Tag: Films
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...
Film Review: Effie Gray (2014) at the Scottish National Gallery
Until late September, the impulsive, almost scintillating work of English artist and art critic John Ruskin, is being displayed the National Portrait Gallery in the exhibition, 'Artist and Observer'. In celebration of this, National...
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...
Pick your own film with our screen and watch it at The Cameo
PEOPLE POWERED CINEMA ARRIVES IN BRITAIN
- New service puts public in charge of programming at their local cinema
- Fans choose the film, the time, the place and even the audience -
- Hundreds of new,...
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...
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...
Film in the City today
Get your picnic together and get along to Film in the City in St Andrew Square today. Here's what's on:-
SATURDAY 14 JUNE
11am
Screen live
Advertising / Promos & Trailers
11.30am – 12.45pm
Secret of Kell (PG) (75mins)
Advertising / Promos...
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...
Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2014
This year the ESFF will screen 58 short films, representing filmmakers from 18 countries around the world. The programme includes 26 UK premieres and the world premiere of ‘Unbearable’ by Khaliq Akbar and 23...
EIFF opening night film is a crime thriller
Hyena a crime thriller developed by Film4 is to open the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival next month.
The Festival runs from 18 to 29 June 2014.
This will be the first opportunity for any audience...
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...
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...
Watch the Kelpies here!
The Kelpies are almost ready for their public, and now there is a film to show off the building process.
Created by the award-winning Edinburgh filmmaker, Walid Salhab, the striking time-lapse/stop-motion film captures the four-month...
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...
Tonight: Hide and Seek Cinema
An event shrouded in mystique will be held tonight in Edinburgh. The catch? We can't tell you where and we can't tell you exactly what will happen.
Hide and Seek Cinema is an 'interactive cinema...
Hidden Door Festival 2014: Edinburgh Short Film Festival Highlights
Highlights from 2013's Edinburgh Short Film Festival are set to make a triumphant return to the city's Hidden Door Festival. Hidden Door starts today and takes place over the next nine days in the unused...
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...
Special screening of Skyfall to promote Glencoe
A special screening of the latest Bond movie Skyfall takes place at Cineworld in Edinburgh on Thursday, 10 April at 6.30pm.
Organised by conservation charity, the National Trust for Scotland, the event will raise funds...
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...
Spy Week to run from Sunday 6 April – Saturday 12 April.
The intriguing world of espionage will take centre stage next month in a spy fiction festival organised by the University of Edinburgh.
Screenings of classic spy films, a talk by former MI5 Director General Dame...
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...
Tonight: Alchemy Film Festival Preview at Summerhall
Film lovers suffering from post-Oscar depression need not fret, as the film year starts once again with this year's preview of the Alchemy Film Festival taking place in Edinburgh tonight. Famous for embracing experimental...
Irvine Welsh announced as Patron of Screen Education Edinburgh
Irvine Welsh, the Edinburgh born novelist, playwright, storyteller and screenwriter has today been announced as the Patron of Screen Education Edinburgh.
Screen Education Edinburgh support young people and emerging talent in developing and expressing themselves...
Screen Education Edinburgh showcase new work today
Screen Education Edinburgh, the capital’s hub for film-making education, has had a very busy few months working on various projects and are now delighted to showcase some of the exciting work made by young...
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...
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