Cinema.

RSC Live: Love’s Labour’s Lost Wednesday 11 February GFT

Wednesday 11 February, 2015 GFT As part of a season marking the centenary of the First World War, Christopher Luscombe returns to the Royal Shakespeare Company to direct a fresh pairing of two of Shakespeare’s most sparkling comedies, set in a splendid country house just before and just after the war. In Love’s Labour’s Lost […]

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NEW LOOK FOR SEVENTH ANNUAL GLASGOW YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL

Programme for 2015 announced Kicks off on 6th February with Shaun of the Dead. Dress up as a zombie – you could win a prize Glasgow Youth Film Festival is part of Glasgow Film Festival. The 2015 Festival will run over the weekend of 6–8 February, and will offer an exciting programme of screenings and events […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2015, Power Suit Yourself

Power Suit Yourself: Mildred PiercePG Saturday 21 February – 1 p.m. CCA – Film Joan Crawford suits up for the role of Mildred Pierce in this 1940s American noir by Michael Curtiz . Determined to provide her aspirational daughter with the luxuries of life, Mildred works her way up to become an independent and successful […]

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GFF 2015, Scottish Premiere Shaun The Sheep Movie, Wed 4 February

Scottish Premiere Shaun The Sheep Movie Wednesday 4 February, 2015 – 6 p.m. Glasgow Film Festival runs from 18 February – 1 March 2015. Start Glasgow Film Festival early with the Scottish premiere ofShaun The Sheep Movie! ★★★★ ‘Generous, inclusive and genuinely inspiring’ – The Guardian★★★★ ‘Purely charming… tickles the same neglected folds of your […]

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Cinema: The Children’s Wood – From Scotland With Love 1 February

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Future Shorts Glasgow: Winter Season GFT Fri 30 January 2015

Future Shorts Glasgow:Winter Season GFT Fri 30 January 2015 7.30pm, £5 + 50p booking fee when pre-booking online, tickets via WeGotTickets, CinemaAges 15+ Future Shorts is warming up winter this January with another great programme of some of the best short films around. The winter programme includes selections from South Africa, Switzerland and Japan and […]

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Press Launch, Glasgow Film Festival, 2015

Download Glasgow Film Festival Brochure 18th February – 1st March, 2015 174 events including 11 world premieres I went along tonight to the launch of  for the eleventh Glasgow Film Festival – the programme looks brilliant. Described as ‘an exciting, innovative, audience-focused festival packed with UK, European and World premieres’. The opening gala will show […]

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GRAMNet Shimon’s Returns CCA Wed 28 January 2015

GRAMNetShimon’s Returns CCA Wed 28 January 2015 6pm, Free but ticketed, CinemaAll agesBook online / 0141 352 4900 This documentary, shot in Poland, Ukraine and Israel, tells the story of Shimon Redich, a Holocaust survivor who returns to locations from his traumatic childhood as well as various hiding places used in his struggle to survive. […]

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Atlantic. GFT Saturday 24 January, 2015

International Film Festival Rotterdam Live: Atlantic.N/C 15+ GFT Saturday 24 January – 2.45 p.m. Buy tickets online   Young fisherman Fettah (Fettah Lamara) befriends many of the European windsurfers who visit his tiny village on the Moroccan Atlantic coast every summer. He has eagerly adopted their way of life and has become a talented windsurfer […]

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I Know Where I’m Going! GFT Sunday 25 January, 2015

I Know Where I’m Going!U GFT Sunday 25 January, 2015 – 2.30 p.m. One for Burns Day An eloquent tribute to the enchanting mysteries of the Scottish landscape, this Powell and Pressburger classic follows Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller), a headstrong young girl who travels to Scotland to marry a wealthy elderly man, only to meet […]

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Beyond Clueless, GFT, Friday 23–Thursday 29 January, 2015

Beyond Clueless15 Friday 23–Thursday 29 January, 2015 GFT The hit 1995 cult classic Clueless (screening Fri 23 January) is notable for two things: for being one of the most unique adaptations of a Jane Austen novel and for almost single-handedly reigniting the teen comedy genre (dormant since the halcyon days of John Hughes). In this […]

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A Most Violent Year, GFT Friday 23 January – Thursday 5 Februar, 2015

A Most Violent Year15 GFT Friday 23 January – Thursday 5 February A chilling moral thriller that takes a cynical look at the notion of the American Dream. When immigrant businessman Abel Morales (Inside Llewyn Davis’s Oscar Isaac) tries to make an honest living in 1980s New York, he finds himself tested by the violent […]

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Testament of Youth GFT, Monday 12–Thursday 29 January

Testament of Youth12A GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Monday 12–Thursday 29 January, not 13, 14, 15 Buy Tickets → After being awarded a scholarship to Oxford University, Vera finds herself deeply in love with her brother’s dashing friend Roland, who shares her intellect and passion. However, her life is shattered at the outset of […]

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Whiplash GFT Friday 16 January – Thursday 5 February, 2015

Whiplash15 GFT Friday 16 January – Thursday 5 February A film made up of pure adrenaline, which will leave you catching your breath right up until the last crash of bloodied drumstick meeting sweat-stained cymbal. Anchored around career-defining performances from Miles Teller as young jazz-drummer prodigy Andrew Neyman, and J K Simmons as his relentless […]

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Glasgore! Horror/Cult Cinema Discussion Group GFT

Glasgore! Horror/Cult Cinema Discussion Group GFT Dates Showing:Wednesday 4 February 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 Kung […]

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See Glasgow Differently: Glasgow Film Festival celebrates the Cinema City in 2015.

In the 1930s, Glasgow was known as the ‘Cinema City’, as it had the highest ratio of cinemas per head of population anywhere in the world. Back courts behind tenements, former ice-skating rinks and warehouses were converted into picture houses; beautiful, purpose-built cinemas still grace the city’s architecture to this day, although often their glory […]

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Jewish Film Club Carl Lutz: The Forgotten Hero CCA Sun 18 January 2015

Jewish Film ClubCarl Lutz: The Forgotten Hero CCA Sun 18 January 2015 3pm, £5.40 + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 14+ when accompanied by an adultBook online / 0141 352 4900 A screening of the film telling the story of the Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz, who saved tens of thousands of persecuted Jews in Budapest during […]

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Wednesday 21 January GFT

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas18 Wednesday 21 January GFT Dr Gonzo and his crazed attorney, hell-bent on mayhem and armed with a suitcase chock full of narcotics, head to Vegas in Terry Gilliam’s outrageous, unhinged adaptation of Hunter S Thompson’s infamous 1970s novel. A hilarious, savage and wildly entertaining descent into the dark heart […]

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Paper Souls Friday 16–Thursday 22 January GFT

    Paper SoulsN/C 12 Friday 16–Thursday 22 January GFT A supernaturally festive dramedy about a low-spirited Parisian funeral oration author and former novelist who gets a new lease of life when he meets a young widow who commissions him to write an unusual piece of prose for her eight-year-old son. A tale of death, love […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2015 First Events Announced

Glasgow Film Festival 2015 First Events Announced Glasgow Film Festival 18 February – 1 March, 2015 Glasgow Film Festival is delighted to announce that tickets are now available for the first six events from its 2015 programme. The festival has grown a reputation for unique screenings in unusual venues – pop-up cinema events that bring the […]

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Death Watch (12A) Southside Film Festival Tues 20th January, 2015

Death Watch (12A) Southside Film Festival Tues 20th January, 2015 The Glad Cafe1006a Pollokshaws Road, Shawlands, G41 8pm (doors 7.30pm) £6, £5 conc Buy tickets “the best dystopian sci fi you’ve never seen” -Cine-Vue Before Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror or David Cronenberg entered the Videodrome or Big Brother, Bertrand Tavernier came to Glasgow to film […]

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Foxcatcher GFT, Friday 9–Thursday 22 January, 2015

Foxcatcher15 GFT, 12 Rose St, G3 6RB Friday 9–Thursday 22 January, 2015 Buy Tickets → This compelling and powerful drama from Capote director Bennett Miller tells the true and tragic story of Olympic wrestling champion Mark Schultz (played by Channing Tatum), taken under the wing of eccentric millionaire John du Pont (an electrifying Steve Carell). […]

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The Grosvenor Cinema, Listings

The Grosvenor, Hillhead – Cinema Listings 0845 166 6002 Ashton Lane/ Hillhead/ Glasgow West End/ G12 8SJ Cinema Showings From 16 January, 2015 Birdman This wild, savagely funny black comedy is not at all your usual kind of superhero movie. Riggan Thomson (Keaton, BATMAN) is a washed-up actor who made his name starring in an […]

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National Gallery GFT, Sunday 11 January, Tuesday 13 January, 2015

National Gallery12A GFT, 12 Rose St H3 6RB Sunday 11 January, Tuesday 13 January <pBuy Tickets → The National Gallery was founded in 1824; situated in Trafalgar Square in London it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings. Famed director Frederick Wiseman offers a mesmerising and detailed account of the gallery and its inner workings […]

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The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness GFT, Frid 9 and Sat 10 January, 2015

The Kingdom of Dreams and MadnessPG GFT, 12 Rose St, G3 6RB Frid 9 and Sat 10 January, 2015 Buy Tickets → Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most important filmmakers ever. Time after time his company Studio Ghibli released films that captured the imaginations of both children and adults alike, inspiring them to dream. […]

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The Theory of Everything GFT Until Thursday 15 January

The Theory of Everything12A GFT 12 Rose Street G3 6RB Until Thursday 15 January Buy Tickets → The true-life story of Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde, a brilliant couple who fell in love whilst studying at Cambridge University, then faced some of the greatest challenges imaginable. Generally considered to be one of the world’s sharpest […]

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Birdman Until Thursday 15 January GFT

Birdman15 Until Thursday 15 January GFT Buy Tickets →   Riggan Thomson is looking to make his comeback. Twenty years after he originally starred in the multi-billion-dollar franchise ‘Birdman’, he plans to reinvent his career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway adaptation of a Raymond Carver story. This latest film from Alejandro González […]

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The Connection, GFT Friday 29 May – Thursday 11 June, 2015

The Connection15 GFT Friday 29 May – Thursday 11 June Buy tickets online GFT favourite and Oscar-winning star of The Artist Jean Dujardin is the charismatic magistrate at the centre of this beautifully-styled true crime epic. It’s no accident that the title evokes William Friedkin’s genre standard The French Connection: this is the gallic flipside, […]

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Sherpa GFT 2 – 7 January, 2016

Sherpa 2 – 7 January, 2016 Sherpas are Nepalese mountaineers who often act as guides for those wanting to scale the Himalayas, the highest mountains on earth. In 2014, documentary filmmaker Jennifer Peedom set out to make her third feature about the Nepalese people, just days before a deadly avalanche took the lives of 16 […]

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Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, GFT 3 January, 2016

Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction The two films that launched the career of director Quentin Tarantino. Sunday 3 January (17.00)Running time:1h40m/2h34m plus 45m intermission   Before The Hateful Eight comes to GFT, we revisit the two films that launched the career of director Quentin Tarantino (and kickstarted the careers of many others). With their dizzying […]

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