Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2015
7 films · 5 reviews
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Mark Cousins; Writer: Mark Cousins, Laura Marcellino)
With Q&A with director Mark Cousins.
One of the most deservedly popular movies in cinema history.
(Country: US; Year: 1985; Director: Robert Zemeckis; Writer: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale; Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson, Claudia Wells, Marc McClure, Wendie Jo Sperber, George DiCenzo, Frances Lee McCain, James Tolkan)
Screening with full RSNO accompaniment
Pete Travis works hard to bring John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's apocalyptic vision to life.
(Country: US, UK, India; Year: 2012; Director: Pete Travis; Writer: Alex Garland; Stars: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey)
Screening to complement Future Shock! The Story Of 2000AD
Johnny To's direction is as smooth as a well-cut suit and the violence has a balletic intensity.
(Country: Hong Kong; Year: 2006; Director: Johnny To; Writer: Kam-Yuen Szeto, Tin-Shing Yip; Stars: Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Simon Yam, Lam Suet, Nick Cheung, Richie Ren, Roy Cheung, Josie Ho, Ka Tung Lam, Siu-Fai Cheung, Ellen Chan)
Showing as part of the In Person: Johnnie To event
Director Graham is fantastic at allowing the underlying relational strain to simmer for most of the film, in quiet, unspoken Scots Calvinist passive-aggression.
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Scott Graham; Writer: Scott Graham; Stars: Ruth Negga, Douglas Henshall, Tom Brooke, Michelle Duncan, Jim Sturgeon, Matthew Zajac, Ben Gallagher, Sorcha Groundsell)
Closing night gala. Michael Powell contender.
Robert Carlyle's directorial debut adapts Douglas Lindsay's novel detailing the life and crimes of Barney Thomson with real panache and wit.
(Country: Canada, UK; Year: 2015; Director: Robert Carlyle; Writer: Richard Cowan, Colin McLaren; Stars: Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, James Cosmo, Ray Winstone, Ashley Jensen, Martin Compston, Tom Courtenay, Brian Pettifer, Kevin Guthrie, Stephen McCole, Samuel Robertson, Ruari Cannon, Barbara Rafferty, Scott Dymond, Eileen McCallum)
Opening night gala. Michael Powell contender.
(Country: Italy, Soviet Union; Year: 1970; Director: Sergey Bondarchuk; Writer: H.A.L. Craig, Sergey Bondarchuk, Vittorio Bonicelli, Mario Soldati; Stars: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna, Dan O'Herlihy, Rupert Davies, Philippe Forquet, Gianni Garko, Ivo Garrani, Ian Ogilvy, Michael Wilding, Sergo Zakariadze, Terence Alexander, Andrea Checchi)
Special screening as part of 200th Waterloo celebrations.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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