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EIFF 2015: The Stanford Prison Experiment
The results of Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s famous and controversial 1971 psychological study, in which various Stanford University-attending males play-acted... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Liza, the Fox-Fairy
The directorial debut of Károly Ujj Mészáros, Liza, the Fox-Fairy, plays like a Hungarian cocktail of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Roy Ander... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Highlander 30th anniversary screening at EIFF
There can be only one Highlander (plus four sequels, a TV spin off and an upcoming reboot). The 1986 action fantasy starring Christopher Lambert as immortal ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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EIFF 2009: I'm Going to Explode
Roman and Maru meet in detention; he is being punished for his entry in the school talent show – a faked suicide by hanging titled “I’ll se... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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EIFF 2011: The Long (Shorts) Weekend
A bold emphasis is placed on short film at EIFF 2011, with the three day Nokia Shorts Weekender, 24-26 June, promising to be Scotland’s largest jambore... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
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EIFF 2012: 7 Days in Havana
Portmanteau films like 7 Days in Havana are inherently inconsistent, but while the bundling together of multiple short films precludes coherency, done well... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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EIFF blog: Unique Voices, Distant Lives
Gorging on art-house cinema, as Edinburgh film-nuts are currently doing at the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival, can sometimes feel like being on a... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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EIFF blog: For your (re) Consideration
To warm applause and a staccato litany of SLR shutters, host Grant Laughlan announced the welcome reprisal of the Edinburgh International Film Festival Award... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: From Tehran to London
Mania Akbari’s film is dedicated to “all those filmmakers in Iran, who have served a prison sentence and the ones who are still in prison.”... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: Three Sisters (San Zimei)
Chinese documentary filmmaker Wang Bing validates his 2012 Edinburgh film festival masterclass with an outright masterpiece in 2013. Three Sisters orbit... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: A Year of Transformation
A theme of transformation runs through the films at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival according to artistic director Chris Fujiwara: &l... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: I Believe in Unicorns
A merging of Terrence Malick’s Badlands and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland might be read as a possible influence on I Believe in Unicorns, but this ver... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: Noah Baumbach on Frances Ha
In his ability to turn the neuroses of departing youth into compelling cinema, Noah Baumbach has taken Woody Allen’s crown to become the chief fable-ma... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: Beloved Sisters (Die geliebten Schwestern)
Billed on its posters as ‘the secret story of Schiller’s passion’, Beloved Sisters presents a speculative account of the relationship betwe... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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EIFF unveils Scottish talent lineup for 2015
A clutch of new Scottish films have been added to the lineup for the 2015 Edinburgh Film Festival, with new work featuring Frankie Boyle and Peter Mullan, an... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Last Days in the Desert
White people fannying about reenacting scripture should, on paper, be testing the boundaries of taste. But Last Days in the Desert is so pared down, so sure ... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Whisky Galore! remake to close 70th EIFF
Edinburgh International Film Festival have announced that the world premiere of the remake of 1949 Ealing comedy film Whisky Galore! will close its 70th edit... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Sound + Vision lineup unveiled for EIFF 2016
Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced the full lineup for Sound + Vision, a film and music event organised in conjunction with the Nothing Ever... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: The Complex (Kuroyuri danchi)
Once a feted pioneer of the horror genre (thanks primarily to Ringu’s ground-breaking success), a series of missteps has since seen Hideo Nakata’... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Sleeping with Other People
It’s hard to settle on a low point of this scumbag manifesto from writer-director Leslye Headland, but one scene in particular springs to mind. It invo... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Opinion: Bring back the EIFF to August
You are currently trapped in the biggest arts festival on the planet. Over the next three weeks you’ll see weird and wonderful events, encompassing th... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
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EIFF 2008 round-up, part the first
With the opening night film now screened to a paying audience, the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is now officially underway. A bit of gla... Read more »| Updated almost 17 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: Drake Doremus on Breathe In
With his long-distance romance drama Like Crazy, writer-director Drake Doremus had one of the breakout hits of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The film's de... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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Small Pleasures: Scottish Shorts at EIFF 2014
Showcasing the fruits of a Creative Scotland-funded initiative led by production companies DigiCult and Hopscotch, today’s Scottish Shorts screening ha... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Mark Adams named new EIFF artistic director
The Edinburgh International Film Festival is set for a new artistic director, with veteran film critic and programmer Mark Adams taking on the role. Adams, ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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EIFF reveal 2016 opening film, 70mm retrospective
Edinburgh International Film Festival has confirmed today that it will open its 70th edition with the world premiere of Tommy’s Honour, on Wednesday 15... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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EIFF Sound + Vision to commemorate Jonathan Demme
The recent death of Jonathan Demme left film fans across the globe heartbroken. The versatile director’s eclectic filmography represents one of the mos... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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EIFF 2012: The Search for Emak Bakia
Taking Man Ray’s inscrutable cine-poem Emak-Bakia (1927) as inspiration, The Search for Emak Bakia sees director Oskar Alegria walk the Basque coast wi... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 22-29 Jun: EIFF
Edinburgh International Film Festival is off to a wicked start after launching yesterday with a movie our film section declared their "best opening film... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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EIFF 2017: Edgar Wright immersive cinema events
New immersive cinema series EIFF: Play will kick off with events based on Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz Edinburg... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago