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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Sunday at the Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival turned into Edinbranagh, with a morning screening of the four-hour epic “Hamlet” followed by a wide-ranging onstage conversation with Kenneth Branagh, which began with him receiving the inaugural EIFF Outstanding Contribution to Cinema award. “Festivals are more important to our industry than ever before,” Branagh said, holding the […]
By Callum McLennan
Read full article →“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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