Film Festivals
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FilmAction Movie Poet: Walter Hill on his EIFF Retrospective
Today's cinema owes a great debt to the stylish action pictures of Walter Hill. He talks about the trials of being a genre director and his influence on filmmakers like Nicolas Winding Refn ahead of an Edinburgh International Film Festival retrospective Read more »| 04 Jun 2015 -
FilmTen to see at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival
We suggest ten films to seek out at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 03 Jun 2015 -
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Balancing Act: we speak to EIFF's new artistic director Mark Adams
EIFF has a new artistic director in Mark Adams. We pick his brains on what to expect from the festival under his tenure Read more »| 03 Jun 2015 -
FilmTake to the Road: ¡Viva! Presents New Mexican Cinema (18-22 Jun)
Mexican cinema comes to HOME (or should that be CASA?) with the second of this year's ¡Viva! weekenders Read more »| 03 Jun 2015 -
FilmElectric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Following Not Quite Hollywood, his 2008 documentary about the Australian exploitation cinema of the 1970s and 80s, writer-director Mark Hartley returns to pr... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
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Edinburgh Film Festival 2015 to close with Scott Graham's Iona
Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced that its 69th edition will come to a close with the world premiere of Scott Graham’s second feature... Read more »| 11 May 2015
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Doc/Fest announces Joshua Oppenheimer and Monty Python in its 2015 line-up
Sheffield Doc/Fest, the UK’s premier celebration of documentary filmmaking, has revealed its line-up for this year’s festival. Proceedings kick ... Read more »| 07 May 2015 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Monsters: Dark Continent
In the vein of the genre switch-up between Alien and Aliens, Monsters sequel Dark Continent is an action-orientated take on the setup of the more modest orig... Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
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What the Folk?: Folk Film Gathering 2015
“Is there a folk cinema?” Jamie Chambers, curator the Folk Film Gathering, the world’s first festival of folk cinema, considers this question Read more »| 28 Apr 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Girlhood
The inaccurate English retitling of Céline Sciamma’s Bande de filles has led some to draw comparisons with Boyhood, but where Richard Linklater&... Read more »| 27 Apr 2015 -
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Girl Power: Céline Sciamma on Girlhood
Despite their similar titles, Girlhood is not a female version of Richard Linklater's recent coming-of-ager. Director Céline Sciamma's take on adolescence is far less cosy, but just as emotionally resonant Read more »| 27 Apr 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Junkies, dealers, swindlers, pimps and chancers, all shimmering in the dark night. As Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez did with their decidedly masculine Si... Read more »| 27 Apr 2015 -
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Dundead Horror Film Festival announces 2015 schedule
The lineup for this year’s Dundead festival at Dundee Contemporary Arts has been announced. The UK premiere of American kidnap thriller The Badger Gam... Read more »| 08 Apr 2015 -
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Glasgow Short Film Festival 2015: Teen angst, guerrilla screenings and outrunning capitalism
We look back at another great Glasgow Short Film Festival, which offered plenty of teen angst, an opportunity to take cinema on to the streets of Glasgow and a possible escape from the "shithole" of mainstream narrative cinema Read more »| 08 Apr 2015 -
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Five of the Best from Glasgow Short Film Festival 2015
As ever, Glasgow Short Film Festival offered up a fascinating snapshot of the most interesting and innovative short films from across the world. Here are five of the best from its International Competition Read more »| 02 Apr 2015