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.Dream Fest – relaunch of the Dream Machine
Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th May, 2023 The Dream Machine 257 London Road Glasgow G40 1PE The Dream Machine relaunches this May, relighting the community campfire in the East End of Glasgow. The first of many new events showcasing our incredible sensory Dream Room kickstarting with a Saturday evening of live music with a super exciting […]
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Little Richard: I Am Everything at GFT
Until 4 May, 2023 Like a quasar burning past the gaslight, director Lisa Cortés’ eye-opening documentary explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music. Little Richard: I Am Everything shines a clarifying light on the Black, queer origins of rock’n’roll, and establishes the genre’s big bang: Richard Wayne Penniman. Testimonials from legendary musicians and cultural figures, Black and […]
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Saturday, April 29, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Mank at GFT
30 April and 3 May, 2023 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane. Based on an original screenplay by his late father Jack, Mank is David Fincher’s unique take on Hollywood legend. The film was nominated […]
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Love According To Dalva at GFT
Until 4 May, 2023 Featuring an extraordinary performance from Zelda Samson as Dalva, a 12-year-old girl who is home-schooled and hidden from society by her father. When one evening the police forcibly take her into foster care, Dalva must learn to understand that her father’s abuse is not what real love is. With the help of her […]
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Rodeo at GFT
Until 4 May, 2023 A young tearaway with a passion for motorbikes, Julia (Julie Ledru) lives on a social housing estate with her mother and brother. Her only escape from a fraught homelife is urban dirt-biking but, as she can’t afford her own bike, she steals them – and she’s pretty good at it. This […]
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How To Blow Up A Pipeline at Glasgow Film Theatre
How to Blow Up a Pipeline + Earth Day introduction Saturday 22 April, 2:45pm Standard screenings: Friday 21 April – Thursday 4 May After going down a storm when it screened at Glasgow Film Festival in March, GFT is thrilled to have the opportunity to screen a special preview of How to Blow Up a […]
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Metropolis at The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis with live musical orchestra Thursday 4 May, 2023 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Britannia Panopticon Music Hall 117 Trongate Trongate Glasgow G1 5HD May the fourth be with you! Gladstone’s Bag presents Fritz Lang’s classic science fiction film ‘Metropolis’ at the world’s oldest music hall with a live musical orchestra. Tickets at EventBrite […]
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Take 2: Winnie the Pooh at GFT
Saturday 20 April, 2023 at 11.30 am Three stories inspired by A A Milne add up to a very busy day for Winnie the Pooh and friends. Upon learning that Eeyore has lost his tail, the residents of the Hundred Acre Wood start a contest to see who can find a new one for the melancholy donkey […]
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Three Colours Trilogy 4K remastered
21 – 27 April, 2023 Newly remastered in 4K, Krzysztof Kieślowski‘s award-winning trilogy explores the French Revolutionary ideals of freedom, equality and brotherhood, and their relevance to the contemporary world. It is a snapshot of European life at a time of reconstruction after the Cold War, reflected through the filmmaker’s moralist view of human nature and […]
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Friday, April 21, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
One Fine Morning at Glasgow Film Theatre
14 – 25 April, 2023 Inspired by the death of her father, Mia Hansen-Løve’s deeply personal film is a touching reflection on love and loss and features a luminous Léa Seydoux as interpreter Sandra. A single mother, Sandra is faced with the twin responsibilities of a growing daughter and an ailing father in Georg (Pascal Greggory), a former philosophy […]
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Take 2: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On at Glasgow Film Theatre
Saturday 22 April, 2023 at 11.30 a.m. When struggling filmmaker Dean (writer-director Dean Fleischer Camp) moves into an Airbnb, he discovers he is not alone. Marcel (Jenny Slate), an adorable one-inch-tall shell, already lives there with his grandmother Connie (Isabella Rossellini) and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, Marcel and […]
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Loving Highsmith at Glasgow Film Theatre
24 – 27 April, 2023 A unique look at the life of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith through her diaries, notebooks and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends and family. Focusing on Highsmith’s quest for love and her troubled identity, the film sheds new light on her life and writing. Most of her novels were adapted […]
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Cairo Conspiracy at Glasgow Film Theatre
21 – 27 April, 2023 The gripping and critically acclaimed new thriller from Tarik Saleh (The Nile Hilton Incident, The Contractor), follows Adam, a young man who is offered a place to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Shortly after his arrival in the city, the university’s highest-ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, suddenly dies and Adam […]
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Godland at GFT
14 – 20 April, 2023 Hlynur Pálmason’s (A White, White Day; Winter Brothers) extraordinary third feature follows Danish Lutheran priest, Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove), on his task to establish a parish in the barren wilds of Iceland where the locals are less than receptive to his spiritual advances. However, Lucas remains both in awe of and […]
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Thursday, April 13, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Blue Bag Life plus Q & A with directors at Glasgow Film Theatre
Thursday 13 April, 2023 at 6 p.m. Winner of the Audience Award at BFI London Film Festival and Hainan International Film Festival, Blue Bag Life follows Lisa, whose life since childhood has been devastated by the effects of heroin. The blue ‘baggies’ the drug comes in symbolise the destruction of the relationship between her addict mother and […]
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Evil Dead 11 at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday, 14 April, 2023 at 11 p.m. Aspecial late night screening of the second — and what many believe to be the best — in the Evil Dead series, on the big screen. Stuck in a wooden cabin, Ash (Bruce Campbell) and some friends find themselves battling for their lives against demons summoned from the dead. Evil […]
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Storm Damage at Glasgow Film Theatre
Saturday 15 April, 2023 at 5 p.m. Written by actor and screenwriter Lennie James, and rarely screened since its release in 2000, Storm Damage is an emotionally powerful, imaginative and complex portrayal of the experiences of young people living within a care home in Brixton’s Angel Town. In this culturally significant story, Danny (Adrian Lester) is an idealistic Black […]
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In The Court Of The Crimson King at Glasgow Film Theatre
14 – 20 April, 2023 A fascinating look at prog-rock giants King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King is a dark, comic film for anyone who wonders whether it is worth sacrificing everything for just a single moment of transcendence. For more than 50 years Robert Fripp, also famous for his work with David Bowie and Brian Eno, has overseen a unique creative environment in which […]
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Decision To Leave at Glasgow Film Theatre
14 – 19 April, 2023 What happens when an object of suspicion becomes a case of obsession? Winner of Best Director at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden) takes his renowned stylistic flair to dizzying new heights in this seductive thriller. From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his […]
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Raging Bull at Glasgow Film Theatre
14 – 19 April, 2023 This eight-time Academy Award-nominated feature from Martin Scorsese stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, the middleweight boxing champion who was known as ‘The Bronx Bull’ and ‘The Raging Bull’ during his brief reign. LaMotta channelled his tough childhood into the ring, where his aggression became a way of tackling deep-seated anxieties and emotional […]
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Suzume (PG) at Glasgow Film Theatre
14 – 20 April, 2023 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Director Makoto Shinkai is back with another astonishing adventure. Suzume’s journey begins in a quiet town when she encounters a young man ‘looking for a door’. Suzume finds a single weathered door, standing upright in the midst of ruins as though it was […]
The Eagle (1925) plus live piano score at GFT
Sunday 9 April, 2023 at 12.30 p.m. The Eagle is in many ways Rudolph Valentino’s best film. Set in Russia in the time of Catherine the Great, he plays a Lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Guard who has attracted the unwanted attention of the Empress. Hearing from his father that an evil nobleman is taking over his […]
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Thursday, April 6, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman at GFT
7 – 13 April, 2023 Composer turned director Pierre Foldes has created an elegant animated adaptation of short stories by the great Haruki Murakami. Set in Tokyo in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tidal wave, it faithfully recreates the entrancing world of Murakami as a faltering marriage falls apart, a cat goes missing and a mild-mannered […]
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Leonor Will Never Die at GFT
7 – 13 April, 2023 Leonor Reyes was once a groundbreaking figure in the Filipino film industry during its ragtag action cinema glory days, but now she struggles with old age, mounting bills, and the untimely death of her son. While revisiting an unfinished script about a fearless protagonist trying to avenge his brother’s murder, […]
Superman: 45 Anniversary – 4k
7 – 10 April, 2023 45 years after its original release GFT is delighted to welcome Superman back to the big screen. Just before the destruction of the planet Krypton, scientist Jor-El sends his infant son Kal-El on a spaceship to Earth. Raised by kindly farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent, Clark/Superman (Christopher Reeve) discovers the source of […]
Take 2: The Prince of Egypt
Saturday 8 April, 2023. 11.30 a.m. Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB In this animated retelling of the Book of Exodus, Egyptian Prince Moses (Val Kilmer), upon discovering his roots as a Jewish slave, embarks on a quest to free his people from bondage. When his plea is denied by his brother […]
Spring Fling Treeline Scotland
3 – 14 April, 2023 Ruth Maclennan Spring Fling. Visit the ARC to view the film, compiled from hundreds of hours of footage of forests. Presented in collaboration between The Dear Green Bothy and Thinking Culture. >Atrium, Advanced Research Centre , University of Glasgow 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW Atrium Monday to Friday: 0900 – […]
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Friday, March 31, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Take 2. Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
Saturday 1 April, 2023 at 11 a.m. Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) is down to his last of nine lives. Puss is extremely worried about this and begins an epic adventure, meeting friends along the way, to locate the magical Wishing Star which could give him the opportunity to regain all of his lives. However, […]
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
NT Live: Life of Pi at GFT
Thursday 30 March, 2023, 7 p.m. Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in this unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel. Filmed live at the Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End and featuring state-of-the-art visuals, this epic journey of endurance and hope is bought to life in a breath-taking new way. One of […]
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The Night of the 12th at GFT
31 March – 6 April, 2023 Dominik Moll’s riveting, true crime drama unfolds in a sleepy village in the suburbs of Grenoble, France. Idealistic detective Yohan (Bastien Bouillon) and grizzled veteran Marceau (Bouli Lanners) are assigned to solve the gruesome murder of a young woman. Their investigation becomes about more than a single crime, gradually reflecting […]
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