At Critic’s Notebook, reports from the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

This year’s theme: I like the stuff that nobody else does and I don’t care.

Robert Duvall wheezes up a storm in Get Low.

Brillante Mendoza stays confrontational in Lola.

The Upper East Side is a jovial madhouse in The Extra Man.

Edinburgh weaves a spell of its own in The Illusionist.

Jennifer Lawrence becomes a star in Winter’s Bone.

Edit to add: Picked up by Mubi‘s EIFF round up.