Edinburgh Film Festival Features 'Skintown' and 'Borges And Me'
The Edinburgh Film Festival is showcasing 'Skintown,' a film described as a 'bumpy ride' by its director and star, and 'Borges And Me,' a hallucinatory 70s road trip film.
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“It Was a Bumpy Ride!”: Jack Rowan and Director Kieron J. Walsh on the Many Lives of Head-Bopping, Troubles-Set ‘Skintown’
The English actor and Irish filmmaker arrive at Edinburgh Film Festival with one of the most raucous indies of the year, backdropped by '90s rave culture and war-weary Northern Ireland: "It's not really been recorded — what it was like for young people to grow up there."
By Lily Ford
Read full article →‘Borges And Me’ Review: Marc Turtletaub’s Hallucinatory ’70s Road Trip Is Smart, Literary And Playful – Edinburgh Film Festival
Sometimes it feels like the growing subset of films set in the stuffy British academic world of the early ’70s deserve a genre all to themselves. It’s a very interesting visual paradox; young people going out into the world to discover and further themselves in an environment that’s been stained nicotine-brown by the chain-smokers of […]
By Damon Wise
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