Edinburgh International Film Festival

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EIFF2011: Artist Documentaries

By Alex ⋅ June 23, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Ever since it started out with a programme consisting solely of documentaries back in 1947, EIFF has always retained a special interest in non-fiction work, and this year was no exception. Indeed, buzz amongst the delegates seemed to suggest that the strength of this year’s programme lay, if anywhere, in its two documentary strands (‘UK’ [...]

EIFF2011: Quality Control

By Alex ⋅ June 22, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

After a few brief introductory images, Kevin Jerome Everson’s Quality Control settles on a shot soaking in a small area of the factory-like dry cleaner’s facility in Pritchard, Alabama that the film takes as its subject. As the minutes tick by the shot continues to hold. A worker bustles in and out of frame. The [...]

EIFF2011: Jack Goes Boating

By Matt Strachan ⋅ June 22, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Philip Goes Film Directing, finally, and it turns out he’s pretty darn good at it. After several years of directing theatre, predominantly (if not exclusively) for New York’s LAByrinth Theater Company, Philip Seymour Hoffman entered into his cinematic directorial debut relatively lightly (a ‘why not?’ moment, by all accounts) during talks about adapting Jack Goes [...]

EIFF2011: My Brothers

By Matt Strachan ⋅ June 21, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Perhaps if Paul Fraser – writing partner of choice as far as Shane Meadows is concerned, having helped pen Dead Man’s Shoes, A Room for Romeo Brass and all of Somers Town (to name but a few) – had played to his obvious strengths as well as his loftier career ambitions, his directorial debut may [...]

EIFF2011: All Change

By Alex ⋅ June 15, 2011 ⋅ One comment

As regular readers of DN may well know, this year will mark my third annual visit to the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Around this time last year I wrote about the anticipation I felt at the days of films, networking opportunities and socialising I had ahead of me. This year the anticipation is very much [...]