Edinburgh, week 1.

"Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller are among the stars attending the opening night of the Edinburgh International Film Festival," reports the BBC. And they're there tonight because the "opening night gala features the World premiere of the Dylan Thomas biopic - The Edge of Love," recently reviewed by Kate Stables in Sight & Sound.

Updated through 6/20.

The London Times has a video interview with the two actresses, Kevin Maher's profile of Miller and Wendy Ide's review: "[W]hat soon becomes clear is that Thomas (played with a petulant sneer by Matthew Rhys [profile: Chris Ayres]) is not the focus. It's the enduring, turbulent friendship between the women, Thomas's wife Caitlin MacNamara (Sienna Miller) and his childhood sweetheart Vera Philips (Keira Knightley), that drives the movie."

The Scotsman finds that "the film remains peculiarly unmoving."

The Guardian's got a special section featuring Peter Bradshaw's "top 10 picks to whet the appetite."

Updates, 6/19: For Dina Iordanova, the festival's move from August to June makes sense.

Online listening tip. The Observer's Jason Solomons on opening night.

Update, 6/20: Ray Harryhausen will be discussing his life and work at the festival on Wednesday. Geoffrey Macnab profiles him for the Independent.

Posted by dwhudson at June 18, 2008 2:14 PM