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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2013

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013

Special Screenings

Classics from the archives and special previews. There will also be the Surprise Movie and a programme of animation in tribute to Scott Ward - who spent a decade as an EIFF programmer - who passed away earlier this year.

Programme

5 films · 3 reviews

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Fire in the Night

The world's worst offshore disaster remembered.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Anthony Wonke)

Hawking

Review preview for Hawking

As with all personal documentaries, it is almost inevitable that what you gain in intimacy, you lose in objectivity.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
The struggles and the glories of the world-famous scientist.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Stephen Finnigan; Stars: Stephen Hawking, Nathan Chapple, Arthur Pelling, Martin King, Joe Lovell)

I Am Breathing

Review preview for I Am Breathing

Neil's insistence on telling his own story with his own voice, on getting that voice out there for the rest of the world to listen to, is itself a fierce act, evidence of a rare vitality.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A documentary about one man's experience of motor neurone disease.

(Country: UK, Denmark; Year: 2012; Director: Emma Davie, Morag McKinnon; Stars: Neil Platt, Louise Platt, Oscar Platt)

Jurassic Park

Review preview for Jurassic Park

Extraordinarily exciting and often disturbing PG-rated stuff.

Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
A trip to a dinosaur theme park turns deadly.

(Country: USA; Year: 1993; Director: Steven Spielberg; Writer: Michael Crichton, David Koepp; Stars: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards, Samuel L Jackson, Benedict Wong, Wayne Knight)

Showing in 3D

Peaky Blinders (Episodes 1 and 2)

Sneak peak at a gangster series set in the aftermath of World War I.

(Year: 2013; Director: Otto Bathurst; Stars: Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill, Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Iddo Goldberg, Annabelle Wallis, Sophie Rundle, Joe Cole, Charlie Creed-Miles)