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Some fantastic photography of Cannes in the swinging 60s on the always amazing, Voices of East Anglia blog.

Stunning color footage shot in various London locations by Claude Friese-Greene, an early British pioneer of film. He created a series of travelogues nearly 90 years ago using a color process developed by his father William, beautiful !

The deadline for the Margaret Tait award - £10k for a Scottish based artist - is fast approaching. It's the 2nd of April and a chance for a film-maker to debut their work at the 2014 Glasgow Film Festival (surely a hot year to be in Scotland in general ?)

Has anyone seen Somers Town? Watched it last night on the iPlayer and really enjoyed it actually. Directed by Shane Meadows it tells the story of a young lad running away from the Midlands to the socially deprived area of Somers Town in London and of the Polish immigrant family he encounters in that small part of the big city. Really recommend it. I also remembered when watching it that the film was entirely funded by Eurostar, back in 2008... I can't really think fo another example of something being funded in this way … but ending up being totally credible!? Can you?More

Came across this playlist of clips from Mongrels, beginning with a behind-the-scenes documentary, and including all the brilliantly scurrilous songs. Great show. Pity the BBC lost its bottle and didn't commission any more.

Great opportunity for filmmakers to attend the 2013 Toronto Film Festival as delegates ...

My review of the latest Doctor Who episode, Cold War.

Here's the new trailer for James McAvoy's latest, the film version of Irvine Welsh's novel 'Filth'.

Looks great. Warning, though, this trailer is perhaps a bit fruity for some workplaces, so click with caution!!

Heading home this weekend to Edinburgh, going to visit one of my favourite places - The Filmhouse! Especially because they are playing the 90s classic Romeo and Juliet on Saturday night! :-)

As well as the huge Cineworld, is there any independent, 'retro' cinemas in Glasgow? In Edinburgh, there is the Dominion, Filmhouse, and Cameo, and I much prefer … going to them...!



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Ken Loach's new film came out on friday night. He's using its release to publicise his appeal to discuss the formation of a new political party of the Left to bring together those who wish to defend the welfare state and present an economic alternative to austerity.

An extremely interesting read, this one.

I normally roll my eyes at the majority of these internet meme things but this one gave me a chuckle... Total nonsense but quite funny.

Watched this last night, and a fascinating documentary it was too! Highly recommended viewing about the late film director responsible for many massive cult feature films including Dr Strangelove, The Shining, Barry Lyndon, Clockwork Orange, Full Metal jacket, 2001 etc... This is a must for fans of his iconic films.

I suppose the tenuous Scottish link is that Mogwai have a song called 'Stanley … Kubrick' from the 1999 Mogwai EP...More

Glasgow's film festival is in rude health with a 12% increase in punters on last year. What did everybody see this year ?

Hello guys! I hope it's okay to post this in here. I'm directing a short film, "One Year Later", a supernatural/rom-com with Skins star April Pearson and River City actor Simon Weir. We're crowd-funding in order to pay for expenses on the film and we're already at 40% with 36 days to get the rest of the funding. We've got lots of perks available including set visits and copies of the film on DVD. All details are at http://rki.lt/Zugl2j - thank you :)

20 years to the day, but is it Bill Murray's classic?

We are looking for short film submissions from talented scottish filmmakers, deadline for short films under 15 minutes is not until May 24th, all details can be found here at our website

Has anyone been watching Utopia on Channel 4? I'm totally hooked. Think it's the best thing I've seen on 4 for a LONG time. Weird and wonderfully dark themes and plot and fantastic cinematography in this macabre (almost Apocalyptic) drama. Thoroughly recommend you check it out!

Details of the third annual Festival of Silent Cinema in Bo'ness, the only one of its kind in Scotland.

New Scottish film fund, surely they should be investing more If the country generated £23M from Hollywood last year ? Apparently 2012 showed a 10% increase on the previous year.