This year’s annual panto in Musselburgh’s Brunton theatre takes a new form. Instead of a live stage production, this season’s version of the Grimm’s fairy tale Rapunzel from the redoubtable John Binnie, will be screened in the Brunton’s cinema space instead. We will see Rapunzel who was locked in a tower being rescued by herContinue reading “Rapunzel the Pantomime to be Screened at The Brunton”
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Premiere of New Filmed Version of Stage Play Fibres Announced
Fibres, the jointly produced play from Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre and Edinburgh’s Stellar Quines, has been remade as a filmed version that will premiere online on Wednesday 25 November at 7pm. Written by award-winning playwright Frances Poet, Fibres explores the deadly legacy of asbestos in the Clyde shipyards, giving voice to the stories of women andContinue reading “Premiere of New Filmed Version of Stage Play Fibres Announced”
Felicità French Film Festival at Home
Felicità, the latest film from French director and writer Bruno Merle, takes its title from the ‘80s Italian song of the same name. In the opening scene Tim (Pio Marmaï) and Chloe (Camille Rutherford) have a conversation with their 10 year old daughter Tommy (Rita Merle) in a roadside café. When she removes her ubiquitousContinue reading “Felicità French Film Festival at Home”
La Bonne Epouse (How to Be a Good Wife) French Film Festival at Home
I have to confess this film has left me somewhat puzzled. Not in the least as to how Juliette Binoche came to be starring in what feels at times like a French Carry On Emancipating. Paulette van der Beck (Binoche) and husband Robert (François Berléand) run a school of good housekeeping in Alsace in theContinue reading “La Bonne Epouse (How to Be a Good Wife) French Film Festival at Home”
Aprile New Restoration (DVD, Blu-Ray & Digital)
Release date 23rd November 2020 Welcome additions to StudioCanal’s Vintage World Cinema Collection are two of Italian film maker Nanni Moretti’s most outstanding movies. Restored with all the care and precision that we have come to expect from StudioCanal and available on Blu-Ray for the first time, they serve to remind, if reminders are needed,Continue reading “Aprile New Restoration (DVD, Blu-Ray & Digital)”
National Galleries of Scotland Propose National Art Club Led by Young People
National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) is putting out an appeal to teachers in Scottish schools for help in setting up a national Art Club. They are asking if teachers or pupils have a curiosity about art and want to develop skills in either making or talking about art to get involved. Art Club will beContinue reading “National Galleries of Scotland Propose National Art Club Led by Young People”
Just Kids French Film Festival Online 2020
French Canadian director Christophe Blanc brings a challenging subject to the screen with his English titled French film, Just Kids. In Grenoble, the three children in the Certy family have been orphaned. First of all their mother died after an illness then their father committed suicide by crashing a car. At this point, the twoContinue reading “Just Kids French Film Festival Online 2020”
Into Dad’s Woods (La Forêt de Mon Père) French Film Festival at Home
The opening scene of a beautifully dappled wood, that had been till recently the workplace of Jimmy Kremer (Alban Lenoir), immediately gives way to an insight into the man’s troubled character. What seems like an innocuous scene of a father teaching his three children about nature, is soon revealed to contain traits that dictate theContinue reading “Into Dad’s Woods (La Forêt de Mon Père) French Film Festival at Home”
First Retrospective of Edinburgh Artist John Henry Lorimer Scheduled
John Henry Lorimer was born in Edinburgh on 12th August 1856 and trained at the Royal Scottish Academy under William McTaggart and George Chalmers, exhibiting his first oil painting when he was just 17. He spent his summers in Fife and winters in Edinburgh but also frequently visited Paris, where he spent several months trainingContinue reading “First Retrospective of Edinburgh Artist John Henry Lorimer Scheduled”
Scottish Based Artists Create Festive Charity Cards with Thou Art Viable
Three dynamic women working in Scotland’s PR business – Michelle Mangan, the eponymous Director of her Communications and PR company; Miriam Attwood, Director of Storytelling PR Ltd, and Sharon McHendry Director of SM Publicity – have come up with a idea to highlight the plight of artists during the pandemic. The idea, that goes byContinue reading “Scottish Based Artists Create Festive Charity Cards with Thou Art Viable”
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