Film Festivals
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Film11 films to see at London Film Festival 2016
With London Film Festival 2016 kicking off next week, we narrow down its huge programme to the 11 films we're most keen to see Read more »| 30 Sep 2016 -
FilmStephen Cone on Henry Gamble's Birthday Party
Ahead of the Scottish premiere of Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party at SQIFF, we speak to the film’s director, Stephen Cone, about his sensitive appr... Read more »| 28 Sep 2016 -
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Manchester Animation Festival reveal 2016 programme
Manchester Animation Festival returns with a celebration of Aardman Animation and a screening of Cannes hit The Red Turtle Animation fans rejoice, Mancheste... Read more »| 23 Sep 2016 -
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Little Men
Gentrification, class tensions and coming of age commingle in this vivid slice of life from Ira Sachs (Love is Strange, Keep the Lights On), who’s slow... Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
FilmI, Daniel Blake to close Take One Action Festival
This year’s Take One Action closes with the Palme d’Or winning film by the festival’s long time patron, Ken Loach Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
FilmTake One Action: Kicking against the radical right
With a wave of right-wing rhetoric bringing Donald Trump to within a hair’s breadth of the US presidency, we look at two films from this year’s Take One Action! Film Festival kicking back against America’s lurch to the right Read more »| 06 Sep 2016
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Art
CCA Highlights - Sep/Oct 2016
We’ve a couple of months of dissidence coming up at Glasgow’s CCA in September and October, with artists, musicians, indie labels and festival curators who are kicking back against the tentacles of capitalism and social inequality in our society Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
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London Film Festival announces 2016 programme
The programme for the 60th BFI London Film Festival was announced today, with new films from the likes of Ben Wheatley, Andrea Arnold and Xavier Dolan in the lineup, and stars like Cillian Murphy, Nicole Kidman and David Oyelowo expected to attend Read more »| 01 Sep 2016 -
Film5 Reasons to Look Forward to SQIFF 2016
The programme for the second edition of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival was announced today. Here are five reasons to be excited Read more »| 26 Aug 2016 -
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Take One Action announces 2016 programme
Take One Action film festival returns to explore key themes facing the world today, including women’s empowerment, refugee integration, fighting austerity and global warming Read more »| 11 Aug 2016 -
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Ben Wheatley’s crime film ‘Free Fire’ to close LFF
The 60th edition of the London Film Festival will close with the European premiere of Ben Wheatley’s high-octane action thriller Free Fire, which stars Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy and Armie Hammer Read more »| 01 Aug 2016 -
Festivals
Regrouping: Re-evaluating a Lost Feminist Classic
At this year's Edinburgh Film Festival, Lizzie Borden presented her 1976 debut Regrouping for just its fifth screening; the visionary director was ... Read more »| 01 Jul 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: Suntan
Suntan, the new film from director Argyris Papadimitropoulos, is firmly in the same mode of disturbing content and discomfort as other works from the so-call... Read more »| 01 Jul 2016 -
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Kevin Smith on fatherhood & Johnny Depp
Kevin Smith was the undoubted king of this year's Edinburgh Film Festival, and the highlight of his visit was an epic In Person chat in which he preached to the crowd on subjects including Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman, and Bruce Willis being a dick Read more »| 27 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: Little Sister
An ex-Goth nun helps rehabilitate her war-scarred brother in this spiky family comedy set at the dawn of Barack Obama’s presidency Read more »| 25 Jun 2016