Edinburgh Film Festival
The existentialists have taken over the asylum as Panta Rei Theatre seeks to explore the boundaries of…
As is well known, Israel is the only country in the world with compulsory military service for women.
If you are wondering why a romantic drama set around a famous Welsh poet, not the most famous student prank…
Even before the introductory statement qualifies the Very Young Girls title by indicating that the average…
Katalin Varga: it’s the kind
of title that, beyond telling you its subject is a woman, gives nothing
away and…
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in), showing at the EIFF, is a film which it is difficult to get a…
If your country was eating itself from the inside out, if your family were risking life and limb for a…
As someone who grew up watching Hammer horror and who regretted that new British horror films were few and…
The Cool World, showing at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as part of the Shirley Clarke…
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…
With a few notable exceptions like Harry Kumel's magnificent lesbian vampire art piece Daughters of Darkness…
Times were always hard for the British
Arthouse film-maker and never more so than right now. British…
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…
Imagine a darker version of Walk the Line, perhaps as directed by David Lynch, and you begin to get an idea…
Or Emmanuelle [Beart] and the Last Cannibals?
Horror films have never been that big in the Francophone world…
Where do the boundaries of obscenty lie for you? Consider a few possibilities:
1. D H Lawrence, with Lady…
Considering the few films I've managed to see between writing reviews and being tractor beamed unwillingly…
It's Day 4 of the Edinburgh Film Festival and it really feels now like its taking off.