Scottish & Irish film update (23 Feb)
Yes, I know, I still have Dublin and Glasgow film festival coverage outstanding, but there's a whole bunch of Scottish and Irish stuff I want to mention first.
The Cameo cinema in Edinburgh will be showing the Oscar-nominated shorts next month. The live action ones, including Ireland's NEW BOY, will be shown on Monday 23 March.
Filmhouse in Edinburgh has a few of interest coming up. A monthly "Made in Edinburgh" season kicks off in March with a screening of RESTLESS NATIVES on Thursday 12 March. The season continues until August and if they don't use it as an excuse to show the Bill Douglas trilogy I may have to go on a killing spree.
Stanley Kubrick's restored Irish-themed BARRY LYNDON will be showing from the 20th to the 26th of March, again at the Filmhouse. The same cinema will also be showing more screenings of the multiple-IFTA-winning HUNGER (9th and 10th March) and the brilliant footy documentary ZIDANE: A 21ST CENTURY PORTRAIT (10th March), co-directed by Douglas Gordon.
Talking of IFTAs, I just watched the highlights of the ceremony (courtesy of BBC NI) and while it was a bit crap, it was brilliant to see George Morrison get a lifetime achievement award and have the documentary feature award named after him. Wonderful.
GFT in Glasgow are showing a couple of films based on great Scottish books. If you missed them in Edinburgh, check out the GFT programme for March to see screenings of the classic versions of JEKYLL & HYDE and THE LOST WORLD. GFT will also be showing INFINITE SPACE, directed by Scottish documentary filmmaker Murray Grigor, and MORVERN CALLAR by Lynne Ramsay. The latter's nowhere near as good as her RATCATCHER but she's not exactly churned out lots of films so make the most of it.
South of the border, there are some screenings of interest at the BFI. On 23rd April they'll be showing the new version of MAN OF ARAN, the classic documentary given a new score by British Sea Power. They will also be showing a preview of the screen adaptation of FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING on 9th April.
Talking of BFI, they now have a Youtube channel (www.youtube.com/BFIfilms) which features some really great archive footage including a load of Scottish stuff.
The Cameo cinema in Edinburgh will be showing the Oscar-nominated shorts next month. The live action ones, including Ireland's NEW BOY, will be shown on Monday 23 March.
Filmhouse in Edinburgh has a few of interest coming up. A monthly "Made in Edinburgh" season kicks off in March with a screening of RESTLESS NATIVES on Thursday 12 March. The season continues until August and if they don't use it as an excuse to show the Bill Douglas trilogy I may have to go on a killing spree.
Stanley Kubrick's restored Irish-themed BARRY LYNDON will be showing from the 20th to the 26th of March, again at the Filmhouse. The same cinema will also be showing more screenings of the multiple-IFTA-winning HUNGER (9th and 10th March) and the brilliant footy documentary ZIDANE: A 21ST CENTURY PORTRAIT (10th March), co-directed by Douglas Gordon.
Talking of IFTAs, I just watched the highlights of the ceremony (courtesy of BBC NI) and while it was a bit crap, it was brilliant to see George Morrison get a lifetime achievement award and have the documentary feature award named after him. Wonderful.
GFT in Glasgow are showing a couple of films based on great Scottish books. If you missed them in Edinburgh, check out the GFT programme for March to see screenings of the classic versions of JEKYLL & HYDE and THE LOST WORLD. GFT will also be showing INFINITE SPACE, directed by Scottish documentary filmmaker Murray Grigor, and MORVERN CALLAR by Lynne Ramsay. The latter's nowhere near as good as her RATCATCHER but she's not exactly churned out lots of films so make the most of it.
South of the border, there are some screenings of interest at the BFI. On 23rd April they'll be showing the new version of MAN OF ARAN, the classic documentary given a new score by British Sea Power. They will also be showing a preview of the screen adaptation of FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING on 9th April.
Talking of BFI, they now have a Youtube channel (www.youtube.com/BFIfilms) which features some really great archive footage including a load of Scottish stuff.
Labels: Irish film, scottish film
posted by Alan at 10:46 pm
2 Comments:
That's the first I've heard about a new version of 'Man of Aran'. I hope they do it justice; was reading recently that many of the cast, who were actually from the Aran Islands anyway, were not able to swim at all! Pretty scary when you see them hanging over the edge of the cliffs..
Shameful confession time... despite my love of both documentaries and things Irish, I've never seen it!
I'm hoping they'll play it near me (they're playing Brighton in addition to BFI, so here's hoping they make it somewhere up this way as well) but failing that, the new version is apparently coming to DVD on 4 May.
At least that way I'll finally get to watch it!
Cheers,
Alan
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