Category Archives: Film

On Thursday, 27 August, the ambitious new project from the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) and Unique Events, Drive-in Movies, will arrive at Edinburgh Airport and the first titles are now available to the public.  The August line-up includes 13 films and every month from August 2020 until January 2021, Drive-in Movies will welcome up to 250 cars at theContinue reading “Edinburgh’s First Drive-in Movies announced for August Opening”

Streaming as part of EDFILMFEST AT HOME brought to you by EIFF and Curzon Home Cinema (CHC) In Sebastien Lifshitz’s latest documentary he looks, not for the first time on the issues surrounding gender dysphoria. 7 year old Sacha lives with her family in small-town France. Assigned male at birth, Sasha has set her heartContinue reading “Little Girl”

Streaming as part of EDFILMFEST AT HOME brought to you by EIFF and Curzon Home Cinema (CHC) Directed by New Zealander Justin Pemberton, this is a clear and concise distillation of Thomas Piketty’s book that should fill you with a mixture of dread, hope and wonder. He has assembled a most impressive cast of scholarsContinue reading “Capital in the Twenty-first Century”

Streaming as part of EDFILMFEST AT HOME brought to you by EIFF and Curzon Home Cinema (CHC) The late Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson, perhaps best known for his scores for The Theory of Everything andSicario, adapted Last and First Men from W Olaf Stapledon’s influential 1930 science fiction masterwork. First presented at Manchester International Festival withContinue reading “Last and First Men”

Streaming as part of EDFILMFEST AT HOME brought to you by EIFF and Curzon Home Cinema (CHC) This 2018 film from Ukrainian documentary maker and director Roman Bondarchuk is set on a bleak area of his homeland and is based on a variety of real events. Apart from the three principal actors, the rest ofContinue reading “Volcano”

Streaming as part of EDFILMFEST AT HOME brought to you by EIFF and Curzon Home Cinema (CHC) Thomas Clay’s long-awaited (it’s taken around 4 years to get a release) movie is one of those films that you hope to find at a Festival. Something that will stay with you, and will live long in theContinue reading “Fanny Lye Deliver’d”

Edinburgh International Film Festival and Unique Events, the team behind the capital’s successful ‘Film Fest in the City’ outdoor cinema events have teamed up with Edinburgh Airport to produce a new monthly event for cinema fans throughout the rest of 2020. From Wednesday 8 July those who have registered online at http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk will be theContinue reading “New Monthly Drive-In Movies Event at Edinburgh Airport”

Streaming as part of EDFILMFEST AT HOME brought to you by EIFF and Curzon Home Cinema (CHC) “When everything is white, and you can no longer see the difference between the earth and the sky, the dead can talk to us who are still living” Hlynur Palmason opens A White, White Day with that quoteContinue reading “A White, White Day”

Streaming as part of EDFILMFEST AT HOME brought to you by EIFF and Curzon Home Cinema (CHC) The first 10 minutes of Nigerian-American director Chinonye Chukwu’s latest film, Clemency, has us witness the chilling reality of a US state execution. The victim is a Hispanic man and his death by lethal injection is protracted asContinue reading “Clemency”

Streaming as part of EDFILMFEST AT HOME brought to you by EIFF and Curzon Home Cinema (CHC) At first, I thought I was going to have a problem with this film. Movies that feature precocious children are usually among my least favourite, (where do they go when they get older? Do they grow up toContinue reading “Saint Frances”