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Do You Remember Dolly Bell? - DVD review

Do You Remember Dolly Bell?

(4 stars)11 Dec 2006

COMEDY/ROMANCE Emir Kusturica usually works a combination of nostalgia and rumbustiousness, but often the former loses out to the latter and many of his films (like Underground, Black Cat, White Cat) end up like crazy multiple circus acts. Which is…

DVD round-up of 2006

Film Editor Paul Dale picks his DVD releases of th

11 Dec 2006

As internet rental services continue to dent the once all-consuming (not to say exorbitant) high street video shop, interesting patterns seem to be emerging.

Festivals Edinburgh director announced

11 Dec 2006

Faith Liddell, one of the hardest working figures in the Scottish arts world, has been announced as the inaugural director of Festivals Edinburgh. The organisation was created by the directors of Edinburgh’s festivals with the aim of co-operating around…

Friedrich

11 Dec 2006

An exhibition by a group of artists using Casper David Friedrich's darkly Romantic landscapes as subject matter. Artists include Marcus Amm, Helene Appel, Eva Berendes, Ellen Gronemeyer Alex Heim, Karin Ruggaber and Nicole Wermers.

Glasgow School of Art Postgrad Fashion Masters

Glasgow styles better

11 Dec 2006

Eley Kishimoto, Julien Macdonald and Matthew Williamson all trained in textile design before they began putting together fashion collections. GSA’s postgraduate fashion Masters is one of the only textile-based fashion design courses in the country, and…

Hitlist

The best exhibitions

11 Dec 2006

Douglas Gordon - Superhumanatural A major retrospective of one of Scotland’s most internationally successful artists. The various exhibitions around the city bring together Gordon’s video works, installations, film projects and text pieces that have…

Jerkbeast - DVD review

Jerkbeast

(1 star)11 Dec 2006

MUSIC COMEDY The people at Videosyncratic are so painfully desperate to prove their really cool independent credentials that they remind us of them in this DVD’s accompanying brochure and at the beginning of this ‘film’. But the definition of…

Jim Mullen Organ Trio - album review

Jim Mullen Organ Trio

(4 stars)11 Dec 2006

JAZZ The organ trio is one of jazz’s canonic formats, but can easily slip into clichéd recycling of standard soul-jazz licks. No such danger in this band. The Glaswegian guitarist and his collaborators, Hammond organist Mike Gorman and drummer Matt…

Kate Lawler

Exposure

11 Dec 2006

Colours and Hed Kandi are joining forces once again this Hogmanay for a huge glam house party with names like Tom de Neef, Rob Wilder and 2 Many DJs (Edinburgh only - sorry Glasgow). But one of the more unusual names appearing is Big Brother’s Kate…

Kyle Eastwood - album review

Kyle Eastwood

(3 stars)11 Dec 2006

JAZZ It is hard to avoid the feeling that the bassist has tried to push as many commercially attractive buttons as possible in the course of this disc. The prevailing ambiance is a cool chill-out vibe with a distinct jazz-lite feel, underlined by…

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