Festival Cinema [13/08/98]

1998-08-13
45m

The state of play from across the 1998 Edinburgh International Film Festival.

This episode of Festival Cinema covers the 1998 festival, with presenter Alan Tyler previewing the major films featured, focusing initially on Todd Haynes' punk rock saga Velvet Goldmine and prize-winning performances by Derek Jacobi and a young Daniel Craig in Love is the Devil. The programme captures the vitality of the festival and offers vital insights into the careers of contemporary British movie stars.

In part two, Tyler interviews actor and director Peter Mullan about his film Orphans. He speaks in great detail about the nuance needed to capture the cultural specificity of different cities within Scotland. This interview was conducted just after Mullan received a nod at the Cannes film festival for his performance in Ken Loach's 1999 film My Name is Joe.

Previews films shown at the 1998 Edinburgh Festival.

Edinburgh - Festival City

A taste of Edinburgh's extraordinary history as a centre for the arts.

The Edinburgh International Festival, founded in 1947, is one of the world's most celebrated cultural events, an annual feast of fine art, theatre, ballet, opera and more. Created to offer healing through the arts after long years of war, the festival brought a swell of excitement from the start. Immediately, eight uninvited theatre companies joined the festival, creating an alternative arts festival that was eventually termed the Edinburgh Fringe (where comedy would eventually become the dominant force). The international film festival, which sadly announced its closure in 2022, came into being in the same moment of artistic reformation. In this collection, we look at Edinburgh as a media, arts and culture centre, giving a taste of how these intersecting events conspired to make Edinburgh a global cultural hub.