Edinburgh News: film
Over 50 Events at Leith Festival, June 8-16
There is no gale that can beat Lìte’s enthusiasm. Leith Festival presents a spectacular nine-day period in the month of June.
Film of the Week: The Great Gatsby
Hollywood is aflutter as the master of camp's predicted failure has nudged Iron Man 3 off the top spot with this fourth take on the theme of doomed, star-crossed lovers.
EIFF Retrospectives: Richard Fleischer and Jean Grémillon
Long before NASA scientist James Hansen brought the spectre of climate change to the mainstream with
Not Another Happy Ending To Close EIFF 2013
Glasgow set romcom Not Another Happy Ending will close this June's Edinburgh International Film Festival.
How Is the Edinburgh International Festival Funded?
Edinburgh wouldn't be the same without the Edinburgh International Festival.
Video: Artistic Director Jonathan Mills introduces 2013 EIF Programme
Treats lie in store for EIF-goers this year from Shakespeare's Coriolanus backed by Chinese heavy metal bands to a production of Hamlet that interacts with Richard Burton's 1964 Broadway version; f
Video: EIF 2013 Preview
The programme for the Edinburgh International Festival was announced today. Here's the EIF's video preview of what's coming up in August.
Edinburgh Science Festival: "Sociable" Science For Adults
The 25th Edinburgh International Science Festival (23 March-7 April) will be opening its doors in the evening with a serie
Film of the Week: West of Memphis
When the hog-tied, naked bodies of three eight-year old boy scouts were discovered at the bottom of a ditch in 1993 it didn’t take long for the local authorities in the small town of West Mem
Snapshots - I am Tom Moody / The Making of Longbird, Traverse, Review
Foot tapping foxtrot palm court music fills the theatre space. The screen holds a cloudscape with a hoop of a moon hinting at a host of possibilities.
Consuming Spirits, Traverse Theatre, Review
Consuming Spirits is an absorbing experimental animation film, painstakingly and meticulously constructed by its creator, Chris Sullivan, over a 15 year period.
Film of the Week: Chasing Ice
In 2007, National Geographic photographer James Balog set out to capture man-made global warming in action.
Film of the Week: Silver Linings Playbook
There’s a point early on in off-beat romcom Silver Linings Playbook where the protagonist, Pat, who has been feverishly reading Ernest Hemingway’s "A Farewell To Arms" through
Getafix of Gaul at French Film Festival 2012
The French Film Festival was first launched in Scotland in 1992 as a fairly small event taking place in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The Railway Man Remembered
Eric Lomax, who wrote movingly about his experiences of being tortured as a Japanese POW and his subsequent reconcilation with one of his torturers, died on Monday at the age of 93.
Film of the Week: Surviving Progress
Surviving Progress, a Canadian documentary by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks (who will be attending the Filmhouse screening), provides a series of thought-provoking interviews with leading thinkers
Record Box Office at Edinburgh International Festival 2012
The Edinburgh International Festival, which ends tonight with the traditional, explosive finale of the
Video: Speed of Light time lapse
NVA's Speed of Light was a specially commissioned project that took place at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2012.
Film of the Week: Total Recall
Maybe I’m getting less critical as I get older and world-weary.
Video & transcript: Elisabeth Murdoch's MacTaggart Lecture
Below is the full transcript of the James MacTaggart Lecture, given by Elisabeth Murdoch, Chairman of Shine Group on Thursday 23rd August at the Edinburgh Te
