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EIFF 2009: The Crimson Wing
After 90 minutes spent contemplating flamingos two things struck me. The first was that this garish creature with its too big, upside-down beak and impossibl... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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EIFF 2009: The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow takes on the war genre, in this excellent film about a bomb disposal unit in Iraq. Like many films dealing with similar subject matter (for e... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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EIFF 2009: Big River Man
Hard drinking and overweight, Martin Strel is an unlikely athlete. Yet the 53 year old Slovenian is a legend in the world of endurance swimming and a hero to... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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EIFF 2012: God Bless America
Some satires exaggerate for effect, but God Bless America doesn't really have to. The visions of trash culture in Bobcat Goldthwait's film are recognisable f... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: Cold in July
The exploitation revival of the last ten or so years has produced more duds than doozies, but Jim Mickle here delivers a real highlight of the sub-genre with... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Welcome to Me
Based on premise alone, Welcome to Me could have gone horribly wrong all too easily, but director Shira Piven’s barbed satire successfully walks a fine... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Beyond the Lights
Rising superstar Noni (Belle’s Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is feeling the pressures of fame and finds herself on the literal edge, almost perishing in a suicide j... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2016: The White King
The White King stars up-and-coming young actor Lorenzo Allchurch, who plays 12-year-old Djata, a happy boy unaware of the dangers of the isolationist dictato... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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EIFF 2009: Modern Love Is Automatic
A wicked pastiche of contemporary life, Modern Love pulls off (no pun intended) the impressive feat of making you fall in love with a character who utters ar... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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EIFF 2012: Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal
While we don’t know for sure how Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal was pitched to investors, we’d like to think it was something along the lines o... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: Castles in the Sky
It’s hard to represent the creative process of invention on screen without resorting to cliché. Gillies Mackinnon’s Castles in the Sky, ho... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2016: Seoul Station & The ReZort
Zombie fever is catching at this year’s EIFF with two distinct strains of horror emerging from Sang-yo Heon’s Korean animation Seoul Station and ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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EIFF 2016: Brakes & The Library Suicides
Two very different world premieres at Edinburgh International Film Festival: improvised breakup comedy Brakes and The Library Suicides, a bloody revenge thri... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Morrissey biopic to close EIFF 2017
The curtain will come down on this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival with the story of Steven Morrissey, the introverted, uncompromising tee... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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EIFF unveil Future Is History retrospective
Today the retrospective for this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (21 Jun-2 Jul) has been announced, with a programme of films that are sai... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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EIFF 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 over 14 years ago -
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EIFF 2011: Polyester - in Odorama
John Walters’ Polyester (1981) is much like his other films – disgusting, shocking and incredibly enjoyable. On Friday 24 June the film will be s... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
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EIFF blog: Kinship, Sacrifice, Diplomacy
In 1897, Danish photographer Peter Elfelt etched snow and fur onto celluloid as he captured Travelling with Greenlandic Dogs. A husky-drawn sled rushes its d... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Black Mountain Poets
Having charmed audiences with last year's double hitter of Benny & Jolene and A Wonderful Christmas Time, Jamie Adams is quietly making a name for himsel... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2017: Scottish films announced
For the past few years, Edinburgh International Film Festival has chosen to bookend its annual event with Scottish-made features, such as Robert Carlyle's di... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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EIFF 2010: Straight On Til Morning
“The film industry's a small business in Britain, so invariably you'll know who you're working with”, JJ Feild remarks, and with Third Star, Edin... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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EIFF 2009: And that's a wrap!
The Skinny’s Film Editor Gail Tolley talks through her highlights of this year’s film festival. Unmade Beds – A beautiful and sensitive ac... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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EIFF 2012: Here, There (Zheli, nali)
The modern Chinese Diaspora has been tackled many times in film, most recently in the documentary Last Train Home, but never have I seen it contemplated... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: This Is Martin Bonner
Martin Bonner (Eenhoorn) is at a lull in his life. An Aussie expat, he finds himself leaving his grown-up east-coast family and moving to Reno, Nevada for th... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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EIFF 2009: The Short of It
Browsing YouTube the other day, I watched The Big Shave, Martin Scorsese’s extraordinary student film from 1967. The film’s blend of complex cutt... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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EIFF 2008 round-up, the overview
Well, the end credits have finally rolled on the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival. Over 130 films have been and gone while directors, actors, produ... Read more »| Updated almost 17 years ago -
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EIFF 2012: Dr Seuss' The Lorax
Published in 1972, The Lorax is Dr Seuss' least nonsensical story, a serious parable that warns of the dangers of corporate greed and its impact on the envir... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: We Are the Freaks
Following three teenage friends on a night out in 1990, after Thatcher has just stepped down, We Are the Freaks opens with self-reflexive narration that posi... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: Il Futuro (The Future)
Chilean writer-director Alicia Scherson’s languid coming-of-age tale follows Roman teens Bianca (Martelli) and Tomas (Ciardo), who are thrust toward th... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: She's Funny That Way
Peter Bogdanovich’s movies come marinaded in his love of Hollywood's Golden Age. In this dizzy soufflé he’s channelling Lubitsch, Sturges ... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago