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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2019

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019

Special Events

This section will include a number of talks and events, as well as a screening of all six episodes of Good Omens and three episodes of season six of Bannan. The films screening are shown below.

Programme

3 films · 3 reviews

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Apocalypse Now Redux (Apocalypse Now)

Review preview for Apocalypse Now Redux

Undoubtedly, a masterpiece, this three-and-a-half hour version puts body on the flesh of what was already a great movie.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
Coppola adds 50 mins and re-edits his classic Vietnam war movie, based on The Heart Of Darkness.

(Country: US; Year: 1979; Director: Francis Ford Coppola; Writer: John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, narration by Michael Herr; Stars: Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Christian Marquand, Aurore Clement, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford)

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This will be a screening of the newly released Final Cut

Blue Velvet

Review preview for Blue Velvet

One of the great masterpieces of modern cinema

Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
A young man befriends a woman in trouble and discovers a sinister side to life in his small town.

(Country: US; Year: 1986; Director: David Lynch; Writer: David Lynch; Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, George Dickerson, Priscilla Pointer, Frances Bay, Jack Harvey, Ken Stovitz)

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Robert The Bruce

Review preview for Robert The Bruce

For all that there are premonitions, dreams, even a witch, in truth this is a film without magic

Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
The story of the Scottish king.

(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Richard Gray; Writer: Eric Belgau, Angus Macfadyen; Stars: Jared Harris, Zach McGowan, Daniel Portman, Emma Kenney, Angus Macfadyen, Melora Walters, Mhairi Calvey, Patrick Fugit, Anna Hutchison, Talitha Eliana Bateman, Gabriel Bateman, Kevin McNally, Diarmaid Murtagh, Anthony J. Sharpe, Shane Coffey)

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World premiere