Tag: Film
Film Review: God Help the Girl (Stuart Murdoch, 2014)
It’s an ambiguous Glasgow under a dull light. The music scene is there, as are the high rise buildings and the grey skies. However, notably absent from God Help the Girl is the city’s...
Review: Joe (David Gordon Green, 2013)
It has been labeled Nicolas Cage’s great comeback. After years of substandard performances in, frankly, quite awful movies, he has finally embodied a character that has elements of himself. Cage depicts Joe’s eponymous character...
Preview – Just Independent Asian Film Festival
WhileIndia is today seen as a vibrant and dynamic world player, mention Cambodia and many of us will still think only of brutality, suffering and war - the infamous 'Killing Fields.' The just Independent...
Review: Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
I remember when I was six years old; in every sense naive, argumentative and an observer of everything around me. There were breakfast time petty spats and fear of the ground being pulled from...
Numbers crunched at the end of the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival
More than 46,000 tickets were sold for the films shown at this year's 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival which finished last weekend representing a four per cent increase on last year.
The Festival sold tickets...
Edinburgh International Film Festival – Quiet Heroes of World War II
For me, the best films are still the story tellers. I can appreciate a beautifully shot, masterfully crafted cinematic experience, but I only truly love the films which tell a story that captures my...
COMPETITION – Win a pair of tickets to Braveheart Q & A with Brian...
It’s been twenty years since production of Braveheart began and The Edinburgh Reporter has five pairs of tickets available for a Q&A and screening of Mel Gibson’s Oscar winning picture at 17.45 on Tuesday...
Film in the City in June
June is officially movie month in Edinburgh, and it all begins this Sunday 8 June 2014.
In the build-up to the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 (18-29 June 2014), This is Edinburgh, in collaboration with the...
EIFF has designs on young filmmakers
The closing date for Student Critic applications is 12 May 2014, so if this is for you then make sure you get your application in. Details are at the end of this article.
Edinburgh International...
Virgin Atlantic ready for EIFF take off
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) this week announced Virgin Atlantic as Official Airline Partner for the 68th edition of the Festival.
As part of the deal, Virgin Atlantic will fly many of the high profile industry...
EIFF announce closing night film
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has just announced Simon Helberg’s romantic comedy WE’LL NEVER HAVE PARIS, co-directed by Jocelyn Towne, as the Closing Night film at the 68th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Sunday 29...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014: The Eight Week Countdown
In just under eight weeks time, the red carpet will be rolled out to welcome the return of the 68th Edinburgh's International Film Festival. As usual, we will be expecting film stars and filmmakers...
Review: The Past (Asghar Farhadi, 2013)
Asghar Farhadi is no stranger to the beautiful art of dramatic cinema. His last feature, the Persian language ‘A Separation’ earned him an Oscar for a brutal depiction of a family crisis. This is...
Russell Crowe dashes into Edinburgh for the fan premiere of Noah
Russell Crowe stars in a new Paramount Pictures film called Noah. The tale is a well-known one based on The Bible, and we can only presume will involve a lot of water and an...
Africa in Motion Film Festival to have a sporting theme
African sports films on tour for Commonwealth Games
Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival has announced their upcoming festival, ‘Sports Stories from around the African Commonwealth’ which is set to take place during the lead...
FILM REVIEW: The Robber (Benjamin Heisenberg, 2014)
Often, films have their big debut at festivals and, despite critical acclaim, disappear off the cinematic radar. Having premiered at Edinburgh’s International Film Festival over four years ago, the boffins over at Filmhouse have...
Edinburgh film-makers win award at National Gaelic Film Ceremony
BUDDING FILM-MAKERS FROM EDINBURGH SCOOP A TOP AWARD AT NATIONAL GAELIC FILM CEREMONY
STARS OF THE BIG SCREEN PRESENT AWARDS INCLUDING GREG HEMPHILL AND GARY LEWIS
(Photo shows Alison Lang who helped the Edinburgh College of Art...
Edinburgh College help youngsters to make a film
On Friday night there was a film premiere in Edinburgh at Edinburgh College where a BAFTA award-winning director has created a film with a group of young and unemployed Edinburgh ‘scheme kids’ to turn their life...
GFF 2014 – 20 feet from Stardom (Morgan Grenville 2013)
Rarely does a documentary let you be both in awe of and feel pity for its protagonists. In 20 Feet from Stardom, director Morgan Neville does just that. While at some points these men...
GFF 2014: Starred Up (David Mackenzie, 2013)
I woke up this morning still to find myself in the confined space of Starred Up. Isolating, dangerous and cut-throat, it’s a realistic outing into the prison genre after years of being near destroyed...
GFF 2014: Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)
Night Moves is an example of a film that works so tremendously well using very little. Set in an isolated American town, it uses a sparse landscape and accomplished cast in presenting a film...
GFF 2014: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Felix Herngren,...
For the most part, we’ve left mainstream comedy films to the Yanks. Veering towards grandiose affairs of humourless slapstick, or a smartly written, well acted features, they rarely meet anywhere in the middle. The...
GFF 2014 – Nymphomaniac: Volumes I & II (Lars von Trier, 2014)
Lars von Trier is an undeniable master of character study. In Nymphomaniac, when all the provocative material is stripped away, both promotionally and cinematically, what is left is the undeniably profound study of a...
GFF 2014: Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, 2013)
As the sun sets over the water in Stranger by the Lake, you are reminded how cinema can greatly embody multiple genres. Presenting itself as an erotic story of lust and danger, the film...
GFF 2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
From the off, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel resembles a stunningly crafted watercolour postcard, plucked lovingly from the depths of your grandmother's relic box. Its numerous characters fit almost like paper dolls on...
GFF 2014: The Double (Richard Ayoade, 2014)
If there’s a topic that Richard Ayoade tackles with impeccable skill, it’s infatuation. In his break out hit, the 2010 coming-of-age drama ‘Submarine’, he created a film about two young teenagers hopelessly in love...
Drive in movie in Edinburgh
We thoroughly enjoyed the showing of Top Gun on Friday night. Yes it was Valentine's night so the film was suitably romantic, but also so appropriate for the airport setting!
The movie screen was set...
College’s schools film story competition is a winner!
Edinburgh College rolls out the red carpet for schoolchildren
Edinburgh College’s Centre for Creative Industries gave local schoolchildren the chance to write their own movie stories in a competition to find the next generation of...
Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival for your Valentine date
EMFF SET TO WOO AUDIENCES WITH NEW VALENTINE’S WEEKEND EVENT
Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival fans fall for the man known as ‘The Swiss Machine’
The Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival is back – but with a difference. The 11th EMFF has...
Review: Inside Llewyn Davis (2014, Joel and Ethan Coen)
Musicals have, of late, come thick and fast into mainstream cinema. Camp, dazzling and epic, they’re made to leave the viewer either drained of every single tear, or filled with a disgusting amount of...
