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The Skinny's guide to Edinburgh International Film Festival. Film reviews, interviews, opinion and comment from this year's festival, taking place this August. EIFF is the longest continually-running film festival in the world, and The Skinny are proud to be official media partners.
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FilmHow Steven Spielberg’s Jaws changed cinema
Jaws is 43 years old but as potent as ever. Ahead of its screening with a live orchestra at Edinburgh International Film Festival, we sing the praises of this Spielberg classic Read more »| 13 Jun 2018 -
FilmEdinburgh Film Festival: 8 female filmmakers making waves
This year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival celebrates female filmmaking in the 1980s, but there are also plenty of mint fresh films from female directors that you should seek out too. Here are eight of them Read more »| 13 Jun 2018 -
FilmEdinburgh Film Festival announce celebrity guests
Edinburgh International Film Festival announce who’ll be walking the red carpet this year, with guests ranging from Kelly Macdonald and Samantha Morton to Ben Elton and Rob Brydon Read more »| 11 Jun 2018 -
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Watch the first trailer for Scottish thriller Calibre
Matt Palmer’s Highland-set thriller starring Jack Lowden and Martin McCann gets its first trailer Read more »| 08 Jun 2018 -
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Mark Cousins on The Eyes of Orson Welles
Mark Cousins' latest film explores the life and work of Orson Welles through the huge archive of drawings the Citizen Kane director made across his life. Cousins tells us how studying these sketches brought him closer to his filmmaking hero Read more »| 06 Jun 2018 -
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Were the 1980s a golden age for female filmmaking?
A shimmering highlight of this year's EIFF is its American Woman retrospective celebrating female filmmakers of the 1980s. Ahead of the festival, we talk to Smithereens director Susan Seidelman, one of the pioneering female filmmakers of this era Read more »| 28 May 2018
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Edinburgh Film Festival: The 2018 programme
Rob Brydon and Anna Paquin are among the stars heading to Edinburgh for the 72nd edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, along with 121 new feature films from 48 countries across the globe Read more »| 23 May 2018 -
FilmEdinburgh Film Festival 2018: 10 films to see
Our film editor picks ten of the most interesting films to look out for at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival (20 June - 1 July) Read more »| 23 May 2018 -
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EIFF launch their Young & the Wild programme
If you’re between 15-25, The Young & the Wild programme at EIFF give you access to filmmaker masterclasses, hands-on workshops, careers advice sessions and discounted tickets to films at EIFF Read more »| 08 May 2018 -
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EIFF and RSNO team up for Jaws in concert
Duuun dun duuun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun BOM BOM dun dun dun dun dun dun doo dedoo doo dedoo dede doo dede doo dededoo – now imagine that with a full orchestra, and you're halfway to EIFF's orchestral Jaws night Read more »| 03 May 2018 -
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EIFF announce free Film Fest in the City line-up
Edinburgh International Film Festival once again offers up a lively line-up of movies for its annual Film Fest in the City season Read more »| 01 May 2018 -
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Rob Brydon comedy Swimming with Men to close EIFF 2018
The British comedy about an all-male synchronised swimming team will close this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 27 Apr 2018 -
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Fancy being a student film critic at EIFF?
Edinburgh International Film Festival are looking for talented film writers to take part in their annual Student Critics Competition Read more »| 25 Apr 2018 -
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Puzzle to open Edinburgh International Film Festival
This year’s EIFF will open with the international premiere of American drama Puzzle, which stars Trainspotting and No Country for Old Men’s Kelly Macdonald Read more »| 25 Apr 2018 -
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Incredibles 2 to screen at EIFF
Pixar’s love affair with Edinburgh International Film Festival continues, with the sequel to The Incredibles premiering at the year’s festival Read more »| 13 Apr 2018