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.Southside Film Festival: Bring your Own archive & free screening of ‘Glasgow 1980’
The Glad Cafe, Glasgow Sunday 10 May, 2015 17:00 This year’s film festival focuses on cinema going heritage of the Southside and films made in the Southside and who want to see your films and hear your memories of going to the cinema in the Southside before the last cinema closed in 2001. Rummage in […]
Thursday, May 7, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Love Music Hate Racism The Clash: Westway to the World CCA Sun 10 May
Love Music Hate Racism The Clash: Westway to the World Screening & Discussion CCA Sun 10 May 2015 6.15pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema Ages 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 The Clash: Westway to the World is a documentary, directed by The Clash’s long-term collaborator and friend Don Letts, in which the […]
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Love Music Hate Racism The Clash: Westway to the World Screening & Discussion
Sun 10 May 2015 CCA 6.15pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema Ages 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 The Clash: Westway to the World is a documentary, directed by The Clash’s long-term collaborator and friend Don Letts, in which the band tell their side of the story. It includes archive footage of the band at […]
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Live at Glasgow – Heaven Adores You, Sat 9th and Sun 10th May, 2015 GFT
Live at Glasgow – Heaven Adores You12A Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 May GFT Singer/songwriter Elliott Smith rose to mainstream prominence in 1998, with his classic soundtrack to the film Good Will Hunting, for which his song ‘Miss Misery’ was Oscar nominated. Smith tragically took his own life in 2003, and in this all-new documentary […]
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Far from the Madding Crowd, GFT 1 – 14 May, 2015
Far from the Madding CrowdU GFT 1 – 14 May 2015 Buy tickets online John Schlesinger’s original 1967 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s tale of passion and tragedy in 19th century rural England is as gripping and striking now as it was on first release. Julie Christie stars as Bathsheba Everdene, a proud beauty who inherits […]
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Glasgore 6 May, 2015
Glasgore! Horror/Cult Cinema Discussion Group Wednesday 6 May 6.30 p.m. GFT This group meets on the first Wednesday of each month in GFT’s Learning Room to discuss horror and cult cinema. Meet other genre fans in a friendly atmosphere to exchange thoughts and opinions about your favourite schlocky flicks. Discuss anything from Italian Giallo to […]
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Cryptic Nights Numbercult Articulations: An Evening of Visual Music CCA Thu 7 May 2015
Cryptic Nights Numbercult Articulations: An Evening of Visual Music CCA Thu 7 May 2015 8pm, £7.40 (£4.40) + 60p booking fee, Cinema Ages 14+ when accompanied by an adult Book online / 0141 352 4900 Artist and musician Craig Ritchie Allan (Numbercult) orchestrates a synchronized ballet of geometry and sound. Inspired by the work of […]
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Red Skirts on Clydeside GFT Saturday 2 May, 2015
Red Skirts on ClydesideN/C 12+ GFT Saturday 2 May, 2015 3 p.m. Buy online In 1915, a year into WWI, landlords in Glasgow put up tenement rents. Women in Govan responded with a rent strike. In Red Skirts on Clydeside, directors Jenny Woodley and Christine Bellamy chart the careers of Jean Ferguson, Mary Barbour and […]
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Crossing the Line: White Shadow Sunday 3 May, 2015 GFT
Crossing the Line: White Shadow15 Sunday 3 May, 2015 GFT Buy tickets The feature debut of artist-turned filmmaker Noaz Deshe is a stunning portrait of a young albino on the run from witchdoctors who want to harvest his body parts. Based on true accounts, the underground trade of albino body parts exists today and the […]
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Fruit of Paradise Tuesday 5 May, 2015 GFT
Fruit of Paradise12 Tuesday 5 May, 2015 GFT Buy online Often regarded as a long-lost masterpiece, this 1970 film from Vera Chytilová was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. One of the most experimental films of the Czech New Wave, it starts as a baroque and daring modern retelling […]
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Argerich Friday 1–Thursday 7 May, 2015 GFT
ArgerichPG Friday 1–Thursday 7 May, 2015 GFT Buy tickets Martha Argerich is considered by many to be one of the greatest pianists of the second half of the 20th century, with numerous awards and international acclaim. This film, by her daughter Stéphanie Argerich, is an intimate portrait filmed over two decades that reveals the everyday […]
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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence GFT Thursday 7 May, 2015
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence12A GFT Friday 24 April – Thursday 7 May, 2015 Buy tickets Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, Roy Andersson’s masterful reflection on the human condition unfolds in thirty nine meticulously composed tableaux vivants. One constant through this magical mystery tour of suffering, indulgence […]
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Samba GFT Friday 1–Thursday 7 May, 2015
Samba15 GFT Friday 1–Thursday 7 May Buy tickets online Samba (Omar Sy) migrated from Senegal to France 10 years ago, and has since been trying to make a life for himself. Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is a timid and burned out chief executive who helps immigrants find work. They each find a kindred spirit in one […]
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The Falling, GFT Friday 24 April – Thursday 7 May, 2015
The Falling15 GFT Friday 24 April – Thursday 7 May, 2015 Buy online Carol Morley’s follow up to Dreams of a Life is a feverish exploration of raging hormones and teenage angst set in a girls school in 1969. Generally ignored by her agoraphobic mother, Lydia (Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones) becomes infatuated with […]
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Southside Film Festival’s Fundraising Film Quiz! Tuesday, May 5, 2015 The Glad Cafe
Southside Film Festival’s Fundraising Film Quiz! Tuesday, May 5, 2015 The Glad Cafe at 8:00pm £3 per person to enter-all proceeds go directly to support Southside Film Do you know your Big Lebowski from your Big Sleep? Your Hunger Games from your La Règle du jeu? Join your hosts Ruth Marsh and […]
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Glasgow Film Theatre Launches Deaf and Hard of Hearing Film Club
Visible Cinema at GFT Glasgow Film Theatre has announced the launch of Visible Cinema, a monthly Film Club for deaf and hard of hearing audiences. The first initiative of its kind in Scotland, Visible Cinema will launch on Tuesday 24 March (18.00) with a captioned screening of Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum […]
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
The Navigators Screening & Discussion Thursday 30 April 2015 CCA
GMB Glasgow General APEX BranchThe NavigatorsScreening & Discussion Thursday 30 April 2015 CCA 7.15pm, £5 (£4 concessions) + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 15+Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events GFT Ken Loach’s The Navigators is the powerful story of a group of railway track workers at the time of the privatisation of […]
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Friday, April 24, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
WORKING ILLEGALLY – Glasgow Launch Event CCA Wed 29 April 2015
Standoff FilmsWORKING ILLEGALLY – Glasgow Launch Event CCA Wed 29 April 2015 7pm, Free, CinemaAll ages Last year the UK Home Office detained approximately 30,000 people across a network of 13 detention centres. People are incarcerated in these centres for immigration reasons without trial or charge. Many are asylum seekers and other migrants who have […]
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The Man from Laramie, GFT Sunday 26 April, 2015
The Man from LaramieU GFT Sunday 26 April, 2015 3 p.m. Buy tickets online During the 1950s, James Stewart and director Anthony Mann collaborated on a series of lean, flinty westerns that helped redefine the genre and pave the way for the spaghetti westerns of the 1960s. The partnership reached a creative peak with The […]
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Bypass, GFT Friday 24–Sunday 26 April, 2015
GFT Friday 24–Sunday 26 April Buy tickets online The second feature from writer/director Duane Hopkins (following his 2008 debut Better Things) is an eloquent, moving and stylised look at a young small-time criminal named Tim (Sunshine on Leith’s George McKay) pushed into adulthood when his older brother is sentenced to 18 months in prison. Attempting […]
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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence,GFT Friday 24 April – Thursday 7 May
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence12A GFT Friday 24 April – Thursday 7 May Buy tickets online Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, Roy Andersson’s masterful reflection on the human condition unfolds in thirty nine meticulously composed tableaux vivants. One constant through this magical mystery tour of suffering, indulgence […]
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A Little Chaos, Friday 17–Thursday 30 April, 2015 GFT
A Little Chaos12A Friday 17–Thursday 30 April GFT Buy tickets online It has been far too long since Alan Rickman directed a film but right-royal romp A Little Chaos has been worth the wait. Rickman stars as King Louis XIV, a monarch with a penchant for the lavish statement. He commissions architect André Le Nôtre […]
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
X + Y, Glasgow Film Festival 2015 review Pat Byrne
Now showing GFT I went along this morning (Friday 13 April) to the GFT for the press screening of X + Y. I’m not a huge fan of coming of age films and the subject matter didn’t sound terribly appealing – Nathan is a teenager with autism, who is also a maths prodigy, pursuing a […]
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Monday, April 20, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2015
Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 Live In & About the Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom
Saturday 18 April 2015 CCA 7pm, Free but TicketedCinema, All agesBook online / 0141 352 4900 In December 2014 the Yellow Movement came together to watch Glasgow’s rock ‘n’ roll, dance, funk, reggae, country, comedy, cult, crowd participation, party band, Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5, play the iconic Barrowland Ballroom. This is the premiere […]
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Saturday, April 18, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Planetary, Wednesday 22 April, 2015 GFT
<p PlanetaryN/C 12+ Wednesday 22 April, 2015 GFT Buy Tickets → The planet is suffering from a series of crises: crises in the environment, society, economics, and ecology. As a population we are suffering a crisis of perspective – how to place ourselves in the larger window of the world. It can be overwhelming and […]
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What’s Eating Gilbert Grape GFT Sunday 19 April, 2015
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape GFT Sunday 19 April, 2015 Buy online This touching drama is set in the small town of Endora, Iowa and focuses on a family striving to survive without a father figure. Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) has to care for his two younger sisters, his brother Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his obese […]
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Jauja, Friday 17–Thursday 23 April, 2015 GFT
. Jauja15 Friday 17–Thursday 23 April, 2015 GFT Buy online There are echoes of The Searchers and Apocalypse Now in this epic journey into obsession starring co-producer Viggo Mortensen. Danish engineer Dinesen (Mortensen) is stationed with the Argentine army in a remote corner of Patagonia in the 1880s. When his teenage daughter elopes with a […]
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Gente de bien GFT Friday 17–Thursday 23 Apri
Gente de bien GFT Friday 17–Thursday 23 April, 2015 Buy tickets Class remains the big divide around the world and is at the very heart of this witty, assured social drama. 10-year-old Eric (Brayan Santamarià) is packed off to Bogota and a new life with his impoverished handyman father Gabriel (Carlos Fernando Perez). Everything is […]
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The Emperor’s New Clothes – Russell Brand Live Event
The Emperor’s New Clothes – Russell Brand Live Event Cineworld, Renfrew Street, Glasgow Tuesday 21st April, 2015 – 6.30 p.m. “Everyone knows about equality and what’s going on in the world, so the idea is to point out the ludicrous extremes of our society.” Director Michael Winterbottom Genre Documentary Starring Russell Brand Director Michael Winterbottom […]
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Friday, April 17, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
GFT celebrates 100 Years of Technicolour
April, 2015 – GFT celebrates 100 Years of Technicolor, plus special Easter screenings, and live satellite Q&A with Ryan Gosling GFT April brochure This April, GFT looks forward to the Easter weekend with screenings of Life of Brian, Hop, Frozen Sing-A-Long, and Easter Parade.Easter Listings GFT also celebrates 100 years since the invention of Technicolor this April […]
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Thursday, April 16, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
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