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Article: Does anyone rate the Edinburgh Film Festival? Maybe it's time they did. By Teddy Jamieson
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 13, 1995
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Raising the dead is not a skill you'd expect of a film festival
programmer. But the publication of the 1995 Edinburgh Film Festival
programme tomorrow may be accompanied by a few prayers that the
festival's new director, Mark Cousins, is capable of a spot of
resurrection.
For, if not dead, Edinburgh has certainly been feeling very
poorly in recent years, according to its critics. One of Britain's
most prestigious film festivals, renowned for its retrospectives
and championing of international cinema, it has been accused of
losing its way in the 1990s. Charges of unimaginative programming
and amateur staging, allied to problems of underfunding and
increasing competition from other festivals, ...