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FestivalsEdinburgh Film Festival: Five Asian films to discover
The Edinburgh International Film Festival presents a good selection of Asian titles scattered across its vast programme. We browsed through the festival cata... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FilmThe Best Film Events in Scotland in March
1. Glasgow Short Film Festival Our favourite film festival is back with a programme that’s equal parts playful and probing. The 12th edition of GSFF... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
FestivalsThe great Leonard Cohen moments in film
With Nick Broomfield’s documentary Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, an in-depth look at the relationship between Leonard Cohen and muse Marianne ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FestivalsMatt Palmer on bruising Scottish thriller Calibre
Nothing good ever came from taking a walk in the woods – not in the history of the movies at least. From the campers of Friday the 13th to the film stu... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Things To DoWhat's On Scotland 28 Jun-5 Jul: Music Festivals
Kelburn Garden Party kicks off tomorrow, with headline performances from Goldie, Krafty Kuts and Ibibio Sound Machine (pictured) taking place across the week... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FilmNathan Silver on Between the Temples
At awards ceremonies, filmmakers’ acceptance speeches will often include a loving thank you to their parents. Should the electric dramedy Between the T... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh Film Festival 2018: 10 films to see
Old Boys Dir. Toby MacDonald Alex Lawther is a comic dynamo. He’s been a deadpan psychopath in The End of the F***ing World and stole every sc... Read more »| Updated over 7 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 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival reveal special events and Austria focus for 2025
As we enter the darkest, coldest months of the year, we can look forward to a bit of light at the end of the tunnel with Glasgow Film Festival 2025 (26 Feb-9... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
Things To DoWhat's On Scotland 21-28 Jun: Edinburgh International Film Festival
Opening last night with the international premiere of Marc Turtletaub's latest film Puzzle (pictured), Edinburgh International Film Festival continues until ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FilmRip It Up: Building a better screen sector
The shocking and seemingly sudden collapse of an institution as established as the Centre for the Moving Image, and cherished cinema spaces and platforms lik... Read more »| Updated about 3 years ago -
FestivalsWhy Pauline Kael still matters
On 14 August 1980, former New Yorker critic Renata Adler savaged the career and work of Pauline Kael in an admittedly eloquent but brutal takedown. Adler was... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FestivalsTen Films to See at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024
Choosing what to see at Edinburgh International Film Festival is harder than ever this year. Around half the feature films in the programme are world premier... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FilmMark Cousins on A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
It’s not every day that a filmmaker invites you to “see my two Willies”, but that’s the proposition I received from Mark Cousins ahea... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FilmThe best film events in Scotland in June
1. EIFF The world’s longest continually running film festival returns and there’s clearly still juice in the old girl yet. The highlights look... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FilmNora Fingscheidt on the Outrun
Since its publication in 2016, Amy Liptrot’s memoir The Outrun has won readers’ hearts along with plenty of critical acclaim. Her unflinching, po... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FilmWelcome to Scottish zombie musical Anna and the Apocalypse
How’s this for an eye-catching logline? “A zombie apocalypse musical set in a Scottish high school… oh, and it’s also a Christmas mo... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FilmThe Best Film Events in Scotland in June
1. Edinburgh International Film Festival The Dead Don't Die EIFF returns this month for the 73rd edition, and with it the usual mix of new films from home ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
MusicSince Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scottish Girl Bands
“What did you want to be when you grew up? Who did you see that made you think, I could do that too?” Scottish artist Carla J. Easton says, &ldq... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FestivalsStream Spirit: Scotland's Virtual Film Festivals
Many industries have taken a hit during the coronavirus pandemic, but among the worst-affected must surely be red carpet manufacturers. Not a foot of the stu... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
FilmWhat's Up Doc? Scotland's lively documentary scene
For a small nation with an increasingly distinct cultural space within the British film industry, Scotland has had peaks and troughs of production. But in te... Read more »| Updated about 4 years ago -
MusicCoronavirus: event cancellations and venue closures
This rolling page will keep you up to date with events and gigs cancelled or moved in response to the pandemic, as well as venue closures. As the COVID-19 p... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
FestivalsEIFF 2009: Outrage
Harvey Milk (who, as the final scene of this documentary confirms, has truly earned his place as the gay Martin Luther King) famously prayed that any bullet ... Read more »| Updated over 16 years ago -
FestivalsEIFF 2009: Birdwatchers
Cowboys and Indians are two of the oldest film archetypes. As we all know, however, Hollywood's tendency to portray one as "good" and "the other" (appropriat... Read more »| Updated over 16 years ago -
FestivalsEIFF 2012: Unconditional
On a Newcastle council estate, 17-year-old twins Owen (McEntire) and Kristen (Clark) are full-time carers for their infirm mother. With a lack of money and s... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
FestivalsEIFF 2013: Svengali
One of Svengali’s running jokes is that protagonist Dixie – a postman from rural Wales who ups-sticks for London hoping to nurture a distinctly u... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
FestivalsEIFF 2014: Honeymoon
Brits Harry Treadaway and Game of Throne's Rose Leslie are fresh-faced American newlyweds Paul and Bea in Leigh Janiak’s entertaining if problemat... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
FestivalsEIFF 2009: Humpday
In a bid to take bromance to the next level, Lynn Shelton, from the Mumblecore movement, brings us Humpday an awkward yet hilarious sex comedy about two budd... Read more »| Updated over 16 years ago -
FestivalsMirrorball @ EIFF 08
Photographs- Blair McNeil and David Lemm Read more »| Updated over 17 years ago -
FestivalsEIFF 2014: Hellion
Hellion is a low-key family drama that explores grief and responsibility. Former Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul features as Hollis, a boozy single parent who&r... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago