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Since cinema’s inception it has portrayed the intricate interiors of our minds — we need only look to the dream logic of Buñuel’s Un... Read more »

Many cities have a cinematic identity. We can visualise a packed Hong Kong teahouse at the mere mention of John Woo, navigate New York holding Scorcese&... Read more »

“They’re always trying to outsmart you, so I feel that I have to put an effort in to outsmart them first, so we can get on a level playing field ... Read more »

While Joseph Heller's Catch 22 entered public consciousness as the term for an unwinnable paradox, the title of this movie could become playground slang. "Yo... Read more »

Kieślowski the master, Andrzej Wajda, Agnieszka Holland – the names of Poland’s great filmmakers echo through the decades, acting as both soaring... Read more »

It was 1952 when Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his New Yorker contact Katherine A. White to suggest of his Lolita manuscript, “I shall show it to you under... Read more »

National stereotypes are perhaps a necessary evil: by attaching simplistic labels to the people of this world, we fill gaps in our knowledge. Such lazy ... Read more »

In an emotionally frozen recess of the Highlands lives a father and daughter alongside the gaping void left by her mother. The child is named Shell and, like... Read more »

Perhaps those willing to endure cold steel against warm flesh for aesthetic self expression are the ultimate fashion victims. Yet twisted twin directors Jen ... Read more »

This is the hagiography of St Paul – Ferris that is. The Glasgow gangland hall-of-famer whose life is laid out here on celluloid, yet left untarnished ... Read more »

Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)Introducing the rough and ready, coffin dragging quick shooter played by the legend Franco Nero. Bathed in mud, blood and quick... Read more »

This cinematic enigma opens with reflections dissolving into one another on the surface of a lake. And like those merging images the film shows a distorted ... Read more »

“The New York I grew up in and love doesn’t exist anymore,” says Frank Henelotter, cult icon of exploitation cinema, director of Basket Cas... Read more »

This bastard child of Argento and Dali had audience members streaming out of its Toronto festival screening, as those expecting something comparable to Berbe... Read more »

Blind Woman’s Curse opens in the most breathtaking fashion. A Yakuza Clan, tensed and snarling in torrential rain, synchronise to reveal a full dr... Read more »

Laziness is the wicked stepmother of reinvention. Why else would Spike Lee unnecessarily remake Oldboy a mere ten years after Park Chan-wook’s classic?... Read more »

Libraries gave us power. Little wonder then that Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has limited the access to literature for those we incarcerate. This ban on ... Read more »

Syria Speaks, and so does its Literature Programmer Ryan Van Winkle while sitting in Summerhall discussing his evening of Syrian culture at Jura Unbound. He ... Read more »

Neil Gaiman has never been one to flinch from a challenge or a change-up.  He has written bestselling novels such as American Gods, legendary graphic no... Read more »

It's preposterous to imagine the works of William McIlvanney being out of print, yet just two years ago this was the case – before the good people at C... Read more »

What's the most precious book on your shelf? The weird thing is that I don’t have a set answer that’s unlikely to change over time. What I&rsquo... Read more »

Book Week Scotland takes place from 24-30 November with The Scottish Book Trust delivering its diverse programme of book-related events, projects and activit... Read more »

Dundee is a city famous for the printed word, to be read one day and wrapped around chips the next. Journalism sits next to jute and jam in the well worn phr... Read more »

On 11 November The Saltire Society honoured Scotland’s authors at what is now the country’s most significant literary awards, handed out at Edinb... Read more »

‘Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.’ The words of bohemian queen and diarist... Read more »

“It was when I wrote Dead Love, the very first book,” Helen Fitzgerald opens by explaining her simple yet sinister journey into crime fiction.&nb... Read more »

This could have strayed close to 1962 ‘documentary’ Mondo cane or its dubious descendants, exploiting tribal customs through Golden Bough exotici... Read more »

“Writing and performing your own solo show is approximately the spoken word equivalent of a writer getting a new book out,” says Rachel McCrum, p... Read more »

One evening in 1997, at 17 years of age, Hyeonseo Lee crossed the border from her country of birth, leaving behind her family and all she had ever known. The... Read more »

Sometimes less is more. Anybody can describe a chair or an apple, to the finest detail perhaps. Most could even draw quite an accurate picture of one or both... Read more »