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Weekenders
by Jennie Kermode
Dave Rattray and Matthew Mckenzie chat with Eye For Film about the genesis and gestation of their low-budget Scottish movie.
Tribeca Film Festival Diary: Day nine and beyond
by Amber Wilkinson
Festival wrap-up, the audience award and a Mexican gem.
Tribeca Film Festival Diary: Days 7 and 8
by Amber Wilkinson
Numb with Matthew Perry, a good time with James Franco, cake with Mary Stuart Masterson, plus a daliance with Taxidermia.
Tribeca Film Festival: Day Six
by Amber Wilkinson
Lucy Liu the vamp, Sarah Michelle Gellar the pop star and what to do in the event of choking.
Tribeca Film Festival: Days Four and Five
by Amber Wilkinson
Creature features, Buffy the Vampire Slayer turns Suburban Girl and Salman Rushdie sighted.
Tribeca Film Festival Days 2 and 3
by Amber Wilkinson
Award-winning films and a clash with a critic.
Tribeca Opening Night: A tale of rain, rubbed heels and rubbing shoulders with stars.
by Amber Wilkinson
Al Gore opens festival with save the planet showcase, while our diarist has trouble saving her soles.
Tribeca Film Festival Day One
by Amber Wilkinson
Brando bigged up, while our diarist gets lost in translation and lost in Beijing.
Reaping the benefit
by Amber Wilkinson
The Reaping star David Morrissey talks about his latest film, faith and football.
Shooting for the stars
by Amber Wilkinson
Producer Andrew Macdonald on success, Sunshine, sibling Kevin.. and why he's hoping for a brolly good Easter.
Bunnies big at the box office
by Jennie Kermode
"Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?" To celebrate Easter, we take a look at rabbits on the big screen.
Sunshine Superman
by Amber Wilkinson
Druggies in Trainspotting, zombies in 28 Days Later, astronauts in Sunshine . . . whose world will Danny Boyle visit next? How about the tiny realm of Terry Pratchett’s Truckers? He reveals all in our exclusive interview.
The courage to care
by Amber Wilkinson
Documentary-maker Sam Lawlor reveals why he and co-director Lindsay Pollock made a film about the Romanian families living with the 'Ceausescu baby' legacy of HIV and Aids.
I'll drink to that!
by Jennie Kermode
We raise a glass to a history of alcohol in the movies.
No flash in the Pan
by Amber Wilkinson
The actresses behind Wendy and Tinker Bell tell us why Peter Pan is such an enduring classic.
East Of Havana a long way from truth?
by Chris Docker
Press conference concerns about the bias in Cuban rap documentary.
Martin Compston Q&A
by Amber Wilkinson
Scots star talks about his role in A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints
And the Oscar for glamour goes to...
by Chris Docker
Who shone on the red carpet?
Glasgow Says Goodbye
by Jennie Kermode
Film fans say their farewells as this year's Glasgow Film Festival comes to an end.
How well do you know your famous films?
by Chris Docker
Here are some famous lines from Oscar-nominated movies. See if you can guess the movies, the characters and the actors who said them.
Oscars wild
by Chris Docker
We take a look at the history of the Academy Awards and look forward to this year's glitzy bash.
Racism and rights of passage
by Jennie Kermode
Actor Stephen Graham discusses his role in this year's most talked-about British film, This Is England.
The Fox And The Hound - lost and found
by Amber Wilkinson
How Disney's film came to represent a changing of the animation guard at the corporation
Fast Food and fierce film
by Jennie Kermode
Having enjoyed considerable success on the festival circuit, Fast Food Nation is due to open in British cinemas March 23. Eye For Film caught up with producer Jeremy Thomas during a question and answer session at the <a href="/festivals/glasgow/">Glasgow Film Festival</a>
Getting kids into cinema
by Chris Docker
Glasgow Film Festival director Allison Gardner talks about her plans to make films more popular with youngsters.
Taking Cinderella back to her roots
by Tony Sullivan
David Kaplan talks about his rotoscope-animation of the fairytale, based on a Chinese version of the story, at the Sundance 2007 premiere of the film.
Forbidden Love
by Jennie Kermode
This Valentine's Day we celebrate cinema that breaks boundaries.
Fighting for The Fountain
by Amber Wilkinson
Director Darren Aronofsky and star Rachel Weisz reveal the struggle to make The Fountain - and explain why its central themes are so important.
Biggerstaff hits the big-time
by Jennie Kermode
With supermarket-set romance Cashback opening this year's Glasgow Film Festival, young Scottish Star Sean Biggerstaff, perhaps best known as Oliver from the Harry Potter films, seems perched on the brink of a brilliant career. Eye For Film caught up with him to ask a few questions.
2006 - How was it for you?
by Jennie Kermode
We tot up your votes for last year's cinematic hits and misses.
Sundance 2007 : Day Ten
by Amber Wilkinson
The final day of Eye For Film's coverage leads us to black comedy - The Savages. And the Awards are dished out.
Sundance 2007 : Day Nine
by Amber Wilkinson
Sexual deviancy explored, black comedy with Martin Freeman, and the hugely controversial Hounddog.
Sundance 2007 : Day Eight
by Amber Wilkinson
Van Der Graff generator bedclothes, Away From Her starts the waterworks, and Donovan serenades Eye For Film. (And - IMDB user Rotary Girl, we're not worthy!!)
Sundance 2007 : Day Seven
by Amber Wilkinson
Eye For Film joins Garth Jennings for a chat, and turns up to the Filmmaker's party. Waitress and Weapons are the movies du jour.
Sundance 2007: Day Six
by Amber Wilkinson
Outstanding Brit flick Son of Rambow takes the breath away, Nick Broomfield discusses Ghosts, and Crossing The Line crosses the critics well.
Sundance 2007: Day Five
by Amber Wilkinson
Cancellations and other disappointments : Anthony Hopkins slipstreams his way into a muddle, but at least Scotland's own Kate Dickie takes time to chat.
Sundance 2007: Day Four
by Amber Wilkinson
Domesticated Zombies?! Every bit as uneventful as it sounds - at least Clubland makes up for it.
Sundance 2007: Day Three
by Amber Wilkinson
A foolish imperial/metric conversion, and the aptly titled Snow Angels. That, and Freud's retroactive horror film.
Sundance 2007: Day Two
by Amber Wilkinson
The latest mutterings of a mad mind... I blame the Skittles.
Sundance Film Festival 2007: Day One continued - Press conference
by Amber Wilkinson
A comparatively calm Robert Redford introduces the latest Sundance Film Festival, the granddaddy of independent film festivals.
Sundance 2007: Day One
by Amber Wilkinson
Day One : No shrieking children airplane insanity, but bugger us.. it's cold!
Baby, it's been an incredible year
by Amber Wilkinson
Juno director Jason Reitman on filmmaking, fatherhood and the future.
Make me into a Movie!
by Chris Docker
A murderer from German literature stalks a path from page to screen.
The Best of 2006
by Jennie Kermode
Vote for your favourites to win copies of Shooting Dogs, Stay and Song for a Raggy Boy.
The Restoration of Oz
by Scott Macdonald
As The Wizard of Oz returns to delight a new generation, we explore the real magic of cinema. The film you'll see in cinemas now is clean and bright; but how was this achieved?
Looking forward to Sundance
by Amber Wilkinson
The setting may be cold but 2007 promises to be another hot year for films at the world's biggest independent film festival.
Dragon moviemakers hope to slay audience
by Ben Sillis
Eragon's director and stars reveal the film is as much about coming of age as mythical creatures.
David Leaf on the enigmatic Beatle
by Sally Durcan
David Leaf, Director of The US vs. John Lennon discusses his film with Sally Durcan.
London to Brighton in just 85 minutes
by Jennie Kermode
As London to Brighton takes audiences by storm, Jennie Kermode catches up with director Paul Andrew Williams in Glasgow
Rocket release puts star 'over the moon'
by Amber Wilkinson
Shauna Macdonald on the Post that is five years late.
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