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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2010

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010

After The Wave

Lost and forgotten British Cinema 1967 - 1979. A selection of treasures from the archives.

Programme

16 films · 1 review

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The Boy Who Turned Yellow

A boy who loses his pet mouse on a school trip to the Tower of London unexpectedly turns bright yellow on the way home.

(Country: UK; Year: 1972; Director: Michael Powell; Writer: Emeric Pressburger; Stars: Mark Dightam, Robert Eddison, Helen Weir)

The Final Programme

A man joins the hunt for his dead father's 'final programme' a design for a perfect, self-replicating human.

(Country: UK; Year: 1973; Director: Robert Fuest; Writer: Robert Fuest, Michael Moorcock; Stars: Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Magee, Sterling Hayden, Harry Andrews, Graham Crowden, George Coulouris, Basil Henson, Derrick O'Connor, Gilles Millinaire, Ronald Lacey, Julie Ege, Sandy Ratcliff, Sarah Douglas)

Glitterball

A gang of kids tries to help a tiny, stranded alien who is being hunted by the army.

(Country: UK; Year: 1977; Director: Harley Cokeliss; Writer: Harley Cokeliss, Michael Abrams; Stars: Ben Buckton, Keith Jayne, Ron Pember, Ron Pember)

Gumshoe

A middle aged man faces unexpected hazards when he decides to become a private eye.

(Country: UK; Year: 1971; Director: Stephen Frears; Writer: Neville Smith; Stars: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Carolyn Seymour)

The Hard Way

A hitman wants to quit the business but his American 'financier' disagrees.

(Country: UK; Year: 1979; Director: Michael Dryhurst; Writer: Kevin Grogan, Richard F. Tombleson; Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Lee Van Cleef, Edna O'Brien, Donal McCann, Ronan Wilmot, Kevin Flood, Joe Lynch, Derek Lord, Michael Muldoon, John Cowley, James A. Stephens, Richard McAdoo, Peter Brayham, Mesag Muruko)

The Jokers

Two brothers decide to steal the Crown Jewels.

(Country: UK; Year: 1967; Director: Michael Winner; Writer: Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Michael Winner; Stars: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, James Donald, Daniel Massey, Michael Hordern, Gabriella Licudi, Lotte Tarp, Frank Finlay, Warren Mitchell, Rachel Kempson, Peter Graves, Ingrid Boulting, Brian Wilde, Edward Fox)

Long Shot

Two men try to scrape together the cash for a film at the Edinburgh Filim Festival.

(Country: UK; Year: 1978; Director: Maurice Hatton; Writer: Maurice Hatton, Eoin McCann; Stars: Charles Gormley, Neville Smith, Ann Zelda, David Stone, Suzanne Danielle, Ron Taylor, Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears, Jim Haines, Maurice Bulbulian, William Forsythe, Richard Demarco, Alan Bennett, Sarah Boston, Mel Calman)

Made

A single mother embarks on a precarious relationship with an unhappy rock star in a film that questions the prevailing religious morals of the time.

(Country: UK; Year: 1972; Director: John Mackenzie; Writer: Howard Barker; Stars: Carol White, Roy Harper, John Castle, Margery Mason)

Pressure

Life presents a series of cultural challenges for a young second generation immigrant.

(Country: UK; Year: 1976; Director: Horace Ové; Writer: Horace Ové, Samuel Selvon; Stars: Herbert Norville, Oscar James, Frank Singuineau, Lucita Lijertwood)

Private Road

A young woman bored by her suburban existence embarks on an affair with a writer.

(Country: UK; Year: 1971; Director: Barney Platts-Mills; Writer: Barney Platts-Mills; Stars: Susan Penhaligon, Bruce Robinson, Michael Feast, Robert Brown, George Fenton)

Privilege

A clean cut pop star is manipulated into promoting increasingly disturbing corporate and political agendas until a young artist prompts him to question what's happening.

(Country: UK; Year: 1967; Director: Peter Watkins; Writer: Norman Bogner, Johnny Speight; Stars: Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Mark London, William Job, Max Bacon, Jeremy Child, James Cossins)

Pulp

Dark comedy sees Michael Caine play a ghostwriter working for an abusive Hollywood gangster actor.

(Country: UK; Year: 1972; Director: Mike Hodges; Writer: Mike Hodges; Stars: Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander, Lizabeth Scott, Nadia Cassini, Dennis Price, Al Lettieri, Leopoldo Trieste, Amerigo Tot, Robert Sacchi, Giulio Donnini, Joe Zammit Cordina, Luciano Pigozzi, Maria Cumani Quasimodo, Liù Bosisio)

The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer

A satirical look at British life on the cusp of the 1970s.

(Country: UK; Year: 1970; Director: Kevin Billington; Writer: Peter Cook, John Cleese; Stars: Peter Cook, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser, Vanessa Howard, Arthur Lowe,George A. Cooper)

Savage Messiah

Review preview for Savage Messiah

Succeeds admirably in its primary thrust.

Chris · 5 out of 5
A spectacular, highly sexualised biopic of the artist Henry Gaudier.

(Country: UK; Year: 1972; Director: Ken Russell; Writer: Christopher Logue, based on the book by H.S. Ede.; Stars: Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Helen Mirren, Lindsay Kemp, Michael Gough)

Full review See: Interview with Ken Russell

The Squeeze

The wife and daughter of an alcoholic ex-cop are kidnapped by a gangster.

(Country: Italy, West Germany; Year: 1978; Director: Antonio Margheriti; Writer: Paul Costello, Marc Princi, Giovanni Simonelli; Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Karen Black, Edward Albert, Lionel Stander, Robert Alda, Angelo Infanti, Antonella Murgia, Peter Carsten, Dan van Husen, Dyane Silverstein, Steven Burch, Ron Van Clief, Bob Hevelone, Roy Brocksmith, Ewald G. Spader)

What Next?

A bash on the head gives a youngster the power of foresight... can he thwart the plans of an evil property developer?

(Country: UK; Year: 1974; Director: Peter Smith; Stars: Perry Benson, Peter Benson, Laurence Carter, Alan Collins, Charles Cork, James Cossin)