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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 2009: Antichrist
I reach the Cineworld Fountainbridge in the nick of time to catch Antichrist. I walk through wind and rain to get there (rather appropriately as it turns out... Read more »| 24 Jun 2009 -
FilmEIFF 2009: Jalainur
Jalainur is a surreal vision of reality caught between past and future, foreshadowing the nostalgia that will set in when Old China disappears in the turbule... Read more »| 24 Jun 2009 -
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EIFF 2009: Rudo y Cursi
Beto dreams of being a singer. Tato dreams of being a goalie. One day a man in a loud shirt wearing too wide a smile enters their lives and offers them a cha... Read more »| 24 Jun 2009 -
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EIFF 2009: Big Things
Standing in a wheelie bin, hiring a fat guy to play an athlete and wiping faeces off your front door are apparently just some of the lengths that aspiring fi... Read more »| 24 Jun 2009 -
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EIFF 2009: Birdwatchers
Cowboys and Indians are two of the oldest film archetypes. As we all know, however, Hollywood's tendency to portray one as "good" and "the other" (appropriat... Read more »| 22 Jun 2009 -
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EIFF 2009: Day One
Believe it or not, but this is my first Edinburgh International Film Festival. I know, I know, and I call myself a film buff. The closest I’ve ever com... Read more »| 20 Jun 2009
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EIFF 2009: Exam
Exam, screen-writer Stuart Hazeldine's first feature, is a low budget film disguised as a slick, big budget production. The premise is simple - eight candid... Read more »| 20 Jun 2009 -
FilmEIFF 2009: The Last Heroes of the Peninsula
In the 1970s, the city of Mérida, in the Mexican peninsula state Yucatán, delivered a series of compact gladiators who conquered the world of b... Read more »| 20 Jun 2009 -
FilmEIFF 2009: The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow takes on the war genre, in this excellent film about a bomb disposal unit in Iraq. Like many films dealing with similar subject matter (for e... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
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Intruders at the EIFF
To boldly go where no man has gone before - a phrase that remains inextricable from a certain sci-fi telly series, and one with limited application to anyone... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
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EIFF 2009: White Lightnin'
Based on the semi-biographical story of Jesco White, White Lightnin' is a brutal and uncompromising example of the trials and tribulations of hillbilly life.... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
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Unique retrospective of Bengali cinema opens in Edinburgh
The St John's Church Hall in Edinburgh has been transformed into a Sunderbans jungle for a three-day Bengali film retrospective of classics by Satyajit Ray, ... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
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EIFF 2009: Little Soldier
Traumatised by her experiences as a soldier in Iraq, Lotte (Trine Dyrholm) returns to Denmark, where she drifts and drinks until she gets a job as a driver a... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
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EIFF 2009: Nollywood Babylon
What’s the third largest film industry in the world after Hollywood and Bollywood? No? Nollywood, of course. In less than twenty years, using cheap dig... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
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EIFF 2009: Big River Man
Hard drinking and overweight, Martin Strel is an unlikely athlete. Yet the 53 year old Slovenian is a legend in the world of endurance swimming and a hero to... Read more »| 17 Jun 2009