ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies JUST LIKE the central character of the delusional Harlan Fairfax Carruthers, ‘Down In The Valley’ is a film with the best of intentions. It doffs its hat to landmark American cinema of the 1970s like ‘Badlands’ and ‘Taxi Driver’, and gives Edward Norton one of his best roles in some […]

Eastgate Arts Centre, Peebles, and touring 2006

Aberdeen, 10-11 May 2006

ALISON BELL and FIONA MACKENZIE report from the Highland 2007 team’s trip to New York for Tartan Week

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies THE SCOTS have such a passion for football that it’s hard to imagine a country where the game isn’t considered a matter of life and death. You only have to travel back to America in the 1960s to discover a country where it was a matter of complete indifference. One […]

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and touring 2006

Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh, and touring 2006

Spa Pavilion, Strathpeffer, 6 May 2006

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies FRENCH DIRECTOR Francois Ozon is fascinated by death and how we cope with mortality. He claims that the much-admired ‘Under The Sand’ with Charlotte Rampling was the first film in a trilogy about death. The second film is ‘Time To Leave’, a sombre, elegantly handled tale of a young man’s […]

GEORGINA COBURN finds collaboration adds up to more than the sum of the parts.