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.Contemporary Cinema Course Monday 19 October, 2015 GFT
Contemporary Cinema Course Monday 19 October, 2015 GFT An ideal beginner’s course for those wishing to broaden their critical understanding of contemporary cinema. Current releases are complemented by engaging discussion around a range of topics. The course takes place over eight consecutive Monday evenings, and is comprised of four film screenings and four seminars. Films […]
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Strange Vice presents: Nightmares in a Damaged Brain Sun 6 September 2015 CCA
Strange Vice presents: Nightmares in a Damaged Brain Sun 6 September 2015 CCA 7.30pm, £5 + 60p booking fee, Cinema Ages 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 As their contribution to this year’s annual Scalarama festival, which celebrates the glory days of the infamous London flea-pit Scala Cinema, Strange Vice screen Romano Scavolini’s 1981 […]
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Thursday, September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
How to Change the World GFT Wednesday 9 September, 2015
How to Change the World15 GFT Wednesday 9 September, 2015 19:45 Buy tickets online In 1971 a brave group of young activists set sail from Vancouver in an old fishing boat. Their mission: to stop Nixon’s atomic bomb tests in Amchitka, a tiny island off the west coast of Alaska. It was from these humble […]
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Miss Julie GFT Friday 4–Thursday 10 September, 2015
Miss Julie12A GFT Friday 4–Thursday 10 September, 2015 Buy tickets online Liv Ullmann’s adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1888 play stars Jessica Chastain as Miss Julie, the daughter of a wealthy baron. When she seduces John (Colin Farrell), her father’s valet, the liaison threatens to disrupt the social order. Relocating the action from late 19th-century Sweden […]
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The Silver Trumpet Live GFT Tuesday 8 September, 2015
The Silver Trumpet LiveN/C 12+ GFT Tuesday 8 September, 2015 20:15 Enrico Cocozza, once described as ‘Wishaw’s David Lynch’, studied with Jean Cocteau and King Vidor, and split his time between his homes in Wishaw Cross and Italy – producing and directing 63 documentary films and self-scripted surrealist works throughout his life. The soundtrack to […]
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The Second Mother GFT Friday 4–Thursday 10 September, 2015
The Second Mother15 GFT Friday 4–Thursday 10 September, 2015 Buy tickets Full of warmth and charm, this Brazilian family drama has a big heart and a keen social conscience. Val (Regina Casé) is the live-in housemaid of a middle class São Paulo family. When her estranged daughter Jessica (Camila Márdila) unexpectedly comes to visit, Val […]
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45 Years15 Friday 28 August – Thursday 10 September, 2015 GFT
45 Years15 Friday 28 August – Thursday 10 September, 2015 GFT Kate and Geoff Mercer (Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay) are all set to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary when they hear that Geoff’s first love has been discovered dead in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. The fallout from this news shakes the […]
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The Pyramid Texts Thursday 10 September, 2015 GFT
The Pyramid Texts 12A Thursday 10 September, 2015 8.15 p.m. GFT ‘Powerfully written, astoundingly well acted and rivetingly shot, The Pyramid Texts is a small masterpiece.’ Michael Palin James Cosmo delivers a tour-de-force performance as veteran fighter Ray, a lonely old man who has become estranged from his only son. Ray reflects on his loves, […]
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Escobar: Paradise Lost Mon 31 August – Thursday 3 Sept, 2015 GFT
Escobar: Paradise Lost15 Monday 31 August – Thursday 3 September, 2015 GFT Benicio Del Toro plays real-life notorious Columbian drug-lord Pablo Escobar in this tense melodrama from first time director Andrea Di Stefano. When naïve Canadian surfer Nick (Josh Hutcherson) meets the love of his life Maria (Claudia Traisac), he soon finds himself in over […]
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Double Bill: Jean de florette & Manon des sources Sunday 30 August, 2015 GFT
Double Bill: Jean de florette & Manon des sourcesPG Sunday 30 August, 2015 – 2.30 p.m. GFT Shortly after WWI in the idyllic Provençal countryside, Ugolin and his uncle Cesar desire to gain access to a neighbouring spring in order to grow their flowers. However, the land is newly owned by Jean Cadoret, a hardworking […]
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The Dance of Reality GFT Frid 28 Aug – Thur 3 Sept, 2015
The Dance of Reality18 GFT Friday 28 August – Thursday 3 September, 2015 Alejandro Jodorowsky, the legendary director of El Topo and Santa sangre, returns with his first feature in almost a quarter of a century. With typical joyous idiosyncrasy, The Dance of Reality is an exercise in imagined autobiography, revisiting defining moments from the […]
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Drumchapel Life, Clementine Sandison & Kim Beveridge: The Making of Flat Pack Meals CCA Thu 3 September 2015
Drumchapel Life, Clementine Sandison & Kim Beveridge: The Making of Flat Pack Meals CCA Thu 3 September 2015 6pm, Free but ticketed All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 Flat Pack Meals is a collaboration between Drumchapel L.I.F.E. and CCA. It began life as an artist-led project to create a women’s co-operative in Drumchapel […]
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Gemma Bovery GFT Friday 28 August – Thursday 3 September, 2015
Gemma Bovery15 GFT Friday 28 August – Thursday 3 September, 2015 Relocating from the hustle and bustle of Paris to a small Norman village, former publisher Martin Joubert is trying to settle into his new life as a baker. However, when his new British neighbours Gemma and Charles Bovery (Gemma Arterton and Jason Flemyng) move […]
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Watch Bad Movies with Great Comedians Presents: Batman & Robin Mon 31 August 2015 CCA
Watch Bad Movies with Great Comedians Presents: Batman & Robin Mon 31 August 2015 CCA 7.30pm, £5 + £1 booking fee, Cinema Ages 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Holy Bad Movie! For their third show Billy Kirkwood and Joe Heenan have picked the film that not only almost killed off superhero movies forever, […]
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Digital Desperados While You Weren’t Looking CCA Sun 30 August 2015
Digital Desperados While You Weren’t Looking CCA Sun 30 August 2015 2pm, Free and unticketed, Cinema Ages 15+ Digital Desperados and the Unity LGBT Group are excited to present the Scottish premiere of While You Weren’t Looking, a contemporary drama that captures a cross section of queer South African life. A great soundtrack accompanies loves […]
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Joey Huertas Film Screenings + Q&A CCA Wed 2 September 2015
Joey HuertasFilm Screenings + Q&A CCA Wed 2 September 2015 7pm, £3.40 (£2.40 concessions) + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 18+Book online / 0141 352 4900 CCA presents an evening of film screenings and a Q&A by American artist, filmmaker and social worker Joey Huertas – aka Jane Public. The screening will include I Loving Me […]
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Friday, August 21, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Burning Bush GFT Sunday 30 August, 2015
Burning BushN/C 15+ GFT Sunday 30 August, 2015 Buy Tickets → In January 1969 student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Prague in protest against the Soviet occupation. While the police searched for his followers, the government commenced a denunciation campaign forcing Palach’s family to hire charismatic attorney Dagmar Buresová to defend his reputation. […]
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The Virgin Suicides GFT Tuesday 25 August, 2015
The Virgin Suicides15 GFT Tuesday 25 August, 2015 20:30 p.m. Before the summer of ‘99, Sofia Coppola was known only for being the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola. However, upon the release of The Virgin Suicides she quickly became one of America’s most interesting filmmakers, delicately exploring themes of identity, angst and awkwardness in young […]
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The Treatment GFT Friday 21–Thursday 27 August, 2015
The Treatment18 GFT Friday 21–Thursday 27 August, 2015 Based on the chiller by acclaimed British author Mo Hayder, Nordic Noir turns frighteningly Flemish in Belgium’s top-grossing film of 2014. Gut-wrenching to an unprecedented degree, nerves of steel are required to watch this truly shocking serial killer thriller. Inspector Nick Cafmeyer is haunted by the unsolved […]
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The President GFT Friday 21–Thursday 27 August, 2015
The President15 GFT Friday 21–Thursday 27 August, 2015 A sharp, absorbing and gutsy satire from Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, The President focuses on an ageing dictator in an unnamed country, known only as The President. When a coup rips away his entitlement, he is left with his adored grandson, whose parents were killed in the […]
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Manglehorn GFT Friday 21–Thursday 27 August, 2015
Manglehorn12A GFT Friday 21–Thursday 27 August, 2015 Unpredictable director David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls, Joe) casts Hollywood legend Al Pacino as A.J. Manglehorn, a lonely locksmith who spends his time looking after his cat and writing romantic letters to his lost love Clara. However, with the help of friendly bank teller Dawn (Holly […]
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Heartworn Highways Film Screening + Country Music & Food Sun 23 August 2015 CCA
Saramago present: Heartworn Highways Film Screening + Country Music & Food Sun 23 August 2015 CCA 7pm, £5 + £1 booking fee, Cinema and Saramago Terrace Bar Ages 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Saramago presents Heartworn Highways, the classic 1981 documentary film exploring the origins of Country music’s 1970s new wave. The film […]
Thursday, August 20, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
The Wolfpack GFT Sunday 16–Thursday 27 August, 2015
The Wolfpack15 GFT Sunday 16–Thursday 27 August, 2015 not 17, 18, 19, 20 All six of the Angulo brothers love the movies. Rarely leaving their family apartment on the Lower East Side, most of their knowledge of the outside world comes through films; watching them, typing out the scripts, learning the lines and recreating the […]
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Summer Daze, Glasgow Film Theatre, 2 – 30 August, 2015
Great Movies of the Summer GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Is the Scottish summer less than sizzling? Take shelter from the showers and catch some of the most summery times in cinema – from an idyllic American town on Amity Island to a lush Provençal countryside – you really do not have to be […]
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Do the Right Thing GFT Tuesday 18 August, 2015
Do the Right Thing18 GFT Tuesday 18 August, 2015 On the hottest day of the summer in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn, Italian-American Sal Fragione opens his pizza parlour in the same way he has for the past 25 years. However, on this day, the simmering racial tensions between Sal’s Italian-American family and the predominately […]
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Friday, August 14, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Theeb GFT Friday 14–Thursday 20 August, 2015
Theeb15 GFT Friday 14–Thursday 20 August, 2015 There are echoes of Kipling and classic westerns in Naji Abu Nowar’s thrilling, award-winning adventure shot on breathtaking locations in southern Jordan. It is 1916 and Bedouin boy Theeb and his elder brother Hussein are largely unaware of the global conflict until British officer Edward (Jack Fox) arrives […]
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Marshland GFT Friday 7–Thursday 20 August, 2015
Marshland15 GFT Friday 7–Thursday 20 August, 2015 Imagine True Detective set in the Andaluz swamplands and you begin to get the measure of Alberto Rodríguez ’s atmospheric, richly textured Spanish murder mystery. It is 1980 and Spain is slowly emerging from the shadows of the Franco era. In the sleepy backwater of Villafranco del Guadalquivir, […]
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#8: Wedding In Blood (with Graeme Macrae Burnet), 20 Aug, 2015
Thursday, August 20, 2015 7:00pm – 11:00pm The Old Hairdressers Our August screening, presented in association with Alliance Française Glasgow, is Claude Chabrol’s Wedding in Blood (Les Noces Rouges, 1973). It’s a rare chance to see Chabrol’s classic portrait of an amour fou with deadly consequences in provincial France, starring Stéphane Audran […]
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Mistress America GFT Friday 14–Thursday 20 August, 2015
Mistress America15 GFT Friday 14–Thursday 20 August, 2015 Buy tickets online While We’re Young director Noah Baumbach reteams with his Frances Ha writing partner and star Greta Gerwig for this warm, delightful and sharp examination of youthful longing and female friendships. When college freshman Tracy (Lola Kirke) moves to New York, she finds the hip […]
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Summer Shorts: Rebels & Valiants CCA Thu 13 August 2015
CinemaAttic Summer Shorts: Rebels & Valiants CCA Thu 13 August 2015 7.30pm, £5 (£4) + 60p booking fee, Cinema Ages 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 CinemaAttic is committed to bring you a monthly dose of good stories from emerging Spanish and Latin American talent. Such is its diversity that our selection had to […]
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Friday, August 7, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
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