Posts Tagged ‘edinburgh international film festival’
Edinburgh International Film Festival: Saoirse Ronan to be on the red carpet as The Outrun is premiered
Hollywood star Saoirse Ronan will open this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival with the UK premiere of a new film based on Orcadian writer Amy Liptrot’s memoir The Outrun. The Brooklyn actress has already been praised for her performance in the film following previous premieres at the Sundance film festivals. The book describes Amy’s return…
Read MoreAction! £1.25m appeal for Historic Edinburgh cinema
A fundraising campaign has started to reopen the historic Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh. Supporters want to raise at least £1.25 million to cover the cost of reopening and refurbishing of the 19th-century building on Lothian Road by next year. It housed a three-screen cinema and was home to the Edinburgh International Film Festival before the…
Read MoreEdinburgh International Film Festival will return
A SLIMMED-DOWN version of the Edinburgh International Film Festival will return this August. The future of the festival was thrown into question last October when the Centre for the Moving Image, the charity that ran the festival, fell into administration. Now, the movie festival will return for a week this summer as part of the…
Read More74th Edinburgh International Film Festival starts today
The 74th Edinburgh International Film Festival kicks off today with a fantastic programme of feature and short films celebrating the long-awaited return to cinema. This special programme of in-person and digital screenings includes 31 new features and 73 shorts – with 18 marking their world and three international premieres at the Festival – and with…
Read MoreCalling the shots as Calibre film is released
Matt Farnham reviews Calibre, released as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. When expectant father Vaughn joins old school best friend Marcus on a hunting trip in the Highlands things, go from bad to worse quickly. After a fun first night the duo head out to the woods where a tragic accident leads to…
Read MoreSee Paddington, Star Wars and Casablanca for free – outdoors!
Three days of free films in the great outdoors are coming to Edinburgh next month. Edinburgh International Film Festival and Essential Edinburgh’s immensely popular free open-air cinema event, Film Fest in the City with Mackays, is set to return to St Andrew Square Garden this summer, with the Festival announcing a jam-packed line-up of free…
Read MorePeter and the Wolf gets a special Scottish makeover for the jazz orchestra
A traditional story has been given a Scots makeover, for the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. They will perform Liz Lochhead’s take on Peter and the Wolf (orchestrated by Tommy Smith) and The Carnival of the Animals (orchestrated by Makoto Ozone). This month, virtuoso pianist Makoto Ozone and leading Scots actor Tam Dean Burn join the…
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