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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 about 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 about 8 years ago -
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EIFF 2010: Love, Death and Bird-Watching
Pelican Blood, Karl Golden’s follow up to the ultra-low-budget but critically acclaimed The Honeymooners, is the tale of a young, self-harming, bird-wa... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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EIFF 2010: Zombies, Sluts and Cave Dwellers
I made it to Edinburgh for the Film Festival this week and watched six films in just over 24hrs. I haven't managed this kind of rate since the Schwarzenegger... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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EIFF blog: All Aboard the Night Train
This year's EIFF Night Moves strand, aimed at that hardy festival mob who like their celluloid blood soaked, creepy or just a bit strange, offered an ec... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: The Legend of Barney Thomson
Fifty-something barber Barney Thomson (Robert Carlyle, playing the lead in his directorial debut) lives a life of desperate mundanity and awkward interaction... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2016: The Childhood of a Leader
For the last decade or so, 27-year-old American actor Brady Corbet has carved out a career as a character actor for some of the greatest auteurs (Haneke, Von... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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EIFF 2016: Hunt for the Wilderpeople & Slash
Two great coming-of-age films from the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival that embrace their outsiders as sympathetic and complicated human beings: T... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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EIFF announce this year's free outdoor screenings
Edinburgh International Film Festival returns for its 70th year in June, and as has become tradition, it’ll be serving up an amuse bouche of alfresco s... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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EIFF 2017: 3 highlights with Scottish connections
Donkeyote Donkeyote, Spanish director Chico Pereira's feature made with the Scottish Documentary Institute, centres on an eccentric septuage... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
Bizarre doesn’t begin to cover Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari’s collection of wild and weird vignettes, filmed on location with the Mari peop... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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EIFF 2011: Bobby Fischer Against the World
Recounting the life of the revered American chess master famed for his strange behaviour and seemingly unmatched ability, Bobby Fischer Against the World cen... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: A Long Way from Home
Among things a young woman never wants to hear from a septuagenarian male acquaintance, “You can come over and use our pool any time” ranks highl... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: Michael Powell Award Nominees Announced
The films that will compete for the annual Michael Powell Award at Edinburgh International Film Festival (18-29 Jun) were announced today. The competition, n... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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EIFF announce cult comic book movie retrospective
Holy eye-popping cinema, Batman! Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced the major retrospectives for its 70th edition Those planning to attend ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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EIFF: Some people have fangs. Get over it!
True Blood is the latest smash hit from HBO and the Edinburgh International Film Festival audience was lucky enough to enjoy the first two episodes of this s... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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EIFF 2009: Bob Byington on Harmony and Me
In the last few years a smattering of films have come out of the US that some have lumped together and called Mumblecore. Defined by their extremely low bud... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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EIFF blog: Natural Forces – The Philippine New Wave
As I sit deep within the Cimmerian sweatbox of Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre 2, the past, present and future of Philippine cinema collide. Manuel Conde ... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: My Red Shoes (Mes souliers rouges)
Splicing old home movies with new footage shot at her parents’ house in Nantes, My Red Shoes sees Iranian-born filmmaker Sara Rastegar examine her own ... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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EIFF announces Scottish film line-up for 2016
We already know that the 70th Edinburgh Film Festival will be bookended by new Scottish work. Opening night sees the world premiere of Jason Connery’s ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Comic Book Guy: Superhero Me at EIFF 2010
What is it like to be a superhero in the real world? Not the real New York of Spiderman, not the real world of Dave Lizewski in Mathew Vaughn’s Kick As... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: Outpost 3 - Rise of the Spetsnaz
The new Outpost film, by Scottish director Kieran Parker, is set during World War II, eschewing the flashbacks of its predecessors, except in a short framing... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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EIFF to open with Robert Carlyle's directorial debut
Edinburgh International Film Festival has revealed its 69th edition will open with the world premiere of The Legend of Barney Thomson, the directorial debut ... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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EIFF looks back at its last 70 years
Edinburgh International Film Festival has plenty to look back on – it is the longest continually running film festival in the world, after all. To mark... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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EIFF 2012: Maja Borg on Future My Love
"Everyone has been incredibly honest. That’s the key, not just to documentary, but to any kind of filmmaking." So emerged Maja Borg’s film of fu... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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Meg Ryan & Kevin Smith among stars attending EIFF
There are six days to go until Edinburgh International Film Festival kicks off its 70th edition with the Peter Mullan-starring Tommy’s Honour and the f... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago