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Interesting news · Tuesday 28 July
Montrose LandxSea film festival returns on 11 September
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Montrose LandxSea returns to the Montrose Playhouse from 11 to 13 September, and the programme went on sale last week. Twenty-two films, eight Scottish premieres, one European premiere. The theme this year is Hold Fast.
Opening night is Derek vs Derek, James Dawson's documentary about two neighbouring Devon farmers, both called Derek, who have ended up on opposite sides of an argument about food and nature. Elsewhere the programme takes in Bolivia, Iraq, Nigeria, Croatia and Scotland's deep time, with filmmaker Q&As attached to most of it.
The one to look out for is Finis Terrae, Jean Epstein's 1929 silent film, restored and shown with a newly composed live score. Glenda Rome's debut feature Expressing the Earth follows James Hutton's deep time and the poet Kenneth White through Scotland's wild places. Printed guides arrive in mid-August.
A riverside walk from Edzell through a little blue door in an estate wall by Gannochy Bridge, then up the gorge of the North Esk to the Rocks of Solitude.
Out now
Hidden Scotland, in print
Angus, at length.
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Historic Environment Scotland published an audit on 23 July which found only around 240 buildings in the whole of Scotland still have Angus flagstone roofing.
