The last few weeks have seen a flurry of activity over on Twitter from a new, Scottish-based, website dedicated to helping its users share their favourite quotes. Quotables is a database which takes the traditional quotations dictionary and transfers it into a social, simple to use resource. Quotables … [Read More...]
Night is Day moves from computer screen to silver screen
Demons and monsters are the bad guys in new Scottish sci-fi movie, Night is Day
Interview: Director Daniel Alfredson discusses The Girl Who Played with Fire
We speak to director Daniel Alfredson about the next instalment in the Millennium Trilogy
News
Sky Movies searches for Edinburgh film experts
Do you know the rooftops and recesses of Edinburgh better than Hallam Foe? Maybe you have a knowledge of Morningside etiquette to rival Jean Brodie? Or are you more of Trainspotting aficionado? If so, Sky Movies is looking for you. Local filmmakers, historians and film fans alike are … [Read More...]
Interviews
Night is Day moves from computer screen to silver screen
Thanks to the efforts of Taggart, viewers are used to seeing the grittier side of Glasgow on screen, barely raising an eyebrow as ASBOs, gangsters and street crime are shown to be part of everyday life. But, what if alongside them were demons, vampires and a hero with secret powers? That's … [Read More...]
Interview: Director Daniel Alfredson discusses The Girl Who Played with Fire
As the second cinematic instalment of Stieg Larsson's extremely popular Millennium Trilogy, The Girl Who Played with Fire, is released in the UK this Friday, Richard Bodsworth discusses the film and series while speaking to the film's director, Daniel Alfredson. Even though Larsson's … [Read More...]
Interview: Allan Brown on Inside The Wicker Man
It was in late 1972 that a film crew arrived in Scotland to make low budget film, The Wicker Man. They hoped it would reinvigorate the careers of its leading men and result in a successful cinema run. Things soon went wrong for the production, the film becoming one of the most notorious … [Read More...]
Features
Top five Sean Connery performances
He's the man of a thousand accents, all of them the same. He's the man who made powder blue romper suits look fashionable. He's the man who women want to be with and men want to be. Still. His name's Connery, Sir Sean Connery. And he's 80 today. To celebrate the birthday of the … [Read More...]
Director Uisdean Murray on Gaelic sci-fi Siubhlachan
"My name is Seonag and I am a Time Traveller." Those words should pique the interest of any self-respecting sci-fi fan, coming as it does at the end of the pre-title sequence to Scottish TV pilot Siubhlachan (The Traveller), but there's one small thing which sets it aside from its contemporaries: … [Read More...]
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010 Overview
One week on from the close of the 64th Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), the ReelScotland team got together to review the highs and lows of the 2010 programme, while looking ahead to 2011's Festival. Ross Maclean: When you're in the midst of it, it's difficult to get a fuller … [Read More...]
What’s On
Event Preview: Filmhouse Cinema Doors Open Day, 25 & 26 September 2010, Edinburgh
The inner workings of Edinburgh's Filmhouse cinema will be laid bare on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 September, as the 20th Doors Open Day sees city visitors take a free tour of the projection room. Organised by the Cockburn Association, Doors Open Day is an opportunity to explore some … [Read More...]
Event Preview: The Southwell Collective on tour, 6 – 12 September, various locations
The steady resurgance in silent film screenings at Scottish cinemas continues in September with a six venue tour by acclaimed musicians, The Southwell Collective, who will present Jean Epstein’s adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe short story, The Fall of the House of Usher, plus short … [Read More...]
Festival Preview: Screenplay 2010, Shetland, 28 August – 5 September 2010
Unless you're a local, Shetland may seem a bit of a distance to travel to catch a movie, but the crowds have already started gathering for the fourth annual Screenplay Film Festival, once again curated by film critic Mark Kermode and his wife, Linda Ruth Williams. Kermode will be … [Read More...]
Reviews
The A-Team
There’s the voiceover prologue, the incredulous ingenuity, the cigars, the Mohawk, the catchphrases, the red and black Chevrolet van, the jewellery, ‘dun-da-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun’. At worst the 80s television show was ridiculous, at best it was iconic. As such, the wealth of established … [Read More...]
Event Review: Breaking Rocks with Billy Bragg, Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, 22 July 2010
Thursday evening saw singer/songwriter/political activist Billy Bragg arrive at Edinburgh's Cameo Cinema to introduce a screening of director Alan Miles' latest documentary, Breaking Rocks, a look at Bragg's groundbreaking initiative which sees him take guitars to prisons around England … [Read More...]
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