Edinburgh Film Festival
This new documentary from Kirby Dick seeks to do for closeted Republican politicians what his earlier This…
First things first: I must confess to being a fan of Christian
Petzold’s work, such that the semi-annual…
Imagine a darker version of Walk the Line, perhaps as directed by David Lynch, and you begin to get an idea…
While looking out on the woods beyond his new home with binoculars, Hector (Karra Elejalde) catches sight of…
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in), showing at the EIFF, is a film which it is difficult to get a…
In 1966 Jean Luc Godard made Two or Three Things I Know About Her, a film about a Parisian housewife who…
The title Giallo refers, generically, to a distinctive kind of Italian
horror-thriller film, of which writer-…
The closing film of the Edinburgh International Film Festival is suitably light in tone. A romcom with a…
The Cool World, showing at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as part of the Shirley Clarke…
The existentialists have taken over the asylum as Panta Rei Theatre seeks to explore the boundaries of…
Or Emmanuelle [Beart] and the Last Cannibals?
Horror films have never been that big in the Francophone world…
Katalin Varga: it’s the kind
of title that, beyond telling you its subject is a woman, gives nothing
away and…
As is well known, Israel is the only country in the world with compulsory military service for women.
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…
If your country was eating itself from the inside out, if your family were risking life and limb for a…
Times were always hard for the British
Arthouse film-maker and never more so than right now. British…
The opening text sets the agenda for this documentary from young Danish director Phie Ambo: for the first…
EIFF Blog - Day 10. I racked up another Michael Powell Award contender last night in the shape of Matthew…
Completely against my predictions (I plumped for Duane Hopkins Better Things), the prolific and ever popular…