Tag: Film
Saturday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Love Culture, Hate Racism: celebrate diversity and enjoy family fun, with music from Rise and the Jit Jive Band, henna hand painting, storytelling from Mara Menzies, world cuisine, stalls, arts and crafts. 12 noon-4pm, St Peter's Church Hall, Lutton Place. Entry free,...
Friday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Family Arts Festival Activity Day: a fun-filled BFG themed activity day for all the family. Make and create things at a range of drop-in activities and bookable-on-the-day drama and movement workshops. You can also make a...
Thursday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Gaelic Rhymetime! Gaelic songs and rhymes for children and babies. 10.30am, Leith Library, 28-30 Ferry Road. (Next meeting 30th October at Blackhall Library, 56 Hillhouse Rd.)
Live Music Now: Morag Brown and Lewis Powell-Reid. This traditional music duo have...
Effie Gray – The Edinburgh Reporter on the big screen
We are not given to blowing our own trumpets very often, but this time we really can't help it.
Our very own Douglas Greenwood wrote a review of the film Effie Gray here.
Now we are...
Monday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
The Key Material is Time: Art and Music in Glasgow since the 1970s. Writer, curator and lecturer Dr Sarah Lowndes traces the development of Glasgow's unique and largely self-initiated arts scene in a talk that links political...
What’s On in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 13TH OCTOBER 2014
The Key Material is Time: Art and Music in Glasgow since the 1970s. Writer, curator and lecturer Dr Sarah Lowndes traces the development of Glasgow's unique and largely self-initiated arts scene...
Saturday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Tiger Tales: stories and craft for ages 4-8. 3-4pm, Fountainbridge Library, 137 Dundee Street. Free.
Bruncheon, featuring The Sound of Muesli: brunch and live music at the Drill Hall Arts Cafe. Local musical talent and DJs creating a chilled-out...
What’s On in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 6TH OCTOBER 2014
Mrs Mash the Storytelling Cook: stories, songs and participative fun for Portobello's youngest residents. 10.30-11am, The Skylark, 241-243 Portobello High Street.
Toddler Time: Poppy Cat. Join fabulous feline Poppy Cat on her adventures...
Saturday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Fresh Start Sale: cake stands, china, glass, bric a brac, coffees, teas and home baking. Fresh Start is an Edinburgh-based charity helping those who have been homeless to get established in their new homes: it...
Edinburgh Loves Anime 2014
Celebrating its 5TH year with new categories and incredible guests
13–19 October @ Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Scotland Loves Animation are excited to announce the return of the immensely successful Scotland Loves Anime film festival. Entering into a...
Film Review – on DVD this week: Salvo
The greatest of Mafia films stem from the country that bred the infamous culture itself: Italy. Salvo, in all its slick glory, is a strong willed addition to that; adding twists and fresh viewpoints...
Monday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Dance and Cafe Culture: a new exhibition of work by Andrew Fitzpatrick, Norma Maclean, Peter Nardini, Chris Taylor, Nichola Martin and Maggie Vance. 11am-5pm Monday to Friday, 10am-1pm Saturdays, closed Sundays, The Edinburgh Gallery, Dundas Street. Until 24th October...
What’s On in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER 2014
Dance and Cafe Culture: a new exhibition of work by Andrew Fitzpatrick, Norma Maclean, Peter Nardini, Chris Taylor, Nichola Martin and Maggie Vance. 11am-5pm Monday to Friday, 10am-1pm Saturdays, closed Sundays, The...
Sunday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Storytelling: Right Royal Adventures. Join storyteller Anna Lehr in the magnificent Great Hall and hear all about the daring deeds and amazing adventures of some of the royal portraits. For ages 7+. 2pm or 2.45pm or 3.30pm (30 minute sessions), Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1...
Saturday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Open Grip 6: Aerial Event. A performance opportunity for all levels of artist, specifically for aerial and acrobatics. Each piece must be a first draft never performed before. An exciting evening of brand new aerial and acrobatic...
Tuesday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
An Evening with Barrington Stoke - award-winning Edinburgh-based publishers of books for struggling, reluctant or dyslexic young readers. For teachers and parents interested in dyslexia and children's reading, with speaker Mairi Kidd, Barrington Stoke's MD. With 350+ books...
Monday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Deaf for the Day: clerical assistant Amanda Gray is going 'deaf for the day' to raise funds for Hearing Dogs for Deaf People - and the charity will be at the centre to show how clever and life changing...
What’s On in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER 2014
LGBT Spiritual Space: Conflicts of Sexuality and Faith. Explore conflicts that exist within these two aspects of identity; Maxwell Reay, NHS Mental Health Community Chaplain, offers a supportive space for LGBT...
Saturday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Colony of Artists: a varied collection of work on display in the artisan community of Abbeyhill Colonies. Over 30 artists in 20 venues open their homes to show painting, drawing, photography, mixed media, music and...
Friday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
36 Years of Brain Feed: Edinburgh-based painter Brian Cheesewright exhibits a bold selection of pictures made over the last few years. 'Cheesewright's style had lurched, back-stepped and stumbled between the expressive, the gestural and the romantic,...
Chris Fujiwara resigns as Film Festival Director
Chris Fujiwara is stepping down from his role as Artistic Director of Edinburgh International Film Festival after supervising three festivals.
Recruitment for a new Artistic Director for EIFF is commencing immediately and it is intended that...
Monday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
All Quiet On The Western Front (1930): a film saga of German boys avidly signing up for World War I and then learning the truth of war. 6.30-8.30pm, St Brides Community Centre, Orwell Terrace. Free:...
Film Review – Life of Crime (Daniel Schechter, 2014)
On paper, Life of Crime looks like another sappy addition to the Jennifer Aniston collection of 'so-so' movies. In part, this is true. Life of Crime does often find itself going nowhere and being...
Tuesday in Edinburgh – what’s on today
The First Movie: Pop-Up Screening for Kurdistan. In 2009 Mark Cousins went to N Iraq (Kurdistan) to make The First Movie, a magical film about children, imagination and storytelling. Ethnic minorities are again being 'ethnically cleansed' in the...
What’s on in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER 2014
Blackwell's Edinburgh presents The Monthly Book Quiz: if you know your Waugh from your Peace and your Meyer from your Heyer, try this monthly quiz. Teams of up to five can...
Film Review – Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2014)
Even before the shattering moment hits, Night Moves carries a startling, eery silence with it. Kelly Reichardt has returned with this daunting, eco-terrorism thriller with a beautiful cast and script behind it.
In an effort...
Film Review: Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2014)
It can be just as complex to replicate human hardship in cinema as it is to create other worlds. The stark nature of the human condition is displayed excellently in the latest feature by...
Film review – Wakolda (Lucía Puenzo, 2013)
In almost every scene of Lucía Puenzo's chilling Wakolda, the foreground is overshadowed by the looming Argentinian mountains in the distance. This overpowering vision is akin to that of the film's subject - a...
Films at the Old Quad
A special charity screening of Good Will Hunting is to be shown as part of the University of Edinburgh's outdoor cinema series in the Old College quad, run in association with Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The acclaimed...
EIFF Short film event today
EIFF is delighted to announce the screening of the first EIFF Short Film Challenge which will be held on Saturday 16th August at Filmhouse. The shortlisted films will be screened after which a guest...
