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.May 2019 at Glasgow Film Theatre
NEW RELEASES This month, as Glasgow Film celebrates 80 Years of Cinema at Rose Street, the GFT programme is packed with hotly anticipated new releases, including: Brady Corbett’s follow up to Childhood of a Leader, Vox Lux, starring Natalie Portman; Aretha Franklin in the spectacular documentary Amazing Grace, directed by Oscar-winner Sydney Pollack and Alan […]
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Thursday, May 9, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Il Postino The Shed
12 May, 2019 2 p.m. Cinema – L’Amore Del Cinema Italiano IL Postino recounts the story of a diffident postman and a world renown poet, set against a backdrop of conflicting social-political issues! £3 Buy tickets About this Event PRIZE draw at the event!!! 1. Lunch for 2 at Dimora Newton Mearns!!! 2. Surprise from […]
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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Movie Memories: Rebecca GFT
Dementia Friendly Event – 16 May, 2019 Alfred Hitchcock’s Academy Award-winning gothic thriller. A newly-married woman discovers that Rebecca – her husband’s first wife – exerts a sinister grasp over the family. Hitchcock’s atmospheric masterpiece from 1940, packed with a stellar cast, is a slow-burning drama full of twists and turns. Please note that all wheelchair […]
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SCOTTISH FILM & TV TALENT ANNOUNCED FOR DEVELOPMENT RESIDENCY ON SKYE
Six aspiring filmmakers have secured a week’s summer residency in Skye where they’ll be coached by some of the country’s top Film and TV professionals. Congratulations to the finalists: Daisy Costello, Glasgow, Emma Lennox, Glasgow, John Murdo MacAulay, Isle of Lewis, , Omar Raza, Glasgow, Michael Lee Richardson, Glasgow and Ali Taylor, Glasgow Writers, producers and directors behind shows like Poldark, Derry […]
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Tuesday, May 7, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2019
Friday 3 May — Monday 6 May 2019 mhfestival.com The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, led by the Mental Health Foundation, aims to support the arts and challenge preconceived ideas about mental health. The International Film Awards ceremony takes place at the CCA on the evening of Friday 3 May, celebrating the best in mental health filmmaking. Winning films […]
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Friday, May 3, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Take Access 2: Bumblebee
Saturday 4 May, 2019 12,00 After fleeing his home planet Cybertron, a young Autobot finds refuge hiding as a Volkswagen Beetle in a junk yard. 20 years later, Charlie Watson is celebrating her 18th birthday when she is given the car as a present. In her attempts to fix the car, the Autobot reveals himself and […]
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SMHAF19 Scottish Connections CCA
Monday 6 May 2019 5.30pm, Free/£2/£4/£6/£8 via Eventbrite, Theatre 14+ accompanied by an adult / F-rated Book Online / 0141 352 4900 A family divided between England and Skye, a meaningful bond repaired in Glasgow, and a chance encounter with a Syrian artist, are just three of the stories explored in this selection. These shorts, featuring animation, […]
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Thursday, May 2, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Vacas GFT
Sunday 5 May, 2019 5 p.m. Set in the Basque region, this epic portrayal of feuding families begins with a single act of cowardice that shapes the lives of three generations and fuels an intense rivalry. Told in four related short stories, Vacas director Julio Medem continues the work of Armendariz in Tasio, rethinking how Basque landscapes shape […]
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Full Metal Jacket GFT
5 – 8 May, 2019 Kubrick’s scathing attack upon the Vietnam War and its destruction of a generation of people from both sides of the conflict is as ruthless and disturbing today as it was on release. We follow Private Joker (Matthew Modine) as he navigates Boot Camp, with its de-construction of its recruits. Then watch as he becomes an awful instrument […]
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Woman at War
RELEASED IN CINEMAS ON 3 MAY 2019 a film by Benedikt Erlingsson starring Halldóra Geirharõsdóttir ‘Is there anything rarer than an intelligent feel-good film that knows how to tackle urgent global issues with humor as well as a satisfying sense of justice? Look no further than Woman at War’ VARIETY Picturehouse Entertainment are proud to announce […]
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Wednesday, May 1, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Prince Under the Cherry Moon Matchbox Cinema
Under The Cherry Moon | Film Screening Friday, 7 June, 2019 Information Under The Cherry Moon | Friday 7th June at CCA, Glasgow Backseat Bingo & Matchbox Cineclub present a rare screening of Prince’s Under the Cherry Moon, on His Royal Badness’ birthday. Fashion historian Casci Ritchie will introduce the film with an illustrated […]
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The King of Paparazzi GFT
Saturday 1 June, 2019 3 p.m. Among the many lasting legacies of Federico Fellini’s 1960 film La Dolce Vita is its creation of the term ‘paparazzo’ which has come to describe a particular type of relentless celebrity photographer. Massimo Spano and Giancarlo Scarchili’s fittingly star-studded documentary focuses on Rino Barillari, arguably Italy’s most famous ‘paparazzo’. After arriving […]
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Petra GFT
Monday, 29 April, 2019 The atmosphere of Greek tragedy comes to contemporary Spain in this brooding portrait of a broken family suffering the consequences of secrets, lies and violence. Petra, a fatherless young woman, embarks on a search that leads her to Jaume, a famous artist and a powerful, ruthless man (remarkably portrayed by 77-year […]
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Friday, April 26, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Pond Life – GFT
26 April – 2 May, 2019 The first feature from acclaimed theatre director Bill Buckhurst is set in a quiet mining village just outside Doncaster during the summer of 1994. A giant carp is said to inhabit a local pond, inspiring its own Loch Ness Monster-style legend. One night, Trevor (Tom Varey) assembles friends, families and neighbours to embark on a fishing […]
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Styx GFT
26 April – 2 May, 2019 A determined and confident doctor, Rike (played with utter conviction by Susanne Wolff) attempts to escape the pace of her everyday life with a well-deserved solo sailing trip to the volcanic island of Ascension. However, her plans are scuppered when she discovers a sinking fishing boat, with hundreds of people fighting for […]
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¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Film Festival 2019 Glasgow Film Theatre
25 March – 29 April, 2019 Glasgow Film Festival, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Film Festival brings the best new cinema from Spain and Spanish-speaking Latin America to Manchester every year; at GFT we are delighted to host a selection of highlights from the main festival through April. From […]
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Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley Permanent Green Light plus Q & A
Thursday 2 May, 2019 6p.m. – 8 p.m. Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill, Univesity of Glasgow, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ 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 […]
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Beatson Gin and Sing: Grease at OranMor
2nd May, 2019, Doors 7 p.m. Starts 8 p.m. The Venue at Òran Mór Doors 7pm (show starts 8pm) ‘Don’t say we’re not hopelessly devoted to you… you voted for the next Beatson Gin & Sing movie and they listened – Grease is the one that you want!’ OranMor present another evening of singing and dancing. This time, […]
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KeanuCon 2019 CCA
KeanuCon 2019 Sat 27 April — Sun 28 April 2019 From the makers of Cage-a-rama Weird Weekend, KeanuCon is Scotland’s first Keanu Reeves film festival. Join Matchbox Cineclub to celebrate the most triumphant Wyld Stallyn himself and trace his career from babe to baba yaga. Expect nine films over two days, special guests and lots of bonus […]
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Eighth Grade GFT
26 April – 2 May 2019 Eighth Grade is everything you would hope for from stand-up comic and YouTube sensation Bo Burnham. Scalpel-sharp in its observations and painfully funny, it follows 13-year-old Kayla (Elsie Fisher) as she embarks on her incredible journey towards high school. Crippled by self-loathing and insecurity, she creates YouTube advice vlogs that present a calmly confident […]
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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
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