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More Than Bricks and Mortar: Filmmakers on Filmhouse and EIFF
No one will miss Scotland’s self-appointed Centre for the Moving Image, the charity that fell into administration on 6 October. But anyone who cares ev... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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The Skinny's Top 25 Films of 2018
25. Loveless Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Zvyagintsev’s haunting drama centres on a missing child, Alyosha (Matvey Novikov), who vanishes during ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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GFF 2013: The Thieves
This South Korean blockbuster incorporates stars and locations from across Asia, though is most strongly influenced by the American Ocean’s and Mission... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: We Are the Freaks
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 »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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One. Two. One
In an Iranian society that places heavy emphasis on beauty regarding a woman’s worth, Ava (Amiri) finds herself the victim of an acid attack to the fac... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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The Dance of Reality
For a man with a huge cult following and clear influence on many filmmakers, the Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky has actually made very few film... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Bastards
Noir-infused tragedy Bastards sees director Claire Denis back in her more polarising mode as the dark queen of French cinema, with a work of bewitc... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: The Infinite Man
When anal-retentive Dean (McConville) brings his girlfriend Lana (Marshall) to the desert motel where they once enjoyed a perfect anniversary, his desire to ... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: Au revoir l’été
Japanese writer-director Kôji Fukada's excellent previous feature, screened internationally under the name Hospitalité, had a hint of Luis Bu&nt... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Edge of Tomorrow
Based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s more memorably titled novel All You Need Is Kill, director Doug Liman's Edge of Tomorrow is basically a mash-up... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Belated (and noticeably cheaper-looking) Sin City sequel A Dame to Kill For opens with the line, “This doesn’t look good at all. I’ve gone ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Nightcrawler
Screenwriter Dan Gilroy makes a ferocious directorial debut with Nightcrawler (which he also wrote), a unique hybrid of ghoulish comedy, L.A. noir, news medi... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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The Boxtrolls
An adaptation of Alan Snow’s novel Here Be Monsters!, stop-motion animation The Boxtrolls is a comedic fable set in and under a Victorian-era town whos... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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While We're Young
“For the first time, I didn’t feel like a child imitating an adult.” With While We're Young, writer-director Noah Baumbach bridges the gap ... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Kingsman: The Secret Service
Reuniting the director, chief screenwriter and source material scribe of Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Mark Millar respectively), Kingsman:... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Pale Moon
Set in the mid-1990s, not long after the burst of Japan’s economic bubble, Pale Moon follows Rika (Miyazawa), a demure housewife turned bank employee w... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Dearest
Based on one specific real life incident, Chinese drama Dearest concerns the aftermath of a child abduction in Shenzhen, China. Starting in 2009, Peter Chan&... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Man Up
British romantic comedy Man Up has an unfortunate title in both evoking an all-too tired phrase and being quite misleading, as it’s not some man-child ... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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A Must-Listen: The 'You Must Remember This' podcast
Aside from the usual idiosyncratic comedy fare, what tends to be most popular right now in the world of podcasting is either something in which big personali... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Bad Land: Road to Fury
Originally titled Young Ones for its US release, Bad Land: Road to Fury has seemingly received a name change in an attempt to capitalise on the hype surround... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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The Wolfpack
The Wolfpack profiles six homeschooled brothers who’ve lived their entire lives as shut-ins in a Manhattan housing project, a DVD collection their only... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Jurassic World
In one early sequence of Jurassic World, the apathetic older brother (Nick Robinson) of a pair of kids visiting the now fully-functional dinosaur theme park ... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: The Stanford Prison Experiment
The results of Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s famous and controversial 1971 psychological study, in which various Stanford University-attending males play-acted... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Pet Sights and Sounds: Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy
“I honestly grew up more as a Beatles guy than a Beach Boys guy, but I’ve admitted that to Brian, so he’s aware,” says Bill Pohlad wi... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Liza, the Fox-Fairy
The directorial debut of Károly Ujj Mészáros, Liza, the Fox-Fairy, plays like a Hungarian cocktail of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Roy Ander... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Alexander Skarsgård: “Even in a sex scene, you can’t show a butt or a nipple”
Breaking through into public consciousness with the one-two HBO series punch of Generation Kill and True Blood, Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård&rsquo... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Pickup on South Street
Sam Fuller’s punchy New York noir Pickup on South Street is lean and mean, yet also contains a curiously jovial quality to its portrait of post-war sca... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Office
In the crime and caper films of director Johnnie To, there’s always been a rhythmic element to how he composes procedural action or violent executions;... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Ben Wheatley on High-Rise
With his latest movie, Ben Wheatley takes on JG Ballard science-fiction classic High-Rise. Ahead of the film's screening at Glasgow Film Festival, the genre ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Your Name
This body-swap comedy has been making Studio Ghibli-level money at the Japanese box-office, and now UK anime fans can see what all the fuss is about Japanes... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago