Posted on 16 June, 2009 by Jonathan Melville
What is it that holds relationships, and in particular marriages, together? Love? Devotion? Routine? For Pippa Lee, the heroine at the centre ofRebecca Miller’s life-affirming new film The Private Lives of Pippa Lee the answer would seem to be “all of the above, with a side helping of luck.”
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Posted on 15 June, 2009 by Jonathan Melville
The next film to look out for at the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival is actually two films, two halves of a story about real-life French criminal Jacques Mesrine: Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One.
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Posted on 15 June, 2009 by Jonathan Melville
With the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival just a few days away, there’s still time for a few short previews of some of the films I think are worth searching out: The Hurt Locker from director Kathryn Bigelow is one of the more populist ones.
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Posted on 9 June, 2009 by Jonathan Melville
I’ve a sneaky feeling Wide Open Spaces could be brilliant: it’s written by one half of the writing team behind Father Ted, stars one of the cast of Father Ted and has a suitably odd premise that might just work.
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Posted on 9 June, 2009 by Jonathan Melville
In the run-up to the launch of next week’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, I’ll be posting the trailers to some of the films I think are worth spending your hard earned cash on.
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Posted on 12 May, 2009 by Jonathan Melville
My Reel Time column for last Friday’s Edinburgh Evening News is now live on their site and covers bundle of my choices from this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival brochure.
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