Daily Briefing. Chris Fujiwara is Edinburgh's New Artistic Director
David HudsonAlso: Michael Sragow semi-retires, ohn Calley dies and Slate binges on Welles and Soderbergh.
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Edinburgh 2011. The Water of Life: Alexander Mackendrick's "Whisky Galore" (1949)
David Cairns"To the west, there is nothing, except America." Revived at Edinburgh Internbational Film Festival, Alexander Mackendrick's first film, Whisky Galore! (released in the USA as Tight Little Island) is
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Edinburgh 2011. Whatever We Want to Be: Marie Losier's "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye"
David CairnsMarie Losier's documentary tells the story of a couple. They happen to comprise Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, industrial music pioneer of the bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and Lady Jaye Breyer
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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011
David HudsonUpdated through 6/20. The 65th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (site) officially opens tonight with a screening of John Michael McDonagh's The Guard and runs through June 26. "In
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Taking Fire: "Restrepo" (Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger, US)
David CairnsScreening at Edinburgh International Film Festival, the documentary feature Restrepo deals with the Second Platoon, Battle Company, 173rd Airborne Brigade, stationed in Afghanistan
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Life's Work: "And Everything is Going Fine" (Steven Soderbergh, US)
David CairnsSteven Soderbergh first worked with actor/monologue artist/diarist-poet Spalding Gray in 1996, filming the show Gray's Anatomy, which dealt with Gray's health troubles (a problem eye) and anxieties
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Johnny Got His Gun: "Caterpillar" (Koji Wakamatsu, Japan)
David CairnsKoji Wakamatsu's Caterpillar, screening at Edinburgh International Film Festival, is a short yet grueling tale of domestic horror set in a semi-depopulated Japanese village during World War Two
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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010
David HudsonThe Guardian's Peter Bradshaw, the Telegraph's David Gritten and the Scotsman's Siobhan Synnot have each drawn up lists of potential highlights of this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival
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pages from a cold island: STARSTRUCK
Neil YoungAbove: Laetitia Guerard and Leora Barbara in Sylvie Verheyde's Stella (Verheyde, France). "It's never too soon // To tread the boardsI was in vaudeville // At age fiveMy career took // Its first nosedive
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"Fun, Yes, But By No Means Civilized": Interview with Joe Dante (Part 2)
David CairnsJoe Dante has earned the right to be called a survivor, with a substantial career in which he has ping-ponged from big-budget sci-fi spectaculars (with attendant studio interference) to TV and low-budget
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"I want to give you a piece of my mind": Interview with Joe Dante (Part 1)
David CairnsAbove: Dante's The Howling (1981). Joe Dante was kind enough to grant interview time during his visit to the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In a public event, he spoke of his early days cutting
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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009: Countdown ("Paper Soldier," German, Russia)
David CairnsPaper Soldier, dealing as it does with the early days of the Soviet space program (post-Sputnik, pre-manned flight) stands as a sort of interesting companion film to Philip Kaufman's The Right