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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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FilmEIFF 2014: Hellion
Hellion is a low-key family drama that explores grief and responsibility. Former Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul features as Hollis, a boozy single parent who&r... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
FilmEIFF 2014: Joe
With Joe, director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Prince Avalanche) returns to his roots, examining the grim reality of society’s underclass wi... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: I Believe in Unicorns
A merging of Terrence Malick’s Badlands and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland might be read as a possible influence on I Believe in Unicorns, but this ver... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
FilmEIFF 2014: Castles in the Sky
It’s hard to represent the creative process of invention on screen without resorting to cliché. Gillies Mackinnon’s Castles in the Sky, ho... Read more »| 23 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Stray Dogs
Stray Dogs is an existentialist study of human endurance presented in two acts. Both are spectacular. The first follows a man (Tsai’s go-to leading man... Read more »| 22 Jun 2014 -
FilmEIFF 2014: Violet
Violet opens with a silent act of violence, the murder of a teenage boy in an empty shopping mall, wordlessly captured from multiple angles on CCTV. After wi... Read more »| 22 Jun 2014
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EIFF 2014: Snowpiercer
Adapted from a French comic, directed by South Korean maverick Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Memories of Murder), and featuring a stacked roster of American, Europ... Read more »| 21 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Finding Vivian Maier
In 2007 John Maloof, while researching for a book on Chicago, happened upon a collection of 30,000 prints and negatives by one Vivian Maier. Googling her nam... Read more »| 21 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Cold in July
The exploitation revival of the last ten or so years has produced more duds than doozies, but Jim Mickle here delivers a real highlight of the sub-genre with... Read more »| 20 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Let Us Prey
This visually stylish low budget horror looks like it’ll be a real treat from the doom-leaden and aggressive opening, as a flock of crows and chilling ... Read more »| 20 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Something, Anything
Something, Anything is a concise, fascinating exploration of American life, making pointed use of Southern cultural values for a more universal story of mala... Read more »| 19 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF2014: Greyhawk
A blind army veteran loses his guide dog and only friend, Quincy, on a tough estate in this slight but extremely well put together debut feature from Matt an... Read more »| 19 Jun 2014 -
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Bong Joon-ho: The Most Gilded of the Golden Generation
Last year at Edinburgh Film Festival, Bong Joon-ho headed the International Jury. This year will see the UK premiere of his long-awaited new feature Snowpiercer. We sat down with the Korean filmmaker at last year’s edition to discuss his career Read more »| 19 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Hyena
A compelling central performance from Peter Ferdinando is not enough to save Gerard Johnson’s derivative and deeply unpleasant thriller, Hyena. Ferdina... Read more »| 18 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: The Picks
We attempt to narrow down this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival programme, which features 156 features from 47 countries, to only ten must sees – and cheat a bit Read more »| 17 Jun 2014