An Tobar, Tobermory, Mull, 2006

Visible Fictions, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and touring 2006

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies IT IS MORE than twenty years since Sam Shepard and Wim Wenders collaborated to such memorable effect on ‘Paris, Texas’. Expectations were high for their belated reunion on ‘Don’t Come Knocking’, but the film hardly seems the work of the same people. The dialogue is stilted, the performances are awkward, […]

The Loft Gallery, St Margaret’s Hope, Orkney, until 2 May 2006

Eastgate Arts Centre, Peebles, and touring 2006

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies SHORTLY BEFORE his death in 1996, the great Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski was working on a new trilogy of films inspired by the concepts of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. The first screenplay was filmed in 2002 by director Tom Tykwer. Now, Oscar-winning ‘No Man’s Land’ director Denis Tanovic has assumed […]

Tore Art Gallery, until late May 2006

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies URBAN PREJUDICES lock horns with deep-rooted rural values in ‘Junebug’, a slight but perceptive first feature film from director Phil Morrison. A prodigal son’s homecoming is played for gentle comedy and quiet despair in a wry, deadpan screenplay by Angus MacLachlan that allows the performers to get their teeth into […]

Spectrum Centre, Inverness, 11 April 2006

JENNA CUMMING has been tipped as a name to watch in Gaelic singing for over a decade now, even though she is still only in her early 20s.