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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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FilmChanging Man: James Mullighan Interview
The Times They Are a-Changin' at The Edinburgh International Film Festival. Festival director James Mullighan tells The Skinny why change is necessary and why EIFF will no longer be a cog in the film distribution sausage machine Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
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EIFF 2011 open for business
Submissions for EIFF 2011 are now open Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
FilmEIFF2010: Restrepo, Third Star and Perestroika
A final blog from this year's EIFF and in the last few days of the festival I managed to cram in several of the most talked about films. Everyone was curiou... Read more »| 02 Jul 2010 -
FilmEIFF 2010: The Hunter, Donkeys, The Runaways and Skeletons
It's been a real mixed bag at EIFF this year. Top of my list so far has been Iranian film The Hunter. Directed by and starring Rafi Pitts it's a sombre look ... Read more »| 02 Jul 2010 -
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EIFF 2010: Straight On Til Morning
The Skinny sits down with the cast and crew of Edinburgh International Film Festival's closing film, Third Star Read more »| 01 Jul 2010 -
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EIFF 2010: Gravity, My Son My Son What Have Ye Done, The Secret in Their Eyes
Dropping away from suited commuters to enjoy a 9am screening of the blackly comic Gravity carries a curious excitement akin to skiving school. The film deliv... Read more »| 24 Jun 2010
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EIFF 2010: Love, Death and Bird-Watching
Director Karl Golden and actor Emma Booth discuss love, suicide and bird-watching for their latest film Pelican Blood, currently showing at Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 23 Jun 2010 -
FilmComic Book Guy: In Person with Sir Patrick Stewart at EIFF
On a warm Edinburgh evening at Fountain Park Cinema, an unassuming black car pulls up to the front doors; from the back seat emerges the face that launched a... Read more »| 22 Jun 2010 -
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Comic Book Guy: Superhero Me at EIFF 2010
What is it like to be a superhero in the real world? Not the real New York of Spiderman, not the real world of Dave Lizewski in Mathew Vaughn’s Kick As... Read more »| 21 Jun 2010 -
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EIFF 2010: Night Moves
Each year EIFF runs a strand of late-night premieres – films with niche appeal, for fans of genre fare. These tend to reach a small but avid audience a... Read more »| 21 Jun 2010 -
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EIFF 2010: Zombies, Sluts and Cave Dwellers
I made it to Edinburgh for the Film Festival this week and watched six films in just over 24hrs. I haven't managed this kind of rate since the Schwarzenegger... Read more »| 18 Jun 2010 -
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EIFF 2010: The Illusionist, And Everything is Going Fine, 22 Bullets
It was a collection of fragile souls that gathered at the press screenings on Thursday morning, the first official day of the 64th Edinburgh International Fi... Read more »| 18 Jun 2010 -
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EIFF 2010: McLaren Animation 1
The calibre of up-and-coming animators is quite staggering in Britain today. Scotland has a great deal to offer the international scene, and it's well worth ... Read more »| 16 Jun 2010 -
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What Lies in Wait: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010
Edinburgh’s annual film soiree gets underway on 16 June. We shine a spotlight on three sections of the festival that are ripe for discovery Read more »| 01 Jun 2010 -
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Stuart Hazeldine's Exam: No Bathroom Breaks Allowed
Director Stuart Hazeldine talks about his one-room thriller Exam. Read more »| 05 Jan 2010