Category: EIFF 2005

Sunday 4 September 2005 | EIFF 2005 | Comments (0)

The Q&A session after Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist with Paul Schrader gave me the impression that Schrader is a man carrying a lot on his shoulders, and this whole experience has thoroughly disheartened him, although he carries much pride in his version of the movie. With only fifty thousand...

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Saturday 27 August 2005 | EIFF 2005 | Comments (0)

Another not so good day, because of all the writing I had to do and feeling a little swamped I didn't go to the Serenity press conference and photocall, something I bitterly regretted afterwards. That would have been my first of both ever, I guess part of me chickened out...

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Sunday 21 August 2005 | EIFF 2005 | Comments (2)

This day started off really badly by missing the screening of La Moustache. I somehow wrote the start time down incorrectly on my calendar, which then copied to my Palm, phone and work calendar...so it was wrong everywhere. There I was at 09:20 for the 09:00 screening....

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Sunday 21 August 2005 | EIFF 2005 | Comments (0)

What an easy day this was in comparison to those before. With one movie kicking off at 09:30 I would have the afternoon free to meet Paul, have some time with my girlfriend so she didn't call the Police when I walked in the front door, and some writing time....

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Friday 19 August 2005 | EIFF 2005 | Comments (0)

It was another 9am start, and I was very tired. Down to a cinema I'm really starting to love, the Cameo, particularly cinema one with the big screen. The day started with a real scorcher of a movie, Thumbsucker. I was really surprised by this movie - mental note, must...

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Friday 19 August 2005 | EIFF 2005 | Comments (1)

The second day began at Cineworld, and let me just interrupt myself there and say that the days I'm referring to are not the actual Festival days, these are the days at which I'm attending...so day two is my second visit...so far this just coincides with the Festival days...look, now...

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Wednesday 17 August 2005 | EIFF 2005 | Comments (2)

I started off the day with the usual trawl of the Internet sites to find some interesting stories for the Movie Blog, not many as it turned out, and then I turned my attention to check my email, that's when the biggest surprise of the day came, bigger than anything...

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Tuesday 9 August 2005 | EIFF 2005 : Writing | Comments (2)

I'm excited today as my writing takes another step forward. There have been a number of big leaps for me so far, firstly there's been writing for The Movie Blog and watching the monthly visits grow from 300,000 to 800,000. Then there was getting approved as Press in the Edinburgh...

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