Film
Veteran actor Maurice Roeves back at Fringe with lowdown on the Lawrences
MAURICE Roëves played a maverick aging rocker in the Scottish television classic Tutti Frutti, and stunned Fringe audiences 30 years ago with his mud-stained performance as the ploughman poet Robert Burns.
Jonathan Melville: Comic book heroes are out in force this summer
THE Avengers may have caused havoc for the bad guys in their first big screen adventure, but they’re also a force to be reckoned with for rival films as audiences keep flocking to see them.
Brave new world as Disney unveils Scottish adventure trips video
CINEMA giants Disney have unveiled their first ever tailor-made holiday to Scotland - costing $5000-a-head.
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Film review: Moonrise Kingdom (12A)
Here’s another film only Wes Anderson could make, with great, against-type performances by Bruce Willis and Edward Norton
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Interview: Tahar Rahim, actor in A Prophet and Free Men
French-Algerian Tahar Rahim has the acting world at his feet, but, finds Alistair Harkness, he’s in no rush to work in America
FIlm reviews: What to Expect When You’re Expecting | Free Men | North Sea Texas | The Source | Men in Black 3
The Scotsman’s film critics cast their eye over the latest cinematic releases
Critics’ choice: The arts events you need to see
The Scotsman’s arts team offer their tips for thes best event in each field of the arts
Cannes film festival: What Pete Doherty and Ronan Keating have in common
You wouldn’t normally expect to see Ronan Keating and Pete Doherty mentioned in the same sentence. But then it isn’t every day that the Boyzone star and former Libertine come to Cannes to talk up their film acting debuts.
Film review: The Angels’ Share, Cannes Film Festival
Six years ago, Ken Loach won Cannes’ Palme d’Or with The Wind That Shakes the Barley – a film that stirred controversy at home with its sympathetic portrayal of the early IRA.
I’d no job, no money, no hope … new film saved my life, says Scots star video
Landing a part in Ken Loach’s new film, The Angels’ Share, “probably saved my life”, its lead actor said last night.
Cannes Film Festival review: The Angel’s Share
SIX years ago, Ken Loach won Cannes’ Palme d’Or with The Wind That Shakes the Barley – a film that stirred controversy at home with its sympathetic portrayal of the early IRA. This year, he and regular collaborator, writer Paul Laverty, have returned to the competition with a very different kind of movie, in the Glasgow-set comedy The Angels’ Share.
Teaser trailer released for new James Bond film Picture gallery
JAMES Bond is back in the first teaser of the secret agent’s latest adventure.
Quiet storm: How one man’s solitude became the toast of British cinema
JAKE Williams lives a hermit-like existence with only his two cats for company in a remote, ramshackle house in the Cairngorms. He is also the star of a near-silent documentary of his own daily life that has made him the toast of film festivals
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DVD reviews: The Descendants | Haywire
THE casting in The Descendants really shouldn’t work. It’s a film, after all, in which George Clooney plays a cuckolded husband who discovers his comatose wife was not only about to leave him for another man, but was about to leave him for another man played by a guy whose last significant role was as Shaggy in the live-action Scooby-Doo movies (Matthew Lillard).
Interview: Charlize Theron, actress
Don’t call Charlize Theron brave for appearing in a movie without make-up – the star of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is far too down to Earth to join the cult of celebrity, finds Claire Black
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Licence to twill – Bond Tweed’s secret formula
THE iconic Harris Tweed hacking jacket worn by Sean Connery in the Bond movie Goldfinger is to be recreated by the original tailor using cutting edge technology that could have been designed by Q himself.
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The bountiful game: Ewan McGregor on the fragile existence of babies who owe their lives to Soccer Aid and Unicef in India
WRITING exclusively for Scotland on Sunday, Ewan McGregor recounts an emotional visit to a pioneering unit saving tiny lives in one of the poorest parts of India
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Interview: Will Ferrell, actor and comedian
Proud of his new Mexican spoof in Spanish, funnyman Will Ferrell tells Siobhan Synnot why learning the language was such a serious business
DVD of the week: The Descendants
What is it? In Alexander Payne’s Hawaii-set comedy drama, George Clooney is a workaholic who has to face up to some difficult truths about his family when an accident leaves his wife in a coma and him in charge.
Film reviews: What To Expect When You’re Expecting | Free Men | Iron Sky |
A FACT-filled, best-selling, self-help guide to pregnancy is the basis of this new domesticated comedy, a new level of desperation in page-to-screen that should at least grab the attention of Jean Marie Stine, author of How To Write A Bestselling Self-Help Book.
New film tells the ‘real story’ of Roman Polanski’s life
A NEW film about controversial director Roman Polanski will be “opinion changing” and allow audiences to hear about his turbulent life in his own words, its director said yesterday.
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LOTR star Billy Boyd gets his kicks supporting charity
Lord of the Rings star Billy Boyd has helped to break the world record for the largest synchronised taekwondo routine, to raise money for a children’s charity.
Beat goes on as Neeson plays cop
Liam Neeson is to star in the thriller A Walk Among the Tombstones, a mystery based on a popular crime novel.
Town’s teenage film fans track down The Railway Man
HOLLYWOOD A-listers Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman have posed for pictures with fans while filming in North Berwick.
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Who’s that girl? Karen Gillan hits the big time in Cannes
Scottish actress Karen Gillan made a surprise appearance at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday.
Setback for Scottish film industry as locations chief quits
THE head of Scotland’s film location services has quit her post in a move described by industry insiders as a “great loss” to the country’s campaign to attract multi-million film projects.
1 commentJonathan Melville: Die Hard again, this time in Jakarta Indonesia
AS a long-time fan of the original Die Hard, I’m of the opinion that setting any film in a tower block and pitting a hero against the odds is a good idea.
Film reviews: The Raid | 2 Days in New York | Even the Rain | A Gang Story | Iron Sky
ALISTAIR HARKNESS on the rest of the week’s new releases...
Model lands role as farmer’s daughter
Model Agyness Deyn is to play a farmer in a bleak drama set in rural Scotland.
Film review: Moonrise Kindgom
FANS of US auteur Wes Anderson can breathe a sigh of relief. The director’s new film – his first live action feature since 2007’s The Darjeeling Ltd – is bursting with his signature touches, from self-conscious camera movements and highly stylised, colour-coded costumes, to his obsessive use of maps, letters and music and recognisable blend of irony and absurdism.
How to be a Cannes judge, by Ewan McGregor Picture gallery
FOR the Hollywood glitterati, it is a rare opportunity for the world’s most esteemed film stars to pass judgment on their peers.
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The Angels’ Share: Scotland finds favour again with Ken Loach’s latest offering
NOT for the first time, Ken Loach has used Scotland as the location for his latest film, although The Angels’ Share is not a typical offering from the director.
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Cannes Film Festival 2012: The wrath of Cannes
AS the world’s coolest film festival gets underway today, Stephen Applebaum finds that behind all the glitz and the glamour there lies an institution not to be messed with
What The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp reveals about Michael Powell
In November last year, Martin Scorsese regaled an audience at the British Film Institute in London with tales of Robert De Niro’s method madness.
1 comment£273 million boost for the UK film industry
MILLIONS of pounds of lottery money will be used to boost the film industry as part of a five-year plan to increase audiences and find new talent.
Lottery millions to boost UK film industry
MILLIONS of pounds of lottery money will be used to boost the coffers of the film industry as part of a long-term plan to increase audiences and find fresh talent.
Interview: Ken Loach, director of The Angels’ Share
KEN Loach’s new film, The Angels’ Share, is about being given a chance in life. it’s a subject close to the veteran director’s heart, and it’s also pretty important to the movie’s unknown Scottish star
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The Scotsman’s film critic Alistair Harkness casts his eye over recent DVDs...
Interview: Julie Delpy, actress, screenwriter and director
SHE’S piled on the pressure by writing and starring in her own films, but Julie Delpy tells Siobhan Synnot it’s worth it to avoid sexy Latina and bimbo roles
Film review: The Dictator video
YOU loved him as Borat, you were OK with him as Ali G, and we don’t really talk about Bruno. Now after a three-year absence and equipped with a magnificent Edward Lear beard, Sacha Baron Cohen reunites with director Larry Charles with a new comic persona.
Film review: The Raid
IN THE exotic, blood-drenched, slice-em-up world of Indonesian martial arts mayhem, the villains of The Raid could have maybe avoided fighting a Police SWAT team in a tower block, floor by floor, by holing up in the basement rather than the penthouse – but then we might be denied snapped necks and smashed knees in our introduction to the fighting discipline of pencak silat.
Film reviews: Dark Shadows | The Source | Two Years at Sea | 2 Days in New York
Syiobhan Synnot reviews the rest of this week’s forthcoming cinema releases
Following in Faye Dunaway’s footsteps
The picture of Faye Dunaway, taken after her Oscar win, has become the stuff of legend, and an opportunity to sit by the same poolside 35 years on was one I could not pass up, writes Stephen McGinty
Richard Mowe: Power of American ratings goes a long way
ALTHOUGH censorship is technically forbidden by the US constitution – thanks to the absolute right to freedom of speech – in practice it has been applied in numerous subtle and not so subtle ways in order to keep film-makers in line.
US film censors fail to see the funny side of Brave’s cheeky scenes video
IT IS the film from the makers of Toy Story and Finding Nemo Scottish tourism bosses are pinning their hopes on to become a worldwide smash.
Paddington Bear to pack his case for Hollywood
Paddington Bear is swapping darkest Peru for the bright lights of Hollywood after plans were announced to bring the character to the big screen.
Jonathan Melville: Make or break for Gibson’s career
THIS week, I was planning to report on the return to cinema screens of Braveheart himself, Mel Gibson, in the action thriller How I Spent My Summer Vacation, the film that could remake or break his career.
Interview: Gareth Evans, director of ‘The Raid’
Gareth Evans tells Alistair Harkness how a lad from the Valleys turned his love of John Woo into an Indonesian action thriller that took the world of martial arts movies by storm
Film review: Dark Shadows (12A)
WHAT a strange film Dark Shadows is. That may seem like an obvious observation to make in reference to a Tim Burton movie, but its oddness has less to do with trademark Burton tropes – kooky weirdos, Gothic settings, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter – as it does the bizarre storytelling choices he makes.
Film reviews: A roundup of the latest films in the cinemas
Jeff, Who Lives At Home (15), Cafe de Flore (15), Beauty (18), Being Elmo (U) and Two Years at Sea (U)
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