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Japan: Land for Hope
3rd - 24th February, 2012
- Friday 03 Feb 'Hotel Hibiscus'
- Friday 10 Feb 'Penguins in the Sky - Asahiyama Zoo'
- Friday 17 Feb 'The Face of Jizo'
- Friday 24 Feb 'Zen'
Venue: The Gilmorehill Centre, University of Glasgow, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12
What's On at GFT - full programme
Glasgow Film: GFT and Glasgow Film Festival / 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB / Box office: 0141 332 6535
Winner of Best Director at Sundance: Martha Marcy May Marlene
Friday 3 - Thursday 16 February
Winner of the Best Director prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and an official selection at Cannes and Toronto, Durkin's powerful debut stars Elizabeth Olsen as a young woman who flees a deranged cult in rural New York and seeks refuge with her sister. With no other family to lean on, Martha tries desperately to rebuild relations with her sister but her re-assimilation into 'normal' life is undermined by recurring flashbacks and paranoia, to the point where she begins to lose her grip on reality. With chillingly beautiful cinematography, this is a film that claws its way into you slowly, rippling with a horrible sense of threat right up until the unnerving conclusion.
The screening on Tuesday 7 February (18.15) is a GFT Screen Salon.
Vote for your favourite: British Animation Awards 2012
Programme 1: Thursday 2 February (18.10)
Programme 2: Monday 6 February (18.15)
Programme 3: Wednesday 8 February (18.15)
Your chance to vote for winners in the British Animation Awards 2012!
The British Animation Awards invite you to vote for winners in three categories, by viewing then casting your vote on forms supplied at the screenings. Each of the three programmes - containing a mix of animated shorts, music videos and commercials - offer an opportunity to see the cream of a fantastic range of animated films made over the past two years.
Voting forms will be handed out at the start of each screening.
Full British Animation Awards series details
Glasgow Youth Film Festival: Terri
Thursday 9 February (20.30)
When quiet student Terri is teased for his pudgy frame he responds by wearing pyjamas to class. His odd behaviour attracts the attention of Vice-Principal Mr Fitzgerald (John C Reilly) whose inept efforts to motivate Terri only make matters worse. High school movies about awkward misfits are common and Terri could have easily become a series of indie cliches. Thankfully, the film excels where many others fail with its honest storytelling and performances. A big hit at Sundance last year, Terri is moving, original and, above all, very funny.
This screening is part of Glasgow Youth Film Festival.
Full Glasgow Youth Film Festival season details
Glasgow Youth Film Festival: The Muppets
Sunday 5 February (16.30)
It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights!
Kermit the Frog is back on the big screen, and this time, he's teaming up with Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper and newcomer Walter, plus the whole Muppet gang, for a brand-new, big-screen adventure in Disney's The Muppets.
On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, his brother Gary (Jason Segel) and Gary's girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams), discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theatre and drill for oil. To stage 'The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever' and raise the $10 million needed to save the theatre, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate.
This event has now SOLD OUT. Please see the link below for more fantastic films at Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2012.
Full Glasgow Youth Film Festival season details
Oscar nominated: The Descendants
Until Thursday 9 February
The new film by Alexander 'Sideways' Payne, The Descendants stars George Clooney as Matt King, the heir of a prominent Hawaiian land-owning family whose life is turned upside down when his wife is critically injured in a water-skiing accident. Accustomed to being the 'back-up parent', Matt suddenly finds himself centre-stage in the lives of his two young daughters, while at the same time being forced to decide the fate of a vast plot of unspoiled land his family has owned since the 1860s, and coping with the revelation that his wife held secrets he never imagined... Rooted in Clooney's beautifully understated performance, Payne's film is exquisitely sad and irresistibly funny all at once - the 2012 Oscars race starts here.
Oscar nominations 2012: Best Picture; Best Actor (George Clooney); Best Director (Alexander Payne); Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing.
Coming soon: A Dangerous Method
Friday 10 - Thursday 16 February
Cronenberg has past form when it comes to films dealing in the darker human impulses, and at least one critic has seen this latest effort as a Merchant Ivory-ish version of his earlier masterpiece Rabid (minus the oozing viscera and wriggling, blood-hungry parasites). Adapted from Christopher Hampton's play The Talking Cure, it charts the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his protege-turned-dissenter Carl Jung, as it was shaped by the case of Sabina Spielrein, a young woman patient he was treating with Freud's controversial new 'talking cure'. Featuring an electrifying trio of lead actors, who turn these forbidding historical figures into real flesh and blood, this is a fascinating film that brings ideas - and history - to life.
Coming soon: Slacker 2011
Friday 10 February (20.30)
Richard Linklater's hilarious debut feature Slacker (1991) caught a generation of over-qualified under-achievers on film and reanimated American independent cinema. His film followed a series of hipsters and oddballs over a twenty-four-hour period, taking in weird obsessions, rituals and even matricide along the way. To mark Slacker's 20th anniversary, the Austin Film Society, which Linklater founded, invited twenty-four filmmakers to remake a scene each. Some chose to update the script, others tracked down original cast members. What emerges is a love letter to a city whose laidback spirit, despite two decades of change, remains the same.
We are delighted to welcome producer Daniel Metz to introduce this European premiere screening.
This screening is part of Glasgow Short Film Festival and Glasgow Youth Film Festival.
Live broadcast: NT Live: Travelling Light
Thursday 9 February (19.00)
The National Theatre's Travelling Light couldn't be better timed with The Artist's awards-season smash success. Like The Artist, it's another love letter to early moviemaking.
Nicholas Wright's play is set in a shtetl in Eastern Europe where a young man, Motl Mendl, finds his dead father's Lumiere Brothers Cinematographe and starts filming (and screening) moving pictures around the village. We follow as Motl experiences cinema as a completely new artform: there are many laughs as he figures out filming, editing, and suffers through nitpicky test screenings, casting couches and creative differences. We also meet Motl as an older man, in 1930's Hollywood where he's a mogul rechristened Maurice Montgomery (the play highlights how Jewish heritage made its stamp on the early days of Hollywood).
Silent films (new, but impressively vintage-looking) projected on set as part of the production bring that love of cinema to the forefront of the show.
The star attraction is Antony Sher as the overbearing producer, playing alongside relative newcomer Damien Molony in an energetic double performance as Motl and a Hollywood actor.
National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner (The History Boys) directs.
This is a live broadcast.
Tickets are £15 / £10 to CineCard holders.
Frozen Landscapes: Encounters at the End of the World
Sunday 5 (15.15) & Tuesday 7 February (12.45)
German maverick Werner Herzog continues his investigations into man's relationship with nature in this characteristically quirky yet profound portrait of the inhabitants of the McMurdo Research Station in the South Pole. Who are these men and women who choose to live in extreme Antarctic conditions, shunning society at large, he asks? Well, they're a mixed bag of scientists, handymen and restless souls, among them a much-travelled biologist whose party piece involves being zipped up inside a suitcase. While many might brand these people eccentrics, Herzog prefers the term 'professional dreamers'. To him they are seers, aware of what the modern world still refuses to confront: that nature is very likely to shake off mankind and renew itself - 'the end of the world' has a double meaning here.
This is the final film in our Frozen Landscapes season.
Geek Film Night: Soylent Green
Sunday 5 February (19.45)
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary new foodstuff...
This screening will be preceded by a Q&A with BAFTA award-winning comedian, writer, loudmouth wrestling fan and geek Billy Kirkwood, who has chosen this month's film. Chaired by Mark Millar.
Full Geek Film Night series details
Free family films: Take 2: The Smurfs
Saturday 4 February (11.30)
The loveable blue Smurfs tumble into our world.
This screening is audio described and captioned.
Access Take 2: The Smurfs
Saturday 4 February (12.30)
The loveable blue Smurfs tumble into our world.
Special screening for children with Autism.
Glasgow Young Scot and Kidz Card holders and an accompanying adult get in FREE to Take 2 and Access Take 2 screenings. Free tickets only available on the day from GFT Box Office. Other tickets cost £4 and are available to buy now online.
Film Discussion Group
Wednesday 8 February (18.30)
This group meets on the second Wednesday of each month in the upstairs bar at GFT to discuss both blockbusters and arthouse movies. Led by film writer Eddie Harrison. Come along to chat about recent releases with other film lovers.
Films up for discussion this month include Coriolanus, Martha Marcy May Marlene and The Descendants.
Free
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