On tour September-October 2004

PETER URPETH takes a look at the fruitful collaboration between former Astrid guitarist WILLIE CAMPBELL and writer KEVIN MACNEIL

CATRIONA PAUL at the Movies. IF YOU FANCY a bit of romance this week, head to the cinema. Ken Loach’s new film, Ae Fond Kiss , is a classic love story about young lovers opposed by family and friends, set in Glasgow.    Roisin (Eva Birthistle) is a young Irish Catholic music teacher. Cassim is […]

CATRIONA PAUL discovers a wealth of potential talent for the future of Scottish film at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival

The Arts Journal profiles CROFT NO FIVE.

Arts Journal film reviewer CATRIONA PAUL takes a retrospective look at the films of Orcadian poet, artist and film-maker Margaret Tait

The beautiful island of Islay is famous for several things, including its whisky, but STUART TODD explains how it also came to have one of the most attractive jazz festivals in Scotland

Quarks, strangeness and charm (or, how your doctor might be writing novels in his/her spare time): ANNE MACLEOD ponders the complex relationship between her dual roles as medical practitioner and creative writer, and finds an answer to the fundamental question posed by her mischievous colleague in Stromness – why bother with books?

CATRIONA PAUL at the Movies. RECOMMENDING YOU spend an hour and a half watching camels might sound an unlikely proposal. But The Story of the Weeping Camel, in which rarely a scene passes without a camel in shot, is a beautiful and moving docu-drama offering a window to another world – that of the nomadic […]

CATRIONA PAUL at the Movies. VIOLENCE, ALCOHOL and hopelessness played out amongst Edinburgh’s grim closes and stony stairs. Tough subject matter from first time writer-director Richard Jobson, unsweetened in the making. Sixteen Years of Alcohol may be interesting to Scottish film-makers and Edinburgh inhabitants, who can take turns at spotting false moves and landmarks, but […]