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FilmGFF 2013: Songs for Amy
Konrad Begg’s debut feature concerns a low-rent songsmith, Sean (Maguire), who inadvertently leaves his bride-to-be, Amy (Lorna Anderson), strande... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
FilmSmall Pleasures: Sam Meech on A Small Cinema
Somewhere between entering through a gravel car park filled with Ford Zodiacs and their quiffed mod owners and eating birthday cake with complete strangers a... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
FilmUnsimulated: Travis Mathews on I Want Your Love
On 26 June, the US Supreme Court dissolved the country’s Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law that denied benefits to same-sex couples legally marrie... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
FilmStates of Consciousness: Paul Wright on For Those In Peril
It’s late September and Paul Wright is in a wet and blustery London. “Aye, man, no bad,” he says in his soft Scottish brogue when I ask him... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
FestivalsVenice Film Festival 2013: Planes, Boats and Mobiles
It’s the 70th edition of the Venezia and maybe the old gal is starting to feel her age. Younger pretenders like Toronto and Telluride, the two festival... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
FestivalsVenice Film Festival 2013: Never Trust a Beautiful Woman in a Transit Van
It was touch and go there for a while; some reckoned they wouldn’t come. Bleary-eyed critics were despairing at the thought of having to file another t... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
FilmNo More Mr Nice Guy: Michael Cera and Sebastián Silva on Crystal Fairy & the Magical Catcus
Of the many fine jokes in 21 Jump Street, the surprisingly sturdy movie adaptation of the Johnny Depp-starring 80s TV series of the same name, the smartest i... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
FilmStreets of Fire
Walter Hill’s Streets of Fire is 90 minutes of glorious pulp fiction. It opens with two title cards: the first reads ‘a rock‘n’roll f... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
FilmTom at the Farm
In its setup and execution, Tom at the Farm, the fourth film from Québécois wonderkid Xavier Dolan, is pure Polanski. The title character (play... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
FilmTen of the Best at Glasgow Film Festival 2014
It’s time for the customary lucky-dip selection of the most promising-looking titles at this year's Glasgow Film Festival. The picks below, however, ar... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
FilmYoung Punks: Lukas Moodysson on GYFF opener We Are the Best!
Lukas Moodysson is slouched on a sofa of a Soho bar the day after his ebullient new film, We Are the Best!, had its UK premiere at the London Film Festival. ... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
FilmUnder the Skin
Under the Skin, the long awaited cinematic return of Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth), opens with a hallucinatory dance of light and sound, which in turn ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
FilmAgro-culture: Xavier Dolan on Tom at the Farm
“‘I don’t know about you, Miss Kitty, but I feel so much yummier,’” says Xavier Dolan, as we’re sat off the terrace of a ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
FestivalsBuried Treasure: Ed Perkins on Garnet's Gold
“I first met Garnet four years ago. At the time I was searching for stories to turn in to feature documentary films – it takes quite an amazing s... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
FilmFresh Perspectives: Pride at the Pictures
“You don’t even sound like the ones on Bravo,” says a blonde prom queen to a recently outed gay student, whom she's grooming to be her &lsq... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
FilmTony Benn: Will and Testament
“Life is like a pebble dropped in a pool.” So muses Tony Benn near the start of this heartfelt look back on his life. If this is true, the late M... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
FestivalsLights, Camera, Take One Action
It may be hard to believe today, but major film festivals like Cannes and Edinburgh were once socially conscious arenas in which the various issues and injus... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
FestivalsDunoon Film Festival and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
There are two great film festivals with screenings shared across Glasgow and Edinburgh this month (Take One Action and Scotland Loves Anime). But if you fanc... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
FestivalsFilm Power: Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival 2014
“Our festival was founded upon the belief that arts and film have the power to raise awareness of social injustice and to stimulate change,” writ... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
FilmThe Grand Seduction
Even if you’ve not seen French-Canadian film La Grande Seduction, this English-language remake will give you déjà vu. Its sentimental plo... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
FestivalsFifteen of the Best at Glasgow Film Festival
What makes Glasgow Film Festival so inviting is its palpable concern for the paying public; its chief goal is that its audience has a rewarding time at the p... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FilmBeyond Clueless
Do you ever wish the likes of EuroTrip and The Craft received the same kind of forensic critical scrutiny reserved for canonised classics? Charlie Lyne certa... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
FestivalsBig Country: Aaron Katz on Iceland road movie Land Ho!
Aaron Katz is sitting in the corner booth of a cosy London restaurant, but he looks dressed for the elements in a chunky blue pullover. Perhaps the 33-year-o... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FilmSchool Daze: Carol Morley on The Falling
It’s 8.30am on a bright February morning in Glasgow. The Falling, a heady tale of teenage friendship and mass hysteria, played to a full house at the c... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FilmGenre-bender: François Ozon on comic thriller The New Girlfriend
“I’m the perv,” says François Ozon, who's sitting in a London hotel wearing a grey shirt, a pink scarf and an impish smile. Those wh... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Film“Cinema is a physical experience”: Alex Reuben showcase at HOME
To the newly-minted HOME this May bank holiday weekend, to check out the sprouting buds of its film programme. The £25 million multi-arts venue may sti... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh 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 over 10 years ago -
FestivalsBringing Up Bogdanovich: Peter Bogdanovich on his new comedy She's Funny That Way
Peter Bogdanovich’s cinema is one of elegy; he’s always looking back. “I guess a certain number of my pictures have an elegiac quality... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FilmBest of Enemies
Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon's gripping doc is structured like a boxing movie, but in this case the pugilists are intellectual heavyweights. In the ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
FestivalsThe Plant @ 24:7 Festival
The Plant begins with a mystery: two men with numbers tattooed on their necks and wearing identical outfits (white tees, grey sweatpants) appear to be p... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago