Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015...

 

Our first visit to the Edinburgh Internation Film Festival...

The sun is shining.

It's a beautiful city.

And, there's a serious amount of films to be watched.

Can life get any better than this?

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We'll be tweeting and adding to this page throughout the festival...so, keep coming back...

We've combed through the catalogue and here are the films we've chosen...

Just click on the picture to read the review (when its available).

 For the girls...

 

For the boys...

  

For the girls and the boys...

    

Quite possibly...more films will be added...

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**UPDATE**

No sooner said...then, amended...

Chatting as you do - with our ears flapping throughout the grapevine...we found a few more films to add to our list...

They may well be of LGBT interest...we will wait and see!

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It's June 17...the red carpet has been rolled out...it's the premiere of:

And, just to prove our presence...here's me, in a circle, waiting for the festivities to begin...

The celebrities start to arrive...here's a selection:

Mark Adams: EIFF Artistic Director

Robert Carlyle

Brian Pettifer

Tom Courtney

Kevin Guthrie

James Cosmo

Martin Compston

Archie Panjabi & Asley Jensen

Denis Lawson

Karen Gillan

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June 21...

Look who we bumped into...

Ewan McGregorand the inevitable selfie!

Doll and Em

Rodrigo García

Director and Star...Last Days in the Desert

Ewan McGregor

Just got to say...what a thoroughly decent chap Mr McGregor is...really rather charming.

All photographs © Anderson Cutler 2015

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The End...

26 films watched, quite a few seminars attended, mingled with some notable names...all washed down with copious amounts of strong, sweet tea.

EIFF proved to be massive in scope and range...it definitely had...something for everyone.

From a press perspective...this is how you run a festival. Unrestricted access to all the films, a comfy place to sit and write, daily Press communications...and, none of those ludicrous press charges that some festivals have introduced...

Definitely, a festival for the people...and, for those starting out in the industry...the amount of student reviewers...staggering, encouraging and a joy to behold.

A special thank you must go to the volunteers, they were everywhere...helping lost souls find their films!

Thank you Edinburgh...a festival and city to be most proud of.