Podcast: Edinburgh International Film Festival Round-Up

Mark Davidson, Laura Croft, Steve O’Hara and Dave Wark review all the best films from this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (15th – 26th June 2011)

As well as giving their opinion on how this year’s cash-strapped festival compared to previous years, they also give their own Pick of the Fest. Dave also starts singing; it made everybody feel all warm and bright.

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Edinburgh International Film Festival Launches Programme

Tuesday finally saw the launch of this year’s EIFF programme. It’s been a long, and somewhat rocky road to reach this point: one festival director leaving; a replacement not being found for four months; artistic advisors whose roles we were never quite sure of; and having to cope with a significant amount of funding being lost from the now defunct UK Film Council. With all that in mind, how does the 65th EIFF programme hold up?