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19 Jul 2007
Edinburgh International Film Festival A walk across the rooftops Alan Morrison meets the director and stars of Edinburgh-set Freudian fairytale Hallam Foe, which opens this year’s EIFF
Anita Loos was an intellectual brunette who wrote about dumb gold-diggers. As a major retrospective of her work hits the Festival, Paul Dale explores her legacy
Writer, director and producer Judd Apatow honed his skills on The Larry Sanders Show, winning a couple of Emmys for his writing. What he took from the experience was that the best comedies are not made up of jokes, but of observations on the ways people…
A pair of Belgian movies at the EIFF will showcase the talents of Flemish superstar composer and actor Arno Hintjens. The 59-year-old’s surprisingly mature acting (for a pop star) can be sampled in Martine Doyen’s engrossing personality theft drama…
Think breakdancing died out in the 80s? Think again, says Mark Edmundson as he talks to Benson Lee, the writer-director of Planet B-boy which charts its epic resurgence
Working with a tiny budget, director Simon Miller and producer Christopher Young’s remarkable first-ever Gaelic feature is dramatic, funny and spectacular, and steeped in Gaelic mythology. Transcending their modest means, largely by collaborating with…
As a new film about him comes to this year’s Festival, veteran cult filmmaker John Waters shows no sign of slowing down. Paul Dale does his best to catch up with him
Edinburgh International Film Festival A woman for all seasons Julie Delpy talks to Kaleem Aftab about her feature film directorial debut and tells him why she finds it hard to sit still
17 Jul 2007
Penny Thompson 1950-2007 We were saddened to hear of the death of Penny Thomson, regular List contributor, film producer and former director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF). Born in Manila, Penny led a peripatic…
Best in show The List launches the Edinburgh Film Festival New Writing Awards. Words: Allan Radcliffe Since 2005 The List has collaborated with the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain to present awards for the best new writing in comedy and…
FILM SPECIAL Hey baby Victoria Hammett talks to Maggie Gyllenhaal about fame, families and why she enjoys playing apparently hopeless characters From her sexy masochist in cult film Secretary to her trailer trash ex-junkie in upcoming…
FILM SPECIAL The long and short of It Paul Dale visits the set of the first film to be made following The List and Metro Ecosse’s One Minute Wonder competition Pictures: Jannica Honey (Image: Niko Dafereras) It’s a squally summer’s day…
Playing the wife of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was no ordinary job for Angelina Jolie, finds Paul Dale. Angelina Jolie, one of Hollywood’s favourite tabloid cover girls, can soon be seen in the one film that may ensure her…
FILM SPECIAL A man of many faces Innocent, plotter, maniac or queen? Rupert Everett claims to be all of the above but Kaleem Aftab finds the actor in sanguine form Rupert Everett just gets better and better. The actor and now producer of…
FILM SPECIAL 15 TO CATCH Whether you want action, adventure, romance, sci-fi, European drama, animation, comedy, true stories or family fun, you’ll find it in our round-up of the best movies out in the coming months Evan Almighty This…
SCULPTURE, INSTALLATION, FILM PALE CARNAGE: GROUP SHOW DCA, Dundee, until Sun 2 Sep (Image: This Drinking Alone by Tom Burr) Pale Carnage takes its title from Ezra Pound’s poem ‘April’, written in 1915. Michael Bracewell’s catalogue…
16 Jul 2007
DVD ROUND-UP Two very different DVD releases for you this issue. First up is Tan Lines (Peccadillo Pictures, 2 STARS). Have you ever watched the vacuous beach bum blondes of Home and Away and wished the storylines were slower, more full of…
• The Seventh Seal New print reissue of Ingmar Bergman’s iconic 1957 medieval road movie about one knight’s search for divine truth. See review . Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Fri 27 Jul. • Private Fears in Public Places Eighty-five-year-old French New…
DVD ROUND-UP Is death the beginning or the end? Who knows? Who cares? Unless, of course, somewhere on the other side there is a home cinema where one could watch Harold and Maude , Hal Ashby’s 1971 morbid comic gem (Paramount, 4 STARS) about…
THRILLER THE MINUS MAN (15) 107min (Optimum DVD retail) Made way back in 1999 (but here receiving its UK debut on DVD), this overlooked American indie about a compassionate serial killer finds frat-pack comic actor Owen Wilson in an…
EXISTENTIAL DRAMAS BAD TIMING (18) 117min (Network DVD rental/retail, 3 STARS) INSIGNIFICANCE (15) 104min (Network DVD rental/retail, 4 STARS) It seems a very long time ago, but there was a moment when a new film by Nicolas Roeg…
MARTIAL ARTS DRAGON TIGER GATE (15) 86mins (Showbox DVD retail/rental) Based on the popular Manga Oriental Hero and directed by veteran Hong Kong action director Wilson Yip alongside Hong Kong actor and stunt choreographer Donnie Yen…
SILENT MELODRAMA BORDERLINE (12) 72min (BFI retail) Kenneth Macpherson’s film tackles issues of race and sexual triangles head on, and with a cinematic inventiveness, in keeping with the radical commitment of those involved. MacPherson was…
The Simpsons Movie (PG) 86min (3 STARS) When Homer accidentally pollutes the main river in Springfield he loses his job and causes a mass exodus from the town in this enjoyable, full-length feature film version of the long running Fox television…
ACTION/ADVENTURE/SCI-FI TRANSFORMERS (12A) 144min In 1984 toy manufacturer Hasbro released the Transformers, and as part of its marketing strategy, commissioned a Marvel comic strip and an animated TV series that became an instant…
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