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  Film festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The world's first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932; the other major film festivals of the world (Berlin, Cannes, Moscow and Karlovy Vary) date back to the 1940s and 1950s.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival in Scotland was established in 1947 and is the longest continually running film festival in the world.
It was followed shortly thereafter by the San Francisco International Film Festival held in March 1957 whose emphasis was on feature-length dramatic films.
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 Edinburgh Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There is no one Edinburgh Festival but those using the term are usually referring to the collection of various festivals in August and early September of each year in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Edinburgh International Festival - The original and "official" festival consisting of classical and contemporary Theatre, Opera, Music and Dance.
Edinburgh Fringe - Started life as a small scale "fringe" event to the EIF, but is now the largest of all the festivals and indeed the largest arts festival in the world
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 Edinburgh International Film Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Edinburgh International Film Festival or EIFF is part of the Edinburgh Festival, which takes place every August, in Edinburgh.
Established in 1947, it is the longest continually running film festival in the world.
The Short Films Program screens films that are not feature length and often shows several of these films at one time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edinburgh_International_Film_Festival   (353 words)

  
 The Establishment of Form - A Report on the 57th Edinburgh International Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Throughout the film there is a conflict with nature that takes the drama out of social realism and into a more operatic arena, from the rain drenched arrest of Rato, to the climatic image of the mother handcuffed to a tree, tormented by her emotions.
The film stumbles perhaps in depicting the vulnerability of the pair and the eventual tragedy of the mother, but is redeemed by the amazing and impenetrable lead performance of Amélia Corôa as Tania, the type of actress, as Shane Danielson put it, “that Bresson spent his whole life looking for”.
The film is of staggering formal beauty and the fluidity of this language – incorporating talking head historians, introductions to individual suitcases, multiple actors in the same roles, etc. – gives a glimpse of the incredible potential of digital technology.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/festivals/03/28/57th_eiff.html   (3976 words)

  
 Edinburgh International Film Festival 2003
It began as a documentary film festival in 1947 and it is still committed to promoting factual feature films as well as promoting the work of young, up and coming directors alongside internationally established names.
Filmed in Edinburgh, 16 Years of Alcohol and starring Kevin McKidd, this is a semi-autobiographical elegy about wasted youth and their premature involvement with drink and sexual relationships.
The closing night film is American Splendor directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Bulcini which was a hit of this year's Sundance Film Festival and already regarded as the best American film of the year.
www.rampantscotland.com /features/bldev_film03.htm   (1352 words)

  
 Aspects of Change: The 58th Edinburgh International Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
But to pursue this reading would be to ignore the film's tenderness, its delicate and mature handing of sexuality (the old man learns about the woman's exploitation upon discovering a naked photo of her left at his house) and the act of defiance and generosity, which gives the film its name and its emotional power.
The film is shot in fl and white Cinemascope and utilises the full potential of the frame, whether for staging in depth, reframing or to isolate a figure in the centre of the image.
Her film Orquil Burn (1955), a portrait of a stream from the sea to its source, is one of the most unapologetically simple films I have seen.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/festivals/04/33/edinburgh2004.html   (3948 words)

  
 Edinburgh International Film Festival 2004 Preview
Edinburgh is not a big starry event on the level of, say, Cannes, but still attracts a fair smattering of famous faces.
EIFF artistic director Shane Danielsen quipped it was "one of the pitfalls of working with eccentric artistic geniuses".
As always, the EIFF programme is chocker with short films, from the McLaren animation programme to short docs and short form drama, usually of 5-20 minutes.
www.iofilm.co.uk /festivals/edinburgh/2004/preview_16082004.php   (1285 words)

  
 Edinburgh Festivals - Edinburgh International Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A SECTION of last year's Edinburgh International Film Festival is to be featured at a music festival in Barcelona.
THE third annual mountain film festival is set to be staged in the Capital.
P IS apparently the first Thai film to be made by a Westerner and, in a stunningly original...
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 Alex Fung's Page > Film Festivals > 52nd Annual Edinburgh International Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The 52nd annual Edinburgh International Film Festival ran from August 16 - 30, 1998.
The opening gala for the festival was Velvet Goldmine, directed by Todd Haynes.
The closing gala for the festival was La Vie Rêvée Des Anges (The Dreamlife Of Angels), directed by Erick Zonca.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Theater/6696/Fest/98edinbu.htm   (118 words)

  
 Edinburgh International Film Festival - Past, Present and Future
Edinburgh is the world's longest continually running film festival and, since 1947, movie buffs from throughout Britain have made the trek to Edinburgh to enjoy a mouthwatering array of films and brush shoulders with the stars.
In the 70s and 80s, the Festival consolidated its reputation as a pioneering force for UK audiences, screening films from the New German Cinema, the new wave of American Independents, homages to the masters of Japanese Cinema, pioneering studies of fl and feminist filmmakers.
Festival audiences were able to witness masterpieces from across the whole spectrum of film culture - from ET to Abel Gance's silent classic Napoleon - complete with a full orchestral score.
www.ukhotmovies.com /film-festivals/edinburgh-film-festival/information.html   (766 words)

  
 Edinburgh Film Festival
In its 54th year, the Edinburgh International Film Festival is the longest continually running film festival in the world.
But the debate, at the Apex International Hotel in Edinburgh, was packed to the seams, and with some of the most important people in the film industry.
However, there must be a curse on this festival's galas… After the film projector broke down during Dancer in the Dark, a fire alarm was set off during the closing gala, forcing revellers onto the streets for half an hour.
www.filmfestivals.com /int/overviews/2000/edinburgh_00.htm   (714 words)

  
 Visiting Arts | Features | Visiting Arts, Film and the Edinburgh International Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
For two weeks the Edinburgh International Film Festival provides a chance to reflect on all the pleasures and pains of existence; the raw way of how it is along with sublime fantasies of what it could be.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival plays a valuable role each year by providing an international platform for showing many international films that otherwise wouldn't be seen in the UK.
We have worked closely with Lizzie Francke, the outgoing director of the film festival, in enabling the lesser-known film traditions of countries overseas to be represented in Edinburgh and we hope to continue this fruitful relationship with her successor Shane Danielsen.
www.visitingarts.org.uk /features/01film.html   (1295 words)

  
 Film London Artists' Moving Image Network : Links
Films submitted from outside the UK must have been produced during the two years before festival and British films during the year before festival.
Cinematexas is an international short film, arts, music and politics festival in Austin, Texas dedicated to showcasing work from emerging and established artists from Austin and the rest of the world.
Bright Lights Film Journal is a popular-academic hybrid of movie analysis, history, and commentary, looking at classic and commercial, independent, exploitation, and international film from a wide range of vantage points from the aesthetic to the political.
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 Visiting Arts at the Edinburgh Festivals, 2004 | Edinburgh International Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Edinburgh International Film Festival is the UK's leading Film Festival and has celebrated cinema in its infinite variety for fifty-seven uninterrupted years.
The Festival aims to stand internationally as a festival of discovery, a celebration of cinema, a centre of debate and a catalyst for new films by screening high quality new film and video work in all genres from around the world.
The film festival takes place across Edinburgh's cinemas and also extends to Glasgow at the Glasgow Film Theatre.
www.visitingarts.org.uk /edinburgh2004/edinfests_film.html   (157 words)

  
 Edinburgh Film Festival - Scotland's film festival city   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Edinburgh is a film city through and through.
Edinburgh has a busy film festival calendar throughout the year, but the best-known festival event is the Edinburgh International Film Festival which takes place in August.
Edinburghs Film Festivals - Details of film festivals taking place in the Scottish capital throughout the year.
www.edinburghfilmfestival.com   (166 words)

  
 Edinburgh International Film Festival 2004  by Mag
The film is sometimes reminiscent of Luc Besson’s classic Subway but thanks to its distinct style, fast pace, visual symmetry, beautiful pictures and great soundtrack, it managed to become the most successful Hungarian film last year.
At the end of the film, with Heidi’s tearful confession to her landlord and going back to her home, you feel as if you spent a very important time of Heidi’s life with her.
It’s a nice and easy film to watch, with beautiful pictures but a rather weak plot: Rich girl only uses poor girl for her own amusement, poor girl walks away from her in the end, strengthened by her experience.
www.fkc.at /edinburgh2004.htm   (2265 words)

  
 Edinburgh Highlights, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2003 (13th - 24th August 2003)
Comedy-horror crowd pleaser Cabin Fever went down well at the Toronto Film Festival last year, and Edinburgh initiates should stiffen their sinews for the ubiquitous group of teens trapped in the woods and all the fun and frolics this usually entails.
Sir Sean Connery stopped the crowds at the Edinburgh Film Festival, as he arrived at the city's UGC cinema to meet the cast and crew of Alison Peebles' Afterlife.
Director, Jim Sheridan’s semi-autobiographical film, 'In America', moved the audience from stunned silence, to tears and finally rapturous applause at its European premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival in the presence of Jim Sheridan and lead actors.
www.futuremovies.co.uk /filmmaking.asp?ID=42   (1304 words)

  
 Edinburgh Festival 2005 - Edinburgh International Festival 2005, Edinburgh Film Festival, Starbucks Edinburgh Jazz ...
One of the most popular events of the entire Edinburgh festival period is the annual featuring many of the Edinburgh festival performers along Princes Street and through the centre of the city and this year Edinburgh Festival's Cavalcade is on Sunday 7th August, 2005.
Edinburgh Festival Art Gallery show at Edinburgh MERZ Art Gallery features the outrageous fashion of Joey D. MERZ Gallery show this year follows a trend of MERZ Art Gallery to find art exhibitions that are totally different from the normal Festival fayre that is usually on offer in Edinburgh Art Galleries.
The Edinburgh International Television Festival, founded in 1976, and now in its 30th successful year, the Edinburgh International Television Festival is held annually over the August bank holiday weekend (26-28 August 2005), at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
www.edinburghcastle.biz /edinburgh_festivals.html   (2395 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Scotland | McGregor film kicks off festival
He said: "We already have one of the best film festivals in the world, the challenge now is to make our domestic film industry and the contribution of Scottish talent to cinemas worldwide even more successful.
Ticket sales for the festival are already up 20% on last year and organisers are tipping this year's event to be one of the best ever.
However, the festival was dealt a blow earlier on Wednesday when it was confirmed that Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood's latest movie has been withdrawn from the event.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/3145861.stm   (474 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Special Report | 1999 | 08/99 | Edinburgh Festival 99 | Ratcatcher starts film festival
Moments after, the screening almost descended into farce before the film had begun, when a girl carrying a bouquet of flowers to present to Lynne Ramsay had to chase the oblivious director as she walked off the stage.
The film itself is set during a dustbinmen's strike in Govan, near Glasgow, in the 1970s.
The film also includes a bizarre segment when one of the children who lives on the housing estate releases his pet mouse into the air by tying it to a helium balloon.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1999/08/99/edinburgh_festival_99/419611.stm   (690 words)

  
 Edinburgh Evening News - McGregor movie set to open Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
His adaptation of the cult Alexander Trocchi novel Young Adam will open the festival at the UGC at Fountainpark on August 13, and the film’s cast and crew are all expected to attend.
Clint Eastwood’s latest film as a director, Mystic River, a crime thriller starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon, will be given its UK premiere in Edinburgh, along with Ned Kelly, which tackles the story of Australia’s famous anti-hero, and Party Monster, which features Macaulay Culkin as a New York club king.
New films from Jim Sheridan, the Oscar-winning director of In the Name of the Father and My Left Foot, and Francois Ozon, whose 8 Women was a hit at last year’s event, have been confirmed for the event, which runs from August 13-24.
edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=746512003   (694 words)

  
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Edinburgh is a dynamic film festival with sections that have constantly evolved over time according to cinematic trends.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival offers a showcase demonstrating the diversity of this artform in the context of the current digital revolution.
Films must be no older than 12 months old at the time of the festival.
www.afc.gov.au /marketingyourfilm/festivals/festival_11.aspx   (676 words)

  
 Channel4.com/film: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2004
It's August, which means that it's time for the UK's biggest, and best, film festival: The Edinburgh International Film Festival.
And even for those who can't make it up to Edinburgh itself, the festival provides a fascinating preview of some of the most interesting films that will be gracing cinema screens across the UK this autumn.
This year's gala films are a particularly fascinating and diverse bunch - from the UK Premiere of Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries, to Shane Meadow's Dead Man's Shoes, the first film from the Ministry Of Fear, Trauma and one man's war against McDonald's, Super Size Me.
www.channel4.com /film/newsfeatures/microsites/E/edinburgh-2004   (289 words)

  
 Dreams: Terry Gilliam at the 1998 Edinburgh International Film Festival
In August 1998, Dreams spent a few days at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, since Terry Gilliam was there presenting the UK premiere of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
And it was an interesting process because the film already had a certain momentum, and the hardest thing getting films going is that initial momentum.
Also when we first looked at it, it seemed after seeing the film we needed to put it in some historical context and then it all came back, which was the Lennon Sisters from the tape that Stephen had given me. So on goes the Lennon Sisters, on goes some historical photographs.
www.smart.co.uk /dreams/edin98.htm   (1745 words)

  
 Alex Fung's Page > Film Festivals > 51st Annual Edinburgh International Film Festival
The 51st annual Edinburgh International Film Festival ran from August 10 - 24, 1997.
The opening film for the festival was Ma Vie En Rose, directed by Alain Berliner.
The closing film for the festival was The Man Who Would Be King, directed by John Huston.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Theater/6696/Fest/97edinbu.htm   (182 words)

  
 Edinburgh Festival 2006 - Edinburgh Festival Sites
The "official" festival, launched in 1947, around which the other Edinburgh festivals have developed.
Covers overseas authors, films, talks, visual arts, music, comedy, dance, crafts, opera, and theatre appearing at the four Edinburgh Festivals.
The first Festival of Politics is held at the new Scottish Parliament building.
www.edinburghguide.com /festival/fest_info.shtml   (279 words)

  
 Roland Collection - Press Comments
His belief is that films on art should be works of art in themselves, with attention given to the music, narration and direction as well as the intrinsic subject matter.
Anthony Roland is one of the rarities in the film industry, and out-and-out intellectual...
In preparing his films Roland has gone through thousands of private and museum collections and has brought into pictures of 15 and 50 minute length works of art which would be almost impossible for most persons to seek out.
www.roland-collection.com /rolandcollection/press.htm   (1279 words)

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