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FestivalsPaul Verhoeven on sex, satire and Isabelle Huppert
“The translation is false!” Paul Verhoeven is sat in front of a sold-out audience within London’s film-lover Mecca, the BFI Southbank, for ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FestivalsOlivier Assayas on Kristen Stewart & Personal Shopper
The ever versatile Olivier Assayas returns to genre territory with strange and mysterious ghost story Personal Shopper, which centres on a knockout performan... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
MusicIndependent Venue Week highlights: The Wytches, Girl Band and more
Independent music venues are much more than places to watch bands. They’re not just stop-offs on tours for the acts, or places to hear live music while... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
FestivalsLipstick Under My Burkha wins GFF audience award
The 13th Glasgow Film Festival came to a close last night with the world premiere of RD Laing biopic Mad to be Normal. There was plenty of applause in Glasgo... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
ArtIslington Mill: A Place to Call Home
At the heart of any buoyant cultural scene you’ll find great buildings, from Warhol’s Factory to the Haçienda in Manchester. Not that... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FestivalsEnter David Lynch's Factory Photography with HEXA
A GFF17 highlight looks to be HEXA's sonic response to David Lynch's Factory Photographs, the legendary director's collection of black-and-white st... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
TechA brief history of women in astronomy
While today you’ll find women at every level of the astronomical community, they're still wildly underrepresented. The numbers vary from country to cou... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FestivalsGSFF 2017: Five Scottish short films not to miss
Glasgow Short Film Festival is now approaching its tenth edition, and over the course of that near-decade it’s flourished to become Scotland’s bi... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FestivalsMIF 2017: Phil Collins brings Engels back to Manchester
Berlin-based artist Phil Collins was born in Runcorn, but his outlook on politics and art was formed in Manchester. He moved to the city in the early 90s to ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FilmIn praise of Sofia Coppola's intoxicating cinema
The films of Sofia Coppola are like long, hot, lazy afternoons. You want to drink them in, luxuriate in them. Coppola’s first feature, The Virgin ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FilmWhen Pop Stars Act: The best and worst
Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan’s nerve-shredding epic based on the evacuation of allied soldiers from Dunkirk beach in 1940, is out this weekend and looks ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FilmJames Bond star Roger Moore dies aged 89
The much-loved English actor Roger Moore has died age 89 at his home in Switzerland, surrounded by his family. The news was revealed on the actor’s Twi... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FestivalsEIFF 2017: 3 highlights with Scottish connections
Donkeyote Donkeyote, Spanish director Chico Pereira's feature made with the Scottish Documentary Institute, centres on an eccentric septuage... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FilmDaphne
Daphne, the title character of Peter Mackie Burns' spunky first feature, is both a force of nature and a bit of a mess. This contradiction is matched by Emil... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FilmGFF 2011: The Devil Has The Best Tunes
In the German legend of Faust, the eponymous protagonist trades his soul to the Devil for eternal youth. Faust (1926), the Weimar-era masterwork from F. W. M... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
FilmYou Instead
You Instead attempts to capture the sights, sounds and smells of Britain's most rambunctious music festival, T in the Park. For the most part, it’s suc... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago -
FestivalsEIFF 2011 open for business
Are you a filmmaker waiting to be discovered? What better place to do so than the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which today opened submissions to it... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
FilmGareth Edwards: British Cinema's Renaissance Man
Gareth Edwards is a cinematic Renaissance man. For his debut feature, Monsters, he is credited as its director, writer, production designer, cinematographer,... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
FilmJoe Cornish: "I bullied my way in front of the camera, but in truth I was always much happier behind it”
In 2001, Joe Cornish, then best known as the lanky half of cult late night TV double act Adam and Joe, was mugged by a gang of inner city youths near his hom... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
FilmBridesmaids
Recent wedding comedies (Bride Wars, 27 Dresses) have been about as enjoyable as stepping on an upturned plug, but Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids emphatically... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
FilmHorrible Bosses
Horrible Bosses offers a dastardly scenario — what if you could get away with murdering that obnoxious superior who makes your daily grind a misery? Th... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
FilmHero Worship: Brian De Palma
It’s sometime in the early 90s. I’m snuggled under my He-Man duvet covers scouring late night TV for a movie to quench my healthy preteen obsessi... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago -
FilmOctober Film Highlights
As the trees begin to turn various shades of red, so too do our cinema screens with brains, intestines and blood being gratuitously splattered as horror fans... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago -
FilmGood Rep – November
My Saturday nights are wild. At around 8.55pm I stick on the kettle, pop a slice of Mother’s Pride into the toaster, fire up the ol’ idiot box to... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
FilmYour Sister's Sister
Mumblecore king Mark Duplass (think of a smug, male Greta Gerwig) plays Jack, a 30-something slacker who’s struggling to get over the death of his brot... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Film2011 in Film: Year of the Scorpion (Jacket)
Everything but the kitchen sinkEveryone agrees it’s been a stellar year for UK filmmaking, but what I find most interesting is that the year’s be... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
FilmDamsels in Distress
Chief damsel in Whit Stillman’s long awaited filmmaking return following some Malickesque downtime is Violet (Gerwig), an aggressively altruistic ... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
FilmThe Divide
The title of Xavier Gens’ gristly post-apocalyptic survival movie is working on a myriad of levels. Firstly, it’s the heavy duty door that separa... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
FestivalsDirector Whit Stillman in interview
4.30pm, GMT, 19 March. I’m re-watching the final scene of one of the great films of the 1990s, The Last Days of Disco, as a bit of last minute research... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
FilmTrailer Trash #5: Cosmopolis
Self mutilation, kinky sex in vehicles, possible alternative reality – the teaser trailer for Cosmopolis in like a mainline hit of pure D... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago