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Take One Action Film Festival 2012 returns to Glasgow and Edinburgh
16 Aug 2012
Groundbreaking festival to open with Martin Scorsese produced film and features workshops and Q&As
Returning to Glasgow and Edinburgh for the fifth year in a row, the Take One Action Film Festival’s aim is as much to celebrate great work that is being done around the world to fight injustice, as it is to provoke audiences to get up and do something…
How should the EIFF move forward?
27 Jun 2011
Reflections on Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011
When the lights came up on The Guard, this year’s opening film, my overriding thought was, 'that was fine'. It was quite funny and had a good cast, but was entirely unadventurous filmmaking. Fine, but nothing more. As a tone-setter for the 'reinvented…
Weekender - Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Jack O’Connell interview
25 Jun 2011
Film charting 1990s British rave scene
“We’re a bit like a double-act”, quips Jack O’Connell, referring to himself and his co-star Henry Lloyd-Hughes, and it proves true as they talk to me. They’re ostensibly discussing Weekender, which has it’s World Premiere at this year’s Festival, but…
Troll Hunter - André Øvredal interview
23 Jun 2011
Director of the Norwegian moc doc taking film festivals by storm
Something that’s pretty thin on the ground at Edinburgh this year are genuine ‘festival finds’; films from unknown filmmakers that seem to come out of nowhere and really impress audiences. TrollHunter is perhaps the closest thing to that in this year’s…
Project Nim - James Marsh interview
21 Jun 2011
Man on Wire director charts 1970s chimp experiment in extraordinary film
‘I’m here bleary-eyed straight from four weeks of shooting a feature film in Dublin!’ So claims Project Nim director James Marsh when I meet him, but you wouldn’t know it from the espresso-fuelled 30 minutes of rapid discussion that follows, in which…
Perfect Sense an ambitious film that demands a lot from audience
20 Jun 2011
David Mackenzie’s feature thought-provoking and quietly moving
The weekend saw one of the biggest events of this year’s EIFF programme, as the massive Festival Theatre played host to the European premiere of David Mackenzie’s new film, the Glasgow-set sci-fi romance Perfect Sense, on Saturday night. I interviewed…
Reel Science events programme among highlights of Edinburgh Film Festival
17 Jun 2011
Tomboy, My Brothers and Project Nim among film highlights
After my fearless leader’s less-than-generous appraisal of this aged Festival’s opening night, I’m hoping to bring a little bit of love for EIFF back to these web pages. Admittedly, the pared-down nature of this year’s Festival is most noticeable in the…
Modern Love, Get Low, Aaron Schneider and the fragility of film-making at EIFF 2010
26 Jun 2010
Edinburgh International Film Festival Blog
Friday 25 June Friday was my last day at the Festival, and I decided to use it to take a walk off the beaten EIFF track and check out Modern Love, a short film made by a bunch of teenagers from Fife in conjunction with a company called Media…
The Quay Brothers' Maska plus film without images - HP Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror
25 Jun 2010
Edinburgh International Film Festival Blog
Wednesday 23rd June. While EIFF’s programme focuses mainly on conventional feature-films, there are several one-off events scattered throughout the Festival’s 10 days, so I decided to investigate a couple of the more adventurous ones. The first was a…
Up close with Cherry Tree Lane, Skeletons and Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World
23 Jun 2010
Edinburgh International Film Festival Blog
Tuesday 22 Jun Paul Andrew Williams’ Cherry Tree Lane was one of the first films I saw here this year, and I did not like it. No sir. As I watched the London to Brighton director’s brutal tale of suburban home invasion playing out in real time, I…
Pixar make Brave move with Reese Witherspoon and Billy Connolly after Toy Story 3
22 Jun 2010
Edinburgh International Film Festival Blog
Sunday 20 June Edinburgh calls itself a festival of discovery, and it’s true, the majority of films playing here are by first- or second-time filmmakers, and you go into each screening hoping to discover the next great moviemaking talent. But, as…
Monsters director Gareth Edwards and producer Graham King at EIFF
20 Jun 2010
Edinburgh International Film Festival Blog
Saturday 19 June The days, as Calvin & Hobbes astutely observed, are just packed. Saturday began with two great things: the first was Toy Story 3, which was possibly the best threequel I’ve ever seen (I’m meeting its two chief animators later today…
Ben Miller - Huge respect for the nicest man at the EIFF
18 Jun 2010
Edinburgh International Film Festival Blog
Friday 18th June. It’s my first day at Edinburgh Film Festival 2010; the opening party is a thing of blurry half-memory and the real business of movie-watching has properly begun, but the atmosphere is a joyous one: the sun is shining, and the weather…
