ONE of the criticisms of last year's Edinburgh International Film Festival was that it lacked the wow factor when it came to visiting stars.
This year, new artistic director Chris Fujiwara made up for that in style, by the simple act of picking up the phone to Elliott Gould.
With the Oscar-nominated star of Mash, The Long Goodbye and the Oceans series appearing in a film in the festival (the indie drama Fred, about an ageing couple struggling to cope), Fujiwara asked Gould to come to Scotland and chair the best international feature jury.
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