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A tie-in with the Edinburgh International Book Festival at the Filmhouse

17 Aug 2010

This small tie-in season with the Edinburgh International Book Festival features Ron Mann’s new documentary about novelist Margaret Atwood In the Wake of the Flood and Murray Grigor’s 2009 film Space & Light Revisited about St Peter’s Seminary in…

Dance Film 09

14 May 2009

Following its debut in 2007 Dance: Film is back with a packed season of screenings, talks and workshops to get you up en pointe with excitement. The ten-day festival, jointly run by Dance Base and the Filmhouse, features classics like Swing Time, the…

Gun Crazy - Poverty Row

2 Apr 2009

Since I heard that his ‘lovers on the lam’ film noir Gun Crazy was to be revived I have spent a lot of time trying to get hold of Joseph H Lewis’ other films. If ever there was a wonderful filmmaker who deserves his own DVD box set, it is Lewis. My old…

Religulous

2 Apr 2009

DOCUMENTARY The Richard Dawkins offensive has a powerful new ally in Borat director Larry Charles and comedian Bill Maher’s new film about faith and its associated idiocies. Beginning with the premise that religion is detrimental to the progress…

Profile: Pablo Larrain

2 Apr 2009

Name Pablo Larrain Born 19 August 1976, Santiago, Chile Background Pablo Larrain studied film at the UNIACC university in Chile. After working as an assistant director on several films, he started to direct commercials. His debut film Fuga…

The Age of Stupid

19 Mar 2009

DRAMA/REPORTAGE Marrying Britain’s honourable tradition of dystopian sci-fi (The War of the Worlds, Brave New World, 1984) with the eco documentary form (A Crude Awakening, An Inconvenient Truth, The 11th Hour), Franny McLibel Armstrong’s film is an…

Genova

19 Mar 2009

MYSTERY/DRAMA With his latest work, filmmaker Michael Winterbottom doffs his cap to the literature of mystery, coincidence and suggestion exemplified in the short stories of WW Jacobs (The Monkey’s Paw), Saki and Daphne Du Maurier. Following the…

In the City of Sylvia

19 Mar 2009

DRAMA Twenty five years ago the philosopher Gilles Deleuze said that if we see very few things in the image, it’s that we don’t know how to read it properly. Recently, cognitive psychologists have proved the point through rigorous testing: ‘these…

Also Released - Film

19 Mar 2009

Barry Lyndon (PG) 187min ●●●●● Kubrick’s epic adaptation of William Makepeace Thackery’s picaresque novel about the attempts of an Irish upstart to become a member of the English aristocracy in the 18th century re-emerges for re-evaluation on a…

Dance: Film Festival

18 Oct 2007

In 1980 the nation went wild for legwarmers; in 1983 dance classes were filled to bursting; and in 2000 boys took to ballet like never before. Such is the power of the dance film, that Fame, Flashdance and Billy Elliot gripped the public’s imagination…