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.Radical Film Network and Unconference Glasgow 29 April – 2 May, 2016
A unique and innovative constellation of events April 29 – May 2, 2016 Over the 2016 May Day holiday weekend (29 April to 2 May), Glasgow will host the Radical Film Network festival and unconference. This unique and innovative constellation of events brings together the collective efforts of activists, academics, and cultural workers from […]
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Saturday, April 30, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Messenger, GFT until 5 May, 2016
The Messenger GFT Until 5 May, 2016 The latest documentary by award-winning filmmaker Su Rynard explores our deep-seated connection to birds The latest documentary by award-winning filmmaker Su Rynard explores our deep-seated connection to birds, warning that the uncertain fate of songbirds might mirror our own. Moving from the northern reaches of the Boreal […]
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Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures GFT until Monday 2 May, 2016
Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures The controversial photographer’s life and legacy. Friday 29 April – Monday 2 May, 2016 Running time: 1h48m Robert Mapplethorpe was a controversial figure; his bold, unflinching and often graphic photography captured the late 20th Century New York underground at its most daring, pushing boundaries and breaking taboos. Using a […]
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Demolition, GFT until 5 May, 2016
GFT Until 5 May, 2016 Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal), a successful investment banker, struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. Despite pressure from his father-in-law Phil (Chris Cooper) to pull it together, Davis continues to unravel. What starts as a complaint letter to a vending machine company turns into a series of letters […]
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West Side Story, GFT Sat 1 and Sun 2 May, 2016
One of the boldest adaptations of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Sunday 1 & Monday 2 MayRunning time: 2h31m One of the boldest adaptations of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, this Oscar-winning musical transposes the eternal story of doomed romance to the mean streets of 1950s New York City. The feuding families of Shakespeare’s story […]
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For All, e-book published by Glasgow Film Theatre featuring Glasgow writers
Glasgow Film Theatre is excited to announce the publication of For All, a free e-book exploring equality and featuring new work by Glasgow based writers, animators and musicians. Funded by Creative Scotland’s Promoting Equalities Programme (PEP), and published by Ringwood Publishing, the book is the end product of GFT’s ‘For All’ project, which began […]
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Fail Better Big Red May Day Social, Saturday 30 April, 2016
STUC Woodlands Road, 333 Woodlands Rd, Glasgow G3 6NG Fail Better brings you a whole night of Bands, DJs, and very special guests to celebrate the Radical Film Festival, and dance into the early hours of International Workers Day. songs and glamourous entertainment fae TOM HARLOW Music from the mighty JOSEPHINE SILLARS BAND passion for […]
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10 Cloverfield Lane – review by Calum Maclean
Directed by Dan Trachtenberg Cast – Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr Running Time – 103 Minutes The film opens with Michelle, (played brilliantly by Winstead), leaving her boyfriend after what he describes as a ‘fight’. Driving down a long road in rural Louisiana, listening to radio reports of a series of blackouts […]
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Friday, April 29, 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
Glasgow Zine Fest CCA 30 April, 2016
Glasgow Zine Fest CCA Sat 30 April 2016 3pm, Free but ticketed via Eventbrite, Cinema All ages 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Glasgow Zine Fest gal-dem film screening and Podcast Recording Sat 30 April 2016 Glasgow Zine Fest Presents! ! Lost Grrrls: Riot Grrrl in Lost Sat 30 April 2016 Join Glasgow Zine Fest […]
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Saturday, April 23, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Murder Case of Hans and Alice GFT Thursday 28 April, 2016
The Murder Case of Hans and Alice GFT Thursday 28 April, 2016 (18.00) Alice discovers a next-door neighbour holds the missing pieces to an unsolved murder. Running time: 1h40mAlice is off to a fresh start. Having just settled down with her recently divorced mother, she’s set to begin school at a new college. Upon arrival, […]
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Friday, April 22, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Louder Than Bombs GFT Until 28 April, 2016
Louder than Bombs How well can we really know those closest to us? Until Thursday 28 April Joachim Trier’s English-language debut is a beautifully-crafted exploration of family ties and the way we never entirely know those closest to us. Three years after her death, prize-winning photographer Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert) is the subject of a New […]
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Miles Ahead GFT Until 28 April, 2016
Miles Ahead GFT Until 28 April, 2016 A layered, impressionistic portrait of jazz legend Miles Davis A passion project for multi-talented actor/director Don Cheadle, Miles Ahead strays from conventional ‘biopic’ territory to compose a layered, impressionistic portrait of jazz legend Miles Davis. Cheadle plays Davis and captures his physical look and swaggering attitude to […]
Goal! Tor! But! Goethe Institut CCA Tuesday 26 April, 2016
Goethe Institut Glasgow Goal! Tor! But!: A Life For Football (Landauer – Der Präsident) CCA Tue 26 April 2016 7pm, Free & unticketed, Cinema All ages 0141 352 4900 A Life For Football (Landauer – Der Präsident) Director: Hans Steinbichler, 89 min, 2014 Kurt Landauer, a Jewish man living in Germany, considers fleeing the country […]
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Cooking Pot – CCA until 30 April, 2016
Cooking Pot CCA – Until Sat 30 April 2016 Related Events {group theory} / Michael Tyburski: Brooklyn Farmer Thu 21 January 2016 Alliance Francaise: Steak (R)Evolution Thu 28 January 2016 Slow Food Youth Network Scotland: Sensory Supper Thu 4 February 2016 MILK Cafe: A Night in Eritrea Fri 5 February 2016 Glasgow University Environmental Sustainability […]
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Shakespeare celebrating 400 year anniversary at GFT 2 April – 1 May, 2016
Shakespeare on Film 1 April – 1 May, Glasgow Film Theatre Ran (12A) King Lear retold as Japanese war epic: unmissable. Friday 1 – Thursday 7 April Running time: 2h40m Order tickets Throne of Blood (12) Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Macbeth is a doomy tale of greed, ambition and madness. Sun, Apr 17 – […]
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Scottish Queer International Film Festival 29 April, 2016, CCA
Queers at the Movies: the State of Queer Film Exhibition in Scotland 29 April, 2016 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) hosts a fun and informal evening of open conversation around queer film; what it is, what it isn’t, what we’d like it to be and where the […]
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Friday, April 15, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, LGBT Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Our Little Sister, 15 – 21 April, 2016. GFT
Our Little Sister Touching tale of sisterly love, adapted from a bestselling Manga. Friday 15 – Thursday 21 April, 2016 GFT Celebrated Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda continues his winning streak with this latest Palme d’Or nominated tale of cross-generational sisterly love. Adapted from a manga, the story revolves around three adult sisters who live […]
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Thursday, April 14, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Eisenstein in Guanajuato GFT 18 – 21 April, 2016
April at GFT Drama Eisenstein in Guanajuato (18) GFT Sergei Eisenstein travels south to start Que Viva Mexico. Monday 18 – Thursday 21 April Peter Greenaway subverts the stodgy conventions of the biopic with swashbuckling irreverence in this restless, inventive reflection on filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s life-changing visit to Mexico in 1931. We encounter the director […]
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The Absent One GFT 15 – 21 April, 2016
GFT A taut noir-tinged tale of twisted secrets. Friday 15 – Thursday 21 April, 2016 When an ex-cop commits suicide, detectives Mørck (The Killing’s Nikolaj Lie Kaas) and Assad decide to delve into a 20-year-old cold case that involved the double murder of the former officer’s two children. At first failing to turn up the […]
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Throne of Blood GFT Sunday 17 & Monday 18 April Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Macbeth
Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Macbeth is a doomy tale of greed, ambition and madness. Sunday 17 & Monday 18 April Running time: 1h50m Before he turned his masterly hand to Shakespeare’s King Lear in 1985’s Ran (screening Fri 1 – Thu 7… More… Director Akira Kurosawa Cast Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada Japan […]
CinemaAttic: Spanish and Latin American Short Film Night CCA Thu 21 April 2016
CinemaAttic: Spanish and Latin American Short Film Night CCA Thu 21 April 2016 7.30pm, £5 (£4 students) + £1 booking fee, Cinema Ages 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 CienmaAttic have prepared a cocktail based on clasicos and some of the most talked about phenomena on the Spanish film scene, including masterworks by Javier […]
The Brand New Testament, 15 – 21 April, 2016. GFT
The Brand New testament God is alive and well, and his daughter is not happy. Friday 15 – Thursday 21 April, 2016 GFT It may have escaped your attention but God (Benoît Poelvoorde) is alive and well, and living in Brussels with his wife (Yolande Moreau) and their ten-year-old daughter Ea (Pili Groyne). Time has […]
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Dheepan Friday 8 – Thursday 21 April, 2016, GFT
Dheepan Immensely powerful Palme d’Or winner. Friday 8 – Thursday 21 April Running time: 1h55mDirector Jacques AudiardCast Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine VinasithambyFrance 2015, 1h55m, subtitles, 15 – strong language, violence This immensely powerful Palme d’Or winner from director Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone) couldn’t be more topical or involving. Ex-Tamil Tiger Dheepan, played […]
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Viva! Spanish – Latin American Festival, GFT 13 – 26 April, 2016
Carmina and Amen (N/C15+) A 50-year-old woman tries to hide that her husband is dead. Wed, Apr 13 – 20:15 GFT 2 Order tickets To Kill a Man (N/C 15+) Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2014. Wed, Apr 20 20:50 GFT 2 Order tickets Gabor (N/C […]
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Conradh na Gaeilge Glaschú Seachtar na Cásca: Seán Mac Diarmada Sun 17 April 2016 CCA
Conradh na Gaeilge Glaschú Seachtar na Cásca: Seán Mac Diarmada CCA Sun 17 April 2016 7pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 12+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 The 1916 Rising Centenary Committee (Scotland) and the Pádraig Pearse Branch of Conradh na Gaeilge have come together to organise screenings of the acclaimed Seachtar na Cásca historical […]
An Anarchist’s Story – The Life of Ethel MacDonald, Film Screening STUC, Friday 29 April, 2016
An Anarchist’s Story – The Life of Ethel MacDonald GMB Glasgow General Apex Branch have organised a free screening of ‘An Anarchist’s Story: The Life of Ethel MacDonald’ Original idea by Alison Murphy (Co-Producer). Produced & Directed by Mark Littlewood of Pelicula Films. Screenplay written by Chris Dolan who based his book of the same […]
Wednesday, April 13, 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
Goethe Institut, The Glad Cafe Goal! Tor! But! : ‘The Miracle of Bern’ Film Screening 19 April, 2016
Goal! Tor! But! : ‘The Miracle of Bern’ Film Screening The Glad Cafe, Glasgow Tuesday 19 April, 2016 7 p.m. FREE Entry Requirements: Over 18s only The film series is organised by the Goethe Institut Glasgow and the Alliance Française de Glasgow and is part of the project“Goal! Tor! But! A month-long celebration of football […]
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Carmina and Amen, GFT, Wednesday 13 April, 2016.
A 50-year-old woman tries to hide that her husband is dead. Wednesday 13 April (20.15)Running time: 1h33m Buy tickets online GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB
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Eddie the Eagle, GFT 1 – 14 April, 2016.
Taron Egerton and Hugh Jackman in the infamous British ski story. Friday 1 – Thursday 14 April Running time: 1h46m Eddie Edwards did not have the background to become an Olympian. Near-sighted, accident-prone and from a poor family, he was constantly reminded that he did not have the right qualities for an international athlete. Yet, […]
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GLASS FILM REGAINED TIME REGAINED SWG3 Sunday 10 April, 2016
GLASS FILM REGAINED TIME REGAINED Part of Glasgow International 10 Apr 2016 2 p.m. SWG3 Glass Film Regained brings together a diverse group of musicians working across a broad spectrum of music, to create an experimental live score for a screening of Don Levy’s The Glass Film, a silent 16mm film feature of astonishing […]
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Friday, April 8, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow International 2016, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
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