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 Devil’s Backbone Tuesday 14 October, 2014 GFT
The Devil’s Backbone Tuesday 14 October, 2014 GFT Buy tickets online A subtle early classic from Guillermo del Toro, director of the acclaimed Pan’s Labyrinth, this Spanish thriller portrays the horrors of Civil War through the eyes of a terrified child. 10-year-old Carlos has been left in a remote orphanage while the war rages on […]
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Thursday, October 9, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz Thursday 16 October
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz12A GFT Thursday 16 October Buy tickets online In January 2013, 26-year-old Aaron Swartz took his own life while facing 35 years in prison for trying to make academic journal articles free to the general public. Director Brian Knappenberger’s documentary depicts Swartz’s life as a young Internet […]
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Iboga Nights GFT Sunday 12 October, 2014
Iboga Nights GFT Sunday 12 October, 2014 Buy tickets online In 2003, drug addict David Graham Scott filmed his final withdrawal, eased through by capsules of Ibogaine, an extract from a Central African shrub called iboga. David has been clean since. But what turns out to be a magical potion for some is less successful […]
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Peaches Christ’s BEAR-BARELLA starring Lady Bear & Peaches Christ GFT, Friday 10 October, 2014
Peaches Christ’s BEAR-BARELLA starring Lady Bear & Peaches Christ GFT, 12 Rose Street Friday 10 October, 2014 Buy tickets online San Francisco drag superstar, filmmaker, and cult (movie) leader Peaches Christ returns to the UK with an out-of-this world event celebrating the 1968 sci-fi masterpiece Barbarella, directed by Roger Vadim. Jane Fonda got her first […]
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Southside Film Festival, Pulp: a film about Life, Death and Supermarkets, 14 October
Southside Film Festival: Pulp: a film about Life, Death and Supermarkets Tuesday, October 14 at 8:00pm (Doors 7.30 p.m.) The Glad Cafe Tickets Availablewww.brownpapertickets.com £6/£5 conc Buy tickets in advanceThe second in our Autumn 2014 film club season of music related films. Pulp: a Film about Life, Death and Supermarkets is a […]
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema, Southside Film Festival
Coming up at GFT: Scotland Loves Anime GFT Friday 10 – Sunday 12 October
Coming up at GFT: Scotland Loves Anime GFT Friday 10 – Sunday 12 October Renowned as the UK’s top festival for Japanese animation, Scotland Loves Anime returns for its fifth year at GFT with a brilliant line-up including Scottish, UK and European premieres. This year pays particular attention to science fiction, video games and a focus on […]
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Love Is Strange Thursday 23 October GFT
Love Is Strange15 Thursday 23 October GFT Buy tickets online Veteran screen actors Alfred Molina and John Lithgow star in this beautifully observed tale of true love in the Big Apple. After nearly four decades together, Ben and George are finally able to tie the knot. However, when George loses his job, the couple are […]
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Italian Cultural Institute Hotel Meina Sun 5 October 2014 CCA
Italian Cultural InstituteHotel Meina Sun 5 October 2014 CCA 6.30pm, Free, CinemaAges 15+Boo: 0141 352 4900 Based on true events, the final feature from acclaimed Italian filmmaker and historian Carlo Lizzani is a moving drama about the fate of Greek-Italian holidaymakers imprisoned by the Nazi occupiers at a luxury hotel toward the end of the […]
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Friday, October 3, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema
Magic in the Moonlight GFT Friday 3–Thursday 9 October
Magic in the Moonlight12A GFT Friday 3–Thursday 9 October Buy tickets online Woody Allen’s latest film signals the director’s return to lighter-hearted territory, with a sharp script, outstanding acting and a luscious period setting. In 1928, sceptical and tired stage magician Stanley (Colin Firth) finds himself enlisted by an old friend to sojourn to the […]
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Richard Attenborough Double Bill: Brighton Rock & 10 Rillington Place15 Sunday 5 October GFT
Richard Attenborough Double Bill: Brighton Rock & 10 Rillington Place15 Sunday 5 October GFT Buy tickets online Richard Attenborough will forever be remembered as one of the most important British actors, producers and directors ever. In tribute to the great screen presence, GFT screens two of his most interesting works – first as the baby-faced […]
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The Last Impresario Saturday 4–Monday 6 October GFT
The Last Impresario15 Saturday 4–Monday 6 October GFT Buy tickets online Glasgow-born producer Michael White appears to know everyone. A legendary social butterfly who impacted upon countless iconic figures in popular culture within his sixty-year career – from partying with The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, to helping form Monty Python and bringing revolutionary performers […]
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Beneath the Blindfold Thursday 9 October GFT
Beneath the BlindfoldN/C 15+ Thursday 9 October GFT Buy tickets online Four torture survivors from around the globe courageously tell the stories of their mistreatment and subsequent attempts to move beyond these horrifying experiences. The film follows them as they build new lives and, despite the continued psychological and physical fallout from their experience, become […]
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Lux Scotland presents selections from Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year DiaryN/C Sunday 5 October GFT
Lux Scotland presents selections from Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year DiaryN/C 15+ Sunday 5 October GFT Buy tickets online Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year Diary stands as one of the major works of diary filmmaking. An intimate chronicle of her life, they describe Robertson’s battles with depression, paranoia, and borderline schizophrenia. The diaries document Robertson’s […]
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Sexy Beast with Ray Winstone in Conversation Thursday 9 October GFT
Sexy Beast with Ray Winstone in Conversation18 Thursday 9 October GFT Buy tickets online Famous for his uncompromising roles in Scum, Sexy Beast and Nil By Mouth, Ray Winstone is the nation’s favourite ‘hard man’. In this exclusive event to launch his autobiography, Young Winstone, he reveals how growing up in the East End of […]
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Gone Girl18 Friday 3–Thursday 23 October GFT
Gone Girl18 Friday 3–Thursday 23 October GFT Buy tickets online Acclaimed director David Fincher’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s global best seller features an all-star cast in a tangled tale of love, lies and deceit in recession-era New York. When Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) missing on the day of their […]
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Peaches Christ’s BEAR-BARELLA starring Lady Bear & Peaches ChristN/C 18+ GFT Friday 10 October
Peaches Christ’s BEAR-BARELLA starring Lady Bear & Peaches ChristN/C 18+ GFT Friday 10 October Buy tickets online San Francisco drag superstar, filmmaker, and cult (movie) leader Peaches Christ returns to the UK with an out-of-this world event celebrating the 1968 sci-fi masterpiece Barbarella, directed by Roger Vadim. Jane Fonda got her first workout (sans spacesuit!) […]
Thursday, October 2, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema
Fruitmarket Nights: Renaud Garcia-Fons and Band – The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 8 October
Fruitmarket Nights: Renaud Garcia-Fons and Band – The Adventures of Prince Achmed Wednesday 08 October 2014, 7.30pm Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, Glasgow For many years, the superb French bass player Renaud Garcia-Fons has explored the musical traditions of the Mediterranean, taking sounds and ideas from Spain, Turkey, Morocco and Southern France, fusing them into amazing crossover […]
Saturday, September 27, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema
Millions Can Walk Sat 27 September 2014 CCA
Take One ActionMillions Can Walk Sat 27 September 2014 CCA 7.30pm, Suggested donation: £5 (£4), CinemaAges 12+Book online / 0141 352 4900 Millions Can WalkDir. Christoph Schaub & Kamal Musale, Switzerland 2013, 88min, UK Premiere. Can one fight for one’s fundamental rights without resorting to violence? In 2012, hundreds of thousands of Adivasis, India’s aborigines, […]
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Friday, September 26, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema
The Last House on the Left18 GFT Tuesday 30 September
The Last House on the Left18 GFT Tuesday 30 September Buy tickets online When two innocent girls head to the big city for their first rock gig, little do they expect that a simple diversion to score weed will go so disastrously wrong. Released in 1972, Wes Craven’s directorial debut remains as controversial now, as […]
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Thursday, September 25, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema
At Berkeley, GFT Sunday 28–Monday 29 September
At BerkeleyPG GFT Sunday 28–Monday 29 September Buy tickets oline At Berkeley is director Frederick Wiseman’s latest behind-the-scenes foray into American institutions. Edited from roughly 500 hours of raw footage, the documentary explores every facet of student life. From the power struggle in a student/teacher interaction, to a student’s soliloquy on alienation, Wiseman is a fly […]
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A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness GFT Friday 26–Saturday 27 September
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness GFT Friday 26–Saturday 27 SeptemberBuy tickets online This extraordinary collaboration between internationally celebrated artist-filmmakers Ben Rivers and Ben Russell is a radical proposition for the existence of utopia in an increasingly secular world. We follow an unnamed character (played by musician Robert AA Lowe, aka Lichens) on a […]
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A Most Wanted Man GFT Friday 26 September – Thursday 2 October
A Most Wanted Man15 GFT Friday 26 September – Thursday 2 October Anton Corbijn’s adaptation of John le Carré’s novel is a smart, subtle and confident thriller about the identity of a half-Chechen, half-Russian immigrant named Issa Karpov, who finds himself wanted by both German and US security agencies. Arriving tortured and homeless in Hamburg, […]
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What We Did on Our Holiday12A GFT Friday 26 September – Thursday 2 October
What We Did on Our Holiday12A GFT Friday 26 September – Thursday 2 October Buy online Doug (David Tennant) and Abi (Rosamund Pike) are in the middle of a messy divorce, which they are keen to keep a secret from their extended family. However, when they travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug’s father’s birthday, […]
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Dance Along Movie Night: Hairspray & Footloose Sunday 28 September 2014 At The Briggait
Dance Along Movie Night: Hairspray & Footloose Sunday 28 September 2014 At The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, Glasgow G1 5HZ Doors open: 6pm | Warm Up: 6.30pm HAIRSPRAY: 7 – 9pm FOOTLOOSE: 9.15pm – 11pm HAIRSPRAY (2007) PG CERTIFICATE Get your dancing shoes on and join us for a swinging dance-along to the big screen version of the […]
GFT Doors Open Day 21 September, 2014
Doors Open Day Sunday 21 September (10.00) Take a tour around GFT as part of Glasgow’s Doors Open Day! Learn more about our historic building and the history of the GFT and its predecessor The Cosmo. Tours take place every half hour from 10.00 – 13.00 and last 20 minutes. Free but ticketed. Tickets available on the day […]
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Saturday, September 20, 2014 | Filed under: Cinema
Down by Law15 GFT Monday 22–Thursday 25 September
Down by Law15 GFT Monday 22–Thursday 25 September Buy tickets online Jim Jarmusch’s 1986 film follows three different men in a shaggy dog tale of American jailhouse blues and cheap whisky. Starring Tom Waits, John Lurie and Roberto Benigni, the film is steadily permeated with pulpy humour, noir images and an ice-cold charm. One of […]
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Attila Marcel12A GFT Friday 19–Thursday 25 September
Attila Marcel12A GFT Friday 19–Thursday 25 September Buy tickets online Sylvain Chomet (Belleville Rendez-vous, The Illusionist ) evokes memories of Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati in his first live-action film, about a mute, sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash marvellous musical fantasies. After the death of his parents, Paul never speaks again and seeks […]
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Salomé & Wilde Salomé + Live Satellite Al Pacino Q&A GFT Sunday 21 September 3.40 p.m.
Salomé & Wilde Salomé + Live Satellite Al Pacino Q&A GFT Sunday 21 September 3.40 p.m. Buy tickets online Salomé is Oscar Wilde’s most controversial work, banned in London in the late 19th Century. This scintillating tale of lust, greed and revenge follows the legend of King Herod and his lust for his young stepdaughter, […]
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20,000 Days on Earth15 GFT, Friday 19–Thursday 25 September
20,000 Days on Earth15 GFT 12 Rose St, G3 6RB Friday 19–Thursday 25 September Buy tickets online 20,000 Days on Earth is a bold vision of one of music’s most mysterious and charismatic figures, the iconic Nick Cave. In their debut feature directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard fuse drama and documentary by weaving a […]
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Pride GFT, 12 Rose Street Friday 12–Thursday 25 September
Pride15 GFT, 12 Rose Street Friday 12–Thursday 25 September Inspired by the true story of pioneering gay campaigners in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, Pride is a heartwarming drama starring Dominic West and Bill Nighy. Set during the miners’ strike of 1984, two very different communities declare solidarity when a group of gay and lesbian activists raise […]
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