Category Archives: Film

The translation of foreign film titles to English can be a subject of some query and this French film from director Emmanuel Mouret is no exception. Its French title is Les Choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait, which translates almost perfectly as Things We Say, Things We Do.  While the chosen title of LoveContinue reading “Love Affair(s)”

Highlights include Isabelle Huppert as La Daronne, and Emmanuel Mouret’s César-nominated Love Affairs The organisers of the French Film Festival UK are delighted to reveal an exciting new online programme under its fff@home umbrella, which will run from Friday 12 to Saturday 27 March. Due to Covid-related disruption to the 28th edition of the French Film Festival UK, audiences missed outContinue reading “French Film Festival UK Reveals Exciting Online Programme”

Falkirk Community Trust have announced the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival’s 10th festival programme, Wed 17 – Sat 21 March 2021. The festival, which is affectionately known as HippFest, is usually housed in Scotland’s oldest purpose-built cinema The Hippodrome in Bo’ness. This year however, the full programme will go online for the first time, after being cancelledContinue reading “Hippodrome Silent Film Festival Announces Digital Programme for 2021”

The Glasgow Short Film Festival (GSFF), the largest competitive short film festival in Scotland, announces the competition selection for its 14th edition, that will run from 22nd to 28th March 2021. Following the success of GSFF20 Online and due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, this year’s Glasgow Short Film Festival will take place entirely online atContinue reading “Glasgow Short Film Festival Returns for its 14th Edition in March 2021”

Scotland’s Centre for the Moving Image (CMI), that incorporates leading independent cinemas including Edinburgh’s Filmhouse; the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) and Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen, launches an international search for a Chief Creative Officer. The role is to create, lead and champion the creative vision and voice of the EIFF and Filmhouse Cinemas, placingContinue reading “Search Launched for Chief Creative Officer by Centre for the Moving Image”

An on line event, aimed primarily at young audiences, has been organised by the Young Programmers at Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) to promote work by women filmmakers and takes place during the last weekend in February 2021. Part of the programme is a ‘watch party’ entitled Woman with a Movie Camera that features threeContinue reading “On Line Film Weekend Launched by EIFF Youth to Celebrate Women Filmmakers”

During the current Covid pandemic, the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) released 55 short films from May to September 2020  in their Scenes for Survival season of short  online works, that attracted over 17 million audience views.  One of these films wasDanni the Champion, from Lewis writer Iain Finlay Macleod, that is a short dramaContinue reading “NTS Scenes for Survival Digital Project Gains Success at International Film Festivals”

At the heart of Lesley Riddoch’s work lies a hopeful vision of Scotland’s potential as a small, independent European country. Just before the first lockdown in 2020, Lesley travelled to Estonia with filmmaker Chris Stuart to make a film about this other small, northern European country that gained its independence just 30 years ago. TheContinue reading “Estonia The Baltic Tiger”

Not, strictly, a new release, but to the best of my knowledge this latest offering from Bright Blue Gorilla hasn’t had a release in the UK. In fact, if I’m being honest, I’m not sure how – or even if – they reach an audience outside of their wide circle of friends and collaborators. AndContinue reading “36 Husbands”

Newly restored on Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital by StudioCanal StudioCanal continue their fine work in movie restoration with this 80s horror from Psycho II director Richard Franklin. I confess I was very much looking forward to seeing this – I hadn’t seen it since its original release in 1986 – and admired it for theContinue reading “Link”