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Edinburgh Film Festival foreign judging panel named
NATALIE Dormer, one of the stars of TV’s Game of Thrones, is among the jurors for the international feature film prize at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Not Another Happy Ending: On set with Karen Gillan
Former Doctor Who companion Karen Gillan stars in a romcom that will close this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. Gaby Soutar was on the set for filming in Glasgow
Cannes: Gatsby takes lead at opulent film festival
BRITAIN is out of the running for the Palme D’Or at Cannes, but there’s a strong showing elsewhere, and the prominence of the opulent Great Gatsby seems somehow apposite, writes Stephen Applebaum
Carey Mulligan snapped up at Cannes Film Festival
DRESSED in an eye-catching black shift dress, Great Gatsby star Carey Mulligan poses for the cameras at the Cannes Film Festival, where she is promoting her new film, the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis.
DVD reviews: Django Unchained| Vehicle 19
Quentin Tarantino further justifies his superstar status with Django Unchained, a bloody, violent, funny and thrillingly unpredictable revenge western about a freed slave (Jamie Foxx) unleashing hell on his plantation-owning enemies in the pre-Civil War American South of 1858.
Saoirse Ronan on playing a vampire in Byzantium
WHO is afraid of Saoirse Ronan? In the bowels of a Glasgow hotel, she looks innocent enough, sitting demurely in the manner of a 1950s model, legs crossed at the ankle and chatting about how best to drain a body of blood.
Film review: Beware Of Mr Baker
THERE are probably more foolhardy enterprises than interviewing the aggressively venomous rock drummer Ginger Baker for a documentary, but it’s hard to think of many.
Film review: The Great Gatsby
IT HAS been suggested that there’s something of the Gatsby about Baz Luhrmann, since both men are predisposed to throwing extravagantly spectacular parties, with just a hint of hollowness.
Film reviews: Fast & Furious 6 | Something In The Air | Epic
DO YOU like cars? Or do you prefer movies where bulging, baldy action heroes like Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel glower at each other like homoerotic new potatoes?
Cannes: Man fires pistol blanks into live TV crowd
A MAN armed with a starter pistol fired blanks into a crowd at the Cannes Film Festival, sending Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz ducking for cover.
Cannes: Million-dollar jewel theft from hotel room
Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with jewellery worth about $1 million (£655,000), in a brazen late-night burglary.
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Pictures: Cannes Film Festival, day 3 Picture gallery
STARS lined the red carpet at the world-famous Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of ‘The Past’.
Disney: Controversial Merida makeover is ‘one-off’
Disney chiefs appear to have made a partial climbdown over the controversial makeover for Scottish princess Merida after claiming it was only a temporary move - to celebrate her coronation.
Cabnnes film festival: The Bling Ring makes debut
ACTRESS Emma Watson has turned to crime in her latest role as part of a celebrity-obsessed teenage gang robbing their Hollywood idols’ homes in a film that made its debut at the Cannes film festival yesterday.
Fiona McCade: Girls sold short by Merida makeover
WHEN Pixar was making its computer-animation Brave, it had to rewrite its entire animation system to support the complex visuals. Feisty Princess Merida’s wild, red hair alone took three years to complete.
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Film reviews: Fast & Furious 6 | A Hijacking | The Liability
ALISTAIR Harkness reviews the week’s cinema releases.
Epic new kids’ film packs big ideas into small tale
AS an online petition objecting to Disney’s misguided revamp of Brave’s Princess Merida picks up signatures by the thousand (if you haven’t seen it, Merida is now slimmer, she’s wearing make-up, her neck-line is lowered and instead of a bow and arrow she has sparkles on her dress), I confess I feel heartened at the first images of the heroine of the new animated feature, Epic.
Film review: The Great Gatsby
COMPOSED like a fashion shoot, Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby is so full of spectacle that it risks missing the point of Fitzgerald’s story.
Ewan McGregor wants to do Trainspotting sequel
EWAN McGregor has said that he would love to reprise his role as Mark Renton in Danny Boyle’s sequel to Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting follow-up Porno.
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Jackie Stewart on his Polanski film’s Cannes return
OVER forty years ago a film by Roman Polanski captured Jackie Stewart on a Monaco Grand Prix weekend. That film has been reworked and will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival, but for the former Formula 1 world champion, it brings back some painful memories.
‘Breathe In’ to open Edinburgh’s film festival
ACCLAIMED new American drama Breathe In has won the coveted opening night slot at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, organisers revealed today.
New Star Wars film could be shot in Scotland
TOURISM leaders have predicted another massive movie spin-off for the country if the next Stars Wars film is partly shot in Scotland.
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Brave creator slams Merida makeover as ‘atrocious’
THE creator of the Disney-Pixar adventure set in the Scottish Highlands has branded a controversial makeover for the main character Merida “atrocious.”
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Leonardo DiCaprio on playing Jay in The Great Gatsby
THERE’S always a certain amount of hysteria surrounding summer blockbusters but Baz Luhrmann’s new big-screen adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby has surpassed all the usual hype.
DVD reviews: Les Miserables | Side By Side
BOMBASTIC, over-blown, over-long, needlessly convoluted, and full of simplistic characters, terrible performances and a constant, cochlea-cracking racket on the soundtrack, Les Misérables arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in all its baffling glory – like the musical equivalent of a Transformers movie.
Andrew Eaton-Lewis: The problem is Merida has been turned into an object
AS YOU may have heard, Merida from Brave has just become an official Disney princess, and had a makeover to celebrate.
Romain Duris on his new film, a ‘Rocky with typewriters’
Having swerved some English-speaking roles, French actor Romain Duris tells Siobhan Synnot why there’s no place like home when it comes to his film choices
Film review: The Stoker (15)
IT’S hard to define the films of Alexei Balabanov; he’s like an angry Aki Kaurismäki, or a more impassive Gaspar Noé.
Film review: The Liability (15)
LIKE the trade itself, movies about hit men work best when they are quick, capable and thoroughly bloody.
Borgen’s Pilou Asbaek on his Somalian pirate film
NOW a household name beyond his Danish homeland after appearing in political drama Borgen, Pilou Asbaek is swapping the corridors of power for the hardship of being held hostage by Somalian pirates
Matthew McConaughey on rebooting a Hollywood career at 43
THE Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Fool’s Gold, The Ghost of Girlfriends Past, Failure to Launch.
Star Trek: To boldly go from A to Z
As the latest Star Trek movie beams Kirk, Spock and co back onto British cinema screens, we look at some of the facts, figures and faces associated with five decades of the beloved TV and cinema science fiction franchise.
Brave’s Merida gets the Disney princess treatment
IT MAY be Brave but is it on target? The star of Disney’s Celtic fantasy Merida has had a glam makeover that has gone down poorly with fans as well as parents.
Jonathan Melville: When is a classic not a classic?
THERE was a time when the only way to see an old film was to wait for it to appear on TV or to buy the VHS. Today, even the biggest cinema chains are happy to show classics alongside the blockbusters.
JJ Abrams on controlling Star Wars and Star Trek
AS Star Trek Into Darkness beams into cinemas, director JJ Abrams - also the man helming Star Wars VII – tells Alistair Harkness what it’s like to be master of two universes
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Film review: Mud
BARELY a month seems to go by at the moment without Matthew McConaughey delivering a brilliant and surprising performance.
Arts blog: Hannibal taking bite out of cinema | Twitter plays
ALISTAIR Harkness finds further evidence that American TV is outperforming the US film industry, while Andrew Eaton-Lewis discusses the art of creating a drama in 140 characters.
Classic Bond posters to make up to £37k at auction Picture gallery
A SET of classic James Bond film posters is expected to fetch up to £37,000 at auction later this month.
Edinburgh gets new film and TV champions
A NEW body is to being set up to help attract film and TV productions to Edinburgh following criticism of cutbacks at the city’s main marketing body.
7 commentsPaddy Considine: ‘My brain told me to shut down’
Actor Paddy Considine has told how he was gripped by despair before doctors found out he was suffering from a rare condition that made it difficult for him to cope with light.
Interview: Geoffrey Rush on The Eye of the Storm
Geoffrey Rush’s new project sees him as a down-on-his-luck Australian movie star in a fraught melodrama. For the acclaimed actor who juggles blockbusters with arthouse projects, those days are long gone. Interview by Siobhan Synnot
DVD reviews: The Impossible| Billy Liar
A MISTAKENLY narrow perspective ruins what could have been an incredible true story of survival in The Impossible, a dramatisation of one family’s experiences of the devastating South Asian tsunami that killed 300,000 people on Boxing Day 2004.
Andrew Eaton-Lewis: In some respects American Psycho makes perfect sense as a musical
IS IT a good idea to make an all-singing, all-dancing stage version of Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho?
Film review: Mud (12A)
I KNOW I’m not alone in saying that I’ve been enjoying Matthew McConaughey much more since he stopped appearing in mirthless romcoms and started subverting his son-of-Paul-Newman looks with roles in Magic Mike, Killer Joe and Bernie.
Film reviews: A Hijacking | White Elephant | Gangs of Wasseypur (Parts 1 and 2)
The rest of this week’s film releases, reviewed by Siobhan Synnot
The Great Gatsby kicks off Cannes Film Festival
There’s a delicious irony in Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby kicking off the star-studded celebrations at the world’s most glamorous film festival, writes Hannah McGill
Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch on Star Trek
FROM playing a modern-day Sherlock Holmes to the villain of the new Star Trek movie, Benedict Cumberbatch isn’t afraid to boldly go where few have gone before.
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Film review: Star Trek Into Darkness
FOUR years ago JJ Abrams rescued Star Trek from the Neutral Zone with an amped- up reboot which managed to channel the original characters in ways that were funny, smart and sometimes even touching.
Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Cameo snub
IT is Quentin Tarantino’s favourite cinema, Sir Sean Connery opened its bar in 1963 and Orson Welles and Cary Grant have visited.
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Cameo cinema banned from Edinburgh Film Festival
Edinburgh’s Cameo cinema has been banned from the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), after festival organisers said its 3D screen wasn’t up to standard.
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