June, 2011 Archive

Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN EIFF2011: Nokia Shorts

Back in March Nokia continued their support of the short film format through the use of mobile phone cameras, with the launch of the Nokia Shorts competition.

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Live Action

Plot Device

Effects laden short about a young wannabe filmmaker who obtains a mysterious device that unleashes the full force of cinema on his front lawn. Powered by Magic

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Animation

Coffee Time

Drawn away from commercial design to the world of stop motion animation after finding inspiration in Mike Crozier’s SNASK, Wan-tzu dived into a first

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Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2011: The Passion of Béla Tarr

Among the many changes made to this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival was the presence of several ‘guest curators’, who included

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Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2011: Albatross

When spunky tearaway Emelia (Jessica Brown-Findlay) first meets prim and proper Oxford-applicant Beth (Felicity Jones) working behind the desk of Beth’s

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Animation

The Archiver

Thomas Obrecht, Guillaume Berthoumieu and Marc Menneglier, students of French 3D animation and digital special effects school ArtFx bring us The Archiver, the

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Documentary

Animals

Shot during a family holiday in Costa Rica on a Canon 7D (fitted with the standard 18-135mm kit lens) and edited to the sounds of by Michael Nyman’s Time

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Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2011: The Last Circus

For a certain type of person, there will be much to enjoy in The Last Circus. Its strong cartoon violence and descent into surrealistic craziness will no doubt

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Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2011: Mysterious Object at Noon

Programmed as part of Edinburgh’s ‘Perspectives’ strand of “classic and rarely seen films”, Thai arthouse director Apichatpong

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Art & Fashion

One Year on my Desktop

By its very nature we never get to see what directors leave on their cutting room floors, those moments that don’t make it to the final polished product.

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Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2011: The Turin Horse

Even in a world where festival programmes are full to the brim with works belonging to the so-called ‘slow cinema’ form of arthouse filmmaking, the

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Film Festival

EIFF2011: The Bang Bang Club

  At the start of The Bang Bang Club the South African photojournalist Kevin Carter (as portrayed in the film by actor Taylor Kitsch) is asked what makes

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