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.

Dogstar Theatre, Spectrum Centre, Inverness, 4 May 2006, and touring

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies THERE ARE some music fans who consider Daniel Johnston to be a genius. He struggles to play an instrument. His voice is an acquired taste. His lyrics sound like the kind of thing Phoebe might have written in the tv comedy ‘Friends’. Despite all those drawbacks, there is a raw […]

Various venues, Shetland, 27-30 April 2006

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