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Greek trio from Sea of Glass at its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (from left) Christiana Matelska Toka, Alexis Alexiou and Evangelia Andreadaki Photo: Courtesy of EIFF/Pako Mera As a way of confronting the issues of domestic violence Greek film-maker Alexis Alexiou and his co-writing partner Afroditi Nikolaidou are content to acknowledge a kinship with the classic…
The Angry River was the first film produced by the newly formed Golden Harvest film company in Hong Kong. It was not the first film that they released, being preceded, by a few months, by The Invincible Eight. It starred Angela Mao in her first screen role, though she did also play a major part as one of The Invincible Eight. Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan also make brief appearances in it. As a wuxia…
Nervous Director Abner Pastoll's Nervous, co-written by Richard Hobley, tells the story of Sarah (Sarah Bolger), who has left her native Ireland and is living in Korea with her Korean husband Sungsoo (Sungsoo Yune). With their marriage fracturing, the pair move to the countryside. After discovering an old gramophone and mysterious vinyl record which Sungsoo plays, Sarah loses her ability to hear…
There have been a multitude of films and series that have dealt with the Troubles in Ireland (and there will doubtless be many more) but Kieron J Walsh delivers an original take on the relatively recent past in 1994 and the optimism surrounding the 'ceasefire' which ended most of the violence and lead to the Good Friday Agreement four years laster. Adapted by Ciarán McMenamin from his own novel,…
Bill Nighy is one of those actors who has always evidenced a considerably measure of talent yet who is cast, more often than not, in supporting roles, often playing quirky characters who are interesting to watch but don’t show his full potential. His occasional opportunity to take the lead, as in Oliver Hermanus’ 2022 film Living , always delivers something special, and here, in the role of a…
Night out in Skintown: Jack Rowan, left, and Chris Walley. 'Passing in to adulthood is complicated enough without throwing conflict on top of it' Photo: Courtesy of EIFF Edinburgh represents a happy place for Dublin-based film-maker Kieron J Walsh who has departed the International Film Festival with the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence which is voted on by the public. The…
It's 1982, and the Platt's suburban idyll is such that the neighbourhood block party is occasion for one of the area residents to say the kind of sentence that only appears in movies - "You've got a great family". Inevitably, there's at least one secret in the basement, as the kind of movies that kind of sentence appears in are also the kind of movies where those great families are imperilled.…
There is no doubt that this 10th anniversary 4K release of The Hunt For The Wilderpeople has taken on extra poignancy with the death of star Sam Neill just a month before it's release. He's a vibrant presence in the extras, which are a reminder that beyond being a great actor, he was also a fun and thoughtful human. The commentary track has been carried over from the previous DVD release, along…
Bruce Dern zooming in to the Edinburgh International Film Festival for a live session with audiences ahead of the world premiere of his latest film Northbound, directed by William Scoular Photo: Courtesy of EIFF The trip from home base Toronto to the Edinburgh International Film Festival for the world premiere of Northbound featuring a career-best performance from Bruce Dern as an irascible and…
Woody Harrelson with his Heart of Sarajevo award Photo: Courtesy of Sarajevo Film Festival Woody Harrelson received the Sarajevo Film Festival's honorary Heart of Sarajevo award last night, following a screening of Welcome To Sarajevo, which was shot in the city back in 1997. A few hours before, the three-time Oscar-nominated star entertained a packed and lively crowd at a masterclass with…
Children, animals, and boats. They're three things film-makers are warned about and with good reason. Their presence, and in such quantities, make Capsized's achievements all the more impressive in a debut feature. That they've been navigated with such aplomb makes it slightly disappointing that Lindsey Ryan's film doesn't quite work. It's not that it founders, indeed it sets a course with at…
This time on a boat. It's a formula that worked for a variety of other action stars and franchises, from Steven Seagal to Speed . This time it's Jason Statham, one kick and punch and improvised weapon at a time. "This time" as if his career isn't a litany of this sort of thing, though as action superstars go it's perhaps less Planet Hollywood than something slightly lower rent. Not Wimpy, to be…
Two best friends fall on hard times when their employer, Stank Rail, ceases trading. It did only serve three destinations, and one of them finally succumbed to a mine fire. It was more than a job, a dream come true for best friends Tess (Ginger Minj) and DeeDee (Jujubee). Those are themselves somewhat pseudonymous, as the film is a product of Ru Paul's Drag Race. One does wonder if there might…
Two for the road: Jorge Luis Borges (Luis Gnecco) and Jay Parini (Fionn Whitehead) in Borges and Me Photo: Courtesy of EIFF Art imitates life to an uncanny degree when director Marc Turtletaub assumes his loquacious stride. He comes from an unlikely creative background: his father Alan set up The Money Store, a mortgage lending company which he inherited, then disposed of, and partly lived off the…
Greek tragedies are known to be intensely emotional stories, exploring themes of fate, moral conflict, and downfall, often featuring protagonists whose flaws lead to catastrophic consequences. Filmmaker Alexis Alexiou, with his third feature, and co-writer Afroditi Nikolaidou run through the gamut of these elements in a noir-ish road film featuring two main female characters whose lives become…
