Tag: Film
Film Review : J. Edgar
J. Edgar
Dir. Clint Eastwood
Screenplay Dustin Lance Black
Music Clint Eastwood
Cert. 15
Biographical/Drama/Historical
Two reasons at least why you should see this studied gem: firstly the outstanding performances from both DiCaprio in the eponymous role and that of ...
Film review – War Horse: Grief & Canters Of The Best Kind
Director Steven Spielberg.
Producer Steven Spielberg/Kathleen Kennedy
146 mins. War/Drama
In the Spielberg cinematic bestiary of badly behaving animals we have previously encountered boat-eating psychotic sharks, dysfunctional Raptors with a Ph.D in stealth attack and a T...
Film review: The Artist
The Artist
Romance/Comedy/Drama
Dir. Michel Hazanavicius
Cert PG.
Set in the roaring late 20s Art Deco drenched never-never 'Hollywoodland' of perpetual sparkling sunshine and matching teeth, silent-movie star, George Valantin, (Jean Dujardin) swash-buckles his way to adoring fans’...
Traverse Theatre Autumn Festival 18-27 November
Now in its third year, the Traverse Theatre’s Autumn Festival is a celebration of the best work from the worlds of Dance, Visual Theatre, Contemporary Music, and Puppetry. This year, there is a strong...
Scotland Loves Anime Film Festival 2011 at The Filmhouse 14-16 October
Scotland Loves Animation are delighted to announce the return of the hugely successful Scotland Loves Anime Film Festival 2011. In only its second year it boasts an incredible six day programme of anime film screenings,...
Cameo to show George Harrison : Living in the Material World
Arts Alliance Media announced today that it will be releasing Martin Scorsese’s GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD presented by Grove Street Pictures in cinemas across the UK on 4th October 2011, including...
Hallowe’en at The Usher Hall
Cinema lovers who enjoy a spooky thriller will be in their element at a special Halloween film event being held at Edinburgh’s world famous Usher Hall.
Earlier this week, the iconic venue on Lothian Road celebrated...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Hotel Methuselah (***)
It’s not so much the what as the how with this intriguing show by UK-based theatre company Imitating the Dog and theatre maker Pete Brooks. It’s a startlingly effective combination of film and live...
Film Review: In A Better World
Winner of the 2011 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Susanne Bier’s In A Better World explores themes of revenge and forgiveness whilst maintaining an ever-present and engaging sense of drama.
The film’s parallel...
Leith on the Fringe : Live Film in Leith
A unique programme of filmmaking events combining documentary, fiction, live performance and music is set to descend on Leith this August as part of the Leith on the Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The...
SSA Search For Scottish Films of Last 40 Years
The Scottish Screen Archive (SSA), a part of the National Library of Scotland, is looking for films and videos shot in Scotland over the last 40 years that may be gathering dust in attics...
EIFF review Troll Hunter
by Ryan McNeely
What can I say about Troll Hunter? Well, before the flick started, I tweeted this:- “Going to see Troll Hunter. With a name like that, how can it not be awesome?”
You know...
EIFF – Ewan McGregor to attend Edinburgh premiere
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced that the European Premiere of David Mackenzie’s ‘Perfect Sense’ will move from The Cameo to the larger, 1500 seater Edinburgh Festival Theatre venue due to a sell...
Edinburgh International Film Festival Programme Launch
Lavish extravagance ditched in favour of ‘an exciting, fun, engaged, serious, brainy, and relevant series of events’ at the 2011 Edinburgh Film Festival.
Following months of speculation since the release of the ‘blueprint’ for the...
Norwegian Wood
by John Kennedy
Norwegian Wood
2010 Cert 15
Fans of Haruki Murakami’s novel will have to wait a long time for director, Anh Hug Tran’s cinematic adaptation, to establish any convincing, empathic character studies of late-teenage transition...
Killing Bono
by John Kennedy
Killing Bono.
Comedy/Rock Music.
Dir. Nick Hamm.
Based on Neil McCormick’s, ‘Killing Bono: I Was Bono’s Doppelganger’, aspiring wannabe Dublin rock-star in waiting, Neil McCormick, (Ben Barnes) is doomed to making catastrophic, life-changing decisions. The...
Muppet Mania hits Edinburgh
In association with the Jim Henson Legacy Foundation, Filmhouse is delighted to present an in-depth retrospective of work by Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, during the Easter holidays from 18 – 26 April...
Review : Company Men
by John Kennedy
Company Men (2010) Drama USA Cert 15.
Given that the essential conceit of this film is for an audience to empathise with a cohort of successful, but expendable US corporate executives destined for...
Review – Submarine
by John Kennedy
Adapted and directed by Richard Ayoade from Joe Dunthorne’s comic novel, Submarine is a bittersweet coming of age observation of teenage agonies and ecstasies, love requited and slighted set against a Welsh,...
Review : True Grit
by John Kennedy
For those of a certain age any film re-make has potent misgivings, no more so when it involves the character of Rooster Cogburn, immortalised by ‘The Duke’, John Wayne, in the legendary...
Danny MacAskill Documentary to Premiere in Edinburgh
Edinburgh-based stunt biker, Danny MacAskill, will be sharing the premiere viewing of his new documentary 'MacAskill Conquers' with his fans. After releasing a video on YouTube in April 2009, filmed by his flatmate Dave...
Films about Edinburgh #2
A film which got rave reviews at The Edinburgh Film Festival in 2003 was 16 Years of Alcohol, billed as a story of hope filmed against the backdrop of a beautiful city. Directed by...
The New Victoria
We spoke recently with the Artistic Director of The New Victoria Limited, Helen Raw. Helen is part of a three woman team trying very hard to save the old Odeon building on South Clerk...
Mum’s Birthday – 13 December
Scottish independent film Mum’s Birthday, produced by Edinburgh Pilton Video as part of Creative Scotland’s Creative Identities programme, has been accepted into the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival running from the 14-16 December and...
Hollywood uses Edinburgh wave energy company’s technology
One of the latest films to open in the UK is Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. It stars Hollywood legend Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko - and the Oyster wave energy device being developed...
