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.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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Thursday, February 13, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema
Take 2: StarDog TurboCat GFT
Saturday 15 February, 2020 Buddy the dog has spent much of his life travelling round space as a companion to his astronaut owner. When his ship crash lands he finds Earth is different from how he left it and pets are under threat from the animal hating, Peck. So Buddy recruits cat Felix to take […]
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Preview: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
14 and 25 February, 2020 In late 18th century France, painter Marianne is commissioned by an affluent countess to paint the wedding portrait of her sheltered but headstrong daughter Héloïse, in the hope it will find her a wealthy husband. While posing as her hired companion, Marianne is instructed to complete the portrait in secret, […]
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Pity Party Film Club Clockwatchers CCA
Sat 15 February 2020 3.30pm, £6 + £1.06 booking fee per screening / £15 + £1.76 booking fee for all-day ticket, Cinema / 15+ / F-rated Book online / 0141 352 4900Pity Party Film Club presents a screening of Jill Sprecher’s 1997 comedy-drama Clockwatchers. While she tries to determine her career goals, Iris (Toni Collette) becomes a temporary […]
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Pity Party Film Club Thelma & Louise CCA
Sat 15 February 2020 8.30pm, £6 + £1.06 booking fee per screening / £15 + £1.76 booking fee for all-day ticket, Cinema / 15+ / F-rated Book online / 0141 352 4900Pity Party Film Club presents a screening of Ridley Scott’s classic road movie Thelma & Louise as part of our Suitable Women: Films of Female Friendship Vol.3 event. Meek […]
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Eminent Torture: A Manual for Modern Horror plus Recorded Introduction
16 February, 2020 In the 1950s the CIA and Canada covertly funded Scottish born psychiatrist Dr Ewen Cameron to embark on the darkest program of psychological experimentation in modern history. Subjecting his “patients” to sensory deprivation, forced comas, LSD injections and extreme physical and mental torture, Cameron’s techniques have since been used in 27 countries […]
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Show Me The Picture: Story of Jim Marshall
17 – 20 February, 2020 Jim Marshall was an outsider with attitude. This new documentary chronicles the infamous photographer’s life behind and beyond the camera. A child of immigrants with a life beset by inner demons, Jim fought his way to become one of the most trusted mavericks behind a lens throughout the 1960s. A […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2020 – Short Film Festival Programme
18 – 22 March, 2020 Glasgow Short Film Festival announces 2020 programme and explores the politics of place Glasgow Short Film Festival, the festival’s first as an independent charitable organisation. GSFF is, of course, a celebration of short film, although in typically contrary fashion. This year’s edition opens with a feature-length live performance, and there […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Special Events
Films in this Festival Strand Total Recall at The Argyle Street Arches (18) 28 February Total Recall at The Argyle Street Arches (18) “If I’m not me then who the hell am I?”. Part of a Festival StrandSpecial Events Tank Girl at The Argyle Street Arches (18) 29 February, 2020 Tank Girl at The Argyle […]
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Monday, February 10, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020, Pat's Home Page Blog
Glasgow Film Festival 2020 – Special Event: Total Recall
Friday 28 February, 2020 7.30 p.m. Total Recall Argyle Street Arches will be transformed into a futuristic venue and play host to a weekend of special immersive film screenings of sci-fi cult classics from Total Recall to Tank Girl Neo-Glasgow 28 February – 1 March, 2020 Glasgow Film Festival will take over Argyle Street Arches for an epic weekend, […]
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SQIFF Shorts Out of the Archives! CCA
Sat 8 February 2020 6pm – 7.30pm, Free/£1/£3/£5/£7 + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages / F-rated Book online / 0141 352 4900 As part of LGBT History Month Scotland 2020, SQIFF presents a programme of short films looking back into largely unseen and undiscovered aspects of the history of queer Scottish representation in the 20th century. Featuring archival documentaries and short films […]
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Friday, February 7, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, LGBT Glasgow, LGBT History Month
First events announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2020
The first events have been announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2020. The 16th annual festival takes place from 26 February to 8 March, showcasing the best new films from Scotland and around the world. Some Highlights Glasgow Film Festival 2020 The focus of three special strands Retrospective Are We There Yet? – A Retrospective of […]
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CinemaAttic & Femspectives Mujeres: Women in Film CCA
Thu 13 February 2020 7.30pm – 9.30pm, £7 (£6) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ / F-rated Book online / 0141 352 4900 An alternative Valentine’s with a brilliant evening of short films directed by women. In collaboration with Femspectives, Cinemaattic present a programme of first class short films, directed or produced by Spanish & Latin American women, which challenge assumptions […]
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The Lighthouse, GFT
31 January – 13 February, 2020 Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, directs this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Trapped on the island due to a storm, the men become increasingly desperate as their stark and haunted […]
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Finish Exposure Films from the Arctic
Fri 31 January 2020 CCA 7.30pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema All ages 0141 352 4900Birds in the Earth by Marja Helander and Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest by Katja Gauriloff explore changing Sámi culture and identity. Birds in the Earth In the video we see two ballerinas in white tutus dancing against the backdrop of Lapland’s landscapes. Suddenly their […]
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Thursday, January 30, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema
Water Lilies, GFT
2 – 5 February, 2020 Céline Sciamma’s debut is a perceptive coming of age drama that captures all the anguish and yearning of adolescence. Three very different 15-year-old girls, Marie, Floriane and Anne, are all desperate for a place in the local synchronised swimming team. Their paths cross in the corridors at the pool, where […]
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Bugs and Beasts Before the Law
Sat 1 February 2020 CCA 6pm – 7pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema All ages 0141 352 4900 Bugs and Beasts before the Law is an experimental film that explores the medieval practice of putting animals on trial. This history of colonial law-making forged political and sometimes profane relationships between humans and animals. Bambitchell’s new essayistic work reimagines […]
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Frozen GFT
Saturday 1 February, 2020, 11.30 a.m. We just couldn’t let it go! And now Frozen fever is back along with Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Kristoff and Sven. Elsa is continuing to rule Arandelle when a mysterious voice starts to call her to an enchanted forest that holds clues to her past. Details and booking – free […]
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Preview: Parasite + Satellite Q&A with Bong Joon-ho-GFT
Monday 3 February, 2020 (18.00) It’s the film we’ve all been waiting for, and you can believe the hype. This story of a family of scammers in South Korea is a darkly twisted comedy that’s up there with the best Coen Brothers movies. The Park family are the picture of aspirational wealth. Sensing a golden opportunity, […]
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Queen and Slim, GFT
31 January – 6 February, 2020 A couple’s first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over. Forced to hit the road, they unwittingly become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief and pain for African Americans across the USA. With a propulsive narrative reminiscent of Bonnie and Clyde, Queen & Slim is a chase […]
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Cine(thesia) Coming Out, Kelvin Hall
Wednesday 5 February, 2020 – 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. This screening celebrates LGBT History Month. Hear from Scotland’s queer community – with film from the Moving Image Archive and oral histories from Scotland’s Sounds and OurStory Scotland. Event on Facebook LGBT History Month Scotland
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The Personal History of David Copperfield GFT
Until 6 February, 2020 A fresh and distinctive adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic semi-autobiographical novel about a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies, but manages to triumph over incredible adversities. From his unhappy childhood, to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by […]
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Glasgow Film Festival – Programme Announced 2020
Glasgow Film Festival 2020 26 February – 8 March, 2020 You’re in for a treat with this year’s film festival Download the GFF 2020 Programme Brochure (PDF) Or pick up programme at Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Star guests including George Mackay, Caitlin Moran, Simon Bird, Cannes Best Actress Award Winner […]
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Wakeful Screening at CCA
7 February, 2020 6 p.m. Hosted by See Red Women’s Workshop CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Glasgow screening of ‘Wakeful’.. back to Clydeside! Artists’ film Wakeful reconstructs the voyage of a Clydeside destroyer following the Bolshevik Revolution, in an expanded screening foregrounding experimental approaches to historical memory. Anne Robinson’s Wakeful concerns a hidden history. […]
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Monday, January 27, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Free Events
Opening and Closing Galas announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) will open and close with major features directed by women. The 16th annual festival will open on 26 February with UK premiere of Alice Wincour’s Proxima starring Eva Green The Festival will close on 8 March with UK premiere of the big screen adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s How to Build a […]
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Saturday, January 25, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Celine and Julie Go Boating, GFT
26 January, 2020 Jacques Rivette’s 1974 film is an acknowledged masterpiece of avant-garde cinema. Partly co-written by the cast, it centres on the friendship between its eponymous heroines, Céline, a cabaret performer, and the librarian/magician Julie. Following each other around Paris, they become accidental detectives, investigating mysterious, recurrent events in a haunted house. Céline and […]
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Different from Others with Illustrated Talk, GFT
29 January, 2020 First released 100 years ago, almost destroyed in the Nazi era, and once believed lost, silent film Different from the Others is an artistic call for gay liberation. The romance between a musician (Conrad Veidt) and his pupil is complicated by stigma and the attentions of an enigmatic blackmailer (Reinhold Schünzel). Screening as part […]
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Waves GFT
17 – 30 January, 2020 Set against the vibrant landscape of South Florida, Waves traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family — led by a well-intentioned but domineering father — as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss. From acclaimed director Trey Edward Shults, Waves is a heartrending story about […]
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Bombshell GFT
17 – 30 January, 2019 Based on a real scandal, Bombshell is the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man at the helm of the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time. Fox News CEO Roger Ailes resigned in 2016 following sexual assault allegations from several female employees and went on […]
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Chinese Visual Festival 2020
Sat 25 January — Sun 26 January 2020 chinesevisualfestival.org Related CCA Events Chinese Visual Festival Wrath of Silence | 暴裂无声 Sat 25 January 2020 Chinese Visual Festival Black Coal Thin Ice | 白日焰火 Sun 26 January 2020 Chinese Visual Festival The Wild Goose Lake | 南方车站的聚会 Sun 26 January 2020 123 Celebrate Chinese New Year as Chinese […]
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