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.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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Sunday, January 4, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
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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Thursday, January 1, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
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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Older Than Ireland 10 January, 2016, Blackfriars
Older than Ireland Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 5 PM – 9 PM Movies at Blackfriars To mark the 100 year anniversary of Eire’s Independence. Blackfriars will be showing two very engaging & celebratory documentari OLDER THAN IRELAND (78 mins) “Both wry treat and testament to the efficacy of modern medicine, Alex Fegan’s documentary rounds […]
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Rebecca Birch Great Northern Film Screening CCA Thu 15 January 2015
Rebecca BirchGreat NorthernFilm Screening CCA Thu 15 January 2015 6pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema,All ages Great Northern Shot during the winter period of 24 hour darkness, in Inuvik, ‘a typical Canadian town’ inside the Arctic Circle. Restricted by the extreme cold to interior shooting, the film attempts to record an experience of the landscape only […]
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Sunday, December 28, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema
Franco-German Film Series: Absurdistan CCA Wed 14 January 2015
Franco-German Film Series:Absurdistan CCA Wed 14 January 2015 7pm, £2.40 (£1.40 Students, Members of the Goethe-Institut / Alliance Française) + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 18+Book online / 0141 352 4900 Franco-German Film Series:Under the Rainbow Wed 4 February 2015 Aya (Kristýna Maléřová) and Temelko (Maximilian Mauff) have been betrothed since childhood. Their first night of […]
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Leviathan15 Glasgow Film Theatre 30th December
Leviathan15 Glasgow Film Theatre 30 December, 2014 A critical hit at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s latest film is a sober and thoughtful reworking of the biblical Book of Jobs, as told in a small Russian town off the coast of the Barents Sea. When a corrupt mayor tries to take his land […]
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Foxcatcher15 GFT Friday 9–Thursday 22 January, 2015
Foxcatcher15 GFT Friday 9–Thursday 22 January, 2015 Buy tickets online 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). Miller won the Best Director […]
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We Are the Giant, GFT Saturday 3 January, Monday 5 January, 2015
We Are the Giant15 GFT Saturday 3 January, Monday 5 January Buy tickets Exploring what it means to take part in collective political action, this new documentary is comprised of insightful portraits of activists. From a twenty-one-year-old who fought against Gaddafi’s forces in Benghazi, to sisters Maryam and Zainab who became pivotal opposition figures against […]
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Enemy15 GFT Friday 2–Thursday 8 January, 2014
Enemy15 GFT Friday 2–Thursday 8 January, 2014 Buy tickets Based on the novel by Nobel prize-winning author José Saramago, the latest film from Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Prisoners) is a hypnotic psychological thriller about the powerof subconscious and what happens when we come face-to-face with ourselves. Adam Bell (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a glum, dishevelled history professor […]
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Joyeux Noel12A GFT Monday 29–Tuesday 30 December, 2014
Joyeux Noel12A GFT Monday 29–Tuesday 30 December, 2014, Buy tickets Based on the First World War Christmas truce, director Christian Carion’s tri-lingual production follows soldiers in the British, French and German armies as they face each other across No Man’s Land during Christmas of 1914. Brought together through the singing of shared carols, the soldiers […]
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The Overnighters, GFT Monday 29–Tuesday 30 December, 2014
The Overnighters12A GFT Monday 29–Tuesday 30 December, 2014 Buy tickets online Winner of the special Jury Prize for documentary at Sundance Film Festival, Jesse Moss’s film The Overnighters has been called a Steinbeck-style story due to its powerful evocation of poverty, migration, despair and hope. The tale of a North Dakota pastor who opens his […]
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What We Do in the Shadows GFT Saturday 27–Sunday 28 December, 2014
What We Do in the Shadows15 Saturday 27–Sunday 28 December, 2014 Buy Tickets → This hilarious new mockumentary from the mind of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) chronicles the misadventures of four vampire roommates. Ranging in age from 183 to 8,000 and in appearance from adorably youthful to decrepit à la […]
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Thursday, December 18, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema
Distancia / Distance Film Screening Thu 18 December 2014 CCA
Distancia / DistanceFilm Screening Thu 18 December 2014 CCA 7pm, Free, Cinema Sergio Ramirez’ first full-length film depicts the true story of Tomas Choc, an elderly man in a small town in Guatemala who is searching for his missing daughter, Lucia. Kidnapped as a young girl by the military during the civil war twenty years […]
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Fantastic Voyage GFT Saturday 20 December, Monday 22 December
Fantastic VoyageU GFT Saturday 20 December, Monday 22 December Buy Tickets → In order to save the life of a comatose diplomat after an assassination attempt, a crew of five experts are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his body. With only 60 minutes before they return to normal size, the team captain the […]
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Manakamana GFT Saturday 20 December, Tuesday 23 December, 2014
ManakamanaU Saturday 20 December, Tuesday 23 December, 2014 Buy Tickets → A unique and inventive new film from the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Laboratory, who brought us last year’s inimitable Leviathan (2013). In this new work, audiences are brought to a cable car high above a lush green Nepalese forest, sitting face-to-face with passengers on their […]
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Take 2: Home Alone Saturday 20 December GFT
Take 2: Home AlonePG Saturday 20 December, 2014 GFT Buy Tickets → An 8-year-old boy must defend his house against two bungling burglars when he is accidentally left at home by his family at Christmas. Glasgow Young Scot or Kidz Card holders and an accompanying adult get in FREE to these shows when tickets are […]
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The Great Museum GFT Friday 19–Tuesday 23 December
GFT Friday 19–Tuesday 23 December, 2014 Buy Tickets → An observational document of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum as it reopened its famed Kunstkammer rooms in 2013. Director Johannes Holzhausen approaches the space with informed reverence, following curators and patrons throughout the building and using a distinctively cinematic lens to contextualise the museum’s goal of conserving works […]
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Kon-Tiki GFT Friday 19–Wednesday 24 December
Kon-Tiki15 GFT Friday 19–Wednesday 24 December Buy Tickets → Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s legendary voyage from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 remains the kind of grand adventure that a modern generation can only dream about. This stirring, Oscar-nominated epic tells the true tale with style and breathtaking cinematography. When nobody accepted his theory that South […]
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Mr Turner, GFT until 28 December, 2015
Mr Turner12A GFT Various dates between Friday 31 October and Tuesday 28 December, 2014 Buy online ‘What a glorious film this is, richly and immediately enjoyable, hitting its satisfying stride right away’ – Peter Bradshaw Mike Leigh’s latest, a historical biopic exploring the last quarter century in the life of the legendary painter J.M.W Turner, […]
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema
Northern Soul GFT Saturday 27–Sunday 28 December
Northern Soul15 GFTSaturday 27–Sunday 28 December Buy tickets This is a story of a youth culture that changed a generation and influenced songwriters, producers, DJs and designers for decades to come. This film tells the tale of two Northern boys whose worlds are changed forever when they discover black American soul music. Northern Soul was […]
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Nordic Film Festival 2014, GFT
Nordic Film Festival 2014 Glasgow Film Theatre 8 – 22 December, 2014 Nordic Film Festival returns to Glasgow this winter for the 3rd edition of the festival. With some of the freshest and most vibrant filmmaking talent from the Nordic region, the festival programme features a diverse mix of films some of the top names […]
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Thursday, December 4, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema
Franco German Film Series, CCA
Franco-German Film Series:Home Wed 10 December 2014 7pm, £3 (£2 students and members of Goethe-Institut and Alliance Française), + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 18+Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Franco-German Film Series:Absurdistan Wed 14 January 2015 Franco-German Film Series:Under the Rainbow Wed 4 February 2015 Goethe-Institut and Alliance Française’s upcoming winter screenings […]
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Eastern Boys GFT Monday 8–Thursday 11 December, 2014
Eastern Boys15 GFT Monday 8–Thursday 11 December, 2014 Buy on line The sophomore feature from director Robin Campillo (who wrote and directed the original Les revenants in 2004) is alternately a tense thriller and tender love story. The ‘Eastern Boys’ of the title are the young men who hang around the Gare du Nord train […]
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Tomorrow Is Always Too LongN/C 18+ Sunday 7 December GFT
Tomorrow Is Always Too LongN/C 18+ Sunday 7 December GFT Buy tickets online This new film from artist Phil Collins, specially commissioned for Festival 2014, is a modern day city symphony and a musical love letter to Glasgow, shot on locations ranging from an antenatal class, to Barlinnie prison, and Frampton’s night club. With a […]
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Me, Myself and Mum Friday 5–Thursday 18 December GFT
Me, Myself and Mum15 Friday 5–Thursday 18 December GFT Buy tickets online This cheerful and inventive comic confessional from director Guillaume Gallienne tells the story of his upbringing, his relations with his mother, and his eventual embracing of his inner heterosexual after growing up as a female-identified boy whom everyone assumes is gay. The 41-year-old […]
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence + Jan Harlan in Conversation12 Wednesday 10 December GFT
A.I. Artificial Intelligence + Jan Harlan in Conversation12 Wednesday 10 December GFT Buy tickets online The touching story of an android child who finds himself adrift in a dystopian future longing for the love of his human ‘mother’. Stanley Kubrick started development on this film project in the early 1970s, but unfortunately never saw it […]
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The Homesman Friday 5–Thursday 11 December GFT
The Homesman Friday 5–Thursday 11 December GFT Buy online The latest directorial outing for veteran actor Tommy Lee Jones (following 2005’s The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and 2011’s The Sunset Limited) is a revisionist western in the model of Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff. Putting the female experience front and centre, the film focuses […]
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The Grandmaster, GFT, 5 – 11 December, 2014
The Grandmaster Friday 5–Thursday 11 December Buy online The latest film from acclaimed auteur Wong Kar-wai (In the Mood for Love, Happy Together ) is a rich, luscious martial arts epic recounting the complicated life of Ip Man – the legendary Wing Chung grandmaster who taught Bruce Lee. Kar-wai reteams with his frequent star Tony […]
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Sci Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder, GFT, 23 November – 10 December, 2014
Sci Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder The BFI’s season Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder is a three-month celebration of film and television’s original blockbuster genre which arrives at GFT this September. Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder will include screenings of classic and contemporary science fiction films and include exciting special events, kicking […]
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema
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