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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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VideosBill Pohlad on his Brian Wilson biopic 'Love & Mercy'
Director Bill Pohlad discusses new film Love & Mercy, which portrays the life and music of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. Pohlad discusses how he appro... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Inside Out
With Inside Out, their 15th animated feature, animation house Pixar take a detour to avoid some of the visual and storytelling beats that have made even thei... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Brand New-U
In the age of Charlie Brooker’s excoriating, insightful Black Mirror series and Dennis Kelly’s sinisterly gleaming Utopia, writer-director Simon ... Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
FilmEIFF 2015: Beyond the Lights
Rising superstar Noni (Belle’s Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is feeling the pressures of fame and finds herself on the literal edge, almost perishing in a suicide j... Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Black Mountain Poets
Having charmed audiences with last year's double hitter of Benny & Jolene and A Wonderful Christmas Time, Jamie Adams is quietly making a name for himsel... Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Swung
Colin Kennedy’s adaptation of Ewan Morrison’s novel about a couple’s experience of the Glasgow swingers' scene opens with a limp joke about... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015
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FilmEIFF 2015: Welcome to Me
Based on premise alone, Welcome to Me could have gone horribly wrong all too easily, but director Shira Piven’s barbed satire successfully walks a fine... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
FilmEIFF 2015: Love & Mercy
Two pivotal periods in Brian Wilson’s life collide in Bill Pohlad's dizzying study of the former Beach Boy. One concerns the creation of 1966‘s P... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Last Days in the Desert
White people fannying about reenacting scripture should, on paper, be testing the boundaries of taste. But Last Days in the Desert is so pared down, so sure ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
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Asif Kapadia on the message behind 'Amy'
We talk to Asif Kapadia, director of Amy, the new documentary on the life and times of Amy Winehouse in this video shot at the Edinburgh Internatio... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Hellions
Hellions is like chewing gum: it begins promisingly enough, with a genuine sense of foreboding and serviceable performances from the lead (Chloe Rose as teen... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Cop Car
Jon Watts’ lean Cop Car has a simple title and a simple premise. Needless complications aren’t piled onto proceedings and the film’s all th... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Maggie
After decades of zombies being used for satirical commentary, a new wave of films seems concerned with heavy exploration of the emotional undercurrent of lov... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: The Chambermaid Lynn (Das Zimmermädchen Lynn)
Writer-director Ingo Haeb observes his film's eponymous character in much the same way as she views the world and the people around her: distant, chilly, alm... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
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45 Years
There’s a ghost in the attic in Andrew Haigh’s haunting relationship drama 45 Years, but not the kind that can be vanquished with a séance... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015