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 County, Glasgow Film Festival 2020 review by Pat Byrne
Part of Country Strand: Iceland Northern Shining Lights Grímur Hákonarson’s film is set in a rural community in Iceland. From the outset you gain a sense of the place with shots of a remote farmhouse and frost covered fields. The demanding nature of the farmers’ work is apparent; an early scene shows Inga (Arndís Hrönn […]
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Saturday, February 29, 2020 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2020, Pat's Home Page Blog
Glasgow Film Festival 2020 at CCA
Tickets via GFF / 0141 332 6535 Full Programme of Glasgow Film Festival Screenings Glasgow Film Festival You Will Die at 20 Sat 29 February 2020 Glasgow Film Festival Simple Women Sat 29 February 2020 Glasgow Film Festival Gutterbee Sat 29 February 2020 Glasgow Film Festival Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago Sat 29 February 2020 Glasgow Film Festival […]
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Friday, February 28, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Heroic Losers
29 February and 2 March, 2020 Ricardo Darín is reunited with The Secret In Their Eyes author Eduardo Sacheri and his Chinese Take-Out director Sebastián Borensztein for an irresistible, Robin Hood-style heist caper set in 2001. Darín plays retired footballer Fermin, who is determined to revitalise a sleepy region outside of Buenos Aires, so he persuades his friends and […]
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Glasgow Film Festival: Luz the Flower of Evil
1 and 2 March, 2020 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD The screening on 2 March will be followed by a Q&A with the director Juan Diego Escobar Alzate. Widowed preacher and leader of a small mountain community, El Señor has preached to his followers that a new messiah will appear and shepherd them […]
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Glasgow Film Festival: Run
Monday 2 March, 2020 3.30 p.m. Inspired by Bruce Springsteen, writer/director Scott Graham (Shell, Iona) has crafted a howl of anguish for all the broken dreams we abandon along life’s highway. Finnie (Game Of Thrones’ Mark Stanley) never imagined he’d wind up in a dead end job in a Fraserburgh fish factory. His teenage son Kid (Anders […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2020, Disco
3 and 4 March, 2020 Faith requires absolute devotion in Disco, a tough, disturbing drama on the all-consuming demands of Christian cults. Mirjam (Josefine Frida Pettersen) is the teenage stepdaughter of a pastor in an evangelical movement. She is also a world champion disco freestyle dancer who is the pride of her church. When she […]
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Glasgow Film Festival: Master Cheng
1 and 2 March, 2020 The screening on 1 March will be followed by a Q&A with director Mika Kaurismäki. Director Mika Kaurismäki has made one of the most charming, delightful features of his long career. There are echoes of Local Hero in Master Cheng as a widowed chef and his son arrive in a remote Finnish village. Far from his home […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2020 – Industry Focus
2 March until 7 March, 2020 GFF20: Industry Focus Double Tree by Hilton Glasgow Central, 36 Cambridge St, G2 3HN Full Industry Programme Some of the areas of focus in 2020 are sustainability in production, working practice and mental health, positive actions being taken with accessibility, distribution, and music in film and television, with increased […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Simple Women presented by Femspectives
29 February, 2020 Ambitious yet graceless film director Federica (Jasmine Trinca) has only ever had one obsession: cinema. One film in particular has always proved a particular inspiration: Hal Hartley’s Simple Men, where her obsession with Romanian actor Elina Löwensohn began. So when the opportunity to make a film about Elina, with Elina in the title […]
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Friday, February 21, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival: Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago, CCA
29 February, 2020 CCA, 350 Sauhiehall Street, G2 3JD Both screenings will be followed by a Q&A with director Rob Christopher and producer Michael Glover Smith. Hailed as ‘William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly’ poet, author and screenwriter Barry Gifford has given the world more than forty works […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Jazz On A Summer’s Day
1 March, 2020 – 3 p.m. Considered the greatest jazz concert film ever made, Jazz On A Summer’s Day celebrates one joyous Saturday during the Newport Jazz Festival of 1958. Fashion photographer Bert Stern captures the people, performers and magical atmosphere of a day when the mouthwatering line-up included Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, Mahalia Jackson, Thelonius Monk and […]
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Moments of Resistance by Femspectives
UK premiere of Jo Schmeiser’s documentary MOMENTS OF RESISTANCE Saturday 22 February, 2020 – 6 p.m. Civic House, 26 Civic Street, Glasgow G4 9RH Jo Schmeiser | Austria 2019 | German, French, Dari w. English subtitles | 98′ | N/C 12+ A journey through time, MOMENTS OF RESISTANCE reflects on the connections between historical resistance […]
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Iberodocs Lisbon Beat CCA
LISBON BEAT (Batida de Lisboa) 15 March, 2020 This film screening is part of the 7th edition of IberoDocs, the Ibero-American Documentary Film Festival Scotland (26 FEB-15 MARCH) and will be introduced by Eirene Houston from Havana Glasgow Film Festival. (See Full Programme Iberodocs) Vasco Viana & Rita Maia • Portugal 2019 • 75 min […]
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Lost Transmissions, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
29 February and 1 March, 2020 GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB The screening on Saturday 29 February will be followed by a Q&A with director Katharine O’Brien. Audience Award When a chance meeting at a party brings aspiring songwriter Hannah (Juno Temple ) and music producer Theo (Simon Pegg ) together, a promising partnership seems […]
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Thursday, February 20, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Take 2: Spies in Disguise, GFT
Saturday, 22 February, 2020 Super slick spy Lance Sterling is always busy saving the world from the biggest threats. But when bumbling scientist Walter accidentally transforms Lance into a pigeon, can he still save the world? Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose Street, G12 0AP
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Dardishi Festival at CCA
Larissa Sansour, Nation Estate (Olive Tree), 2012 21 – 23 February, 2020 Dardishi 2020 Fri 21 February — Sun 23 February 2020 dardishi.com Dardishi Festival is a not-for-profit community venture that showcases Arab and North African womxn’s* contributions to contemporary art and culture. Born out of a zine, the Festival aims to strengthen creative collaboration within our community and […]
Alasdair Gray: A Life in Progress GFT
22 February, 2020 2.50 p.m. This special screening celebrates the life and work of Alasdair Gray, the novelist, painter, poet, playwright, outspoken political firebrand and irrepressible creative force who passed away in December 2019. Initially premiered at Glasgow Film Festival in 2013, Kevin Cameron’s feature-length documentary offers a colourful mosaic of interviews, vintage archive footage […]
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Parasite GFT
7 – 26 February, 2020 Bong Joon Ho (The Host, Okja) brings his singular mastery home to Korea in this pitch-black modern fairytale. Meet the Park Family, the picture of aspirational wealth, and the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. By a stroke of fate, these two houses are brought together and […]
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National Library of Scotland Kelvin Hall – World Thinking Day
Cine(sthesia) World Thinking Day 22 February, 2020 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. National Library of Scotland, Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle St,Glasgow G3 8AW To celebrate World Thinking Day 2020, come along and see a selection of films from the Moving Image Archive featuring Girl Guides and Boy Scouts . This screening shows footage of Girl […]
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Love Sarah, Glasgow Film Festival
29 February and 1 March, 2020 The screening on 29 February will be followed by a Q&A with director Eliza Schroeder and other key members of the cast and crew including Bill Paterson, Celia Imrie and Shannon Tarbet. If you love Bake Off then you will delight in Eliza Schroeder’s bighearted drama where the delicious cakes almost steal the […]
The Public, GFT
21 – 25 February, 2020 Emilio Estevez has created a moving, thought-provoking, state-of-the-nation drama in The Public. Estevez stars as Stuart, a loyal member of staff at a public library in Cincinnati that has become a cherished sanctuary for dozens of the city’s homeless. On the coldest night of the year, with shelters filled to capacity, […]
Little Joe, GFT
21 – 25 February, 2020 Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. She has engineered a very special crimson flower, remarkable not only for its beauty but also for its therapeutic value: if kept at the ideal temperature, fed properly and spoken to regularly, […]
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Greed GFT
21 – 26 February, 2020 Steve Coogan stars in this sharp satire as self-made British billionaire Sir Richard “Greedy” McCreadie, whose empire is in crisis. For 30 years he has ruled the world of retail fashion but after a damaging public inquiry, his image is tarnished. To save his reputation, he decides to bounce back […]
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The Whistlers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
27 – 28 February, 2020 Director Corneliu Porumboiu moves into film noir territory with the tough, twisty, double-dealing thriller The Whistlers. Corrupt cop Cristi (Vlad Ivanov) is a member of a Bucharest crime syndicate. He travels to the Canary Island of La Gomera as part of a plan to free a Bucharest businessman who might […]
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Glasgow Film Festival: The County
Friday 28 February, 2020 at 1.15 p.m. Followed by a Q&A with director Grímur Hákonarson. If you loved Woman At War (and who didn’t?), then you will want to see The County. Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir is outstanding as Inga, a careworn dairy farmer struggling to survive in a small Icelandic community. Her husband’s death is […]
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A Beautiful Day in The Neighbourhood, GFT
7 – 13 February, 2020 Lloyd Vogel is a cynical journalist commissioned to write a short profile of wholesome children’s TV presenter Fred Rogers. Convinced that there must be something dark lurking behind Fred’s kindly persona, Lloyd goes to interview him. But the encounter ends up revealing more about Lloyd’s own inner demons, as he […]
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Friday, February 14, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema
Pity Party Film Club Tangerine CCA
Sat 15 February 2020 6pm, £6 + £1.06 booking fee per screening / £15 + £1.76 booking fee for all-day ticket, Cinema / 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Pity Party Film Club Thelma & Louise Sat 15 February 2020 Pity Party Film Club presents a screening of Sean Baker’s incendiary, innovative 2015 comedy Tangerine. It’s […]
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Thursday, February 13, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema
Valentine’s Day at GFT 2020
Glassgow Film Theatre has a programme of fabulous films, all day, for Valentine’s Day 14 February, 2020. Parasite 14.00 17.00 and 20.00 Details and booking First Love 12.50 17.55 20.30 Details and Booking A Streetcar Named Desire 14.45 Details and Booking Mr Jones 15.15, 17.45 Details and Booking Preview: Portrait of A Lady on Fire […]
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A Streetcar Named Desire, GFT
14 – 17 February, 2020 In the sticky heat of New Orleans’ French Quarter, Blanche DuBois, a small-town beauty who feels her best years are behind her, arrives at the modest apartment of her sister, Stella, and her explosive husband, Stanley Kowalski. Elia Kazan’s legendary adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ play is famed for the brute […]
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True Romance, Late Night Movie at GFT
14 February, 2020 – 11 p.m. What better way to mark Valentine’s Day than with a special late night screening of this star-studded, ultra-violent love story? Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette’s lovers on the run became 1990s icons in this stylish and hugely entertaining tale. Spontaneous newlyweds Clarence and Alabama are thrust into a dangerous […]
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