Tag Archive | "Edinburgh International Film Festival"

CrimeFighters!

Thursday, February 23, 2012

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Regular readers will know that each year I normally blog on any of the genre films I catch at my annual pilgrimage to the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 2010 one of the movies I saw was a micro-budget film set in York, CrimeFighters. Shot in a crisp black and white it took comic book [...]

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Seth wins the Harbourfront Prize

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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Top Canadian comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly drop us a line to let us know that the artist Seth has scored a major literary award in Canada, the Harbourfront Prize (part of Toronto’s International Festival of Authors) which was established in the mid 1980s to reward “individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the [...]

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SciFi and Horror at the Edinburgh Film Fest

Friday, July 22, 2011

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Just over a couple of weeks ago I was enjoying my annual week off at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, taking in all sorts of cinema, from hard-hitting documentaries from modern combat reporters to stylish French crime thrillers. And of course I took in several science fiction and horror themed flicks along the way, so [...]

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The Borrower Arrietty

Monday, June 20, 2011

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(trouble finding an English language move poster so here’s the French one for Arrietty, (c) Studio Ghibli) It’s no secret to regular readers of the blog that I’m a huge lover of all forms of animation, so when I got the chance to see the new (well, to us, Japan had it last year!) Studio [...]

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Monsters on the Mexican border, comics vigilantes in York, lonesome cowboys in the West and George Lucas

Friday, July 2, 2010

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After reporting on Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist earlier this week, here’s a round-up of some of the other genre-related, geek-friendly footage I managed to cram into my annual bash at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (it wasn’t all poncing around in a beret watching black and white films about human tragedy from Hungary, you know), [...]

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Animated Edinburgh: Chomet’s Illusionist at the Film Fest

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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I’ve spent the last week and a bit attending to one of my annual traditions: enjoying the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Among the many movies I managed to fit in there were, unsurprisingly a number from the comics and SF influenced end of films – mostly from the independent end of the pool -- and, [...]

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George Romero interview from the Edinburgh Film Fest

Saturday, May 8, 2010

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In the run up to this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival (which these days is towards the end of June rather than the traditional middle of the Edinburgh Festival in August) the EIFF site has been cranking up, dropping tidbits about this year’s festival and also airing some highlights from previous years, including this short video [...]

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Animation at the Film Fest

Monday, June 29, 2009

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Among the movies I was eager to see during my annual week off at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival were two animated features which we’ve mentioned on here before (regular readers will know of my fascination for all forms of animation) -- the Australian stop-motion film Mary and Max (that rare thing, a feature [...]

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Kells and Moon win at Edinburgh Film Festival

Monday, June 29, 2009

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The awards ceremony on the last night of the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Sunday saw Indy low budget science fiction flick Moon win the coveted Michael Powell award for Best New British Feature Film, while the gorgeous Irish animated film The Secret of Kells won the Standard Life Audience (voted for by the actual [...]

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“I’ll see you on the dark side of the Moon”

Monday, June 22, 2009

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“And if the dam breaks open many years too soon And if there is no room upon the hill And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I’ll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon” (Pink Floyd, Brain Damage) I’m currently enjoying my annual smorgasbord of movies at the Edinburgh International Film [...]

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