Guild Season: 2023-2024
Photos (left to right): PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE, EYES WITHOUT A FACE, A SEASON IN FRANCE THE SEASON. This was the Edinburgh Film Guild’s 94th season and the 2nd full season of screenings at the Institut francais d’Écosse,…
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Follow-up: Jacques Becker & ‘Edward and Caroline’
Below: Links to articles providing further information on Jacques Becker’s ‘Edward and Caroline’ (1951), which screened 11 April 2025 at the Institut français d’Écosse. Director Jacques Becker and actress Anouk Aimee on set. Édouard et Caroline (Edward and Caroline) Review…
Follow-up: Henri-Georges Clouzot & La vérité
La vérité: Women on Trial (Ginette Vincendeau, Feb 12, 2019, Criterion Essays) Henri-Georges Clouzot (David Hudson, 08 December 2011 | A retrospective is on at MoMA through Christmas Eve and at the Harvard Film Archive) La vérité (Blu-ray.com review) La…
Film Decor: Art Direction In The Cinema, 1943
An exhibition by the Edinburgh Film Guild held at the National Gallery of Scotland, August 27th to September 18th 1943 “Allocation of credit for a good film and blame for a bad one has always been difficult in the cinema,…
Guild 50th Anniversary Season, 1979-1980
Images: BLUE COLLAR (main) and (left to right) AUTUMN SONATA, THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE LACEMAKER THE SEASON. The Edinburgh Film Guild celebrated its 50th Anniversary during its 1979-1980 season. This was the second year of screenings at ‘Filmhouse’,…
Guild 40th Anniversary Season: 1969-1970
Photo (left to right): KWAIDAN, THE COMEDY OF TERRORS, WHO SAW HIM DIE THE SEASON. The Edinburgh Film Guild celebrated its 40th Anniversary during its 1969-1970 season. THE SCREENINGS took place in the Guild Cinema at ‘Film House’, 3 Randolph…
Guild 30th Anniversary Season: 1959-1960
Photos: (main) FUNNY FACE (left to right) REAR WINDOW, THE GRASSHOPPER, FOUR CHIMNEYS THE SEASON. The Edinburgh Film Guild celebrated both its 30th Anniversary and its move to a new ‘Film House’ during the 1959-1960 season. SCREENINGS The main performances…
Guild Season: 1946-1947
Photos: (main) L’ETERNAL RETOUR poster and (left to right) HETS (TORMENT, FRENZY), IVAN THE TERRIBLE, CITIZEN KANE THE SEASON. “The 17th Season of the Edinburgh Film Guild opens at a time of new ideas and new opportunities. The season will…
Guild Season: 1945-1946
Images (left to right): TAQDEER, LERMONTOV, RAMUNTCHO THE SEASON. “The 16th Season of the Edinburgh Film Guild opens at the beginning of a new age. During the difficult years of war, we composed our programmes as best we could to…
Follow-up: Jacques Becker & ‘Touchez pas au grisbi’
Articles that may be of interest to those who attended our screening of Jacques Becker & ‘Don’t Touch the Loot (Touchez Pas au Grisbi)’, 22 March 2024 at the Institut français d’Écosse. Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the film,…