Edinburgh Festivals
The Skinny guide to art, book and film festivals in Edinburgh. The latest previews, reviews and features.
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EIFF 2009: Katalin Varga
Since Birth of a Nation, rape and the ensuing quest for revenge have driven the plots of many films. In Katalin Varga, the debut feature of British director ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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EIFF 2009: Outrage
Harvey Milk (who, as the final scene of this documentary confirms, has truly earned his place as the gay Martin Luther King) famously prayed that any bullet ... Read more »| 27 Jun 2009 -
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EIFF 2009: Modern Love Is Automatic
A wicked pastiche of contemporary life, Modern Love pulls off (no pun intended) the impressive feat of making you fall in love with a character who utters ar... Read more »| 25 Jun 2009 -
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EIFF 2009: Van Diemen's Land
Van Diemen's Land is a formidable debut from Australian director Jonathan Auf Der Heide. This is the glacial true story of Alexander Pearce (played by thespi... Read more »| 25 Jun 2009 -
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EIFF Interview: Alvarez and Geraghty on Easier with Practice
Phone sex with a killer soundtrack. What's not to love? Read more »| 25 Jun 2009 -
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It's Book Festival Time Again...
Next month it’s time again for the Edinburgh International Book Festival, which runs 15 – 31 of August. Tickets are on sale now, so with that in mind, here’s our handy guide to the best at the fest. Read more »| 25 Jun 2009
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EIFF 2009: Giallo
Dario Argento's latest film, Giallo, sees the director return to his roots. It is reminiscent of his works during the seventies, such as Suspiria, but lacks... Read more »| 25 Jun 2009 -
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EIFF 2009: Spread
The Hollywood debut of EIFF alumnus David Mackenzie, Spread is a surprisingly entertaining parable about a vacuous but louche LA hustler. The supremely cynic... Read more »| 25 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: 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 -
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EIFF 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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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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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