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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 blog: All Aboard the Night Train
A roundup of Edinburgh International Film Festival blood splattered Night Moves strand Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
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EIFF 2012: Unconditional
A rare beast: a British film that tackles a challenging subject with confidence and nous, identifying major talent behind and in front of the camera. Read more »| 03 Jul 2012 -
FilmEIFF blog: For your (re) Consideration
It's not about the winning, it's the taking part – unless you win that is. Here are the filmmakers who walked away with silverware at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 03 Jul 2012 -
FilmEIFF 2012: God Bless America
Bobcat Goldthwait, one of USA's most adventurous directors, is back with a biting satire on American culture Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
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EIFF 2012: Brake
A mildly impressive joyride, but some staggeringly stupid twists put on the brakes Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
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EIFF 2012: Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal
While we don’t know for sure how Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal was pitched to investors, we’d like to think it was something along the lines o... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012
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FilmEIFF 2012: The Search for Emak Bakia
Taking Man Ray’s inscrutable cine-poem Emak-Bakia (1927) as inspiration, The Search for Emak Bakia sees director Oskar Alegria walk the Basque coast wi... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
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Reel Talk: EIFFing good festival
It's roughly the mid-point of the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival. I’m sitting in the Filmhouse bar, the festival's main hub, and I feel env... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
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EIFF blog: Kinship, Sacrifice, Diplomacy
A roundup of the trio of docs in Edinburgh International Film Festival's Focus on Denmark strand, which was one of the highlights of this year's event Read more »| 28 Jun 2012 -
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EIFF 2012: The Ambassador
It sounds like the start of a bad joke: how does a “caucasian, pigment-challenged” Dane become Liberia’s diplomatic representative in the C... Read more »| 25 Jun 2012 -
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EIFF 2012: The Lifeguard
A documentary that's as precisely plotted as any fiction Read more »| 25 Jun 2012 -
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EIFF 2012: Sun Don't Shine
Amy Seimetz's delightfully oblique road-movie neatly sidesteps any potential fears of yet another generic lo-fi couple-with-issues indie. Crystal (Kate Lyn S... Read more »| 25 Jun 2012 -
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EIFF 2012: Isn't Anyone Alive? (Ikiteru mono inai no ka)
Who'd have thought the world coming to an end would be so much fun? Read more »| 24 Jun 2012 -
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EIFF 2012: Dr Seuss' The Lorax
The Lorax continues the trend of poor cinematic adaptations of Dr Seuss Read more »| 24 Jun 2012 -
FilmEIFF 2012: 7 Days in Havana
Portmanteau 7 Days in Havana is significantly less than the sum of its talented parts Read more »| 24 Jun 2012