Cinema.

The Notorious Mr Bout, Monday 1–Wednesday 3 September GFT

The Notorious Mr Bout12A Monday 1–Wednesday 3 September GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Known to many as ‘the Merchant of Death’, Viktor Bout thought of himself as an amiable family man and entrepreneur who simply transported goods. Currently languishing in prison for a minimum sentence of twenty-five years (something he sees as a gross […]

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Mystery Road, GFT, Friday 29 August – Thursday 4 September

Mystery Road15 GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Friday 29 August – Thursday 4 September When detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) returns to the remote Queensland town that is still home to his estranged wife and daughter, his first case is the murder of a teenage Aboriginal girl. However, the locals are unwilling to cooperate […]

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Night Moves, Friday 29 August – Thursday 4 September GFT,

Night Moves15 Friday 29 August – Thursday 4 September GFT, 12 Rose Sgreet, G3 6RB Kelly Reichardt’s elegant, eco-terrorist thriller follows the fate of three activists who embark on a dangerous plot to blow-up a hydroelectric dam. Josh (Jesse Eisenberg), Dena (Dakota Fanning) and Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard) have come together for this one act of […]

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From Scotland with Love Sunday 31 August – 5 p.m. GFT,

  From Scotland with LoveU Sunday 31 August – 5 p.m. GFT, 12 Rose St, G3 6 RB Made entirely of Scottish film archive, From Scotland with Love is a feature film by award-winning director Virginia Heath with a transcendent score by Scottish musician and composer King Creosote. A journey into our collective past, the […]

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The Grand Seduction Friday 29 August – Thursday 4 September GFT,

The Grand Seduction12A Friday 29 August – Thursday 4 September GFT, 12 Rose Street G3 6RB On the brink of economic depression, the townspeople of Tickle Cove hope to attract a new factory to town that will bring with it much-needed jobs. However, the town also needs a doctor. Led by mayor Murray French (Brendan […]

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Obvious Child, Friday 29 August – Thursday 4 September GFT

Obvious Child15 Friday 29 August – Thursday 4 September GFT  2 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB In this unique, daring and hilarious romantic comedy Jenny Slate plays Donna Stern, an aspiring New York stand-up comic who finds herself without a boyfriend and without a job in quick succession. Consoling herself in a bar one night, […]

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Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 1, Deep Breath plus live Q&A with Peter Capaldi GFT, Saturday 23 August

Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 1, Deep Breath plus live Q&A with Peter Capaldi GFT, 12 Rose Street Saturday 23 August, 2014 (19.35) Tickets on sale from Friday 1st August The feature-length first episode of the new series of Doctor Who lands this August in cinemas, starring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor alongside Jenna Coleman as […]

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Zulu PG GFT, Sunday 24 August, Tuesday 26 August

Zulu PG GFT, 12 Rose Street,  Glasgow G3 6RB Sunday 24 August, Tuesday 26 August, 2014 A rousing recreation of the siege of Rorke’s Drift in Natal, Africa on January 22 1879, with a classic performance from Michael Caine as Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead and narration from Richard Burton. A 4,000 strong army of Zulu warriors […]

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Arrow Video Nekromantik CCA Tue 26 August 2014

Arrow VideoNekromantik CCA Tue 26 August 2014 7.30pm, £10, Advanced tickets via wegottickets.com, CinemaAges 18+0141 352 4900 Arrow Video are delighted to present this special screening of the infamous 1987 underground German shocker NEKROMANTIK, plus a special Q&A with its director Jörg Buttgereit – in person! Never released on home video in the UK, NEKROMANTIK […]

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Hide Your Smiling Faces Friday 22–Thursday 28 August GFT

Hide Your Smiling Faces Friday 22–Thursday 28 August GFT, 12 Rose Street,  G3 6RB Set over the course of a summer in rural America, Hide Your Smiling Faces follows two brothers as they try to come to terms with the death of a friend. Seeking refuge in nature, the film documents the brothers’ changing relationship […]

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Wakolda, Friday 22 – 28 August, GFT

Wakolda 12A Friday 22–Thursday 28 August GFT, 12 Rose Street,  Glasgow G3 6RB In the Patagonia of 1960, an Argentinean family travel the long road to the Nahuel Huapi Lake where they intend to open a lodging house. En route they meet Helmut Gregor, a German doctor. He is affable, affluent and well-mannered, and becomes […]

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GYFF presents: Spirited Away PG GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Saturday 23 August

GYFF presents: Spirited Away PG GFT, 12 Rose Street,  Glasgow G3 6RB Saturday 23 August – 1.45 p.m. The most successful Japanese movie in history and widely regarded as one of the greatest animations of all time, Spirited Away is Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece. Gutsy Chihiro and her family are moving to the suburbs when a […]

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Your Cheatin’ Heart Sunday 24 August GFT

Your Cheatin’ Heart Sunday 24 August, 2014 GFT, 12 Rose Street,  Glasgow G3 6RB Hardly seen since its first (and to date, only) television broadcast in 1990, and still commercially unavailable on DVD, writer John Byrne’s six-part follow-up to the much-lauded Tutti Frutti (1987) is the great lost treasure in the history of Scottish television […]

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Two Days, One Night Friday 22–Thursday 28 August GFT

Two Days, One Night Friday 22–Thursday 28 August GFT, 12 Rose Street,  G3 6 RB The Dardenne brother’s latest stars Marion Cotillard as Sandra, a young woman who has only one weekend to put her life back together after she finds her livelihood at stake. A hit at Cannes earlier this year, this outstanding film […]

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GSFF Meet the Programmer: Philip Ilson, London Short Film Festival Sun 24 August 2014 CCA

GSFFMeet the Programmer:Philip Ilson, London Short Film Festival Sun 24 August 2014 CCA 5pm, Free but ticketed, ClubroomAges 15+Book online London Short Film Festival Artistic Director Philip Ilson is in Glasgow to introduce a Best of LSFF 2014 programme at Glasgow Film Theatre at 7.15pm. Join him beforehand in CCA’s Clubroom for an informal, free […]

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Blood Ties GFT Friday 15–Thursday 21 August, 2014

Blood Ties15 GFT Friday 15–Thursday 21 August When Chris (Clive Owen) is released from prison after a stint for a gangland murder, his freedom spells trouble for his police-officer brother Frank (Billy Crudup). Hoping Chris has turned over a new leaf, Frank helps him readjust – providing him with a home, and helping him rebuild […]

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All This Mayhem, GFT Friday 15–Thursday 21 August, 2014

All This Mayhem15 GFT Friday 15–Thursday 21 August Buy tickets online An unflinching never-before-seen look at the dark underbelly of extreme sports, this film explores the lives of brothers Tas and Ben Pappas – who ascended to the top of the skateboarding league in the late 1980s, before their world came crashing down with partying, […]

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Still Life GFT Wednesday 20 August

Still Life15 GFT Wednesday 20 August Buy tickets Weaving in the real-life construction of the Three Gorges Hydro Project with two stories of change, hope and reconciliation, Zhangke Jia’s film explores how a seismic change in geography impacts the people who once called that place home. The project involved flooding the area surrounding the Yangtze […]

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The Congress 15 GFT Friday 15–Thursday 21 August, 2014

The Congress 15 GFT Friday 15–Thursday 21 August Buy tickets online Voted the European Animated Feature of the Year at the European Film Awards, The Congress is a mind-bending, multi-coloured trip. When fortysomething Hollywood star Robin Wright (played by Wright) accepts a lucrative offer to be scanned for posterity, she agrees to never act in […]

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We Gotta Get Out of This Place, GFT, Friday 15–Thursday 21 August

We Gotta Get Out of This Place 15 GFT Friday 15–Thursday 21 August Buy tickets In a remote part of Texas three teen friends find their plans for the future in jeopardy as they slowly become embroiled in the dark criminal underbelly of their small town. When BJ (Logan Huffman) steals from the wrong man, […]

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Fail Better: BOYCOTT ISRAEL,Thursday, August 21, McChuills

Fail Better: BOYCOTT ISRAEL        Thursday, August 21 at 8:00pm        McChuills Glasgow This Fail Better is dedicated to the martyrs of Palestine (Gaza, West Bank & Historic Palestine). By answering the call from the Palestinian civillian population for the total Boycott Divestment and Sanction of Israel, we can work to dismantle the Apartheid State. […]

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National Collective, Short Film Screening, Monday 11 August

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Strange Vice Hell on Reels CCA Wed 3 September 2014

Strange ViceHell on Reels CCA Wed 3 September 2014 7.30pm, £5, TheatreAges 18+Book online / 0141 352 4900 As part of their contribution to this year’s Scalarama programme, Strange Vice proudly presents Hell On Reels – a celebration of the Biker movie genre! A screening of a mystery biker film from the Strange Vice archive […]

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To Catch a Thief, GFT Sunday 10–Tuesday 12 August

To Catch a Thief PG GFT Sunday 10–Tuesday 12 August Buy tickets Hitchcock’s 1955 romantic thriller proved to be Grace Kelly’s final film with the director. Cary Grant is retired cat burglar John Robie who now lives a simple life among the vineyards in the French Riviera. However, when a series of robberies copy his […]

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Song at Midnight, GFT Wednesday 13 August

Song at Midnight CTBC GFT Wednesday 13 August Buy tickets Lauded as China’s first horror film, this loose adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera fuses left-wing politics with the tropes of Hollywood horror to brilliant effect. In a crumbling old theatre, a visiting opera troupe discover a catatonic woman who is entranced by the […]

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Lilting, GFT Friday 8–Thursday 14 August

Lilting 15 GFT Friday 8–Thursday 14 August Buy tickets A quiet and confident-cultural chamber piece, this debut by Cambodian director Hong Khaou is an affecting study of grief and loss, seen through the eyes of a mourning mother and a distraught lover. Pei-pei Cheng plays Junn, a Chinese-Cambodian mother attempting to overcome the passing of […]

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God’s Pocket Friday 8–Thursday 14 August GFT

God’s Pocket Friday 8–Thursday 14 August GFT Buy tickets The feature length directorial debut of Mad Men star John Slattery, this gritty blue-collar crime drama shows an assured eye for tone and mood. A darkly comic drama that centres on the hapless Mickey Scarpato (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in one of his final roles), who finds […]

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The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, GFT Sunday 10 August

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil N/C 12+ GFT Sunday 10 August Buy tickets A dazzling (and enduring topical) reminder that politics can be entertaining – and entertainment can be political. Capitalising on the remarkable popular success of playwright John McGrath’s touring production of the same name, this 1974 television film surveys […]

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Welcome to New York, GFT Friday 8–Thursday 14 August

Welcome to New York 18 GFT Friday 8–Thursday 14 August, 2014 Buy tickets Cult director Abel Ferrara’s latest features a towering portrait of debauchery from Gérard Depardieu as the ‘fictional’ Mr Devereaux, based on French financier and one-time presidential candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who both controls the financial fate of nations whilst losing himself to the […]

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Mood Indigo, GFT, Friday 1–Thursday 14 August, 2014

Mood Indigo 12A Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street Friday 1–Thursday 14 August, 2014 Buy tickets online Michel Gondry’s delightful screen version of the cult Boris Vian novel is as charming and romantic as a carefree stroll in the park with the one you love. In a contemporary Paris with the retro look and feel […]

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