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EIFF 2011 – An Overview

EIFF 2011 – An Overview
So that’s it then. The credits have rolled, everyone can breathe a sigh of relief and cinema staff in Edinburgh can stop being irritated by a swarm of people turning up at free screening after free screening to try and catch “the next big thing”. EIFF 2011 was a strange beast. A lot...
June 28th, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Bad Teacher (2011)

Bad Teacher (2011)
Skating by Bad Teacher is not a good movie. And Cameron Diaz is not good in the lead. She’s doing her slut shtick, but a bad teacher is a bored bureaucrat, not a slut. The characters don’t come together here, and the plot is too narrow in its focus on this one-note protagonist. Any school...
June 27th, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Perfect Sense (2011)

Perfect Sense (2011)
An epidemic movie with a major difference, Perfect Sense focuses on a young chef (Ewan McGregor) and an epidemioligist (Eva Green) who find each other in the midst of a very strange global crisis. People experience crushing feelings of grief and loss and then are fine again, with the one major difference...
June 25th, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Page Eight (2011)

Page Eight (2011)
Written and directed by David Hare, Page Eight is simply good fun with great performances and clever writing. While there’s nothing in the movie that will blow you away it provides consistent entertainment from start to finish and benefits from a great lead role for that very British institution, the...
June 24th, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Albatross (2010)

Albatross (2010)
With its British setting, a quirky young female character as one of the leads altering the lives of those around her, the presence of Harry Treadaway and . . . . . the name of a bird in the title I watched Albatross at this year’s EIFF and couldn’t help think back to how much [...]
June 24th, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

The Divide (2011)

The Divide (2011)
The first shot of the film is of Manhattan being destroyed by what appear to be several nuclear explosions. As the residents of an apartment building over the bridge panic and scramble for safety, several of them manage to gain access to the superintendent’s basement emergency bunker before he can...
June 24th, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Bridesmaids (2011)

Bridesmaids (2011)
The American novelist Stanley Elkin once remarked he would never write about someone who is not at the end of their rope. Characters in free fall are not only gloriously watchable as they take down the facade of polite gentile society and expose all its hypocrisy and pretension. They become admired as...
June 23rd, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Gaby Dellal – a brief Q&A

Gaby Dellal – a brief Q&A
On Monday evening I was persuaded by fellow Flickfeaster John Reeve to attend an EIFF event that had a free bar and the chance to hear about the work of Birds Eye View (a company promoting talented women in the world of film). It was, basically, my first experience of schmoozing. The actual schmoozing...
June 23rd, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
For a film that is perfectly described by its title, the first Kung Fu Panda was a perfectly fine kids’ animation, in which Jack Black did the voice of a panda that learns kung fu. Witty, beautiful animation and well-done martial arts choreography performed by anthropomorphic animals, that’s what...
June 22nd, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

An interview with Dominic Allan

An interview with Dominic Allan
“Never believe you’ve played your last hand.” Dominic Allan is the director of the astonishingly good documentary Calvet (the website is here) and I had the pleasure of meeting him for an interview on a rainy day in Edinburgh that was supposedly the first offficial day of summer. A...
June 22nd, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More
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