Edinburgh Film Festival
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…
The title Giallo refers, generically, to a distinctive kind of Italian
horror-thriller film, of which writer-…
Katalin Varga: it’s the kind
of title that, beyond telling you its subject is a woman, gives nothing
away and…
If your country was eating itself from the inside out, if your family were risking life and limb for a…
Where do the boundaries of obscenty lie for you? Consider a few possibilities:
1. D H Lawrence, with Lady…
It's quite possible you've never heard of Boris Ryzhy, a young Russian poet who committed suicide in 2001…
In 1966 Jean Luc Godard made Two or Three Things I Know About Her, a film about a Parisian housewife who…
If you are wondering why a romantic drama set around a famous Welsh poet, not the most famous student prank…
As someone who grew up watching Hammer horror and who regretted that new British horror films were few and…
As is well known, Israel is the only country in the world with compulsory military service for women.
With a few notable exceptions like Harry Kumel's magnificent lesbian vampire art piece Daughters of Darkness…
The existentialists have taken over the asylum as Panta Rei Theatre seeks to explore the boundaries of…
First things first: I must confess to being a fan of Christian
Petzold’s work, such that the semi-annual…
The closing film of the Edinburgh International Film Festival is suitably light in tone. A romcom with a…
This new documentary from Kirby Dick seeks to do for closeted Republican politicians what his earlier This…
Or Emmanuelle [Beart] and the Last Cannibals?
Horror films have never been that big in the Francophone world…
Even before the introductory statement qualifies the Very Young Girls title by indicating that the average…
It's Day 4 of the Edinburgh Film Festival and it really feels now like its taking off.
In spite of prior rumblings and fears, this year's EIFF will be more accessible and vibrant in many ways than…