Cinema manager and chairman: Born 1934; Died August 7, 2011 Derek Cameron, who died this week, was not simply an astute businessman who ensured that Scotland’s last independent, family-run cinema survived and prospered when others did not. For generations of Edinburgh’s film lovers, he was literally the public face of the Dominion cinema itself, personally […]
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Sergio Casci interview
He’s written award-winning films and numerous episodes of BBC Scotland ‘soap’ River City? As his third film, horror thriller The Caller, has its UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Glasgow-born Sergio Casci sat down for a chat with Paul F Cockburn. Paul F Cockburn: What’s The Caller about? Sergio Casci: The Caller […]
Yati Durant on the Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra
This Friday (20 May) sees the public debut of a new orchestra, one that aims to bring a decidedly diverse range of film music old and new to hopefully appreciative audiences. Paul F Cockburn speaks with Yati Durant, founder, musical director and conductor of the Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra. Paul F Cockburn: When it comes to […]
The Last Werewolf, by Glen Duncan
Originally published in Scotland on Sunday, 1 May 2011. Jake Marlowe is a werewolf. In fact, when we first meet him, he’s just learned that he’s officially the last werewolf on the planet, thanks to both the genocidal work of the World Organisation for the Control of Occult Phenomena (WOCOP) and the mysterious fact that, […]
Maj Gen Robert Macfarlane
Former director of medicine, British Army; Born March 1, 1917; Died March 19, 2011 Major-General Robert Goudie MacFarlane MBE, who died last month at the age of 94, enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). He served in both India and Burma during the Second World War and rose […]
Glen Duncan interview
First published in The Skinny (April 2011). Several years ago, Bolton born author Glen Duncan was named by The Times Literary Supplement as one of the UK’s twenty best young novelists. Yet, seven novels into his career, the literary establishment still isn’t entirely sure what to make of him; kindly, he’s been described as ‘an […]
Filmmaker Andy Cassels gets his Bite at the Big Apple
Two short films by an independent Scottish filmmaker have been selected for a prestigious film festival in New York and could even win him an international prize to be awarded during the Cannes Film Festival — all thanks to a friend’s wish to see New York. Seance Fiction and Mixed Messages, written and directed by […]
