Photos: (main) LE MILLION poster and (left to right) BORDERLINE, WAXWORKS, THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA THE SEASON. This was the Edinburgh Film Guild’s 2nd season of film screenings, held during 1931-1932. One of the principal objectives was “to…
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,…
Articles that may be of interest to those who attended our screening of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s ‘A Season in France’ (23 February 2024) at the Institut français d’Écosse. Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the film, please note that key plot…
Articles that may be of interest to those who attended our screening of Jacques Tati’s ‘Jour de fête’ (26 January 2024) at the Institut français d’Écosse. Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the film, please note that key plot elements…
Articles and interviews that may be of interest to those who attended our screening of Céline Sciamma’s ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ (15 December 2023) at the Institut français d’Écosse. Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the film, please…
Articles that may be of interest to those who attended our screening of Georges Franju’s ‘Eyes Without A Face’ (24 November 2023) at the Institut français d’Écosse. Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the film, please note that key plot…
Articles that may be of interest to those who attended our screening of Jean Renoir’s ‘Boudu Saved From Drowning’ (20 October 2023) at the Institut français d’Écosse. Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the film, please note that key plot…
The Edinburgh Film Guild’s historical archive is a collection of materials stretching back to the late 1920s. It had been our intention, for several years, to transfer the various parts of the archive to institutions that could preserve, catalogue and…
We have now archived the information on our 2022/2023 season of films, held at the Institut français d’Écosse. In keeping with the Guild’s educational aims and for future reference, we are retaining descriptions of past programmes and our ‘follow-up’ posts…
Guild screenings at the Institut français d’Écosse (French Institute of Scotland) began in 2020 with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and our decision to cancel our season of films in our small, poorly ventilated, Guild cinema. Our search for…
