Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2005
The EIFF programme says: "We roll out the red carpet, invite the photographers and don our best bib and tucker for these talent-filled, blue chip movies."
12 films · 11 reviews
Directed by Olivier Marchal, an ex-cop himself, the film looks terrific.
(Country: France; Year: 2004; Director: Olivier Marchal; Writer: Dominique Loiseau, Frank Mankus; Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, André Dussollier, Roschdy Zem, Valeria Golino, Daniel Duval, Francis Renaud, Catherine Marchal, Guy Lecluyse, Alain Figlarz, Vincent Moscato)
UK Premiere
Jacques Audiard's film isn't intended as a replacement for Toback's wild-eyed and masterly [Fingers], but rather a deliberately assured take on the same material.
(Country: France; Year: 2004; Director: Jacques Audiard; Writer: Jacques Audiard, Tonino Benacquista, based on the film Fingers, written and directed by James Toback; Stars: Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Linh Dan Pham, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos, Jonathan Zaccai, Gilles Cohen, Anton Yakovlev, Melanie Laurent)
UK Premiere
Like the world it portrays, The Business can be criticised as superficial and derivative, but it accurately depicts the headstrong, cheesy glamour of the period.
(Country: UK; Year: 2005; Director: Nick Love; Writer: Nick Love; Stars: Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Geoff Bell, Georgina Chapman, Eddioe Weber, Adam Bolton, Linda Henry, Roland Manookian, Arturo Venegas, Camille Coduri)
Closing Night Film. UK Premiere
Long-winded, overwrought and totally without a climax.
(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Paul Schrader; Writer: William Peter Blatty, William Wisher Jnr, Caleb Carr; Stars: Stellan Skarsgard, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar, Billy Crawford, Ralph Brown, Israel Adurama, Andrew French, Antonie Kamerling, Julian Wadham, Eddie Osei)
UK Premiere
(Country: Hungary/Germany/UK; Year: 2005; Director: Lajos Koltai; Writer: Imre Kertesz, based on the novel by Imre Kertesz; Stars: Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimeny, Andras M. Kecskes, Josef Gyabronka, Endre Harkanyi, Daniel Craig)
UK Premiere
Appallingly developed characters and situations decay and rot onscreen.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: George A Romero; Writer: George A Romero; Stars: Simon Baker, John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Dennis Hopper, Robert Joy, Eugene Clark, Joanne Boland, Tony Nappo, Jennifer Baxter, Boyd Banks)
International Premiere
It's the same old sentimental tripe that gets rolled out again and again.
(Country: UK; Year: 2005; Director: Julian Jarrold; Writer: Geoff Deane, Tim Firth; Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joel Edgerton, Nick Frost, Sarah Jane Potts, Jemima Rooper, Linda Bassett)
What should be a romantic mush cake, with lemon icing and a cherry on top, is treacle pud, with hot fudge and molasses.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Randall Miller; Writer: Randall Miller, Jody Savin; Stars: Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, John Goodman, Mary Steenburgen, David Paymer, Donny Wahlberg, Danny DeVito, Sean Astin, Adam Arkin, Sonia Braga, Ernie Hudson, Elden Henson)
UK Premiere
Saraband, in true Bergman tradition, wrestles with human relationships, using a slow pace, pointed dialogue, and heavy symbolism to explore the psychological states of the characters.
(Country: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Austria; Year: 2003; Director: Ingmar Bergman; Writer: Ingmar Bergman; Stars: Liv Ullman, Erland Josephson, Borje Ahlstedt, Julia Defvenius, Gunnel Fred)
Scottish Premiere
Knowing, loving, kidding and one of the year's best films.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Joss Whedon; Writer: Joss Whedon; Stars: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass, Chiwetel Ejiofor, David Krumholtz)
World Premiere
A delight from beginning to end.
(Country: UK/France/South Africa; Year: 2005; Director: Richard E Grant; Writer: Richard E Grant; Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Nicholas Hoult, Emily Watson, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Julian Wadham, Fenella Woolgar, Sid Mitchell, Zachary Fox)
World Premiere
(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: James Toback; Writer: James Toback; Stars: Neve Campbell, Fred Weller, Ashley Shelton, James Toback, Alex Feldman, Brandon Sommers, Oliver 'Power' Grant, Mike Tyson, James Parris, Cara Hamill, Christina Rotholz)
UK Premiere
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