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Fake Dog at the Edinburgh International Film Festival!

Written 4 July 2010, 18:17 by Dara

The Edinburgh Film Festival took place last month from June 16th to 27th and I was there front and centre for some serious plugging opportunities! And a I caught a few films, too!

The opening film was The Illusionist, an animated film set in 1950s Edinburgh, directed by Sylvain Chomet (Belleville Rendez-Vous (2003)). It sold out pretty sharp-ish, but I went along to the red carpet anyway!
Red Carpet
You're
Ben “I dispatched the blaggard with my shiv“ Miller
Spud
Ewen Bremner (yes, it’s Spud from Trainspotting!)
Man
His name escapes me, but he was in Harry Potter, apparently!
Ben Shot

One of the festival highlights was a special gala screening of The Man Who Would Be King (1975) in the Festival Theatre, which Sean Connery attended! That’s right, John Mason himself.
EIFF
Losers always whine about their best.
“Your besht?” Brilliant. What a legend. He was really nice, and quite funny. He’s 80 now. Mad.

I also attended a screening and Q & A by the Quay Brothers. They’re American identical twins who make stop-motion films in the classic Eastern-European style. Very weird stuff, but interesting.
Quay Lads

One of my favourite parts of the festival was the retrospective of British films, called After the Wave. These were all films made after the landmark British new wave films of the late ’50s and ’60s, which often dominate British cinema history. My favourite film from the programme was The Hard Way (1979), which was shot in ’70s Ireland with Lee Van Cleef and Patrick McGoohan (so I’m claiming that one as Irish and not British!). And I really liked The Final Programme (1973) as well. Some of the films even had the directors in attendance.
Where is bag?
Ken
Ken Russell was in attendance at the screening of his film, Savage Messiah (1972). He wasn’t up to saying much, but it was good to see the man in person!
Horace
Horace Ové attended the screening of his film, Pressure (1976), the first British film to be directed by a black man. It’s about the British-born son of an immigrant Trinidadian family, trying to find his place between two cultures. Some of the amateur acting lets it down, but it’s quite a powerful and interesting film.

I also bumped into a few familiar faces on my travels.
Me and Tim
Myself and Timothy Spall. He was very sound. I gave him a Fake Dog business card and all. So there’s a very distant chance he could be reading this blog. If so: Hello, Tim. Alright mate?
Coxy!
And I met Brian Cox! It was very exciting.
BM
And here I am with B.M. (he’s much bigger in real life)!

Tilda Swinton was also about. She and film critic Mark Cousins organised a big dance towards the end of the festival, as co-ordinated by Laurel & Hardy in Way Out West. Then they explained their new scheme to introduce children to cinema, called the 8 1/2 Foundation, followed by a screening of The White Balloon (1995).
Dance
Signage
Tilda Rave
8 1/2

Other notable screenings included the international premiere of Boy (good) and The Good Heart (not good), and the world premiere of Jackboots on Whitehall, which featured my old mucker Timothy Spall voicing a puppet of Winston Churchill. And I caught a few others screenings in there, too – you’ll see the tickets below! Now some random shots to finish off!
stars
cineworld
Filmhouse


And there you have it! That’s my report from the red carpet. If you’ll excuse me, I must be jetting off to my next big premiere! What’s that? Crackdown 3? Moro out!

— Dara

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Leave a comment ...

  1. Brilliant. Love the pictures. Coxy and Spall wow! Also famous people always seem to have bigger heads than normal people but Bill Murray that’s ridiculous.

    — Paul · Jul 4, 07:03 PM · #

  2. Great blog, Dara! Sounds like you had a fantastic time!

    — Claire · Jul 4, 07:38 PM · #

  3. A very entertaining blog. I love the pictures especially the one with Timothy Spall.
    Sounds like you really got around most of the festival and enjoyed it.

    — Marian · Jul 5, 03:28 AM · #

  4. Great blog Dara, if the films fail you, you can go in to professional picture blogging :D

    — Paul (Random Numbers) · Jul 5, 08:53 PM · #

  5. Bill Murray does not seemed overly pleased to have you standing next to his giant head. He looks a bit annoyed. Tilda Swinton and her Laurel & Hardy dance is quite bizarre. She is one odd woman, though her acting is quite good. JULIA was a tour de force. Overall a very interesting collection of photos from the festival. Love Connery’s trousers and shirt.

    — THE FUTURIST! · Jul 5, 09:30 PM · #

  6. Excellent blog, great pictures! And I do know who Brian Cox is, he was in Kings!

    — Gearóid · Jul 7, 01:29 PM · #

  7. Thanks for reading, guys! I’ll be on the other side of the carpet next year!

    — Dara · Jul 9, 04:46 AM · #

  8. That’s super hyper radical!
    I can’t pick a favorite picture.

    — Ahoj · Jul 11, 12:46 AM · #

  9. Ahoj ahoj, Ahoj! Good to hear from you! Thanks for czeching it out!

    — Dara · Jul 11, 03:06 AM · #

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