Film Events
Stay up to date with current and upcoming film events. Here you’ll find info on approaching film festivals, and interviews with festival curators.
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Film EventsJuly Film Events: 2009
June was such a busy month that it seems the cinemas across Scotland are largely on their summer holidays. Perhaps July is the month to relax, take a break a... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
Film EventsSome Home Comforts
Whatever your excuse for moving back in with your parents (“the credit crunch”, seems to cut it for just about anything anyway), there’s st... Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
Festivals
EIFF 2009: The Short of It
Keir Roper-Caldbeck takes a look at EIFF's short film programme for 2009. Read more »| 15 Jun 2009 -
Film EventsHook, Line and Some Stinkers
I used to think that a wasp was the only thing that could ruin a summer’s day. That is, until I went on a seaside holiday some years ago in the Baltic,... Read more »| 12 Jun 2009 -
FestivalsDigital 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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Mama Said Knock You Out
I don’t do conflict very well. Most days, I prefer to project the image of a polite young man, the kind that wears corduroy and tasselled loafers... Read more »| 22 May 2009
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Teens and Trekkies
Sometimes, an ex-girlfriend is best left consigned to history. Lovesick Trekkies have been searching for a film to take to their hearts for qui... Read more »| 08 May 2009 -
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Night of the Living Drunks: Dead by Dawn Day 3
Day Three of Dead by Dawn, Edinburgh’s international horror festival, and I'm not so much woken up as dug up. I cadge a lift into town and steel myse... Read more »| 04 May 2009 -
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Second Day of Edinburgh's Zombie Terror Claims New Victims
Day Two of Dead by Dawn and I’m still alive and feeling just fine so far. I get there nice and early and grab a bacon roll in a café across from... Read more »| 03 May 2009 -
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May Film Events
There’s plenty to see at cinemas across Scotland this month. The Filmhouse in Edinburgh continues its festival run with the Tibet Film Festival from 8-... Read more »| 28 Apr 2009 -
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Polar Bears and Police
You shouldn’t mess with the police, or bears. It’s not the indiscriminate thwack-a-thon that befalls anyone lairy enough to stroll past a group of police of... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
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Forza Italia!
Italian cinema is enjoying a steady resurgence after something of a dip in form. The monolithic shadow of the spaghetti western overshadowed much of post-fa... Read more »| 17 Apr 2009 -
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Good Eggs
It’s clear from the majority of this week’s releases that the Easter holidays are the firmly entrenched preserve of a rather pubescent audience, with concern... Read more »| 10 Apr 2009 -
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Dinner Party Talk
Ah, religion; the dinner party taboo, a well-worn media pincushion, and now part of a neat portmanteau, as it forms half of the title of Religulous, a new f... Read more »| 01 Apr 2009 -
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Playing Away From Home
It’s usually rappers that venture into the world of Hollywood on a hiding to nothing. Two Lovers, Joaquin Phoenix’s alleged cinematic swansong, ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2009