Our final blog comes to you with dual influence, firstly from this excellent poster ( pinned all over Edinburgh) urging you to find this year's EIFF retrospective strand and secondly inspired by a viewing of the brilliant 'The People V's George Lucas'. A documentary, so thorough in its examination of the cultural phenomenon that is Star Wars that it immediately makes you want to go out and watch them all back to back (even the prequels!). It raises some interesting debates surrounding Fandom, Auteur Theory. An 'of our times' documentary that leaves you ridiculously nostalgic.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE PEOPLE V'S GEORGE LUCAS HERE
Also, watched 'The Rebound' (an unusual EIFF choice) the first outing of Catherine Zeta Jones for some time- sees her team up in this rom com with the notably younger Justin Bartha. Catherine takes centre stage as the mom of two who's world falls apart when she captures her husband in an uncompromising position on home video..the fall-out is the rest of the film as she moves to New York to re-build her life.
BAFTA Scotland staged the excellent 'In conversation with Sir Patrick Stewart' at Cineworld to a sold out audience, and I'm pleased to say Sir P.S really is the nicest man. The reception offered the opprtunity to try 'Haggis Parcels' and this, on my last evening was the final and only Scottish fare I encountered: Thankfully the shop was closed for this:
Suitcase in hand, set off to view MR NICE, the eagerley awaited adaptation of Howard Marks book starring Rhys Ifans & Chloe Sevigny. The film is entirely true to the book and Ifans is the natural, obvious choice for Marks. With such an excellent character portrayal from Ifans, you have to keep reminding yourself that you are not watching Howard himself.
MR NICE is due out in early autumn and you can VIEW THE OFFICIAL TRAILER HERE
Well, It has been a fantastic festival- viewed far more films than last year, met more people, walked more ground.
Favorite film: 'Third Star' closely followed by 'The People V's George Lucas' and huge thanks to all at EIFF who work incredibly hard to make this happen. Thanks also to BAFTA Scotland and colleagues at Film Agency Wales who are constantly 'out there' working and meeting people for the good of film in Wales, and including me along the way-Hoorah!
Roll on EIFF 2011.
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