Festival season has come around again in the fair city of Edinburgh, kicking off with the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), which will run for the next two weeks. This year, for the first time ever, the Geekzine will have a presence at the festival itself, and we’ll be bringing you reviews of the biggest, best and weirdest movies showing in the EIFF’s multiple venues, showcasing new work by both rookie and veteran film-makers from all over the world.
Also enjoying his first time at the festival will be new Artistic Director Chris Fujiwara, whose “strong and adventurous” programme promises to rejuvenate the festival after a couple of slightly disappointing years. With strands as diverse as “Philippine New Wave”, “Focus on Denmark”, and retrospectives on the work of past masters Gregory La Cava and Shinji Somai, there really does seem to be something to suit everybody’s tastes at EIFF 2012. This year also sees the UK premieres of Killer Joe, the new thriller from William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) and Pixar Animation’s Scottish fantasy Brave, both of which are sure to be big draws. New films starring Robert Carlyle (California Solo), Clive Owen (Shadow Dancer) and kung-fu legend Donnie Yen (Dragon) will round out the schedule, as well as dozens of feature films, shorts and documetaries from auteurs both foreign and domestic.
With over 300 films from 52 countries playing in 4 venues (Fountain Park’s Cineworld mulitplex once again among them), the next ten days promise to bring a veritable feast of cinema to Edinburgh, and your trusted Geekzine correspondents will be there to give you the inside scoop on all the glitz and glamour. Stay tuned for what will surely be the geekiest take you’ll see on the most exciting future releases in cinema!
Jim “Critical Knife” Taylor, the geekzine’s chief literary correspondent, and urban professor….
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