It’s the second day of the 62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival and after a pretty sleepy first day – vague details of which in a second – things are really kicking off today as the program opens itself up to the public. Last night saw Sienna Miller and Keira Knightley in town to support John Maybury’s new one (and opening night film) The Edge Of Love. I wasn’t able to get into the screening or the after-show party at the nearby student union, but I did walk by the building itself. To my friend’s amazement, there was an actual red carpet laid out on the ground. Yes, red carpets are real. And they’re very carpety.
As a matter of fact, I’m inbetween films at the moment, currently waiting on a 1345 press screening of Standard Operating Procedure, the new documentary by Errol Morris. I just came out of The Visitor, Thomas McCarthy’s follow up to The Station Agent. It’s good – at points it’s even really good – but I can’t do the film justice with a five-minute write up. Expect a post on both films later on, as well as the evening showings of Milky Way Liberation Front and Blood Car tomorrow.
So, stay tuned.
