Edinburgh Festivals
The Skinny guide to art, book and film festivals in Edinburgh. The latest previews, reviews and features.
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FilmAll Tomorrow's Parties: When Music Festival Meets Film Festival
The All Tomorrow’s Parties (ATP) film is dedicated to recreating the atmosphere of the cult music festival. Gail Tolley spoke to the film’s producer Luke Morris about creating the ‘ultimate mix-tape’ on film. Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
FilmRoger Corman: King of the Bs
Roger Corman is the godfather of B movies: the Cézanne of sleaze, the Turner of trash, and that’s why this year EIFF are dedicating a retrospective programme to this true titan of American cinema. Michael Gillespie reports. Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
FilmGet Ready for a Cinematic Whipping (with Modern Love Is Automatic)
Modern Love is Automatic was made at weekends, with a tiny cast and on money borrowed from friends and relatives - it carries all the ethos of true guerrilla film-making. Gail Tolley spoke to director Zach Clark about breaking all the rules of conventional film-making. Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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Highbrow Highlights of the Edinburgh International Film Festival
For those whose taste is more Bergman than B-movies, here are our suggestions of the best in arthouse cinema at this year’s festival. Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
FilmDigital Culture Highlights this June
The world's oldest continually running film festival returns in June. This year the Edinburgh International Film Festival has included several digital events... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
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EIFF 2009 Programme Launch
The Edinburgh International Film Festival programme was announced this morning, revealing a varied and exciting list of events and films with an emphasis on ... Read more »| 06 May 2009
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Nothing Like Good Dick?
Good Dick is the writing and directing debut of Marianna Palka, a Glasgow born actress who left Scotland ten years ago to live in the States. It’s the darkly amusing tale of a video store clerk who pursues a porn-obsessed young woman who clearly wants nothing to do with him, and it was warmly received at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, winning the New Director's Award. Jenni Cruickshank caught up with Marianna and her co-star/producer/boyfriend, Jason Ritter, to discuss the true meaning of ‘independent’ film.... Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Books
Dave McKean @ EIBF, 19 Aug
If the Book Festival ever became fatiguing due to its surplus of talented egos crammed into one concentrated space, Dave McKean would be the perfect antidote... Read more »| 22 Aug 2008 -
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
A wonderfully breezy, champagne cocktail of an old-fashioned comedy, that fizzes away with all the madcap, feel-good fun of a 1930s screwball classic, Miss P... Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
BooksThe Skinny Event - Chuck Palahniuk @ Charlotte Square Gardens, 16 Aug
Everything smart that Brad Pitt parroted in Fincher's Fight Club came straight from Palahniuk's keyboard Read more »| 31 Jul 2008 -
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Elite Squad
A tough, uncompromising look at police corruption and street crime in the drug saturated favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Elite Squad blasts across the scr... Read more »| 31 Jul 2008 -
Books
The Skinny Event - Shane Koyczan @ Charlotte Square Gardens, 22 Aug
Koyczan’s ‘We Are More’ is the only poem I’ve ever read that made me want to be a Canadian. Read more »| 31 Jul 2008 -
International
Jonathan Mills on what an international festival should be
Jonathan Mills was considered to have comparatively little experience when he took up the post of Director of the Edinburgh International Festival last year. The Skinny tends to favour the outsider, though, so RJ Thomson is pleased to find him abounding in ideas on how the face of the 61 year old institution is changing under his watch. Read more »| 28 Jul 2008 -
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Man On Wire
On 7 August, 1974, Frenchman Philippe Petit spent 45 minutes walking on a high wire between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Centre. Though he... Read more »| 28 Jul 2008 -
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Man On Wire Interview - Edinburgh Film Festival
Man On Wire is the astonishing true account of how French high wire artist and performer Philippe Petit walked across a rope suspended between New York's Twin Towers. Its director James Marsh took some time out during the Edinburgh International Film Festival to speak to The Skinny. Read more »| 24 Jul 2008