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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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 -
Film EventsMama 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 -
Film EventsSecond 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 -
Film EventsMay 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 -
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On The Green Carpet
From Greenpeace on whaling ships to green piss on Peter Mandelson, climate change has been on the agenda, if somewhat peripherally, long before the ‘ca... Read more »| 11 Mar 2009 -
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Girls On Film
Even in the relatively liberal world of film, men are bastards. The idea that women might deserve parity with men in vocational terms is perhaps still met w... Read more »| 04 Mar 2009 -
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Watch This Space
Twenty-three years after its publication, will the film version of Watchmen do its source material justice? Read more »| 02 Mar 2009 -
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Pre-Teenage Kicks
A sludge of salacious news rags were both aghast and fascinated in a voyeuristic and vaguely titillated fashion over the recent case of a twelve year old sin... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009