Paul Ridd
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Festival Director, Edinburgh International Film Festival. Opinions my own.
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EIFF 2024 has drawn to a close. So proud of everything the team has achieved, all our collaborations, all our filmmakers and guests, and the many, many events and screenings that took place across the seven days of the festival. EIFF 2025, bring it on!
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Absolutely sensational that someone at Variety thinks Tom Cruise is called ‘Vincent Collateral’ in COLLATERAL. Just truly transcendent.
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The thing about watching trashy, throwaway Hollywood movies from the 90s is that they all just look so good, with proper shot compositions, lighting & logical camera movement. Also great to see good blocking & action editing. Depressing that these things aren’t just a given now.
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Five days into January and already the dumbest take on cinema has dropped. Going to be hard to top this one.
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The news is out. I am delighted to be taking on this new role at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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Jonathan Glazer's THE ZONE OF INTEREST is in cinemas today. I was truly shaken by it. It's rare to see a film as unique as this, or one as fearlessly committed to a new kind of formal language. A truly unshakeable and absolutely essential experience.
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Everything would get a little bit better if everyone stopped saying ‘content’ in the context of actual filmmaking. Truly dismal language.
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My beautiful Dad died last Friday after a long illness. He was just the gentlest, most compassionate person, full of knowledge and love for literature, music and cinema. I will miss him terribly.
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One fun thing about UNSANE is that the villain looks like your prototypical film twitter dude sliding into DMs just to chat.
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@BrndnStrssng
Thank you! Also I feel like conventions of make up and lighting have hung over from film era and older digital formats resulting in hideously ugly/artificial looking films shot in punishing HD. Also colour grading is a disaster in vast swathes of mainstream films!
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I have never been killed by vicious drug dealers and transformed into a robotic cop, so ROBOCOP didn't work for me.
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People complain about visual murk, flatness & ugliness in modern action cinema, or dull, lifeless staging, but also spare a thought for understanding where anyone or anything fucking is moment to moment.
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Absolutely buzzing from INFINITY POOL, it’s the absolute business. A visually and sonically ravishing explosion of psychedelic sex, sadism & gory violence with a darkly satirical take on the bleakness of tourism & fragile masculinity. Cinema!
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Really feel like I’m on drugs whenever I see yet another post or article about the ‘ambiguous ending’ of POWER OF THE DOG. It’s spelled out clearly what happened! What is going on?
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TÁR is absolutely ferocious. Narratively and thematically rich. Full of breathtaking imagery. An absolute showcase for Blanchett. Also extremely funny when it isn't being deeply unsettling. Big wow.
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Rewatching MAGNOLIA. The sheer fucking guts of going two hours twenty mins deep and saying ‘I know, let’s have them all do a sing-song’. Absolutely outstanding swing.
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Could not be happier with this one. Our first
@PicturehouseEnt
film with Hirokazu Kore-eda. A dream come true to work on his latest film at
@Festival_Cannes
!
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Winding down after smashing 2nd edition of The World’s Biggest Ever All Nighter at
@CentralPictureH
. 7AM Jaffa Cake run with
@edgarwright
&
@sam_clements
a highlight. Everyone in his sold out screen got one. True spirit of the thing. Long live cinema & the
@picturehouses
crew!
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Revisited HERO. What a film. Some of the most gorgeous actors on the planet engaged in staggering, graceful combat. Hardly 5 minutes goes by without someone shedding a single, lovely tear. Compositions, colours & shot sequences that make you gasp at their wild beauty. Cinema!
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If you are live tweeting performative outrage DURING a screening at the cinema, absolutely get in the bin forever.
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Fans of
@BabyDriverMovie
don't miss
@edgarwright
's
#ShaunoftheDead
this Fri back on the big screeen
@CentralPictureH
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THE KILLER is a total pleasure. A lean, mean & stripped back, elemental study of a delusional assassin obsessed with process. Visually & sonically slick, a joy.
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Truly moved by Kore-eda's direct, funny, exquisitely acted and beautifully shot melodrama BROKER tonight in the Lumiere
@Festival_Cannes
. Thrilled to be bringing this one to the UK via.
@PicturehouseEnt
.
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I loved Francis Lee’s AMMONITE, a richly atmospheric, superbly acted & sensuous costume film about a blossoming love affair (but so much more) set against the backdrop of austere Lyme coastline. Just as with GOC, the vivid feel for place/texture/sensation shines. A major talent.
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New Woo looks absolutely fantastic!
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Absolutely thrilled that
@PicturehouseEnt
has its first Palme D’Or winning film with Justine Triet’s extraordinary ANATOMY OF A FALL. Team work makes the dream work!
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This film deserved more love.
Enjoyed FIRST MAN, a grown-up & elegant film about grief, emotional stuntedness & facing death, lunar exploration as a backdrop rich with metaphoric potential. Chazelle’s preoccupations - obsessive work, abdication of social life, macho posturing - all present but problematised.
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Delighted that our Pic Ent title BABYTEETH is in UK cinemas from this Friday, 14 Aug. Fell in love with this film last year at Venice. You won’t see a sweeter, more tender, more heartbreaking film this year.
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The man himself is in the building. Gaspar Noé, here to present four of his films for the World’s Biggest All Nighter at
@CentralPictureH
!
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Thrilled to have Nora Fingscheidt's beautiful new film THE OUTRUN opening our festival. Also incredibly excited that the legendary Thelma Schoonmaker has graciously allowed us to name our new shorts prize in her honour. Thelma will join us in August at the festival. Bring it on.
📣 The UK Premiere of The Outrun will open this year's EIFF
🎞 We can also reveal the name of our short film competition: The Thelma Schoonmaker Prize for Short Filmmaking Excellence, Thelma will be in attendance
Full story
📸
@StudiocanalUK
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The magnificent
@monosfilm
hit
@NetflixUK
today. So proud of this
@PicturehouseEnt
release. If you haven't seen it, rectify immediately. Staggering stuff!
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Very proud our
@PicturehouseEnt
film, Sean Durkin’s remarkable psychological thriller THE NEST is now streaming on
@NetflixUK
. Get on it.
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Nothing in cinema makes it clearer to me as a viewer that we are now in London than hearing the opening chords of 'London Calling' played over stock footage of London.
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When I was 20 I wrote a horrifically bad play about my first break up and made a bunch of friends read it out loud. Thinking of it now makes me full body cringe. I am so sorry, everyone.
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En route to host the Opening Night of our relaunched
@edfilmfest
, the stunning THE OUTRUN from Nora Fingscheidt. Kicking off seven days of films, talks, events and fun. Thanks to
@SCBespoke
for the excellent suit. Bring it on.
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Same old song, but column inches dedicated to reviewing films that don’t really need any more blanket coverage to reach/grow an audience, at the expense of art house films that 100% do, continues to be a depressing inevitability in UK criticism.
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Seven months of hard teamwork
@edfilmfest
. 37 New Feature Films, 5 Shorts Programmes, 4 Rep Screenings, Filmmaker Talks & Industry Programme + 2 brand new World Premiere Competitions decided by Audience Vote. Could not be prouder of the team. Bring it on!
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One of the most profoundly underrated and under-seen masterpieces of this century. Never miss an op to see it in the cinema!
10 years after the death of her husband, a woman gets a surprise visit from a boy who claims he is her dead husband reincarnated. Don't miss Nicole Kidman in Jonathan Glazer's BIRTH – showing from 35mm on 1st & 24th July. 🎟️
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Was honoured to be asked to contribute to this year's
@SightSoundmag
poll of The Greatest Films of All Time. My votes here, with the note I also included.
#SightAndSoundPoll
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Our latest
@PicEntFilms
film, Quentin Dupieux's hilarious SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING hits UK cinemas today. This is our second
@oizo3000
release after DEERSKIN. Killer style. Get on it.
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Blown away by Todd Haynes’ sly, disturbing meta melodrama MAY DECEMBER. Loved its self-conscious play on the vampiric nature of performance and TV movie flourishes - hilariously overwrought score, those zooms! - in dialogue with its deadly serious themes & psychological realism.
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Fri/Sat
@HackneyPH
@edgarwright
's modern classic SHAUN OF THE DEAD returns to the big screen!
http://t.co/PDMXv9veC5
http://t.co/VrJKUiufTN
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It's a year since my beautiful dad died right at the start of LFF 2021. In his honour I wrote a few words about fathers, fatherhood and the patriarchy in some of my favourite films at
#LFF2022
Wish he was about to see some of these brilliant films!
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This place used to be where you could have long, fun arguments about films with your pals. Now some random idiot posts a tweet saying it's their human right to defecate on the floor in the cinema and we then have to endure a day of people litigating the idea.
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Our beautiful new UK poster for Marie Kreutzer's CORSAGE, coming to cinemas Dec 26 via.
@PicturehouseEnt
. Plus our new trailer:
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Trying to think of a more abominable character devoid of redeeming features than Alan Rickman’s sexy coworker in LOVE ACTUALLY. She exists purely to create havoc. A pure legend.
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If you're into Teen Slasher Movies, Foucault & Film Theory, my MA thesis might be for you!
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Absolutely over the moon about this one. ABOUT DRY GRASSES is such an invigorating experience for the mind and soul. Thrilled to have our first Ceylan at
@PicturehouseEnt
and be back in business with
@PlaytimeIntl
. Cinema!
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Over the moon to announce our EIFF dates for the 2024 edition and tease our new look Competitions. Bring it on!
Mark your diaries! We're excited to return for our 77th edition this year, running from 15 - 21 August 2024 💫
Read more:
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Wonderful news about Jafar Panahi. His wife posted this pic, just beautiful.
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It’s also super refreshing to see properly fleshed out romantic and sexual chemistry between characters. And sex scenes. Because sex is really cool!
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Collaborations across decades with Pakula, Roeg, Gray, Minghella, Eastwood, Stone, Redford, Fellini, Bertolucci, Aldrich, Russell, Schlesinger, Chabrol and so many more. An absolutely wild body of work. RIP.
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Thrilled we have picked up Hirozaku Kore-Eda's beautiful new film MONSTER for
@PicturehouseEnt
. Such a rich and moving film.
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Two years ago I was in Cannes talking to my lovely Dad on the phone about the films we were seeing and chasing after. I wish he was still around to see all the films we've seen and picked up here. I know he'd have had such amazing, thoughtful things to say about them.
My beautiful Dad died last Friday after a long illness. He was just the gentlest, most compassionate person, full of knowledge and love for literature, music and cinema. I will miss him terribly.
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I think it would be great to see a drive to hear more voices in criticism at festivals combined with a mandate to cover smaller films that really need more coverage.
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News is out on our final
@PicturehouseEnt
acquisition from
#Cannes2023
. ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS is such a compelling and beautiful film from director Wei Shujun. Cannot wait for us to bring this to UK/Ireland audiences.
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For those who frequent hallowed institutions such as BFI South Bank, a ‘Bagman’ also refers to a formidable cinephile gentleman who attends for example an 11AM showing of RIO BRAVO on a Sunday, carrying with him various ambiguous plastic bags.
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Could not be happier that we will be releasing ANATOMY OF A FALL in UK/Ireland via
@PicturehouseEnt
. Thrilled to be working with Justine Triet and the film team on this extraordinary film.
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Tonight's film for
@picturehouses
#CannesWatchAtHome
is Michael Haneke's devastating Palme D'Or winner AMOUR from the 2012 edition of
@Festival_Cannes
. Superlative performances & exquisite formal simplicity. A rigorous lack of sentimentality but so much heart. His best film?
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Just met the Dardennes. Have basically peaked. Seeing THE CHILD at the Ipswich Film Theatre with my beautiful Dad on release basically rewired my brain for a new kind of cinema. Heaven to have their latest film for the UK via.
@PicturehouseEnt
.
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With ANOTHER ROUND finally in UK cinemas, I wrote about Thomas Vinterberg's thrilling, gutsy cinema for
@bfi
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Maybe it’s time to stop spending so much time and money on superhero films and concentrate on making mid-budget films for adults about human stuff like sex and existential crises with real film stars interacting with one another like Hollywood did before.
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First cinema trip in months was hallucinatory nightmare masterpiece BLOW OUT in the newly refurbished NFT1, such a rich & vivid experience. Popping colour, peak DePalma maximalist aesthetic & gorgeous Pino D score blasted out loud. What a gorgeous, terrifying film.
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Also finally saw IN A LONELY PLACE over the weekend. Where has this beautiful, horribly sad film been all my life? Extraordinary.
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Second time seeing LICORICE PIZZA tonight. What a delight. Any conversation about the best performances in American movies this year that doesn’t include Cooper Hoffman & Alana Haim is absurd. Such grace, naturalism and humour. What a film.
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Beyond insulting and disrespectful to see a critic saying simply ‘retire’ about one of the greatest filmmakers alive. Everything wrong with flippant crap, worthless takes.
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Very honoured to be on
@Screendaily
’s
#ScreenFutureLeaders
list amongst a bunch of brilliant colleagues & friends.
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Just watched LINK, a 1986 film about a young woman (Elizabeth Shue) being menaced by a psychotic monkey butler in a remote seaside house owned by mad scientist (Terrence Stamp). An absolutely deranged vision and masterpiece.
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Been sitting on this for a while, absolutely delighted to say Picturehouse Entertainment will be releasing Paul Schrader’s immense FIRST REFORMED theatrically across the UK, 13 July.
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Can't stop thinking about LICORICE PIZZA, just such a delight and so, so funny. I love PTA littering the film with these little dramatic/comedic red herrings that you think will be returned to, but the film just keeps moving on and on, never stopping or circling back. A pure joy.
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An absolutely sensational discovery.
Studios have “come to recognize that having an exclusive theatrical window is the best way to maximize profits instead of releasing everything simultaneously on demand,” says analyst Eric Handler.
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Saw Phil Tippett’s frighteningly intense mix media animation MAD GOD
@FilmFestLocarno
today, a totally unique, ecstatic blend of apocalyptic stop motion steampunk violence, gross-out gore and body horror, quasi-religious imagery & psychedelic euphoria. Pure cinema!
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Absolutely over the moon about this one. What a filmmaker! What a film! Go team
@PicturehouseEnt
. More news to follow.
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The last year of my beautiful Dad’s life was spent in and out of hospitals, often alone for long stretches of time, and by and large unable to see me or the rest of the family in person because of the rules. Shame on these callous, blundering oafs.
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Great evening last night with screening of VORTEX & Gaspar Noé career talk at
@bfi
. Huge props to
@annabdemented
&
@Brownstu
for their expert on stage hosting. Amazing to hear Noé speak in depth about his career & films. VORTEX is in UK cinemas Fri 13 May via
@PicturehouseEnt
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Absolutely sensational shade from this legend. Forever RIP.
CHRISTOPHER REEVE talks to Letterman about working with Marlon Brando on SUPERMAN (1978). Reeve was not impressed with the legendary actor...
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After much soul searching and narrowing down of a hefty list, came up with these as my Top 10 favourite films of the decade!
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This Saturday,
@CentralPictureH
hosts The World's Biggest Ever All Nighter. Seven screens. Seven curated programmes. Obviously I'm psyched for the
@animus_mag
& Gaspar Noé-hosted screen & the Cinema Speculation screen. But there is much more to explore...
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Over the moon to see our beautiful
@PicturehouseEnt
title BABYTEETH up for a
@BAFTA
for Best Director. Massive congrats to Shannon Murphy, a superb talent.
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One of the best films ever. Dying to see it in the cinema.
A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his flat for trysts, but complications & a romance of his own ensue. Catch Jack Lemmon & Shirley MacLaine in Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT on 2nd, 11th & 31st Dec! 🎟️
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A BOY AND HIS DOG newly on UK Blu-ray from
@101FilmsUK
is an absolutely essential purchase for anyone interested in exploring the maddest American films of the 1970s. Revisited it for the first time in years tonight, uniquely bananas. Go in blind.
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THE NORTHMAN. Love it when a film hits a crescendo of preposterous intensity five minutes in, doesn’t let up and then still has gas in the tank for the final stretch. Bewilderingly metal film, so much fun!
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Imagine being 11 years old and a sarcastic hat decides if you'll be evil forever, madness.
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