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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 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 -
FilmEIFF 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 -
FilmEIFF 2011: The Long (Shorts) Weekend
There may be no closing Gala this year, but the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival is still sure to go out with a bang as it hosts the Nokia Shorts Weekender, Scotland's largest celebration of short films Read more »| 10 Jun 2011 -
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EIFF 2011: Stranger Than Fiction
Documentaries make up a third of the features showing at this year's EIFF. The Skinny preview this strong doc line-up, which includes Project Nim, the new film from Man on Wire's James Marsh, and Hell and Back Again, the startling war documentary that will close the festival's new Conflict | Reportage strand Read more »| 03 Jun 2011 -
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EIFF 2011: Critical Massive
One of many new introductions to EIFF, Project: New Cinephilia intends to be an "energetic gathering of film lovers engaging in conversations on how to write about cinema" Read more »| 02 Jun 2011
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Changing 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 -
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EIFF2010: 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 -
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EIFF 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