Tag: Films

Hot on the heels of Hannah McGill resigning her position with Edinburgh International Film Festival in August, the chairman, Ian Smith has today announced his resignation too.He is reported as saying:-“My growing commitments as...

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...

The 8th Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival (EMFF)soars back into the capital from Thursday 21 - Sunday 24 October 2010. The main event is staged at George Square Lecture Theatre in Edinburgh, with special extra...

What would you do in the event of a zombie apocalypse?  It’s always useful to have a plan, and there are hundreds of films out there to give you help and advice.  But say...

The World Cinema Awards will celebrate the best of foreign film with an award to a film voted for by top UK-wide film writers. And here in Edinburgh you can see all...

The supported documentary, The First Movie, nominated for awards by the Royal Television Society, One World Media and submitted for an International Emmy, is opening in October throughout the UK and will be shown...

Creative Scotland has provided support to established and emerging screen talent at the recent Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).Peter Mullan’s hotly-anticipated, Creative Scotland-supported feature film Neds received its world premiere. Warmly...

Those interested in new and classic international films which put global development issues into the spotlight will be pleased to hear that Take One Action Film Festival is about to get under way.  There...

The film was shown on Thursday evening and it made a beautiful start to Edindocs.The story centres round Oli, an elderly woman living alone in a large house falling apart at the seams, full...

We already told you about the up and coming documentary film festival which gets underway in the Capital tomorrow.You can read a very interesting article which is an interview by journalist Andrew Moir...

The first ever over 50s LGBT social evening will take place on Friday 15th October 18.00-21.00 at LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing 9 Howe Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6TEThe evening will begin with coffee...

EDINDOCS is a brand new Documentary Film Festival which ...

Scottish Documentary Institute opens a call on the theme of SHIFT to all Scottish-based film-makers. Bridging the Gap (BTG) is one of the leading documentary new talent initiatives for cinema in the...

The National Library of Scotland, home to the Scottish Screen Archive, has developed a partnership with EDINDOCS, Edinburgh's new documentary film festival, and will provide two documentary makers with a unique ...

There is so much culture in Edinburgh at the moment but you will be forgiven for escaping to the cinema this Sunday if you go to see either of these wonderful films on offer.First...

We always rather forget about The Odeon on Lothian Road as a cinema to visit, but had cause to go recently and it was rather nice!So this Saturday you could go to The Odeon...

</aIt seems a bit of a waste to go to the cinema in Edinburgh at the moment - there are just so many other things to see and do! But if The Fringe is...

A real treat this week - yet again a film that you have to go and see! The film is Gainsbourg and it is showing at the Cameo on Lothian Road at 13.00, 15.30,...

We have decided to concentrate on the Fountainpark cinema this weekend. The beauty of it is that you can drive there, get the bus or indeed it is an easyish 15 minute walk.  There...

What can you go and see in Edinburgh this Saturday...... Here are our recommendations!At The Cameo you can start off with Bluebeard at 13.30 or Breathless (the French version directed by Jean Luc...

It's a Nick Whitfield film, a comedy and the story very briefly is getting rid of the skeletons in the cupboard. The film is a 15 and is showing from Friday 9th July till...

Gravity is the tale of a German banker (Fabian Hinricks) facially similar to Jimmy Carr, who is deeply dissatisfied with his lot. He is still in love with an ex from seven years ago,...

That said, it’s not designed to be a pant-wetting, nail-biting thriller. This is more of a character study, where the focus lies not on the plot or its sense of inevitability, but in seeing...

As a fan of the Armstrong and Miller shows, I was interested to see Ben Miller’s first film, Huge, which is about a pair of comedians trying to make it. If nothing else the...

There has been a lot of hype about animation at the Film Festival, with premieres of Toy Story 3, The Illusionist, and the insanely brilliant Jackboots On Whitehall.But I have read less about the...

As the blurb will tell you, this is the tale of two emotional exorcists who traipse around Derbyshire removing guilty secrets from people’s lives. Exorcising the metaphorical skeletons in their closets, you might say....

The hero of the piece is Levi Taylor, a nihilistic academic who suffers from ectrodactyly or ‘Lobster Claw’ syndrome. Essentially his fingers are all joined together so his hands look a bit like claws....

Hosted by Charlie Brooker, the interview took place at Brixton’s Ritzy Picturehouse and was shown live at the Cameo and fifteen other cinemas across the UK. Members of the London audience asked questions directly,...

Academy Award® nominated screenwriter and novelist Nick Hornby will be the subject of an In-Person onstage interview on Thursday 17 June. An award-winning author of five international best-selling books that have served as a...

Here are the numbers:- This is the 64th festival, there will be 22 premieres and 134 features from 34 countries between the 16th and 27th June.Come back later today for a copy of...