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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN EIFF2011: Nokia Shorts

Back in March Nokia continued their support of the short film format through the use of mobile phone cameras, with the launch of the Nokia Shorts competition.

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Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2011: The Passion of Béla Tarr

Among the many changes made to this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival was the presence of several ‘guest curators’, who included

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Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2011: Albatross

When spunky tearaway Emelia (Jessica Brown-Findlay) first meets prim and proper Oxford-applicant Beth (Felicity Jones) working behind the desk of Beth’s

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Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2011: Mysterious Object at Noon

Programmed as part of Edinburgh’s ‘Perspectives’ strand of “classic and rarely seen films”, Thai arthouse director Apichatpong

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Film Festival

EIFF2011: The Bang Bang Club

  At the start of The Bang Bang Club the South African photojournalist Kevin Carter (as portrayed in the film by actor Taylor Kitsch) is asked what makes

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN209: The Ghosts – Eddie O’Keefe

Director Eddie O’Keefe crashes on to the show this week with his ‘Teenage Fever Dream’ short The Ghosts. We discuss the benefits of the

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Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2011: Mourning for Anna

Perhaps more than any other film I saw at the festival, the title of Catherine Martin’s Mourning for Anna serves as an effective summary for the film

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Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2011: Tomboy

What happens if you take Kimberly Peirce’s Oscar-winning Boys Don’t Cry, exchange small town America for the suburbs of Paris and make Hilary

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Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2011: Jack Goes Boating

Philip Goes Film Directing, finally, and it turns out he’s pretty darn good at it. After several years of directing theatre, predominantly (if not

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Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2011: My Brothers

Perhaps if Paul Fraser – writing partner of choice as far as Shane Meadows is concerned, having helped pen Dead Man’s Shoes, A Room for Romeo Brass and all

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Live Action

Fight the Foot

Is this teaser from Richard Krause the return of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Intrigued? Strange Kids Club tracked down director Richard Krause for a tell

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Live Action

In the Shadow

Described as “a film noir with shadows,” Fabrice Mathieu’s In the Shadow (Dans l’ombre) tells the story of a a shadow forced to

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