Cinema Fever Begins with Our Film Critics’ Picks of the Programme
When the 62nd Edinburgh Film Festival begins on 18th June it will be more than the just the programme of films and number of celebrity appearances that is under scrutiny. This year is also the first for the festival in its new home in the cultural calendar, having been this year liberated from the chaos that is Edinburgh in August and set free into the relative calm of June.
With the festival no longer shackled to absurdity of the festival season epicentre, there are a few pleasant surprises as a result. Those visiting from outside the capital can now have available and affordable accommodation, and there are a couple of extra venues freed up to screen films and hold events in. There’s also less distraction from the rest of the Fringe, International, Book and music festival events meaning that as a audience member you can concentrate on giving the film festival the necessary time, and, er, the budget, it might warrant.
There’s also more room for EIFF coverage in The List too, both in the magazine and online, and our team of critics will be living and breathing the EIFF in order to provide up to the minute coverage of everything ranging from the gala premieres, Q&As with to the off-piste hidden gems and the downright obscure that you’ll need to catch before they disappear completely.
Key to our coverage this year is a film digest via email which will offer our critics’ recommendations on the upcoming screenings worth buying tickets for, tips on the films likely to sell out and news and rumour from the heart of the festival. You can subscribe to it here: www.list.co.uk/you/email
Highlights of the 2008 programme include strands featuring the work of directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris and an appearance by special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen.
The popular pre-festival outdoor cinema event Film Festival Under the Stars returns to the Mound on 13th and 14th June where the films showing will be Back to the Future, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Local Hero and Strictly Ballroom.
With over 300 features, documentaries and shorts screening over the course of the 10 days, there’s guaranteed to something of interest lurking within the programme for everybody, so whether you’re attending the festival in person or reading our comprehensive critical coverage online, The List is going to be immersing itself in the Film Festival 100%.
See you in the popcorn queue.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival runs from 18-29 June 2008.
For The List’s full EIFF preview and up to the minute content see: www.list.co.uk/articles/edinburgh-international-film-festival
Source: http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/8898-best-of-the-edinburgh-international-film-festival/
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