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EIFF 2017 to open with God’s Own Country
Edinburgh International Film Festival has revealed that the film opening the 71st edition will be God’s Own Country, the first feature from British fil... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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EIFF plan "full-throttle" screening of Cars 3
Pixar and EIFF have long been simpatico. Classics from the much-loved studio, such as WALL-E, Toy Story 3 and Inside Out have all made a splas... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Francis Lee on EIFF opener God's Own Country
When God's Own Country, the first film from actor-turned-director Francis Lee, premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier in the year, it was quickly labele... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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EIFF Interview: Alvarez and Geraghty on Easier with Practice
I’ve been talking about this film almost non-stop since seeing it and have become pretty adept at the one line sum up: a fairly nerdy guy is in a motel... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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Action Movie Poet: Walter Hill on his EIFF Retrospective
Walter Hill is speaking to The Skinny from a cupboard in his LA home. “My wife’s given me this little broom closet to do my work in. Only a direc... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Forgotten Man: EIFF director Chris Fujiwara on Shinji Somai
Even before the dust had settled on last year’s disappointing Edinburgh International Film Festival, critics of all stripes were weighing in to examine... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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Arctic Monkeys to appear in Shane Meadows film at EIFF
Arctic Monkeys make an appearance in Shane Meadows’ new movie, Le Donk, which is set to be premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival later... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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EIFF announce TV movie retrospective and Mexico focus for 2015
Some early news of this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival programme was announced today, with the main 2015 retrospective – Little Big... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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EIFF team with RSNO on Raiders of the Lost Ark
Once again Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is teaming up with Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) to celebrate an iconic film with a knocko... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Comic Book Guy: In Person with Sir Patrick Stewart at EIFF
On a warm Edinburgh evening at Fountain Park Cinema, an unassuming black car pulls up to the front doors; from the back seat emerges the face that launched a... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: Emperor Visits the Hell (Tang huang you di fu)
Sixteenth century Chinese novel Journey to the West has been adapted dozens of times in dozens of ways, from cult Japanese television show Monkey to Damon Al... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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EIFF launch: On the Carpet with Keira Knightley et al
Flashy. Fake. Distant. Three things we, as young reporters and fresh eyes on the world premiere of The Edge of Love starring Keira Knightly, Sienna Miller an... Read more »| Updated almost 17 years ago -
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EIFF 2012: Isn't Anyone Alive? (Ikiteru mono inai no ka)
Whoever thought that the end of the world could be so much fun? As apocalypse approaches, the birds fall from the sky, teenage angst is consumed by death, an... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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EIFF 2010: The Illusionist, And Everything is Going Fine, 22 Bullets
It was a collection of fragile souls that gathered at the press screenings on Thursday morning, the first official day of the 64th Edinburgh International Fi... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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EIFF 2012: The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus
The director of The People vs. George Lucas returns with a light-hearted documentary about another pop culture phenomenon, one who may have received even mor... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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Top Ten Events 14-21 Jun: Insider Festival, Malcolm Middleton + EIFF
The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events 14-21 Jun: Malcolm Middleton, Insider Festival + EIFF ... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: When Night Falls (Wo Hai You Hua Yao Shuo)
A stanch exposé of real-life injustice, When Night Falls dramatises the plight of Wang Jimnei, whose son Yang Jia was convicted of killing seven polic... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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Film News: More prize money for EIFF; ¡Viva! Festival line-up announced
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES MORE MONEY FOR 2014 PRIZESFilm site Screen Daily reports today that the Edinburgh International Film Festival... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Film News: EIFF opening film announced; Comics on TV: Constantine, Gotham, Preacher and more
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCE OPENING FILM, PRESENT 'HERO HANGOUTS'The opening film for this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival&nb... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Film News: Star Wars VII cast revealed; Restored Stereoscopic animations by Norman McLaren at EIFF
EIFF RESTORE CLASSIC STEREOSCOPIC ANIMATED FILMS BY NORMAN MCLARENThe Edinburgh International Film Festival (18-29 Jun), which will this year celeb... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2010: Gravity, My Son My Son What Have Ye Done, The Secret in Their Eyes
Dropping away from suited commuters to enjoy a 9am screening of the blackly comic Gravity carries a curious excitement akin to skiving school. The film deliv... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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Dope
In Rick Famuyiwa’s subversive coming-of-age misadventure comedy, three high school “90s hip hop geeks” get mixed up in drug trafficking and... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Hector
Jake Gavin’s debut feature is a standard ‘elderly man sets out in search of forgiveness and redemption’ narrative, but with added British i... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Regrouping: Re-evaluating a Lost Feminist Classic
At this year's Edinburgh Film Festival, Lizzie Borden presented her 1976 debut Regrouping for just its fifth screening; the visionary director was ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Jet Trash
Charles Henri Belleville’s streamline adaptation of Simon Lewis’ Go, staring Robert Sheehan, is a fast-paced and gripping crime thriller Jet Tra... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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The Messenger
Though pitched as a supernatural thriller, The Messenger dwells more on its protagonist’s own troubled life than the conspiracy he uncovers, but that&r... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Edinburgh Film Festival names 2016 prizewinners
As the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival nears its close, its juries have put their heads together to choose the prize winners from the extensive an... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Balancing Act: we speak to EIFF's new artistic director Mark Adams
Another year, another Edinburgh Film Festival, and another artistic director steps into the breach. Enter Mark Adams, taking the AD baton from Chris Fujiwara... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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We Are Monster
In 2000, 19-year-old British-Asian Zahid Mubarek was murdered by Robert Stewart, his cellmate at Feltham Young Offenders' Institution. He was five hours away... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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45 Years and Ainslie Henderson win Edinburgh Film Festival awards
Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years has won the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Michael Powell Award for Best British Film, with the 2015 Festival aw... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago