Posts Tagged ‘film’
Action! £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 MoreComedian uses family connections to explore Aberdeen’s links to the slave trade
He is well known for his routines with irreverent presentations of traditional Scottish history and culture. But now standup comedian Bruce Fummey is using his own family connections to explore Aberdeen’s links to the slave trade. During the Covid lockdowns the comedian turned his attention to YouTube filmmaking, creating popular Scottish History Tours videos. The…
Read MoreFringe Review: Six Chick Flicks…
Richard Bath reviews Six Chick Flicks…Or a Legally Blonde Pretty Woman Dirty Danced on the Beaches While Writing a Notebook on the Titanic. The premise of this parody is that two wisecracking sassy young women take the piss out of six iconic chick flicks: Titanic, Legally Blonde, Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman, Beaches and The Notebook.…
Read MoreHarry Potter book signed by JK Rowling could fetch £1,000 at auction
A copy of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child signed by JK Rowling could fetch £1,000 when it goes under the hammer this week. The special rehearsal edition, which has also been signed director, John Tiffany, and playwright, Jack Thorne, is expected to fetch between £600 and £1,000. It’s up for auction at McTear’s in…
Read MoreEdinburgh cinema holding dog-friendly screenings of Wes Anderson film
An Edinburgh cinema is to hold dog-friendly screenings with pooches even getting their own blankets. Cameo Picturehouse has two special screenings of Asteroid City for people who want to take along their four legged friends to the cinema with them. The film, by Wes Anderson, will be shown on 1 July at 11am and 2…
Read MoreReview: Cinema premier of Stella
Jeremy Welch reviews Stella, the new award-winning film which is set in Galloway. It’s 1937 and the storm clouds are darkening over Europe as war seems imminent. Stella, played by Oli Fyne, tells the story of her plight as a penniless Oxford graduate of Jewish descent accepting a job to tutor the children of Lord…
Read MoreProject launched to capture memories of Scottish whaling communities
A new project has been launched to capture the memories of Scottish whaling communities. Over the next two years, the South Georgia Heritage Trust and the South Georgia Museum, will be working alongside former whaling communities to create The Whalers’ Memory Bank. The Memory Bank will create a living, growing digital time capsule where veterans…
Read MoreStanley Tucci brings film to St Andrews
ACTOR Stanley Tucci will present Big Night, one of his best-loved movies, on 15 April at Sands, St Andrews’ international film festival. Tucci was one of the 1996 film’s writers and directors, as well as starring in the movie. After the film is shown at the Byre Theatre, Tucci will then be interviewed on stage…
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 MoreTilda Swinton gets film archive award
NAIRN’S favourite actress, Tilda Swinton, has received the International Federation of Film Archives’ (FIAF’s) annual award. The actress – famous for starring in films including Michael Clayton, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and Marvel’s Doctor Strange – was presented with the prize last night at the National Library of…
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