Red Road

EIFF 2009 - Fish Tank

11 Jun 2009

Andrea Arnold is a director who likes to work on instinct. She makes films that are defined by their acute observation of real lives rather than informed by a movie buff’s love affair with cinema. The point is underlined at the Cannes launch of her new…

Edinburgh International Film Festival announces programme

6 May 2009

The Edinburgh International Film Festival was announced today. The programme Includes 135 features from 33 countries and includes 23 World Premieres. Highlights from the programme include opening film Away We Go from British director Sam Mendes on 17…

Catherine Yass: High Wire

22 May 2008

FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY INSTALLATION CCA, Glasgow, until Sat 24 May In July 2007 French high wire artist Didier Pasquette attempted to walk between three of Glasgow’s Red Road high rise tower blocks. The event turned out to be somewhat anti-climatic with…

Red Road - feature

Red or dead

2 Oct 2006

In these lean times for Scottish film it is women who are at the vanguard of quality, truth and all that should be right in cinema. Think of Lynne Ramsay, who made Morvern Callar, or Shona Auerbach, who was responsible for Dear Frankie, or Alison…

Morag McKinnon makes black comedy Donkeys

Directorial debut is second from Scottish/Danish project behind Red Road

5 Oct 2010

The degree of international acclaim generated by Andrea Arnold’s Cannes and BAFTA prize-winning Red Road rather clouded the fact that it was the first of three films to be co-produced under the Scottish/Danish project The Advance Party. Four years…

Lights, camera, action - Edinburgh International Film Festival launches programme

14 May 2009

The Edinburgh International Film Festival has launched its much-anticipated line-up boasting 135 features from 33 countries and 23 world premieres. Recent Oscar-winner Kate Winslet is expected to inject some glamour to the proceedings, work schedule…

West End Festival

5 Jun 2008

Best for al fresco frolicking There is of course more to the West End Festival than Scotland’s Mardi Gras (pictured), but the impact of 500+ musicians and costumed revellers stopping traffic on Byres Road (Sun 15 Jun) is not to be sniffed at. Propping…

Production starts on Red Road sequel

13 Mar 2008

Sigma Films has begun pre-production on the sequel to hit Glasgow-based film Red Road. Rounding up Donkeys stars James Cosmo, Kate Dickie and Martin Compston and is to be filmed on a similarly small budget to its predecessor.

Red Road - review

Red Road

10 Oct 2006

GLASGOW THRILLER What’s the perfect job for a lonely person? CCTV operator of course. You can follow people’s lives as if you know them, play God and stop bad things from happening to them. But sometimes the bad things happen anyway, and you’re…