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.A Free Soul at Glasgow Film Theatre
Wednesday 7 September, 2022 at 6.15 pm Film writers and critics Pamela Hutchinson and Christina Newland present some of Hollywood’s most risqué films (all new restorations, care of Park Circus and Warner Bros) made before the 1930’s Hays Code was enforced, in Pre-Code Hollywood: Rules Are Made to be Broken. The divine Norma Shearer stars as an […]
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Friday, September 2, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Slab Boys, 25 years anniversary 35 mm at GFT
Wednesday 7 September, 2022, 8.35 p.m. John Byrne’s beloved The Slab Boys is one of the great, joyous landmarks of Scottish theatre. 25 years on since Byrne directed the exuberant cinema adaptation, we’re bringing it back to the big screen for this one-off special screening. Paisley 1957 is the setting, and three working-class lads from the local carpet […]
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See How They Run, GFT
9 – 22 September, 2022 In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after the film’s Hollywood director is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and eager rookie Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) take on the case, the two find themselves thrown […]
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Take One Action Film Festival 2022
Full programme announced for Take One Action Film Festival 2022 The fifteenth edition of the UK’s leading global change film festival will run in various locations: Edinburgh 16-18 September, 2022 Glasgow 23-25 September, 2022 Aberdeen 21-23 October, 2022 Inverness 28-30 October, 2022 Together with special screenings on Tiree and Lochgilphead in the Screen Machine With […]
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Thursday, September 1, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing GFT
8 September, 2022 Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) and John Heffernan (Dracula) lead the cast in Shakespeare’s romcom of sun, sea and mistaken identity. The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Italian Riveria has been visited by artists, celebrities and royalty. But when the owner’s daughter weds a dashing young soldier, not all guests are in the mood for […]
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Sea Change Film Festival 2022
21 – 25 September, 2022 Sea Change is a professional development lab and public film festival from Screen Argyll celebrating women in film. The festival takes place annually on the beautiful and remote Hebridean island of Tiree. The fourth annual festival will host a diverse mix of industry professional development events, talks and workshops along a public programme […]
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Official Competition GFT
Until 8 September, 2022 Antonio Banderas’ film star and Oscar Martínez’s stage actor vie for the attention of Penélope Cruz’s wayward director in this filmmaking satire. Independent cinema darling and Cannes Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Lola Cuevas (Cruz) is approached by ageing, ailing business mogul Humberto Suárez (José Luis Gómez) to make a film that he hopes will be his legacy […]
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Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2022
16 – 18 September, 2022 GYFF announces 2022 programme The festival has been co-curated by 16 young people from Glasgow and will open on Friday 16 September with a very special screening of Tom George’s See How They Run, and close on Sunday 18 September with a screening of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! Behind the […]
Fadia’s Tree at Glasgow Film Theatre
Until Thursday 2 September, 2022 While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is denied. She challenges Sarah, the film’s director, to find an ancient mulberry tree that stands as witness to her family’s existence – with only inherited memories, a blind […]
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Sunday, August 28, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema
Her Way, Glasgow Film Theatre
Until 1 September, 2022 Call My Agent star Laure Calamy shines in this compelling first feature from director Cécile Ducrocq. Marie (Calamy) is a confident, optimistic sex worker in Strasbourg who is determined to provide a better life for her 17-year-old son, Adrien (Nissim Renard). He is a bottomless pit of apathy and negativity whose only passion in life […]
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Take 2 films: Annie at Glasgow Film Theatre
Saturday 20 August, 2022, 11.30 a.m. The sun will come out tomorrow in this musical classic of little orphan Annie. When Oliver Warbucks agrees to take an orphan into his home for a week to improve his public image he is surprised when Annie’s charm and bravery truly wins him over. Even though Annie enjoys […]
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Wednesday, August 17, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Star Trek The Motion Picture, Director’s Edition
26 – 28 August, 2022 When an unidentified alien intruder destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) returns to the helm of a newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise, to take command and confront an alien spacecraft of enormous power heading towards Earth. In 2001, director Robert Wise revisited the film to refine the edit […]
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High Noon at Glasgow Film Theatre
25 August, 2022 at 6.15 p.m. High Noon – like Casablanca – is accepted as one of the quintessential classic American films and whose title has gone into the lexicon when Americans reference a tough decision. Its hero’s dilemma is the very epitome of the western genre where ‘a man’s got to do what a man’s got to […]
Nope plus short, Glasgow Film Theatre
19 – 25 August, 2022 Oscar-winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with Get Out and then Us. Now, he reimagines the summer movie with the expansive comedy horror epic Nope. The film reunites Peele with Oscar-winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers, Alice) and Oscar-nominee Steven Yeun (Minari, Okja) as residents in a […]
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The Lonely Wife, Glasgow Film Theatre
20 – 24 August, 2022 Satyajit Ray’s own favourite of his films, set in late 19th century Bengal, boasts a marvellously vital Victorian heroine: Charulata, spellbindingly portrayed by Madhabi Mukherjee, is beautiful, intellectual and dangerously bored. Racing from window to window in her vast, ornate mansion, Charulata spies hungrily on the outside world through opera glasses. Her wealthy […]
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Burning an Illusion, Glasgow Film Theatre
22 – 25 August, 2022 Pat Williams, played by the award-winning Cassie McFarlane, is a London girl with a caring family, her own flat and a job that she enjoys, who looks forward to settling down to a comfortable married life. Her dream is shattered when she meets Del (Victor Romero), a charming but vaguely discontented […]
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The Feast, Glasgow Film Festival
18 – 25 August, 2022 When a wealthy family and their guests gather for a dinner party in the remote Welsh countryside, they have little idea of what awaits them. Hosting at their luxurious new house, the family have a valuable mining venture at stake and the atmosphere is tense. The arrival of a mysterious […]
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Access Film Club: Hot Fuzz
Monday 8 August (18.00) Film starts 18.05, film ends 20.16 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB GFT, together with The National Autistic Society Scotland, is delighted to provide Access Film Club: a screening and post-film discussion in a friendly and welcoming environment. Exceptional London cop Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is involuntarily transferred […]
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Saturday, August 6, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema
Blind Ambition at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday 12 August, 2022 at 8.15 p.m. Plus Wine Tasting with Locavore at 6.30 p.m.134 Renfrew Street (just round the corner from the cinema) Glasgow Film Theatre is partnering with Locavore Cafe for this special one-off wine tasting event, to celebrate the release of the brilliant feel-good wine tasting documentary Blind Ambition. Limited tickets available!Plus recorded […]
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Eric Ravilious: Drawn To War at GFT
8 – 11 August, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgo G3 6RB Eric Ravilious is as compelling and enigmatic as his art. Set against the dramatic wartime locations that inspired him, Margy Kinmonth’s film brings to life this brilliant but still grossly undervalued British artist. Caught in the crossfire of war 80 years ago, Ravilious’s legacy […]
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Notre Dame On Fire at GFT
Until 11 August, 2022 Notre Dame On Fire offers a blow-by-blow recreation of the gripping events that took place on 15 April 2019, when the iconic Parisian cathedral suffered the biggest blaze in its history. The film retraces how heroic men and women put their lives on the line to accomplish an awe-inspiring rescue. A cinematic […]
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Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in New York City
Until 11 August, 2022 at Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Nightclubbing is the first-ever documentary about the renowned New York City nightclub Max’s Kansas City (1965-1981) which made an indelible impact on the worlds of music, fashion, art, culture and the creation of the city’s punk rock scene. As legendary singer and […]
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The Harder They Come – 50th Annivesary
Until 11 August, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Jimmy Cliff brings a knockout soundtrack and charisma aplenty to this classic crime drama. A film that needs no introduction to anyone with so much as the slightest interest in reggae or Jamaican culture, The Harder They Come celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. […]
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Where The Crawdads Sing at GFT
22 July – 4 August, 2022 From the best-selling novel comes a captivating mystery. Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones), an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumours of the ‘Marsh Girl’ haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from […]
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Saturday, July 30, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans + introduction
Sunday 31 July, 2022, 2 p.m. Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB This screening will be introduced by Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Rediscovered Founder and curator of the When Europe Made Hollywood season. Mark will give an illustrated talk (approx 20 minutes) on the themes, connections and ideas that led him to bring together the eight […]
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Hit the Road at Glasgow Film Theatre
30 July – 4 August, 2022 This debut road movie from Iranian director Panah Panahi went down a storm at Cannes and landed the Best Film Award at BFI London Film Festival. Dad (Hassan Madjooni) sits moodily in the back seat of the family car, nursing his broken leg, while Mum (Pantea Panahiha) drives and […]
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Paris Texas at Glasgow Film Theatre
31 July, 2022 at 6.30 pm Screening with a new recorded interview with director Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas is considered Wim Wenders’ best-known and internationally most successful film. Celebrated by critics, it won a series of important international awards, including the Palme d’Or at Cannes. This unconventional road movie is based on a script by Pulitzer […]
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Joyride at Glasgow Film Theatre
30 July – 4 August, 2022 Joy (Olivia Colman) and Mully (Charlie Reid) are two lovable rogues. Joy is angry. She’s got a baby and motherhood does not come naturally to her; she feels she’s tossed her own dreams aside to give a screeching monster unconditional love. And, if she’s honest with herself, when she […]
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Dance Along Festival: Encanto, Merchant City Festival
Thursday 28th and Sunday 31 July, 2022 Merchant City Festival – Dance Along Screening: Encanto Glasgow City Halls, 97 – 101 Albion Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Join The Madrigals for this special Dance Along screening of the hit movie, Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique […]
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Pather Panchali at Glasgow Film Theatre
30 July – 3 August, 2022 With the release in 1955 of Satyajit Ray’s debut, Pather Panchali, an eloquent and important new cinematic voice made itself heard all over the world. A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of […]
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