Glasgow loves cinema and offers a wide selection of entertainment to film goers and movie buffs alike. You can see all the latest big releases or catch an art house movie, participate in film quiz nights and enjoy special screenings.Women On The Edge Of A Nervous Breakdown, GFT, 6 September, 2016
The film that launched Almodóvar onto a global platform Tuesday 6 September (20.25) Running time: 1h28m The film that launched Almodóvar onto a global platform and earned the director multiple awards including BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film. Primarily set inside middle-aged voice actor Pepas’ penthouse apartment, the film details her attempts […]
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Thursday, September 1, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Captain Fantastic, GFT, Friday 9 – Sunday 18 September 2016
Viggo Mortensen stars as a father confronting the battle of what it means to be a parent. Friday 9 – Sunday 18 September Running time: 1h59m Devoted father Ben (Viggo Mortensen) lives a sustainable existence with his six children in the remote forests of the Pacific Northwest, teaching them literature, music and advanced survival skills. […]
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Hell Or High Water, GFT, Friday 9 – Thursday 15 September
A gripping, action packed Neo-Western. Friday 9 – Thursday 15 September, 2016 Running time: 1h42m Two brothers, Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner (Ben Foster) face the foreclosure of their family’s farm and decide to team up for a string of adrenaline filled heists. They soon find themselves on the radar of seasoned Texas Ranger, Marcus […]
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My Scientology Movie, GFT, 14 October, 2016
Louis Theroux’s first theatrical documentary sees him delve into the secretive world of Scientology. Friday 14 October (19.15) Running time: 1h39m + Q&A With a lifetime of experience dealing with eccentric and unexpected human behaviour, the unassuming Theroux won’t take no for an answer when his request to enter the Church of Scientology is turned […]
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Adapting Miss Highsmith Season at GFT, until 31 August, 2016
Adapting Miss Highsmith 21 – 31 August, 2016 GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer known for her psychological thrillers. More than two dozen film adaptations resulted from her writing and Glasgow Film Theatre have selected four of the best movies for […]
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Friday, August 26, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Digital Desperados Mommy is Coming Sat 27 August 2016 CCA
Satuday 27 August 2016 7pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema 18+ 0141 352 4900 Mommy is Coming Dir. Cheryl Dunye, 64 mins, USA 2012 Another classic from groundbreaking director Cheryl Dunye – this time revelling in a camp B-Movie aesthetic reminiscent of Bruce la Bruce – touches on taboos and offers up lots of dyke/transboi/queer sexual shananigans. […]
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Baltic Film Society, The Summer of Sangaile CCA Sunday 28 August, 2016
Baltic Film Society The Summer of Sangaile Sun 28 August 2016 CCA 4pm, £6 (£4) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Seventeen-year- old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl at a summer aeronautical show who discovers her most intimate secret and becomes the only person […]
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The Adventures of Prince Achmed, GFT 29 August, 2016
The Adventures of Prince Achmed With Live score The first full-length animated feature in the history of cinema, screened alongside a live score from Sink. Monday 29 August, 2016 Running time: 1h5m Widely considered to be the first full-length animated feature in the history of cinema, The Adventures of Prince Achmed is a beautifully crafted […]
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Tickled, GFT, 26 – 28 August, 2016
A thrilling stranger-than-fiction documentary. Friday 26 – Sunday 28 August Running time: 1h32m Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a “competitive endurance tickling” video online, wherein young men are paid to be tied up and tickled. Farrier reaches out to request an interview with the production company, but receives an abusive response threatening extreme legal action […]
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Thursday, August 25, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
A Poem Is A Naked Person, GFT, Sunday 21 August, 2016
A singular documentary about the beloved Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell Sunday 21 August, 2016 (17.30) Running time: 1h30m An ineffable mix of unbridled joy and vérité realism, this film presents the beloved Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell as filmed by documentarian Les Blank. Letting us into […]
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Friday, August 19, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, GFT Friday 19 – Monday 22 August, 2016
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words Glasgow Film Theatre An intimate portrait of one of the silver screen’s brightest stars Friday 19 – Monday 22 August, 2016 Running time: 1h54m Ingrid Bergman was a star of Hollywood’s Golden Era and a universally celebrated actor of American and World cinema. Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words […]
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The Childhood of A Leader, GFT, Friday 19 – Thursday 25 August 2016
The Childhood of a Leader Glasgow Film Theatre A chilling tale about the rise of fascism Friday 19 – Thursday 25 August Running time: 1h55m Brady Corbet’s debut feature is a chilling tale about the rise of fascism in the early 20th century. A young boy moves to the French countryside at the end of […]
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The Haystack featuring a Q&A with Joanna Cherry CCA 17 August, 2015
Scottish PEN presents The Haystack A FREE screening of the documentary, The Haystack Featuring a Q&A with Joanna Cherry QC MP, Olivia Cappuccini and David Irvine The CCA, 17th August, 6.15pm Did Orwell get it right, or is Big Brother bigger and more invasive now than ever envisaged? The Snowden revelations in 2013 demonstrated the […]
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Monday, August 15, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Fly, Friday 18 August, 2016 GFT
The Fly (18) David Cronenberg’s imaginative sci-fi classic. Friday 19 August (23.00) Running time: 1h36m Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) is an eccentric scientist working on teleportation. He offers journalis… More… Director David Cronenberg Cast Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, USA/UK/Canada 1986, 1h36m, 18 Buy tickets online 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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Friday, August 12, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Monterey Rock, GFT Sunday 14 August, 2016
Monterey Rock GFT A film about the greatest pre-Woodstock rock music festival Sunday 14 August (17.45) Running time: 1h19m Before he created his timeless and lengthy chronicle of Woodstock, D.A. Pennebaker documented the titular 3-day music festival that took place in 1967 San Francisco and featured performances from Ravi Shankar, The Mamas and Papas, […]
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This Sweet Sickness GFT Wednesday 17 August 2016
This Sweet Sickness GFT Claude Miller’s film version of Highsmith’s seventh novel featuring a boyish Gérard Depardieu Wednesday 17 August, 2017 (18.10) Running time: 1h47m Highsmith’s seventh novel This Sweet Sickness was first adapted for TV as part of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in 1962. Fifteen years later came the first film version by director […]
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Plein Soleil Sunday 14 August 2016 GFT
Plein Soleil Highsmith deemed Rene Clément’s picture to be ‘very beautiful to the eye and interesting for the intellect’. Sunday 14 August (19.30) Running time: 1h58m In the same year he starred in Luchino Visconti’s family drama Rocco and His Brothers, Alain Delon took on the role of Highsmith’s most famous character, the eponymous, ice-cold […]
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Weiner-dog GFT Friday 12 – Thursday 18 August
Weiner-dog GFT A dark but humorous tale of a travelling dog Friday 12 – Thursday 18 August Running time: 1h30m Todd Solondz (Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse) returns with this poignant tale of how a pet dachshund inspires the lives of those around him. Consisting of a series of vignettes, and with an all-star cast […]
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The Confession, GFT 16 – 18 August, 2016
August at GFT DocumentaryThe Confession (CTBC) A gripping documentary examining the rise of modern jihad Tuesday 16 – Thursday 18 August Running time: 1h30m From the rise of the Bosnian Mujahideen to the torture cells of Guantanamo Bay, and from rebel training camps in Syria to the prison-bars of Belmarsh, Moazzam Begg has lived through […]
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Thursday, August 11, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Botanic Gardens Outdoor Cinema 18 and 19 August, 2016
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The Wizard of Speed and Time and Live Special Effects Demo CCA
Thu 18 August 2016 7pm, £4 + £1 booking fee, Theatre 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Matchbox Cineclub Pura Sangre Thu 15 September 2016 HIS LIFE IS A SPECIAL EFFECT! Mike Jittlov is a struggling filmmaker, challenged to expand his special effects reel into a feature for a big-time film […]
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Up For Love GFT 5 – 11 August, 2016
August at GFT Comedy Foreign LanguageUp for Love (12A) A charming and sweet romance about a mismatched couple Friday 5 – Thursday 11 August Running time: 1h38m Diane (Virginie Efira) is a newly single lawyer who receives a call from a stranger after losing her phone. The pair hit it off and arrange to […]
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Friday, August 5, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Sweet Bean GFT 5 – 7 August, 2016
Sweet Bean (PG) A feel-good food movie Friday 5 – Sunday 7 August Running time: 1h53m Sentarô, a lonely Japanese baker hires an eccentric 76-year-old woman to be his new assistant, and soon learns that she has a wonderful recipe for red bean paste. Sentarô’s business begins to thrive and the pair’s relationship develops beyond […]
Cities: Fritz Lang Metropolis CCA 10 August, 2016
7pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema PG Book online / 0141 352 4900 Cities Fri 1 July — Fri 30 September 2016 Metropolis – Reconstructed and restored 2010 version Dir Fritz Lang, 1927 Fritz Lang’s expressionist dystopia is one of the first science fiction feature films, and is arguably the most influential. In a stunningly designed […]
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K2 and the Invisible Footmen CCA Monday 8 August, 2016
Mon 8 August 2016 CCA 7pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema 12+ 0141 352 4900 Digital Desperados Mommy is Coming Sat 27 August 2016 K2 and the Invisible Footmen Dir. Iara Lee, 55 mins, Pakistan 2015 Nicknamed the ‘savage mountain’ K2 is considered by many mountaineers an even greater prize than Everest with limited routes, a steeper […]
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K2 and the Invisible Footmen Mon 8 August 2016 CCA
Digital Desperados K2 and the Invisible Footmen Dir. Iara Lee, 55 mins, Pakistan 2015 Mon 8 August 2016 CCA 7pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema 12+ 0141 352 4900 Nicknamed the ‘savage mountain’ K2 is considered by many mountaineers an even greater prize than Everest with limited routes, a steeper ascent, and a harder push to its […]
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Sid and Nancy 30th Anniversary Edition, Film Review by Calum Maclean
Sid and Nancy 30th Anniversary Edition Directed by Alex Cox Written by Alex Cox & Abbe Wool Cast – Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Debby Bishop, Andrew Schofield, Courtney Love, Xander Berkeley, Perry Benson, Tony London, Barbara Coles, Iggy Pop & Kathy Burke Alex Cox’s 1986 depiction of the life, love, and self-destruction of […]
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Thursday, August 4, 2016 | Filed under: Calum Maclean – poet and aspiring writer, Cinema, Film Reviews by Calum Maclean, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Author: The JT LeRoy Story 9 – 11 August, 2016 GFT
The story behind the celebrated literary figure JT LeRoy Tuesday 9 – Thursday 11 August Running time: 1h51m In its October 2005 issue, New York magazine ran a piece detailing how celebrated literary figure JT Leroy was actually a creation from the mind of 40-year-old San Francisco punk rocker and phone sex operator Laura Albert. […]
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Gregory’s Girl, GFT, Saturday 6 August, 2016
Gregory’s Girl Probably the most beloved Scottish film ever made Saturday 6 August (16.00) Running time: 1h29m GFT BAFTA-winning Gregory’s Girl is probably the most beloved Scottish film ever made. Writer-director Bill Forsyth beautifully portrays the awkwardness and cock-eyed optimism of adolescence in a film that captures school life like no other. John Gordon […]
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Radiohead: Meeting People Is Easy GFT Sunday 7 August, 2016
Radiohead” Meeting People Is Easy The classic Radiohead doc plus a special 35mm showing of their latest video ‘Daydreaming’. Sunday 7 August (17.20) Running time: 1h35m Following the release of Radiohead’s ninth studio album and subsequent world tour, GFT takes a look back at the turning point in the career of the much-celebrated torchbearers for […]
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