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The Unfilmables: how to score a film that doesn't actually exist
Film fans dream about the wild and wonderful movies that never quite made it to screen. There’s Tarkovsky's failed attempt to make Hamlet, Stanley Kubr... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Theatre
Scottish Youth Theatre set to close
The fallout from Creative Scotland’s recent round of Regular Funding awards continues, as Scottish Youth Theatre has announced it will come to a close ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Film
Everyman Cinemas to open first Scottish venue in Glasgow
Glaswegians love their movies. Glasgow cinemas have some of the UK's healthiest box office takings outside London, so the news that a new cinema will be open... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Festivals
Gilded Balloon announce first acts for Fringe 2018
Gilded Balloon have announced their first wave of acts for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, with a pleasing mix of established names and emerging talent i... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Tv Radio
Pilot Light bring cult sketch show Big Train to the big screen
With the likes of Martin Scorsese now making films with Netflix and directors like Nicolas Winding Refn and Yorgos Lanthimos currently making TV shows, the l... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Festivals
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival announce 2018 Artist in Residence
Lucy Clout will be the Berwick Moving Image Artist in Residence for 2018, the festival has revealed. The Leeds-born, London-based moving-image artist, whose ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Film
How The Cabinet of Dr Caligari changed cinema
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari does not want for critical praise. If anyone compiling a study of the silent era doesn’t include a sizable mention of Robert... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Film
Dating app Bumble launch £100k female film fund
It’s no secret that the movie-making business continues to be male-dominated and full of barriers for female filmmakers hoping to get their foot on the... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Festivals
Edinburgh International Film Festival: The Scottish talent
It’s already been announced that the opening film of Edinburgh International Film Festival, Puzzle, will have a Scottish connection in the form of its ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Music
Create a Glasgow music mash-up with Mix the City
Fancy yourself a DJ? Mix the City lets you do just that. The British Council's online music platform centres on different cities around the world, and featur... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Festivals
Edinburgh Fringe programme 2018 announced
Today, the programme for the biggest art festival in the world has been announced. From 3 to 27 August, a total of 3548 shows will take place in 317 venues t... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Festivals
Joe Dante on Gremlins and modern horror movies
Joe Dante is a lovable mischief-maker; call him the Loki of Hollywood. For four decades he’s been making some of the wiliest films in modern cinema. He... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Film
The Devil Outside
“Life is mysterious, we don’t need to explain it. God doesn’t want us to question.” This is the advice a Bible-thumping mother (Forsy... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Film
Searching
Steven Spielberg’s recent blockbuster Ready Player One made a stab at visualising what our online life will look like in 2045, and came up with an outl... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Film
The best film events in Scotland in July
1. Hitchcock, Hitchcock Everywhere Cinema’s great stylist is back on a big screen near you this month with several of his best films receiving a dig... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Music
The Mercury Prize 2018 shortlist: “blah, boring and obvious”
This morning the nominees for this year’s Mercury Prize has been announced and, as ever for this award celebrating writing achievement across genres, i... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Film
Crystal Moselle on lyrical teen drama Skate Kitchen
You’d be hard-pressed to pigeonhole Crystal Moselle. The filmmaker made waves back in 2015 with her award-winning debut The Wolfpack, a documentary abo... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Festivals
La Maladie de la Mort @ The Lyceum
In a chilly, charmless hotel room, two actors, a woman (Laetitia Dosch) and a man (Nick Fletcher), wait patiently. Around them, half a dozen people dressed i... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Festivals
The Dip @ theSpace, Surgeons' Hall
Milk and Blood Theatre take goofiness to a new level with their riotous late night farce The Dip. It all starts serenely enough – romantic even. The li... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Music
ANNO: Anna Meredith & Scottish Ensemble @ Pleasance at EICC, Edinburgh, 18 Aug
Anna Meredith is the irrefutable queen of this year’s Edinburgh Festival. The composer has returned to the city in which she was raised this month with... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Music
Scottish Album of the Year Award shortlist revealed
And the award goes to... an album from this newly announced SAY Award shortlist. Tonight the SAY judges have narrowed their longlist of albums competing for ... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Music
Cassette Store Day returns for 2018
Since 2013, music fans have been coming together to hail the glory of the compact audio cassette in the form of Cassette Store Day, and the annual celebratio... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Theatre
Sci-fi classic Solaris adapted for Edinburgh’s Lyceum
Existential sci-fi is heading to the Lyceum next year, with the Edinburgh theatre teaming up with the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne to adapt Stanisław Lem&r... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Festivals
The Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival returns for a fifth edition
The Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival is back for its fifth edition this October offering a snapshot of Spanish cinema in 2018. Proceedings kick off with Jon G... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Art
Glasgow CCA 'to remain closed until mid-October'
Update on 13 Sep: CCA's provisional opening date moves to mid-October. Glasgow School of Art has informed Glasgow City Council that it hopes to declare th... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Film
The Best Film Events in Scotland this September
1. Take One Action! We need Take One Action! (TOA), the UK’s leading social change film festival, more than ever. In a world where politicians lie d... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Books
Roald Dahl’s Matilda turns 30
Want to feel old? Roald Dahl’s Matilda, the five-and-a-half-year-old bookworm with telekinetic powers, would now be in her mid-30s. This children's boo... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Film
The Best Film Events in Scotland in October
1. Africa in Motion The essential Africa in Motion returns with a fittingly vibrant opening in Wanuri Kahiu’s Rafiki, a pulsing work about two very ... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Film
Park Chan-wook is GFT’s latest CineMaster
Park Chan-wook is a master stylist. Influenced by the cinema of Hitchcock, De Palma and Cronenberg, his fluid camera moves in thrilling and often beguilingly... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Music
Giorgio Moroder heads to Glasgow on first ever live tour
If it wasn't already undoubtedly clear, the 80s are back. So much so that Giorgio Moroder, the Godfather of Disco and the artist whose pioneering synth pop i... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago