The route to celluloid heaven
FERPECT CRIME
Joy of joys — a Hitchcockian comedy thriller set in a Spanish department store from the great Basque director Alex de la lglesia (Accion Mutante, The Day of the Beast, Perdito Durango, La Comunidad). When womanising bachelor and wannabe department store floor manager Rafael (Guillermo Toledo) accidentally kills his work rival, his life becomes a living nightmare as he is blackmailed by mad, bad and not too pretty salesgirl Lourdes (Menica Cervera). Rafael knows there is only one way out of the situation. A hilariously politically incorrect romp.
I Cameo, 623 8030, 78 Aug, 4.45pm, £7.95 (£5.20).
DIRECTOR'SCHOICE
The man from the Argos ads and Withnail and I is in town to introduce the EIFF opening film, his directorial debut Wah Wah. These are the films Richard E Grant hopes to check out while here.
Tsotsi A new South African film that promises to be the African answer to City of God in the post-apartheid era. See review. Cameo, 623 8030, 78 Aug, 7pm and 25 Aug, 5pm, £7. 95 (£5.20).
The Murmuring Coast Drama set at the tale end of the 60s in troubled Mozambique. in total political contrast to Wah Wah which is set in neighbouring Swaziland in the same period. where independence and the end of colonialism was a much smoother affair. Cinewor/d, 623 8030, 79 Aug, 9.45pm 8 22 Aug, 2pm, £7. 95 (£5.20).
Gypo Dealing with current immigrant prejudice in England and starring the charismatic Paul McGann, my partner in an obscure and weirdly titled comedy flick from the last century. See feature. page 44. Fi/mhouse, 623 8030, 24 Aug. 8pm 8 26 Aug, 9.30pm, £7. 95 (£5.20).
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael A first film from a British 24- year-old that doesn't sound like a Hollywood wannabe flick or a Lock, Stock . . . or Snatch clone. Can't wait. Fi/mhouse, 623 8030, 24 Aug, 70. 75pm 8 Cameo, 623 8030, 26 Aug, 9.30pm, £7.95 (£5.20).
Saraband Ingmar Bergman's swansong and a revisit with his muse Liv Ullman to their landmark Scenes of a Marriage screen partnership. A full circle drawn by a giant of Cinema history. See review, page 49. Fi/mhouse, 623 8030, 78 Aug, 7pm 8 22 Aug, 3pm, £7. 95 (£5.20).
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FESTIVAL FILM
‘A film is a petrified fountain of thought’ — Jean Cocteau
>2: The Edge of the World Michael Powell’s 1937 fictionalised account of the evacuation of St Kilda is still one of the finest films to be shown in the first two days of the Festival. and it kicks off an excellent Powell retrospective. Filmhouse, 623 8030, 78 Aug, noon, £5.50 (£4.20).
=3: Wah-Wah The opening night film to the 59th ElFF is Richard E Grant‘s seamless. subtle and deeply felt debut about his troubled childhood in Swaziland during the last days of colonial rule. See review. page 49. Cinewor/d, 623 8030, 77Aug, 9pm/9. 30pm, £7 0.95 (£7. 70).
:2: Salesman A rare screening of the Maysles brothers’ seminal 1969 documentary about door- to-door Bible salesmen. It‘s part of a small retrospective on Albert Maysles, who is leading a Reel Life on 19 August. See profile. page 48. Fi/mhouse, 623 8030, 78 Aug, 8pm, £5.95 (£4.20).
ti: Ferpect Crime Alex de la Iglesia's hilariously naughty. blackly comic thriller. See left. Cameo, 623 8030, 78 Aug, 4.45pm, £7.95 (£5.20).
=3: Film Festival Under the Stars See Dr No, Dr Strangelove, 39 Steps, Whisky Ga/ore and From Russia With Love for free on the big screen in the open air. What could be better? The Mound, 72/73 Aug. Visit www. edfi/mfest. org. uk for more information.
>i= Les Yeux Clair Powerful dissertation on one girl‘s psychological illness in rural France from the writer/director of Le Chignon d 'O/ga. See review, page 48. Fi/mhouse, 623 8030, 6pm, £7.95 (£5.20).
=E: Saraband This will be Ingmar Bergman's last feature film, he says. A sequel of sorts to his brilliant 1973 film Scenes of a Marriage, it has to be worth checking out. See review, page 49. Fi/mhouse, 623 8030, 78 Aug, 7pm, £7.95 (£5.20).