Tag: Films
Cannes 2015: Edinburgh’s Avaritia and Catching up with Un Certain Regard
The rain finally came today - albeit just a little drop, but it was great to feel something that wasn't searing heat on my Scottish skin! The past few days have been rather hectic,...
Cannes 2015: Inside Out (Pete Docter, 2015)
I admit it, 100 per cent without shame: I'm a massive Disney/Pixar fan. I managed to stick with them through the years, even through the little blips in the repertoire, namely Cars and Monsters...
We Are Many in Edinburgh this Thursday
We Are Many, a film documenting the largest ever protest on the UK mainland, will be debuting at cinemas across the country this Thursday 21st May.
In Edinburgh, it will be showing, with live Q&A,...
Cannes 2015: Louder than Bombs (Joachim Trier, 2015)
A director making a big splash in a foreign territory often means that their next piece of work will grab a wider, more mainstream release. For many of these films, they're heckled into a...
Cannes 2015: The Sea of Trees (Gus Van Sant, 2015)
It is difficult to deliberate upon The Sea of Trees in the manner in which Gus Van Sant would like you to. Supposedly, it is life affirming; an example of how journeys and courage...
Cannes 2015: Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
It has been eight years since Todd Haynes last made a movie. The inventive Bob Dylan biopic 'I'm Not There' gained Cate Blanchett an Oscar nod for her performance. The tables have now turned...
Cannes 2015: Amy (Asif Kapadia, 2015)
It may have been nearly four years ago, but to this day I still remember the palpably discomforting atmosphere when I visited Amy Winehouse's home in the days following her death. The pavement was...
Cannes 2015: Tale of Tales (Matteo Garrone, 2015)
The label of 'dark fantasy' is as overused and rehashed as nearly every other, more accessible genre these days. Its definition is indelibly hazy, but the resultant pieces of work that attach themselves to...
Cannes 2015: Irrational Man (Woody Allen, 2015)
Ahh, Woody Allen. Fond lover of the sardonic and inquisitive female lead and renowned director of seemingly interesting, everyday people. It goes without saying that films from his heyday, such as Manhattan and Annie...
Cannes 2015: The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015)
There is an unsettling sense of familiarity at the heart of The Lobster; a terrifying social stigma attached to singletons who either refuse, or struggle to connect romantically with people. While some people are...
Cannes Diary 2015: The First Few Days
I am sitting here in a rather lavish computer suite surrounded by rattling keyboards and foreign journalists behind them. There is, regardless of it being night or day, always something going on here. Outside,...
Cannes 2015: Son of Saul (László Nemes, 2015)
There are birds singing beneath gunfire in Son of Saul. No orchestrated sound; but a primal mix of nature, machines and the cries of human beings. It’s a harrowing, grim concoction - one that...
Edinburgh filmmakers premiere new film at Cannes Film Festival
Edinburgh filmmakers who recently won an Award of Excellence statuette are to have their short film, Avaritia premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this week.
Avaritia, directed by Walid Salhab and filmed on the streets of...
What you should be excited about at this year’s Festival de Cannes
For most people, Cannes is seen as the pinnacle of glamour and excess; as celebrities from the world over descend on a small city on the French Riviera to promote themselves or their respective...
Short Films from Young People to receive premiere
Short Films from Young People aged 11-19 to receive premieres at Edinburgh Filmhouse
Screen Education Edinburgh has announced this week that five short films produced by an innovative new North Edinburgh partnership and made entirely...
Review: The Falling (Carol Morley, 2015)
Maisie Williams has taken the valiant nature from her role as Arya Stark in Game of Thrones and applied it to her part in Carol Morley’s The Falling. It is a film that embraces...
Cannes 2015: Emmanuelle Bercot’s La Tête haute to open festival’s 68th edition
For the first time in its 68 year history, the Festival de Cannes has selected a film directed by a female as their prestigious opening film. Emmanuelle Bercot’s latest effort, La Tête haute, will...
Local filmmaker teams up with BAFTA crew on new Edinburgh film
An Edinburgh filmmaker has teamed up with BAFTA nominated producers to create a bold new drama set in the capital that features a homeless man as the main character.
Stray Dog is a bleak drama...
Edinburgh is on the list of cinematic cities
Edinburgh is no stranger to cinema. It is the setting for some incredible films including “Trainspotting” and “Chariots of Fire” amongst others.
It should be no surprise then that it was recently featured on a list...
Film Review: While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach, 2015)
I feel terrible for admitting it, but my expectations for Noah Baumbach's follow up to the near perfect Frances Ha were worryingly low. I have a slight issue with Ben Stiller; an actor who...
Today’s Cinema Review: Morbid comedy, sea sponges and murder dramas
Wild Tales (Damián Szifron, 2014) - ★★★★☆ - Released March 27th (plays at the Cameo)
After its premiere at Cannes Film Festival last year, Wild Tales made a weaving journey through the festival circuits of...
Cannes 2015: The Edinburgh Reporter is off to Cannes!
I have a theory that, regardless of everybody's personal tastes and fortes, we have a shared passion for really good films. The diversity lies in our own tastes; something that I'm sure people debate...
In Conversation with TER: Antoine Olivier Pilon, the star of ‘Mommy’
When Xavier Dolan made his return last summer with the enchanting, permissive Mommy – the film world focused its eyes on a trio of Canada’s finest actors. Two, the brilliant Anne Dorval and Suzanne...
RSNO go Back to the Future
Tickets will go on sale tomorrow for this important cultural offering involving the EIFF and the RSNO!
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) are celebrating the 30th anniversary...
Glasgow Film Fest – A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy...
When you look in the mirror, what is it that you see? Disappointment in physical aspects of yourself and perhaps a little regret? Maybe you begin to realise that you’re not the person you...
Glasgow Film Fest – Blind (Eskil Vogt, 2014)
Blind, the impressive debut feature from Norway’s Eskil Vogt feels both confident and accomplished from the start, guiding you through a small group of characters that become so tightly intertwined, it becomes difficult to...
Glasgow Film Fest – Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Nick Broomfield, 2014)
Documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield is no stranger to the hectic, hedonistic world of American crime. Known for his intimate portrayals of the prolific Floridian female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, he now points his camera...
TER in Conversation with Chiara D’Anna – the star of the Duke of Burgundy
Last week, box office records were shattered with the release of the turgid Fifty Shades of Grey – a nonsensical cinematic depiction of dominance within sexual relationships. Just a week later, there is a...
Glasgow Film Fest 2015 – Memphis (Tim Sutton, 2013)
In amongst the airy, ethereal atmosphere of Tim Sutton’s Memphis, there lies promise. An idea that could make this film work in a sort of bizarre amalgamation of Beasts of the Southern Wild and...
Review: Fifty Shades of Grey (Sam Taylor-Johnson, 2015)
Echoed breaths and riding crops; stylish nudity and a submissive woman – the caustic ingredients for Sam Taylor-Johnson’s cinematic adaptation of E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey. Let’s not pretend we had terribly high...
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