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Scoring With Joss
by Kotleta
Not even Elijah Wood and the boys from Green Street can upstage Reel Life with Joss on day 7 at the EIFF.
Joss Whedon Brings Serenity
by Kotleta
EIFF day 6: all nine cast members of Serenity, and director Joss Whedon, hit Edinburgh for the U.K. premiere.
Digital Life Leaves Diarist Cold
by Kotleta
Day 5 at the EIFF: Digital Realities day no cure for hangover.
Cultural Plans Go Awry
by Kotleta
Day 4 at the EIFF: So many parties! What's a festival diarist to do?
A Film To Be Joyous About
by Kotleta
Edinburgh International Film Festival Day 3: Thumbsucker, brain-gorgers, and spliff-tokers.
Cinema's Word Processors
by Kotleta
Day 2 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival: where writing is concerned, it's all about one thing, says Anthony Minghella.
Swaziland Comes To Edinburgh
by Kotleta
Richard E Grant's Wah-Wah opens the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Peter Mullan Seeing Clearly
by Amber Wilkinson
Peter Mullan still chills out with the swimming practice that he started for On A Clear Day - but the Scottish star has a few heated words on the state of tv and cinema.
Rings Star Chills As Channel Swimmer
by Amber Wilkinson
After New Zealand's warm climes, Billy Boyd found filmming On A Clear Day a distinctly chilly experience.
Composer Sees Fulfillment of Childhood Dream
by Amber Wilkinson
Jane Antonia Cornish became the first woman to ever win a BAFTA award for music when she scooped the gong for best British new composer for her soundtrack to Five Children and It. She explains how she found her vocation.
Seu and Steve Zissou
by Angus Wolfe Murray
Star of the Brazilian pop scene Seu Jorge on his "Life Aquatic" experience
Rambette of the Caves
by Brian Pendreigh
Shauna Macdonald might seem an unlikely action heroine for Brit horror flick The Descent.
Only Rock N Roll?
by Tartan Films
Seven years in the making, Ondi Timoner’s DiG! is a music documentary that follows the differing fortunes of two bands, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Danny Aims For Millions
by Nick Jones
The latest movie from Danny Boyle, Millions, may sound similar to Shallow Grave in that it revolves around a pile of misplaced dosh, but he says that this is very different from previous work.
Life and Death in New Jersey: Todd Solondz on Palindromes
by The Exile
Todd Solondz, chronicler of hell in all its forms, discusses choice, change, and the illusion of free will.
Treasure Two's Trail Tales
by John Millar
Nicolas Cage and Diane Kruger share some behind-the-scenes stories from Jerry Bruckheimer's adventure yarn National Treasure, out now on DVD.
Keira Finds The Jacket Suits
by Amber Wilkinson
For teen star Keira Knightley The Jacket offered liberation from a rut of costume drama.
Natalie Portman on Garden State
by John Miller
Natalie Portman talks to John Miller about indie romantic drama Garden State, which was just released on DVD
The Incredibles DVD
by John Millar
Q&A with the creator of The Incredibles, Brad Bird, and Holly Hunter, who voiced Elastigirl, the supermom
Practically Romantic
by John Millar
Director Garry Marshall, Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway on Princess Diaries 2, out on DVD
Unmasking the Yes Men
by Matthew Arnoldi
Performance activists The Yes Men say they are raising the stakes because people will believe virtually anything.
The Voice of Bambi
by Angus Wolfe Murray
Vietnam vet explains how he became the voice of the classic Disney character.
Hero's Martial Art
by John Millar
Director Zhang Yimou, cinematographer Christopher Doyle, actors Jet Li and Zhang Ziyi talk about the making of Chinese historical epic Hero, out soon on DVD.
Finding Room For Grief
by Matt Arnoldi
When second-time director Tod Williams asked John Irving if he could adapt his novel, to his surprise the author agreed.
Going Underground
by Matt Arnoldi
Director Christopher Smith and Bourne Supremacy star Franka Potente on making subterranean horror Creep down the London tube.
Sundown at Sundance 2005
by Amber Wilkinson
Topical doc Why We Fight and Forty Shades of Blue win Grand Jury Prizes; Sundance Awards Party and winners.
Village Person
by John Millar
Joaquin Phoenix opens up about working with director M Night Shyamalan on The Village, now getting its DVD release, and Signs
Sundance Film Festival - Day 8
by Amber Wilkinson
Mardi Gras beads of sweat and pain; gay thriller The Dying Gaul; class drama Junebug; Utah's odd booze laws.
Sundance Film Festival - Day Seven
by Amber Wilkinson
Herzog's grizzly doc; Rwanda revisited; On A Clear Day gets U.S. distrib.; special needs shocker What Is It?.
Sundance Film Festival - Day Six
by Amber Wilkinson
Amazing amnesia documentary; hot shorts; poetry and song at Sundance.
Sundance Film Festival - Day Five
by Amber Wilkinson
Missing a deer and a dead elk, Elf lands poolside with brill trio from Brit fantasy MirrorMask; US Lackawanna Blues one to watch.
Sundance Film Festival - Day Four
by Amber Wilkinson
Sundance and stars? Go directly ahead, past the dead skunk...
Sundance Film Festival - Day Three
by Amber Wilkinson
Picking up penguins; search for Mullan ends; doc asks Why We Fight.
Sundance Film Festival - Day Two
by Amber Wilkinson
The day things almost Peter-ed out...
Mama Mira and the Vanity Project
by Matt Arnoldi
Q & A with director Mira Nair on her adaptation of the Thackeray classic Vanity Fair.
Sundance Film Festival Opening Night and Day One
by Amber Wilkinson
Happy Endings opens, Scots cast out in force for "On A Clear Day".
Eye For Film awards 2004
by Eye For Film staff
Awards season is upon us! Our reviewers offer their highlights and low points of 2004...
Sundance Film Festival 2005 Preview
by Amber Wilkinson
We look forward to a fortnight of top indie films in snow-covered Park City, Utah.
Punk Pioneers
by Miles Fielder
As rock doc End Of The Century opens in London, Tommy Ramone remembers what made his band unique.
Chilled Out Minnesota-Milwaukee-style
by Matt Arnoldi
Debut director Allan Mindel on ice-fishing and the challenges of making your first film in sub-zero temperatures.
Getting To The Heart Of It
by Paul Griffiths
Writer-director David O Russell on the tortuous history of I Heart Huckabees.
Secrets To Scoring.
by John Millar
Eight-time Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken on animating with music for Disney.
Jerry Bruckheimer At The Round Table
by Agency
Q&A with the veteran producer of King Arthur.
Hitting back at domestic abuse
by Matthew Arnoldi
Spanish writer-director Iciar Bollain talks about her award-winning film Take My Eyes
The end of the world as we know it?
by Matthew Arnoldi
A look back at the 2004 London Film Festival.
10 Rules For Surviving Til The Credits Roll
by Adele Hartley
It's a horror movie... so why do they do that?
The Corporation: a reformist plea for state regulation.
by Joanne Laurier and David Walsh
A socialist perspective of the documentary The Corporation.
London Film Festival 2004 preview
by Matthew Arnoldi
Mike Leigh's Vera Drake to open London Film Festival.
Story of Peter Pan Author Touched By Fairy Dust
by Brian Pendreigh
Finding Neverland, starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet, stirs debate about nature of troubled author JM Barrie.
Ministry of "Frankenstein"
by Brian Pendreigh
Ex-film festival director Lizzie Francke explains how she ended up helming an outfit producing horror films.
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