Edinburgh Film Festival
As is well known, Israel is the only country in the world with compulsory military service for women.
Imagine a darker version of Walk the Line, perhaps as directed by David Lynch, and you begin to get an idea…
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in), showing at the EIFF, is a film which it is difficult to get a…
This new documentary from Kirby Dick seeks to do for closeted Republican politicians what his earlier This…
Katalin Varga: it’s the kind
of title that, beyond telling you its subject is a woman, gives nothing
away and…
While looking out on the woods beyond his new home with binoculars, Hector (Karra Elejalde) catches sight of…
The opening text sets the agenda for this documentary from young Danish director Phie Ambo: for the first…
With a few notable exceptions like Harry Kumel's magnificent lesbian vampire art piece Daughters of Darkness…
Even before the introductory statement qualifies the Very Young Girls title by indicating that the average…
It's quite possible you've never heard of Boris Ryzhy, a young Russian poet who committed suicide in 2001…
If you are wondering why a romantic drama set around a famous Welsh poet, not the most famous student prank…
The closing film of the Edinburgh International Film Festival is suitably light in tone. A romcom with a…
Imagine you’re having an epic surreal dream set on an epic and surreal train journey.
First things first: I must confess to being a fan of Christian
Petzold’s work, such that the semi-annual…
If your country was eating itself from the inside out, if your family were risking life and limb for a…
The title Giallo refers, generically, to a distinctive kind of Italian
horror-thriller film, of which writer-…
Where do the boundaries of obscenty lie for you? Consider a few possibilities:
1. D H Lawrence, with Lady…
Or Emmanuelle [Beart] and the Last Cannibals?
Horror films have never been that big in the Francophone world…
In spite of prior rumblings and fears, this year's EIFF will be more accessible and vibrant in many ways than…
Surely I'm not losing my touch?