Scottish Film Events: August 2022

Edinburgh International Film Festival officially returns to August this year – read about the great films coming to EIFF (12-20 Aug) in our CineSkinny special at the centre of the August magazine.

Outwith EIFF, you'll find plenty of work at the Fringe with a cinematic bent. There’s Psychodrama (Traverse), for example, a revenge tale featuring the murder of an auteur theatre director, set against the backdrop of a stage production of Hitchcock’s Psycho. Or what about What Broke David Lynch? (Greenside), in which Mr Twonkey plays Lynch in a yarn about the making of The Elephant Man. And who could resist ​​Never Let Go: An Unauthorised Retelling of James Cameron's Titanic (Assembly George Sq), a one-actor-show condensing that three-and-a-half-hour epic romance into an easy-to-digest 60 minutes?

There’s plenty happening in Glasgow this month too. Nice N Sleazy’s new Rebel Queers Film Club continues on 9 August with another 'grubby queer cult movie': namely, Time Square. This punky fairytale sees two teen runaways come to the gritty streets of New York and become rock stars, thanks to a lot of attitude, plenty of hairspray and a little help from a supportive DJ played by Tim Curry.

Glasgow Film Theatre, meanwhile, crown the great Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray this month’s CineMaster. Alongside Ray’s monumental Apu Trilogy in 4K (various screenings, until 17 Aug), there's also some rare showings of The Lonely Wife (20 & 24 Aug), a tender study of marital loneliness that Ray considered the very best film of his storied career.

Also run to GFT for their Europe Made Hollywood retrospective celebrating the great European filmmakers (Billy Wilder, Michael Curtiz, Fritz Lang) and actors (Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo) who found success in Hollywood during its Golden Age. The season offers masterpiece upon masterpiece: Shanghai Express (4 Aug), Queen Christina (7 Aug; on 35mm), Fury (11 Aug; on 35mm), Casablanca (14 Aug), Double Indemnity (18 Aug) and The Killers (21 Aug). The season closes with a 70th-anniversary screening of Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon (24 Aug).

You're likely to be skint after all that, but luckily Queen's Park's free outdoor screenings continue, with cult classics like Big Trouble in Little China (29 Aug) and Battle Royale (30 Aug) on offer.