Edinburgh Film Festival
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in), showing at the EIFF, is a film which it is difficult to get a…
The closing film of the Edinburgh International Film Festival is suitably light in tone. A romcom with a…
Imagine a darker version of Walk the Line, perhaps as directed by David Lynch, and you begin to get an idea…
Even before the introductory statement qualifies the Very Young Girls title by indicating that the average…
The existentialists have taken over the asylum as Panta Rei Theatre seeks to explore the boundaries of…
While looking out on the woods beyond his new home with binoculars, Hector (Karra Elejalde) catches sight of…
In 1966 Jean Luc Godard made Two or Three Things I Know About Her, a film about a Parisian housewife who…
The Cool World, showing at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as part of the Shirley Clarke…
If your country was eating itself from the inside out, if your family were risking life and limb for a…
If you are wondering why a romantic drama set around a famous Welsh poet, not the most famous student prank…
Katalin Varga: it’s the kind
of title that, beyond telling you its subject is a woman, gives nothing
away and…
As someone who grew up watching Hammer horror and who regretted that new British horror films were few and…
With a few notable exceptions like Harry Kumel's magnificent lesbian vampire art piece Daughters of Darkness…
First things first: I must confess to being a fan of Christian
Petzold’s work, such that the semi-annual…
Imagine you’re having an epic surreal dream set on an epic and surreal train journey.
The title Giallo refers, generically, to a distinctive kind of Italian
horror-thriller film, of which writer-…
It's quite possible you've never heard of Boris Ryzhy, a young Russian poet who committed suicide in 2001…
Where do the boundaries of obscenty lie for you? Consider a few possibilities:
1. D H Lawrence, with Lady…
I've just come out of a screening of 'My Brothers', thought it was a lovely little movie from first time…
Pity the Edinburgh International Film Festival programmer who put together the series of free, outooor…