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Fuck for Forest
18 Apr 2013
Documentary about Berlin eco-warriors who make amateur porn films
Let’s be clear: Fuck for Forest is a documentary about the titular Berlin-based environmental activists-cum-amateur porn makers and not a pornographic film in its own right. And despite there being quite a lot of flesh on display, Polish filmmaker…
Five reasons to go to the Italian Film Festival in Scotland 2013
17 Apr 2013
Every Blessed Day, The Commander and the Stork and Piazza Fontana among the festival highlights
The Commander and the Stork 'This is by director Silvio Soldini, who has been to the festival a couple of times in the past. He also made Bread and Tulips, which was very popular when we showed it. We’ve been very supportive of him. It’s a magic…
Michael H - Profession: Director
8 Mar 2013
A limited portrait of the austere Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke
This French documentary about the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke convincingly argues Haneke is one of the most important and idiosyncratic filmmakers working today. Writer-director Yves Montmayeur’s doc also makes the more interesting point that…
Oz the Great and Powerful
8 Mar 2013
An action-packed spectacle of a prequel, starring James Franco, Michelle Williams and Mila Kunis
This prequel to The Wizard of Oz might have been little more than an expensive special effects extravaganza were it not in the hands of a director with as distinctive a visual style and flair for knockabout comedy as Sam Raimi. As with Tim Burton’s…
Hi-So
26 Feb 2013
Inert Thai drama about a directionless twenty-something in Bangkok
Form follows content in this tediously inert Thai drama about a young man caught between eastern and western cultures and suffering from emotional paralysis. Emotional paralysis is quite possibly the state writer-director Aditya Assarat’s film will…
Crawl
20 Feb 2013
Australian thriller that borrows a little too heavily from the Coen brothers
Bucking the recent trend in Australian thrillers and chillers for grittily and gratuitously realistic lurid documentary-style dramas based on real events (see Wolf Creek et al), Crawl is a pointedly cinematic and resolutely fictional old school…
Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill - Nemo: Heart of Ice
19 Feb 2013
Fantastic spin-off from Moore's literary comicbook series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Less than a year after the publication of the concluding episode of the epic third volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Century, writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O’Neill treat us to the first stand alone/spin-off League tale. As with the…
Side by Side
18 Feb 2013
A-list directors on film vs digital debate in doc produced and presented by Keanu Reeves
The title of this reasonably interesting and fairly comprehensive documentary about traditional photochemical film and pioneering digital technology is slightly misleading. Although filmmakers have been using both forms for roughly the last decade and a…
Populaire
15 Feb 2013
Immaculately styled French period romcom starring Déborah Francois and Romain Duris
This immaculately styled French period romantic comedy signals its pedigree with a colourful cartoon credit sequence reminiscent of cute and kookie Hollywood comedies circa the 1950s and 60s. And in fact, co-writer and director Régis Roinsard’s feature…
Run for Your Wife
11 Feb 2013
Hopelessly dated and poorly executed comedy starring Danny Dyer
This comprehensively cack-handed adaptation of the long-running West End stage sex comedy will have all but the most thick of skin and dim of humour running from the cinema as though their very lives depended up on it. Co-director and screenwriter Ray…
Best films featuring subways, metros and underground railways
21 Jan 2013
Featuring Skyfall, The French Connection and The Taking of Pelham 123
A mystery screening at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival takes you beneath the city’s streets for a film event in the subway. Cinema has long had affection for the warren-like tunnels and passageways of the underground – here are five of our favourite…
The House I Live In
17 Dec 2012
Angry and illuminating documentary about America's war on drugs
Director Eugene Jarecki, the brother of fellow filmmaker Andrew, attacks America’s failed war on drugs in this angry and illuminating documentary that will leave viewers clued-in but fuming. Jarecki’s contention is the multi-billion dollar campaign…
Life of Pi
3 Dec 2012
A fabulously beautiful and faithful adaptation from director Ang Lee
Yann Martel’s wildly imaginative, though long thought unfilmable, Booker Prize-winning 2001 novel is here treated to a ravishing 3D cinematic adaptation by filmmaker Ang Lee. Lee, who has previously transformed a wide variety of literary subjects…
Alan Martin & Mike McMahon - Tank Girl: Carioca
23 Nov 2012
McMahon's art perfectly suits the ongoing tales of the post-apocalyptic riot girl
Since artist Jamie Hewlett handed over stewardship of Tank Girl to co-creator and writer Alan Martin (following Hewlett’s move away from cartooning to pursue his Gorillaz multimedia pop project with Damon Albarn), the anarcho-absurdist comic strip has…
Five reasons to see the films of Alexander Mackendrick
20 Nov 2012
The director of Whisky Galore! and Sweet Smell of Success is the subject of a retrospective
It’s the centenary of the birth of the Scottish-American filmmaker who became one of Ealing studios’ greatest directors. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Scottish immigrant parents, Mackendrick moved back to Glasgow with his grandfather when he was just…
Alps
13 Nov 2012
Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth follow-up retains that film's weird sensibility but lacks its wider focus
Having launched a new wave of bizarro Greek cinema (see also Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg) with his Oscar-nominated queasy black comedy Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos returns with a follow up that’s just as absurdly idiosyncratic. The Alps of the…
Why Scottish television drama goes beyond Rebus and Taggart
1 Nov 2012
Recent TV drama includes Lip Service, Single Father, Waterloo Road and The Field of Blood
Not so very long ago, Scottish television drama was dominated by Rebus and Taggart. The audience-conquering popularity of STV’s Edinburgh and Glasgow cops was such that you could be forgiven for thinking Scotland hosted or produced little but crime…
Sister
9 Oct 2012
Utterly absorbing drama about fractured family relationships
Swiss-French filmmaker Ursula Meier follows her feature debut, the tragic-comic domestic drama Home, with another leftfield story about a family in dysfunction. In this case, it’s a family of two comprising a 12-year-old boy named Simon (Kacey Mottet…
Room 237
5 Oct 2012
Compelling documentary about the hidden meanings in Kubrick's The Shining
This frighteningly engrossing documentary presents a series of (supposedly) hidden meanings to be found imbedded in Stanley Kubrick’s modern horror classic The Shining. The various readings of the film, which range from quite plausible to utterly balmy…
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Meat and Bone
20 Sep 2012
First album in eight years is more of the same down-and-dirty punk-blues
It’s been eight years since the Blues Explosion’s last studio album. In that time the band members have pursued solo projects, with frontman Jon Spencer focusing on his boppin’ rockabilly venture Heavy Trash. Now they’re back 21 years after they first…
Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez - Love and Rockets: New Stories No. 5
13 Sep 2012
The latest edition of the pioneering, punk-spirited, magic realist/sci-fi Latino soap opera
Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez’s pioneering, punk-spirited, magic realist/sci-fi Latino soap opera feels as fresh and idiosyncratic today as it did when it first appeared on the indie comics scene in 1982. So, it’s fitting that Fantagraphics’ year-long…
Barbara
6 Sep 2012
Slow burning drama set in East Germany with real dramatic weight
Germany’s Best Foreign Language Film contender for next year’s Academy Awards recalls the country’s 2007 winner The Lives of Others inasmuch as it dramatises life lived under the watchful eye of the authorities in East Germany before the wall came down.
Theatre, dance and opera highlights in Scotland for autumn & winter 2012
31 Aug 2012
2012 and 2013 programmes from Scottish Ballet, Scottish Opera and National Theatre of Scotland
The National Theatre of Scotland is nowhere and everywhere. Envisioned as an institution with no bricks and mortar headquarters, the NTS has used its resources to support playwrights and performers and to work with a wide range of collaborators to bring…
Iconic Edinburgh venue Potterrow given a utopian facelift
30 Aug 2012
Newly refurbished venue will host new club night Club Together
The venerable and iconic Potterrow Dome has undergone a startling refurbishment programme, courtesy of Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) and Edinburgh University, which has transformed the old chrome and concrete interior into an indoor…
Phil Nichol Rants!
22 Aug 2012
Mercurial Canadian comedian rages, blusters, fumes and seethes
The hard-working, hyperactive Fringe veteran, who’s also appearing in his Comedians Theatre Company production of the play The Intervention, can hardly contain everything he wants to say within this single hour of stand-up. And he doesn’t. Before the…
