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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 »

Billed on its posters as ‘the secret story of Schiller’s passion’, Beloved Sisters presents a speculative account of the relationship betwe... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Each week The Skinny team hand pick a selection of events from the Scottish cultural calendar to provide you with this guide to the most exciting goings on i... Read more »

The Love Witch (★★★★★) Nowadays, the word “auteur” is used very much interchangeably with “director” and often means one with a reco... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Showcasing the fruits of a Creative Scotland-funded initiative led by production companies DigiCult and Hopscotch, today’s Scottish Shorts screening ha... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Donkeyote  Donkeyote, Spanish director Chico Pereira's feature made with the Scottish Documentary Institute, centres on an eccentric septuage... Read more »

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 »

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 »