ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies DO ALL GREAT leaders worry about how posterity will judge them? Is reputation all that remains once power has faded? Those are the kind of questions at the heart of ‘The Last Mitterand’, a wintry, thought-provoking French drama that provides a worthy alternative to the more frivolous blockbuster fare of […]

An Talla, Isle of Tiree, 16 July 2005

Big Top, Stornoway, 16 July 2005

Big Top, Stornoway, 15 July 2005

The Stables, Cromarty, Friday 22 July 2005

Orkney, June 2005

Skerray Museum, until 12 August 2005

South Uist, 9-15 July 2005

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies JOHN SAYLES is almost the last apostle of complexity in American cinema. Other directors are dumbing down and playing to audiences who like their moral choices in black and white. Sayles is trying to depict a world of pragmatic options, good intentions, long struggles, flawed heroes and disarming villains. His […]

26 June 20St Magnus Festival, Orkney