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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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FilmForgotten Man: EIFF director Chris Fujiwara on Shinji Somai
Attendees at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival have an opportunity to view a full retrospective of Shinji Somai, whose films have been almost unseen on these shores. EIFF director Chris Fujiwara speaks to us about this overlooked filmmaker Read more »| 28 May 2012 -
FilmFor Your Consideration...
With the award season pantomime over for another year, we consider the merit of film awards Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
FilmPerfect Sense
Reunited with Ewan McGregor, Young Adam director David Mackenzie helms this high concept, pseudo-apocalyptic vision concerning the threat of a global vi... Read more »| 07 Oct 2011 -
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Tomboy
Tomboy Laure (Héran) arrives at her new apartment in a leafy French suburb, and soon yearns for more than simply playing inside with her little sister... Read more »| 12 Sep 2011 -
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Something for the Weekend: Interview with Karl Golden
The Skinny caught up with Pelican Blood director Karl Golden to discuss his new film Weekender, a love letter to the early 90s rave scene Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
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The Guard
Absurdity and eccentricity abound in The Guard, the directorial debut from Ned Kelly screenwriter John Michael McDonagh, which sees maverick lawman Sgt. Gerr... Read more »| 15 Aug 2011
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FilmPrincess Bari
Korean Complexity Read more »| 12 Aug 2011 -
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Easy Riders, Raging Cinephiles: An Interview with Matthew Lloyd
How The Movie Brats Took Over Edinburgh looks at the years when Edinburgh Film Festival punched above its weight on the world festival circuit. We speak to Matthew Lloyd, the book's author Read more »| 11 Aug 2011 -
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Opinion: Bring back the EIFF to August
The International Film Festival: Old and Unwanted? Read more »| 05 Aug 2011 -
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Director Romain Gavras: “You become crazy when you don't embrace your environment"
We speak to Romain Gavras, the controversial director who caused a shitstorm with his ginger genocide promo for M.I.A.'s Born Free, about his bracing first feature film Our Day Will Come Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
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Our Day Will Come
Enfant terrible of the music video world, Romain Gavras, writes and directs his feature debut, featuring perennial cinematic nutcase Vincent Cassel. The resu... Read more »| 26 Jul 2011 -
FilmEIFF 2011: Bobby Fischer Against the World
Recounting the life of the revered American chess master famed for his strange behaviour and seemingly unmatched ability, Bobby Fischer Against the World cen... Read more »| 11 Jul 2011 -
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EIFF 2011: Ghosted
Prison drama Ghosted sees sinister head-honcho jailbird Clay (Craig Parkinson) and quiet, just-want-to-do-my-time-guv con Jack (John Lynch) vie for t... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
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EIFF 2011: Polyester - in Odorama
The Skinny's Deviance editor, Ana Hine, previews a special Odorama presentation of Polyester, the 1981 comedy from the biggest deviant of all, John Walters, which is screening in all its fetid glory at the 2011 Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 20 Jun 2011 -
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Lucy Walker Interview or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Fear the Bomb
Countdown to Zero is a chilling documentary tracing mankind's precocious relationship to the atom bomb. The film's director, Lucy Walker, talks to The Skinny about the ever-present nuclear threat Read more »| 14 Jun 2011