Edinburgh Film Festival
Imagine a darker version of Walk the Line, perhaps as directed by David Lynch, and you begin to get an idea…
With a few notable exceptions like Harry Kumel's magnificent lesbian vampire art piece Daughters of Darkness…
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in), showing at the EIFF, is a film which it is difficult to get 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…
In 1966 Jean Luc Godard made Two or Three Things I Know About Her, a film about a Parisian housewife who…
The opening text sets the agenda for this documentary from young Danish director Phie Ambo: for the first…
The closing film of the Edinburgh International Film Festival is suitably light in tone. A romcom with a…
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…
As someone who grew up watching Hammer horror and who regretted that new British horror films were few and…
Where do the boundaries of obscenty lie for you? Consider a few possibilities:
1. D H Lawrence, with Lady…
The title Giallo refers, generically, to a distinctive kind of Italian
horror-thriller film, of which writer-…
This new documentary from Kirby Dick seeks to do for closeted Republican politicians what his earlier This…
It's quite possible you've never heard of Boris Ryzhy, a young Russian poet who committed suicide in 2001…
While looking out on the woods beyond his new home with binoculars, Hector (Karra Elejalde) catches sight of…
Times were always hard for the British
Arthouse film-maker and never more so than right now. British…
Or Emmanuelle [Beart] and the Last Cannibals?
Horror films have never been that big in the Francophone world…
During the summer the Filmhouse, in association with Edinburgh International Film Festival, put on a number…
In spite of prior rumblings and fears, this year's EIFF will be more accessible and vibrant in many ways than…