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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2016

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016

Special Events

A number of special panels and events will run throughout the festival, including In Person events with Dominique Pinon, Jeremy Thomas, Kim Cattrall and Kevin Smith. In addition to the films below, there will also be a preview screening of the first three episodes of BBC Alba's third season of Bannan.

Programme

3 films · 2 reviews

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Bigger Than The Shining

Provocative film playing with the idea of movie history.

(Year: 2016; Director: Mark Cousins)

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

Review preview for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

Bowie and Sakamoto acquit themselves well, their otherworldly appearance and rougher edges in acting ability feel quite appropriate for the characters they are playing - outsiders.

Owen Van Spall · 3.5 out of 5
Study of brutality in a Japanese PoW camp

(Country: Japan; Year: 1983; Director: Nagisa Ôshima; Writer: Nagisa Ôshima, Paul Mayersberg, based on the novel by Laurens Van der Post; Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryûichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson, Johnny Okura, Alistair Browning, James Malcolm, Chris Broun, Yûya Uchida, Ryûnosuke Kaneda, Takashi Naitô, Tamio Ishikura, Rokko Toura, Kan Mikami)

Trainspotting

Review preview for Trainspotting

Its comedy leaps barricades.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
Black comic drama about the Edinburgh drugs scene. On re-release.

(Country: UK; Year: 1996; Director: Danny Boyle; Writer: Irvine Welsh, John Hodge; Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Peter Mullan, James Cosmo, Eileen Nicholas, Susan Vidler, Pauline Lynch)