Issue 578

Antiworld 070707 Festival

29 Jun 2007

If, like many others, you have missed out on tickets to T in the Park, or if it just dosn't have the electronic line up you crave... Get yourself down to Aldershot for Antiworld's debut 070707 festival of live electronic music and arts. This massive…

News round-up

19 Jun 2007

Visual artist Matt Patinson, aka Culprit, who suppiled the artwork for The List’s feature on artists with interesting day jobs a few issues back, is putting on a show of screenprints at the new Hula juice bar/gallery in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket this…

Music lovers asked to walk on fire for charity

19 Jun 2007

Music lovers heading for this summer’s Belladrum festival are invited to take part in an exciting challenge - a fire walk across hot embers to raise funds for the Highlands’ Cancer Caring Centre. The Maggie’s Blaze Firewalk Challenge will take place…

St Peter’s on endangered list

19 Jun 2007

St Peter’s seminary in Cardross, the subject of an exhaustive List campaign after the Archdiocese of Glasgow allowed it to fall into ruin, has been placed on the World Monuments Fund list of the world's most endangered buildings. Gillespie, Kidd and…

LongPen technology brings Mailer and Munro to Edinburgh

19 Jun 2007

Words: Allan Radcliffe (Image: left to right - Ben Okri, Norman Mailer, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro) With the announcement of its programme for August 2007 an intriguing new chapter has opened for the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The…

Eat - Side Dishes

19 Jun 2007

• The Grill Room at Edinburgh’s Sheraton Grand has raised the ‘beef stakes’ in Scotland by introducing Australian prime Wagyu beef [pictured] to its menu. A version of the vaunted Japanese Kobe, it’s hand-massaged and fed on a diet of grain and beer.

Eat - Mrs Majhu's

19 Jun 2007

The Meal Byres Road, the undoubted focal point of Glasgow’s West End, is a celebrated street for dining out. With the venerable No Sixteen near its base and the long-popular Café Antipasti nearer the top of the street, there is strength and…

Home games

19 Jun 2007

Criminals, genetically modified super-cops and a bunch of kids sniffing out crime with their wisecracking Great Dane. When thinking about Scotland these aren’t the first things to spring to mind, but for game fans this is what we’re all about. Here in…

Eat - Smooth sailing

19 Jun 2007

The Ocean Mist’s story is long and colourful. A steamer-trawler fitted out by the Royal Navy at the tail end of the Great War, she arrived too late for active service, and seemed fated to rust on the dockside. Thanks, however, to KE Guinness (a member…

Hitlist - The best film & dvd releases

19 Jun 2007

The Golden Door Dreamy and surreal tale of Europe to US immigration in the early part of the 20th century starring Charlotte Gainsbourg. See interview and Also Released . Cameo, Edinburgh from Fri 29 Jun. Jan Svankmajer A dizzying selection of films…

Shakalaka Boom Boom

DVD

19 Jun 2007

MUSICAL/DRAMA Suneel Darshan’s Bollywood remake of Milos Forman’s Amadeus modernises the story in a transatlantic setting, where naturally gifted but arrogant young upstart Reggi (Upen Patel) challenges experienced champion of Indian pap/pop AJ…

The Beast Must Die

DVD

19 Jun 2007

HORROR Made in 1974, this British monster movie produced by Hammer-alike outfit Amicus attempted to bridge the transatlantic divide by capitalising on the post-Shaft blaxploitation craze and casting handsome African-American actor Calvin Lockhart in…

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

19 Jun 2007

COMEDY Written by Peter Cook, John Cleese and Graham Chapman, this 1970 political satire was panned on release, yet now looks startlingly prophetic. Cook was never more charismatic than as the mysterious Michael Rimmer, arriving unannounced at the…

DVD - Round-up

19 Jun 2007

‘Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.’ The great American writer, actor and boxing analyst Al Bernstein wrote that. But then he also said, ‘A fool and his money get a lot of publicity’ so perhaps we shouldn’t pay too much attention to…

Also Released

19 Jun 2007

Hostel: Part II (18) 93min (3 Stars) Further exercises in extreme horror from Tarantino acolyte Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel). This time three young Americans studying in Rome set off for a weekend trip with a beautiful model from one of their art…

Film Books Round-up

19 Jun 2007

In Talking Movies (Wallflower, 4 Stars) Jason Wood interviews more than 30 contemporary filmmakers including Carlos Reygadas, Richard Linklater, Atom Egoyan, Lucrecia Martel, Elia Suleiman and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Wood’s project is wonderfully…

Shutter

19 Jun 2007

HORROR In lieu of a forthcoming US remake, this half arsed 2004 Thai ghost story is getting an overdue and limited release. Driving home after getting drunk with a few of his old friends, photographer Tun (Ananda Everingham) and his girlfriend…

The Flying Scotsman

19 Jun 2007

BIOPIC Riding your bike fast doesn’t make you a hero, but Graeme Obree’s well-documented battles with the external and internal pressures of professional cycling put him firmly in the Lance Armstrong class. As depicted in Douglas Mackinnon’s…

La Vie en Rose

19 Jun 2007

BIOPIC French singer Edith Piaf’s real life was the stuff of turbulent melodrama: she was abandoned by her mother and spent some of her impoverished childhood in a brothel, and she was discovered singing on the streets by an impresario, whom she was…

Paris, Je T'Aime

19 Jun 2007

SHORT FILM ANTHOLOGY For this portmanteau work, 21 directors from around the world have contributed five-minute shorts, which are set in 18 of Paris’ administrative districts. The project was intended as a cinematic valentine to the French capital…

Bollywood round-up

19 Jun 2007

In director R Balki’s Cheeni Kum (PG) 139min (3 Stars) 64-year-old temperamental London chef Bhuddadev (Amitabh Bachchan) falls for 34-year old modern Indian sophisticate Nina (Tabu). Comedy and drama arise from the age difference. Initial comparisons…

Lucky You

19 Jun 2007

COMEDY/DRAMA From The Cincinnati Kid to Casino Royale, a game of cards with heavy emotional stakes can make for high tension cinema, but auteur Curtis Hanson (LA Confidential, The Wonder Boys, 8 Mile, In Her Shoes) loads the decks far too heavily in…

Captivity

19 Jun 2007

THRILLER Since she stopped watching the clock as Kim Bauer in 24, Elisha Cuthbert has been typecast on the silver screen as the archetypal damsel in distress. In Captivity she plays the kind of girl that, if she weren’t already famous, would be…

Charlotte Gainsbourg

19 Jun 2007

Charlotte Gainsbourg is alluring. Tall and lithe with dark long hair dropping past her visage she’s far from a classic beauty. What she does have is a sense of mystery, and it’s this quality that Italian filmmaker Emanuelle Crialese makes use of in The…

Moloch

DVD

19 Jun 2007

Where his mentor Andrei Tarkovsky would often take the ordinary and turn it into the extraordinary, filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov frequently works a partial reverse. In his trilogy of ‘dictator’ films, Tauras (about Lenin), The Sun (about Hirohito) as…