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The Green Inferno
The Green Inferno, Eli Roth’s gleefully grim cannibal tribe exploitation movie, is fun... up to a point While The Green Inferno is unlikely to co... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Edinburgh Film Festival unveils full 2015 programme
The full programme for the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival has been announced ahead of the 2015 festival this June. Among the films in the runnin... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Edinburgh Film Festival 2015 to close with Scott Graham's Iona
Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced that its 69th edition will come to a close with the world premiere of Scott Graham’s second feature... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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God's Own Country wins EIFF's Michael Powell Award
Edinburgh International Film Festival doesn’t end until Sunday, when the curtain comes down on the event with the much-anticipated Morrissey biopic Eng... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Edinburgh International Film Festival seeks student critics for 2014
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (18-29 June) is the highlight of the city's calendar for filmmakers and cinemagoers, with opportunities to attend g... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Edinburgh Film Festival announces Best of the Fest line-up
The list of films for the annual Best of the Fest screenings to conclude the 2015 Edinburgh International Film Festival has been revealed, ahead of the Festi... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Easy Riders, Raging Cinephiles: An Interview with Matthew Lloyd
The fate of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has been on the minds of film critics, arts journalists and film fans over the last few months a... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
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Unique retrospective of Bengali cinema opens in Edinburgh
The St John's Church Hall in Edinburgh has been transformed into a Sunderbans jungle for a three-day Bengali film retrospective of classics by Satyajit Ray, ... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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45 Years
There’s a ghost in the attic in Andrew Haigh’s haunting relationship drama 45 Years, but not the kind that can be vanquished with a séance... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Changing Man: James Mullighan Interview
There’s no such thing as bad publicity, so they say. Tell that to James Mullighan. Since his appointment as director of Edinburgh International F... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
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Edinburgh International Fashion Festival 2012 Preview
'If Paris, London and Milan can, why not Edinburgh?' We at The Skinny imagine this is how the conversation that will result in the Edinburgh International Fa... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012: Top Ten Picks
What a difference twelve months make. This time last year, selecting a film to see at Edinburgh's 65th International Film Festival was a bit like choosing wh... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013: The Picks
If you’re a UK-based film fan, there are few things quite as exciting as leafing through a hot-off-the-presses Edinburgh International Film Festival br... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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Ewan McGregor brings directorial debut to Edinburgh
Scottish actor Ewan McGregor will attend a gala screening of his directorial debut, American Pastoral, in Edinburgh presented by Edinburgh International Film... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Preview: Edinburgh International Film Festival
If a picture paints a thousand words, Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet, consisting of 232,500 frames, would work out to be nearly ten times as substantial... Read more »| Updated over 17 years ago -
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Edinburgh International Fashion Festival 2013
This July, Scotland’s capital will provide the setting for a number of glamorous fashion events, including runway shows, gala parties, exhibitions and ... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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Edinburgh International Film Festival
Change is scary. It’s so much easier to hang on to the ‘if it ain’t broke’ idioms, to play it safe. Obviously nobody told the astound... Read more »| Updated almost 17 years ago -
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Edinburgh International Fashion Festival 2015: What's On and What's Next
Returning for its fourth installment, the Edinburgh International Fashion Festival (EIFF) is back. Although growing constantly, the Scottish creative scene c... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Reel Talk: EIFFing good festival
It's roughly the mid-point of the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival. I’m sitting in the Filmhouse bar, the festival's main hub, and I feel env... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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Meet Scotland's stars of short film
Three years ago, The Skinny ran a cover story celebrating “a new dawn” of Scottish cinema. Looking back with 20-20 hindsight, perhaps that was to... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Videos
Robert Carlyle on The Legend of Barney Thomson
Trainspotting and 28 Weeks Later star Robert Carlyle discusses his directorial debut, the Glasgow-set black comedy The Legend of Barney Thomson. Carlyle sta... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Edinburgh Film Festival 2016: 11 films to see
As ever, opening the new fresh-from-the-printers EIFF programme offers up a world of cinematic delights. Choosing what to see, however, can be a bit of a luc... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Some Home Comforts
Whatever your excuse for moving back in with your parents (“the credit crunch”, seems to cut it for just about anything anyway), there’s st... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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Asif Kapadia on the message behind 'Amy'
We talk to Asif Kapadia, director of Amy, the new documentary on the life and times of Amy Winehouse in this video shot at the Edinburgh Internatio... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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For Your Consideration...
Should art be judged? We can ponder the woulda, coulda, shoulda but the key reality is that it will be. Or should that be has been, as the perennial awards ... Read more »| Updated about 13 years ago -
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Highbrow Highlights of the Edinburgh International Film Festival
35 Shots of Rum by French filmmaker Claire Denis (Beau Travail, Vendredi Soir) is a simple story of human relationships explored through the father and daugh... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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Vampire Cleanup Department
Part Buffy, a little Ghostbusters, a dash of Harry Potter, and all Hong Kong midnight-movie weirdness, Yan Pak-wing and Chiu Sin-hang’s Vampire Cleanup... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Glasgow Youth Film Festival announces 2015 line-up
The Glasgow Youth Film Festival has revealed details of its new-look programme for 2015, including a fantasy-themed pop-up cinema at the Barras and a clutch ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Edinburgh's Grassmarket Announces Summer Action
The Grassmarket may usually be a hodgepodge of watering holes that punctuate the day for Fringe loving punters and the nights for rowdy women in pink cowboy ... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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This Week in Scottish Art: 21-27 June
Tue 21 Jun: SWG3, Transmission deadline Late tonight in SWG3, there is an event to go with the current exhibition, Difficult Mothers by Sarah Rose. Ha... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago