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EIFF2011: Artist Documentaries

Ever since it started out with a programme consisting solely of documentaries back in 1947, EIFF has always retained a special interest in non-fiction work,

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EIFF2011: Quality Control

After a few brief introductory images, Kevin Jerome Everson’s Quality Control settles on a shot soaking in a small area of the factory-like dry

Film Festival

EIFF2011: All Change

As regular readers of DN may well know, this year will mark my third annual visit to the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Around this time last year I

Live Action

Life Just Is: From Paper Cut to Fine Cut

Postproduction for my debut feature, Life Just Is, started back in November last year (the film was shot over 14 days in October). My editor, Murat Kebir, was

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Alex Barrett 2010 Top Ten

2010 has been a great year for me in many ways, but unfortunately film watching has not been one of those ways. Even more than usual I feel like I’ve

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Life Just Is: Taking the Plunge

Some Thoughts by a First Time Feature Film Director Like pretty much all filmmakers, I’ve always wanted to make a feature. Other, shorter, forms of the

Film Festival

EIFF2010: Festival Roundup

Of the twelve days that comprised this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, I was in town for six, during which time I was able to sample a good

Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2010: If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle

Eighteen-year-old Silviu is serving out the last few days of his four year prison sentence. Called away from his manual labour, Silviu finds an unexpected

Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2010: Undertow

Undertow is very much one of those unusual film beasts, a story which sounds daft on paper but which works well on screen: in a tiny Peruvian fishing village,

Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2010: The Days of Desire

From the very beginning of József Pacskovszki’s The Days of Desire something about it becomes very clear: it is absolutely stunning to look at. Scenes

Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2010: Vacation!

Vacation! starts with a black and white, split-screen sequence in which Sugar, Lorelei, Donna and Dee-dee arrange, through a series of phone calls, to spend an

Film Festival

EIFF2010: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

The last decade has been an interesting time for fans of Werner Herzog, the madman of world cinema who surely needs no introduction. During the last ten years,

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