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Two very different world premieres at Edinburgh International Film Festival: improvised breakup comedy Brakes and The Library Suicides, a bloody revenge thri... Read more »

The curtain will come down on this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival with the story of Steven Morrissey, the introverted, uncompromising tee... Read more »

Today the retrospective for this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (21 Jun-2 Jul) has been announced, with a programme of films that are sai... Read more »

Browsing YouTube the other day, I watched The Big Shave, Martin Scorsese’s extraordinary student film from 1967. The film’s blend of complex cutt... Read more »

Well, the end credits have finally rolled on the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival. Over 130 films have been and gone while directors, actors, produ... Read more »

Published in 1972, The Lorax is Dr Seuss' least nonsensical story, a serious parable that warns of the dangers of corporate greed and its impact on the envir... Read more »

Following three teenage friends on a night out in 1990, after Thatcher has just stepped down, We Are the Freaks opens with self-reflexive narration that posi... Read more »

Chilean writer-director Alicia Scherson’s languid coming-of-age tale follows Roman teens Bianca (Martelli) and Tomas (Ciardo), who are thrust toward th... Read more »

Peter Bogdanovich’s movies come marinaded in his love of Hollywood's Golden Age. In this dizzy soufflé he’s channelling Lubitsch, Sturges ... Read more »

The results of Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s famous and controversial 1971 psychological study, in which various Stanford University-attending males play-acted... Read more »

The directorial debut of Károly Ujj Mészáros, Liza, the Fox-Fairy, plays like a Hungarian cocktail of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Roy Ander... Read more »

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 »

“The film industry's a small business in Britain, so invariably you'll know who you're working with”, JJ Feild remarks, and with Third Star, Edin... Read more »

The Skinny’s Film Editor Gail Tolley talks through her highlights of this year’s film festival. Unmade Beds – A beautiful and sensitive ac... Read more »

The modern Chinese Diaspora has been tackled many times in film, most recently in the documentary Last Train Home, but never have I seen it contemplated... Read more »

Martin Bonner (Eenhoorn) is at a lull in his life. An Aussie expat, he finds himself leaving his grown-up east-coast family and moving to Reno, Nevada for th... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Chinese documentary filmmaker Wang Bing validates his 2012 Edinburgh film festival masterclass with an outright masterpiece in 2013. Three Sisters orbit... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »