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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2008

Regarding the Gala, the EIFF say: "The glitziest Festival section; red carpets rolled out for films that come with anticipation attached".








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The Rocker The Rocker
The Rocker and Standard Operating Procedure
Before The Rains (Country: India; Year: 2007; Director: Santosh Sivan; Writer: Cathy Rabin, Dan Verete; Stars: Linus Roache, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Jennifer Ehle, John Standing, Leopold Benedict, Lal Paul), Official Site
A sweeping period romance set in Colonial India.
Full Review
UK Premiere
The Edge Of Love (The Best Time of Our Lives) (Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: John Maybury; Writer: Sharman Macdonald; Stars: Keira Knightley, Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys, Camilla Rutherford, Alastair Mackenzie), Official Site, Trailer
Wartime drama about two women who form an unlikely friendship, united by their feelings for poet Dylan Thomas.
Full Review See: EIFF 2008: A grand Night Out
, Article about The Edge Of Love press conference and premiere
World Premiere
Elite Squad (Tropa De Elite) (Country: Brazil; Year: 2007; Director: José Padilha; Writer: Rodrigo Pimentel, Bráulio Mantovani, José Padilha; Stars: Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz, Luiz Gonzaga de Almeida, Fernanda de Freitas, Bruno Delia, Marcelo Escorel, André Felipe, Thelmo Fernandes, Emerson Gomes)
A special squad officer in the violent Brazilian slums tries to find a replacement. Read our with José Padilha.
Full Review See: Interview with Jose Padilha about Elite Squad
, Tribeca 2008 Diary: Day 5 and 6
UK Premiere
A Film With Me In It (Country: Ireland; Year: 2008; Director: Ian Fitzgibbon; Writer: Mark Doherty; Stars: Dylan Moran, Mark Doherty, Keith Allen, Amy Huberman)
Unemployed actors come face to face with sudden death.
Full Review
Married Life (Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Ira Sachs; Writer: Ira Sachs, Oren Moverman; Stars: Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams)
How do you avoid humiliating you wife with a divorce? Kill her.
Full Review See: Ira Sachs interview about Married Life
, Diary article about the Edinburgh International Film Festival
The Edge Of Love The Edge Of Love
The Edge Of Love and Before The Rains
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day (Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Bharat Nalluri; Writer: David Magee, Simon Beaufoy; Stars: Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Ciarán Hinds, Lee Pace, Tom Payne, Shirley Henderson), Official Site, Trailer
An actress dresses up a former governess so she can experience a glamorous life as they help one another with romantic problems.
Full Review
The New Ten Commandments (Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Nick Higgins, Irvine Welsh, Mark Cousins, Sana Bi )
Filmmakers mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Of Time And The City (Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Terence Davies; Writer: Terence Davies), Official Site
A portrait of 20th Century Liverpool.
Full Review
The Rocker (Year: 2008; Director: Peter Cattaneo; Writer: Maya Forbes, Wally Wolodarsky; Stars: Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Emma Stone, Teddy Geiger, Josh Gad), Official Site
The original drummer of an Eighties hair metal band gets a second chance at stardom when his nephew’s group makes it big.
Full Review
Surprise Movie
Standard Operating Procedure (Country: USA; Year: 2008; Director: Errol Morris; Stars: Christopher Bradley, Sarah Denning, Joshua Feinman, Jeff L. Green, Merry Grissom, Roy Halo, Cyrus King, Daniel Novy, Zhubin Rahbar, Shaun Russell, Combiz Shams)
Errol Morris' documentary on the infamous photographs at Abu Ghraib prison.
Full Review See: Errol Morris Q&A about Standard Operating Procedure
, Tribeca 2008 Diary: Day 1 and 2
UK Premiere
Of Time And The City Of Time And The City
Of Time And The City and Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
Transsiberian (Country: UK/Germany/Spain; Year: 2008; Director: Brad Anderson; Writer: Brad Anderson, Will Conroy; Stars: Woody Harrelson, Eduardo Noriega, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Kate Mara, Thomas Kretschmann)
Mystery on the Tran Siberian Express.
Full Review See: Sundance Film Festival 2008: Day 2
UK Premiere
The Wackness (Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Jonathan Levine; Writer: Jonathan Levine; Stars: Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen, Olivia Thirlby, Mary Kate Olsen, Method Man), Official Site, Trailer
A teen drug dealer swaps spliffs for psychiatry in the long, hot New York summer of 1994.
Full Review See: Tribeca 2008 Diary: Day 3 and 4
International Premiere
WALL·E (WALLE, WALL E, WALL-E) (Country: USA; Year: 2008; Director: Andrew Stanton; Writer: Andrew Stanton, Jim Capobianco; Stars: Voices of: Sigourney Weaver, Kathy Najimy, John Ratzenberger, Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Paul Eiding, Ben Burtt, Garrett Palmer, Kim Kopf)
A robot - Wall·E, left alone on Earth begins to explore the cosmos with a companion, the sleek and sultry EVE.
Full Review See: WALLE press conference with Sigourney Weaver, Andrew Stanton, Ben Burtt, Jim Morris
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