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FestivalsSonica Glasgow 2022: Five Festival Highlights
Glasgow-based art production house Cryptic have assembled another tantalising edition of the visual sonic art festival Sonica, which this year celebrates its... Read more »| Updated about 4 years ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh International Festival announces 2022 programme
Good news, everyone! There’ll be no need to schlep to Edinburgh Park this August, as the Edinburgh International Festival returns to its regular theatr... Read more »| Updated almost 4 years ago -
FilmScotland on Screen: Jack Lowden on Benediction
It’s not often we get to speak to a rising movie star who we regularly see buying milk at the "Big Tesco" in Leith, Edinburgh. But that’s the cas... Read more »| Updated almost 4 years ago -
FilmDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Not all superheroes in the MCU are born equal. Some are gods who can wield lightning or geniuses who fly around in tanked-up armour; others are grunts w... Read more »| Updated almost 4 years ago -
BooksFigures of Speech takes you on a journey through Scottish books
With 2022 being hailed as Scotland’s Year of Stories, it's the perfect opportunity to dive into our nation's most iconic books, as well ... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
FilmScotland on Screen: Mark Lyken on Notes From a Low Orbit
The very first films of the late 19th century did not feature glamorous movie actors or emoting thespians. Their stars were ordinary people, like the women s... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
FestivalsScotland on Screen: EIFF Creative Director Kristy Matheson
Is there a tougher job in UK cinema exhibition than being head of the Edinburgh International Film Festival? From the outside, it appears not. This venerable... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh Cinemas Guide
For the last decade or so, Edinburgh cinephiles have had a quiet August. The Edinburgh International Film Festival was first held in 1947, the same year as t... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
TravelEdinburgh on Screen
Cool Edinburgh: Trainspotting British cinema is a lot of things, but you’d never describe it as cool. But that all changed with the arrival of Dan... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
FilmEIFF 2022: Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson on A Cat Called Dom
In the year that Edinburgh International Film Festival’s annual Michael Powell Award is retooled to become the Powell and Pressburger Award, there&rsqu... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
FilmGlasgow Youth Film Festival returns for 2022
Glasgow Film has assembled another ridiculously young programming crew to put together the innovative Glasgow Youth Film Festival. Made up of Glasgow teens a... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
FilmCooking With Gas: Peter Strickland on Flux Gourmet
While watching Flux Gourmet, the latest film from Peter Strickland, British cinema's premier chronicler of kink, fetish and general weirdness, I’ve a f... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
FilmTriangle of Sadness
After skewering the private view set with his previous Palme d’Or-winner The Square, Swedish director Ruben Östlund picked up a second Palme ... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
FilmMemory Box: Charlotte Wells on Aftersun
In Aftersun, not very much happens on screen, but everything happens. This debut film from 35-year-old Edinburgh-born filmmaker Charlotte Wells initially pre... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
FilmScottish Film Events: November 2022
The Scottish film community mourns the loss of the Filmhouse, not least because of its role as a vital community space for myriad smaller organisations such ... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
ComedyGlasgow Comedy Festival share stacked 2023 lineup
Get ready to laugh, folks. Glasgow International Comedy Festival is back with an overflowing lineup of standup, sketch, drag, music, improv and family-friend... Read more »| Updated about 3 years ago -
FilmScotland on Screen: Adura Onashile on Girl
“Honestly, I was like, ‘How did we get Sundance?’” We’re speaking to Adura Onashile six days before the world premiere of her d... Read more »| Updated about 3 years ago -
FilmVoices from the Margins: Lee Grant interview
We’ve caught Lee Grant a little off guard. The Oscar-winning actor and documentarian was enjoying her morning coffee and raisin bread when she was remi... Read more »| Updated about 3 years ago -
FilmEdinburgh Film Festival to return in 2023 with EIF
It’s been a dire six months on the Edinburgh film scene. The Filmhouse remains boarded up and its future is still seemingly nonexistent following the f... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
FilmGFF 2023: The Ordinaries
Film concepts don’t get much higher than German writer-director Sophie Linnenbaum’s zesty allegory Ordinaries. This sparky sci-fi fantasy im... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
FilmScottish Film Events: May 2023
If you’ve spent any time on social media these past few weeks, you’ll know there’s an obnoxious new trend in town: turning your life into a... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
TravelThe Skinny guide to Leith
We've updated this guide to Leith to reflect some of the changes to the area in the last twelve months. We've added new venues and extra places to go; for mo... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
Things To DoWhat's On Scotland 9-15 Jun: The Folk Film Gathering and more
The Folk Film Gathering is back in Edinburgh with a sharply curated lineup of work celebrating community, place and people. Running 12 to 29 June in var... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
FestivalsSilent Roar opens Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023
Only nine months ago, the prospect of a 76th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival looked like a pipe dream after the collapse of its parent c... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
FestivalsFremont to close Edinburgh Film Festival 2023
Edinburgh International Film Festival has already announced it’ll open with the Scottish drama Silent Roar. Today it reveals its closing film: Babak Ja... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
FilmScotland on Screen: Mark Cousins on My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
Discovery is usually guaranteed in a Mark Cousins joint. You walk out of epic essay films like The Story of Film: An Odyssey and Women Make Film with a brain... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
TravelGet Inspired by Scotland's Museums and Galleries
If you’re looking for fun and enlightening places to visit this summer that won’t break the bank, you can’t do much better than exploring o... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
FilmScotland on Screen: Paul Laverty on The Old Oak
One of cinema’s most successful partnerships has reportedly come to a close. It’s been widely suggested The Old Oak is the final film from Ken Lo... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
FilmGlasgow Youth Film Festival returns for 2023
There is no shortage of festivals aimed at younger audiences, but what makes the Glasgow Youth Film Festival so revelatory is that its programme is assembl... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh Spanish Film Festival: 5 Films to See
Prison 77 (Dir. Alberto Rodríguez) This stirring prison drama follows the bond that forms between two prisoners held in a brutal institution in ... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago