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The Movie Café: 03/03/2011

03/03/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Movie Café, 03/03/2011

EIFF - James Mullighan, Edinburgh Film Festival director, discusses their radical rethink.

Edinburgh International Film Festival director James Mullighan discusses the radical rethink of the festival in the wake of losing substantial funding.

Edinburgh International Film Festival: James Mullighan, the Australian producer appointed Edinburgh International Film Festival director in December discusses the radical rethink of the Festival inthe wake of losing substantial funding. He'll also talk about the big name 'guest curators' who will help programme this year's event; people like Isabella Rossellini!.

Wasteland - Artists Vik Muniz discusses his Oscar-nominated documentary about the 'art' of scavenging which raises some uncomfortable ethical questions.

Our DVD Pick of the Week is The Flying Scotsman from 1929 - arguably, the first feature-length British Film to have sound

The Adjustment Bureau - George Nolfi, an accomplished screenwriter, who wrote the incredibly successful hit Oceans Twelve for Steve Soderbergh, and who co-wrote the acclaimed The Bourne Ultimatum discusses his directorial debut, 'THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU' which stars Oscar winner MATT DAMON and EMILY BLUNT in a romantic thriller about a charismatic politician on the brink of winning a seat in the U.A. Senate.

The African Queen: To celebrate the cinema re-release of the restored classic THE AFRICAN QUEEN we hear from Angela Allen, who worked as Continuity Checker on the production of the film.

The Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema - Scotland's first silent movie festival is coming to the country's oldest purpose-built cinema in March this year when the restored Hippodrome Cinema in Bo'ness will host a weekend of rare and classic films, workshops, live musical performance, and special events aimed at celebrating the magic of silent cinema and the Hippodrome's place within Scotland's great tradition of cinema-going. We'll hear all about it.

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