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The Edge Of Love Opens the EIFF
Now in its 62nd year of screenings, the EIFF is the longest continuously running film festival in the world. It began in 1947 as a champion of documentary films and has expanded to include the full gamut of features, documentaries and short films. Hannah McGill is marking her second year as artistic director with an exciting new strand Under The Radar - a selection of "raw, risk-taking work from the cutting edge of new movie-making", inspired by EIFF 2007 visitor John Waters (Pink Flamingos, This Filthy World).
The programme was announced on May 9 and includes a pair of retrospectives featuring Jeanne Moreau and Shirley Clarke, plus UK premieres of Wall·E, Donkey Punch and Standard Operating Procedure. The festival opens with John Maybury's latest film The Edge Of Love, which stars Sienna Miller and Keira Knightley, and closes with the MySpace-written Faintheart.
Eye For Film's exclusive on-site EIFF photography is provided by Max Blinkhorn of Get Shot Photography and Stuart Crawford.
View Films by Strand:
- Black Box
- British Gala
- Director's Showcase
- Document
- Gala
- Mirrorball
- Night Moves
- Retrospecive: Jeanne Moreau
- Retrospective: Shirley Clarke
- Rosebud
- Shorts
- Under The Radar
View previous years coverage of the Edinburgh International Film Festival festival:
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Documentary about the life of the poet.
Offbeat romance between a damaged young woman and exclusive interview with Marianna Palka and Jason Ritter.
A woman boards a train with all her worldly goods.
Half-remembered charcoal dreams from childhood.
A businessman reaches the end of his tether.
Troma-esque weirdness as a vegan invents a vehicle more reminiscent of Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors. Minus the crap Broadway songs, of course.
A portrait of 20th Century Liverpool.
The original drummer of an Eighties hair metal band gets a second chance at stardom when his nephew’s group makes it big.
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A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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