Edinburgh Film Festival 2007 : Jigsaw Lounge marks your card

Published on: August 13th, 2007

These are the ones I'm particularly looking forward to:
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, USA)
Yella (Christian Petzold, Ger)
Billy the Kid (Jennifer Venditti, USA)
Control (Anton Corbijn, UK)
Mala Noche [1986] (Gus Van Sant, USA)
John Waters: This Filthy World (Jeff Garlin, USA)
     (plus extended Q&A)

and then:
I Served the King of England (Jiri Menzel, Cze)
Ex Drummer (Koen Mortier, Bel)
In the Wake of a Deadad (Andrew Kotting, UK)
Joshua (George Ratliff, USA)
Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
The Man From London (TARR Bela, various)
Yo (Rafa Cortes, Spn)
Phantom Love (Nina Menkes, USA)
Saxon (Greg Loftin, UK)

Much as I'd like to see these in the cinema, schedules don't allow (though I may be able to catch some of the newer ones in the Videotheque):
Limite [1930] (Mario Peixoto, Brz)
The Women [1939] (George Cukor, USA)
Berlin Alexanderplatz [1980]
   (R.W.Fassbinder, Ger)
Saratoga [1937] (Jack Conway, USA)
Intolerance [1916] (D.W.Griffith, USA)
The State of the World (various, Por)
Crazy Love (Klores & Stevens, USA)
Castells (Gereon Wetzel, Ger)
It's Gonna Get Worse! (Petr Nikolaev, Cze)

Neil Young
13th August 2007

regular reports/reviews will be filed HERE during the festival (in theory)

meanwhile, you can still check out the dispatches from EIFF 2006…