For this year’s gambit, EI... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Edinburgh Film Festival: 8 female filmmakers making waves
Women’s voices in film continue to be silenced – with pay gaps and fewer opportunities to get films off the ground – which is why it is mor... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Youth in Revolt: Ninian Doff on Get Duked!
Over the years, movies haven't exactly been the best advert for visiting Scotland's great outdoors. An island in the Hebrides proves less than hospitable for... Read more »| Updated almost 4 years ago -
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Agnès Varda to be celebrated at Edinburgh Film Festival
The death of cinema treasure Agnès Varda back in March has left an absence in the film world that will be felt for a long while. The legendary French ... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
With the advent of her centenary, What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael is a perfect opportunity to get reacquainted with the contentious film critic’... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago