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.Easter 2019 at Glasgow Film Theatre
The central event in the Christian calendar has offered much for filmmakers to ponder over the years, from sorrowful reflection to satirical swiping at organised religion. This Easter weekend at GFT we offer a cinematic selection from the sublime to the ridiculous. 19-20 April Beth Gibbons/Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) […]
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Friday, April 19, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Wild Rose, GFT
12 – 25 April, 2019 If ever a film deserves the accolade crowd-pleasing then it is Wild Rose. A Glasgow story of a young woman’s determination to follow her dream, it has the rousing, heartmelting qualities of The Full Monty or Billy Elliot. Jessie Buckley lights up the screen as Rose-Lynn Harlan. Her impossible dream is to become a county music […]
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Ordet GFT
Sunday 21 April, 2019 ‘Ordet is a difficult film to enter,’ said the great film critic Roger Ebert, ‘But once you’re inside, it is impossible to escape.’ This is a small story of two families in rural 1920s Denmark, whose lives are dominated by religion. Slowly and patiently establishing the characters and their differing views, Carl […]
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3 Faces GFT
19 – 22 April, 2019 In Jafar Panahi’s latest film, which won the Best Screenplay Award in Cannes, actress Behnaz Jafari (playing herself) is distraught when she comes across a young girl’s video plea for help after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz and filmmaker Jafar […]
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The Gospel According to St Matthew GFT
Sunday 21 April, 2019 In 1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini gathered a non-professional cast (including his mother Susanna Pasolini) and created his take on the life of Jesus Christ, from the point of view of St Matthew. Simultaneously radical (using jump-cuts and switching music from classical to modern blues) and devout (the dialogue is taken from […]
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A Deal With The Universe, GFT
23 – 25 April, 2019 This is the debut feature from transgender filmmaker Jason Barker, documenting the true story of a very different kind of pregnancy. Made entirely from personal archive footage and home video diaries, the film follows Jason and his partner Tracey’s incredible story of how he came to give birth to his child, charting over 15 years of the […]
Loro GFT
19 – 25 April, 2019 The great Toni Servillo is at the top of his game playing Silvio Berlusconi in Paolo Sorrentino’s baroque, state-of-the-nation epic. Servillo’s towering performance captures the sly charm and the grotesque menace of a larger than life figure with an insatiable hunger for power. Riccardo Scamarcio co-stars as Sergio, a seedy, ambitious Puglian property developer with […]
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Glasgow Film Festival on Tour
Glasgow Film Festival, alongside Film Hub Scotland, is proud to bring some of the most exciting and groundbreaking films of this year’s festival to venues throughout Scotland. These three highlights from the 2019 edition celebrate the finest local filmmaking as well as championing world cinema at its most vibrant. 23 April, 2019 Harry Birrell: Films of Love and War (N/C 12+) […]
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The Fight GFT
19 – 21 April, 2019 Tina is a mother of three, battling the demons of her past and her overwhelming life. Her daughter is being bullied at school, her parents’ marriage is falling apart and she’s juggling everything with her full-time job in a care home. Looking to regain control, Tina enters an amateur boxing […]
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Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley, Permanent Green Light, Andrew Stewart Cinema
Tuesday, 2 May, 2019 6 p.m. A very special opportunity to see Permanent Green Light, a film by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley + a Q and A after the screening. A young guy wants to explode. He wants to do it in public. He’s only interested in the act’s effect. That he’ll die is […]
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Thursday, April 18, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
GRAMNet/BEMIS Film Series Beyond Borders: Stories of Freedom and Friendship, CCA
Wed 17 April 2019 CCA 6pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema All ages 0141 352 4900 Films for refugee children, for their friends and for everyone else. This creative documentary (episode film) without dialogues takes the viewer on a journey into children’s worlds of different countries, real and dreamed. Ola befriends a giant, a boy from Jordan […]
Friday, April 12, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Monty Python’s Life of Brian, GFT
18 April, 2019 Returning to cinemas for its 40th Anniversary, in glorious standard definition and mono-sound, Monty Python delivers a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood’s depiction of all things biblical with their 1979 feature film Life of Brian. Set in 33 C.E. Judea, where exasperated Romans are trying to impose some order, it is […]
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A Deal with the Universe GFT
23 – 25 April, 2010 This is the debut feature from transgender filmmaker Jason Barker, documenting the true story of a very different kind of pregnancy. Made entirely from personal archive footage and home video diaries, the film follows Jason and his partner Tracey’s incredible story of how he came to give birth to his child, charting over 15 years of the […]
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Mid90s GFT
12 – 18 April, 2019 In 1990s Los Angeles, life seems to be stacking the odds against 13-year-old Stevie (Sunny Suljic). His big brother Ian (Lucas Hedges) regards him as a convenient punch bag and his lonely mother Dabney (Katherine Waterston) can’t provide the comfort he needs. What would it take to become one of the cool […]
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Thursday, April 11, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Films of Female Friendship CCA
Little Darlings | Suitable Women : Sat 13 April 2019 Pity Party Film Club presents a rare screening of Ronald F. Maxwell’s cult coming-of-age classic Little Darlings as part of their Suitable Women: Films of Female Friendship series. Two teenage girls, the streetwise Angel (Kristy McNichol) and the well-to-do Ferris (Tatum O’Neal) meet at an Atlanta […]
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Yuli, GFT
12 – 18 April, 2019 The dazzling, rags-to-riches life of ballet superstar Carlos Acosta is beautifully captured by director Icíar Bollaín and writer Paul Laverty in this life-affirming adaptation of his memoir No Way Home. In modern Cuba, Acosta is rehearsing a show dramatising his life in dance. That’s the prompt to recall a childhood where the irrepressible young Carlos would rather have been playing […]
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The Sisters Brothers GFT
5 – 18 April, 2019 The west is wild and unforgiving in Jacques Audiard’s subtle, immensely engaging adaptation of the Patrick de Witt novel. Eli Sisters (John C Reilly) and his brother Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix) have earned a reputation as ruthless killers. In the early 1850s, they ride to San Francisco on a mission to […]
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Sleaford Mods, CCA screening and Q and A
Sleaford Mods – Invisible Britain Wednesday 10 April 2019 7pm, £5 (£3) + £1 booking fee, Theatre 15+ Book Online / 0141 352 4900 Sleaford Mods – Invisible Britain shows the most relevant and uncompromising British band in years sticking two fingers up to the zeitgeist and articulating the rage and desperation of those without a voice […]
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Thursday, April 4, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema
Kaifinama plus Q & A with Shabana Azmi GFT
10 April, 2019 6 p.m. Kaifinama looks at the life and art of the Urdu progressive poet Kaifi Azmi. Kaifi Azmi was both a poet for social change as well as one of the foremost lyricists in the Hindi film industry. Not content to limit himself to fine writing, he worked ceaselessly throughout his life as […]
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Yikes Film Club – Brass Eye Tapes
7 April, 2019, 5.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. Additional screening 2 p.m. 4 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Plus Q & A with Director Michael Cumming ‘THESE ARE THE HEADLINES… GOD I WISH THEY WEREN’T’ Presented by Yikes Film Club Join us at YiKES FIlm Club on the 7th Of April (Located at The […]
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Return of the Living Dead Double at The Icebox
Free Movie Night Icebox Arts and Music Centre Thursday, 4th April, 2019 – 6.30 p.m. The Icebox Arts and Music Centre, Unit 2 St Luke’s Business Estate , the Gorbals, G50TS (archways behind Citizen’s Theatre) Not that long open, and you guys have been ruddy great at helping establish Icebox in their new home, so […]
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Saturday, March 30, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
At Eternity’s Gate GFT
29 March – 4 April, 2019 An Oscar-nominated Willem Dafoe gives an outstanding performance as Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s bold, visceral portrait of the artist. Named after a Van Gogh painting, also known as Sorrowing Old Man, the film focuses on the painter’s productive final years in Arles. Capturing Van Gogh’s visionary approach to painting stroke […]
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Friday, March 29, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story, GFT
29 March – 4 April, 2019 Frank Sidebottom is a name familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in the Manchester music scene. A mischievous cult comedy star who took over the airwaves, he was a product of the reclusive artist and comedian Chris Sievey. Chris toiled away for a decade trying to break into the music scene, […]
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Calamity Jane – Mother’s Day Sing-a-Long, GFT
31 March, 2019 – 1 p.m. Join us for a sing-a-long version of this Oscar- winning classic, starring Doris Day as the titular gun-toting, whip-cracking Wild West whirlwind. Experience the much-loved tale of Calamity Jane afresh, as she rolls in on the Deadwood Stage to feud, fight and fall head over heels for Howard Keel’s Wild Bill Hickok. […]
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Preview: Last Breath, GFT plus Q & A
4 April, 2019 In 2012, diver Chris Lemons lay trapped under the North Sea. His umbilical cable was completely severed, leaving him without breathing gas or any connection to the dive bell. Alone in the dark waters without any means of communication, his chances of survival were slim. Docu-drama Last Breath recreates his story, placing the viewer at the heart […]
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Thursday, March 28, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Laurel and Hardy, Best Before Bed Cinema
31 March, 2019, 6.30 PM – 8.30 PM Free Event – register Eventbrite – via Facebook Silent Film with live music by Gladstone’s Bag Orchestra CitizenM, 60 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G2 3BW CitizenM Glasgow has been planning a Laurel & Hardy night for a while … at last, the timing is perfect! With the fabulous Stan […]
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Us, Glasgow Film Theatre
22nd March – 4th April, 2019 After setting a new standard for provocative, socially-conscious horror films with his directorial debut Get Out, visionary Jordan Peele returns with another original nightmare that he has written, directed and produced. Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o stars as Adelaide Wilson, a woman returning to her beachside childhood home with her husband Gabe […]
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Out of Blue, GFT
29 March – 4 April, 2019 Carol Morley’s intriguing adaptation of the Martin Amis novel Night Train follows veteran New Orleans homicide detective Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) as she investigates the grisly death of an astrophysicist. The case is complex, the clues don’t quite fit together and the victim’s family may not be entirely trustworthy. Key items seem to have […]
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Womxns Networking Brunch
23 March,2019 Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, Glasgow G4 11AB Come along and enjoy brunch on us! Meet up with fellow Glasgow-based creatives, filmmakers and feminists to chat about your experiences and what you’re working on. Find potential collaborators and create ties across film and feminism. This event is free but ticketed and food […]
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Friday, March 22, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Community event
Evening of discussion: poetry and film with Sawsan Al-Areeqe
Thursday 28 March 2019 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. University of Glasgow Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill Halls, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ An award-winning poet and filmmaker, Al-Areeqe is the recipient of the prestigious Artist Protection Fund Fellowship, hosted by the University of Glasgow in 2018/19. In celebration of her creative work as visiting Fellow, Al-Areeqe will share poetry […]
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