Tag: Edinburgh
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Exclusive: Mamma Mia director Phyllida Lloyd discusses gender inequality and her all-female, prison-set big screen version of ‘Julius Caesar’
Of the more esoteric and enticing cinema propositions that made its way up to the…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: Penumbra
In more ways than one, Penumbra is late to the party. With its protracted pans…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: For Those in Peril
For better or worse, Ben Wheatley’s legacy begins. Not that Wheatley, whose films so far…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: Sanctuary
Opening to the sound of both a pleasant guitar and an ominous drone, director Frederik…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: The Swimming Pool
At some outdoor pool in Havana (so catalogue notes inform us), Esteban (Raúl Capote) arrives…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: Roland Hassel
Retired detective Roland Hassel (Lars-Erik Berenett) makes a phone call from a convenience store to…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: The Colour of the Chameleon
Taking on chameleonic qualities, The Colour of the Chameleon (Tsvetat na Hameleona) is a smart…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: Lunarcy!
Titular puns and punctuation marks included, Lunarcy! establishes a kind of informal register before it’s…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: From Tehran to London
At the present crossroads, the conditions under which Iran’s national cinema is being made (or…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: Taboor
With a distinctive opening and an almost transcendent closing shot, Iranian writer-director Vahid Vakilifar’s second…