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.Wuthering Heights, Glasgow Film Theatre
18 – 20 March, 2019 You wouldn’t expect Andrea Arnold to take a conventional approach to period drama, but her earthy style feels particularly apt in this bold and sensual adaptation of the windblown romance. Arnold said she was keen to honour the spirit of Bronte’s ‘strange, dark’ book, and she does so with a […]
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Friday, March 15, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
GSFF19 | Blueprint: Scottish Independent Shorts
CCA 14 – 17 March, 2019 Celebrating the ingenuity and hard work of local indie filmmaking talent, Blueprint shines a bright light on the fringes of Scottish film culture. Blueprint returns to GSFF with a special focus on emerging cinematographer Alan McLaughlin, the first Scottish filmmaker nominated for the prestigious Debut Cinematographer Award at Camerimage, the International […]
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Accents, Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019
16 March, 2019 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY A new work of film/music by Glasgow’s UNESCO City of Music artist-in-residence Richy Carey. A live performance event at the Glasgow Royal Concert Halls, Accents brings together communities to sing a live soundtrack to a film exploring the sounds of identity and place. Using the […]
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Under the Silver Lake GFT
15 – 21 March, 2019 Steeped in the worlds of Hitchcock, David Lynch and Raymond Chandler, David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake is a quirky trip through the city of dreams. Andrew Garfield’s Sam is a horny, 30-something LA slacker distracted by his beautiful neighbour Sarah (Riley Keough). Just when they are getting to know each other, she disappears. Trying […]
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Everybody Knows GFT
Until 21 March, 2019 Director Asghar Farhadi heads to the dusty backroads north of Madrid for a drama steeped in secrets and lies. Her sister’s wedding brings Laura (Penélope Cruz) back to the small town where she was born. She is accompanied by her teenage daughter and son, but not by her husband who has remained in […]
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GSFF: Opening Screening Terror Nullius
13 March, 2019 8.30 p.m. At once satire, eco-horror and road movie, this political revenge fable offers an unwriting of Australian national mythologies. Soda_Jerk’s revisionist history opens a wilful narrative space where cinema fictions and historical facts permeate each other in new ways. The apocalyptic desert camps of Mad Max 2 become the site of refugee […]
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Ray and Liz, GFT
9 – 14 March, 2019 Turner Prize-nominated artist Richard Billingham touches raw nerves with a feature debut that offers an unflinching evocation of his early family life. Incidents from the past provide a bracing immersion into the lives of Ray (Justin Salinger), the permanently angry Liz (Ella Smith) and their two sons. The vision of squalor and neglect feels […]
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Maiden GFT
9 – 14 March, 2019 Maiden is the inspirational story of how Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989. Tracy’s dream was opposed on all sides: her male competitors thought an all-women crew would never make […]
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Saturday, March 9, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
The Kindergarten Teacher, GFT
9 – l4 March, 2019 Based on the critically acclaimed 2014 film of the same name from Nadav Lapid, Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as Lisa Spinelli, a devoted kindergarten teacher fed up with her career, her oblivious husband and teenage kids who largely ignore her. When she discovers that five-year-old Jimmy (Parker Sevak) in her class […]
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The White Crow + Ralph Fiennes Satellite Q&A
12 March, 2019 Glasgow Film Theatre, 6.45 p.m. The extraordinary early life and mercurial brilliance of Rudolf Nureyev are the inspiration for a richly atmospheric biography from actor/ director Ralph Fiennes. Ukrainian dancer Oleg Ivenko makes an astonishing debut as the young Nureyev. Arriving in Paris in the early 1960s with the Kirov Ballet, Nureyev […]
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Happy as Lazzaro GFT
5 – 11 April, 2019 Alice Rohrwacher’s Cannes prize-winner is a lustrous, genre-bending gem set in a tiny village that seems cut off from the modern world. Gentle, meek and mild peasant Lazzaro (Adriano Tardiolo) is happy to do the bidding of anyone who asks. His friend Tancredi (Tommaso Ragno) makes him an accomplice in […]
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Tuesday, March 5, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
A Clockwork Orange, GFT
5 – 7 April, 2019 Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s decline-of-civilisation novel remains a chilling, thrilling and unsettling cinematic vision of nihilistic violence and social control. Set in a flamboyantly stylised near-future where gangs of disenfranchised teenagers indulge in narcotic cocktails and revel in acts of ‘ultraviolence’, the film centres on Alex (Malcolm McDowell) […]
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Access Film Club: Can You Ever Forgive Me at GFT
9 April, 2019 – 6 p.m. GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB GFT is a proud supporter of Autism Awareness Month, and, together with the National Autistic Society Scotland, provides Access Film Club: screenings and post-film discussions in a friendly and welcoming environment. FAQs: glasgowfilm.org/AFC Melissa McCarthy stars in the Oscar-nominated adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the […]
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The Journey GFT
10 and 11 April, 2019 Baghdad, 2006. Sara enters the train station with sinister intentions for its reopening ceremony. As she braces to commit an unthinkable act, her plans are drastically altered by an unwanted and awkward encounter with Salam, a self-assured and flirtatious salesman. With Salam now hostage to Sara’s confused and deluded plan, he battles desperately to appeal to her humanity and […]
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Monday, March 4, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Glasgow School of Art MFA MFA WIP Screening 2, CCA
Tuesday 9 April 2019 6:30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages CCA Tue 9 April 2019 6:30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages Book Online / 0141 352 4900 The GSA Master of Fine Art final year students present a series of three film screenings at the CCACinema space for the run up to their degree show in May this […]
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The Science of Ghosts, Glasgow Film Festival 2019 review by Pat Byrne
The Science of Ghosts is a film directed by Niall McCann, who also directed Lost in France ( 2017). This new movie has links to Lost in France, which focused on the Glasgow based record label Chemikal Underground; The Science of Ghosts is about Adrian Crowley, the much lauded Dublin based singer / composer, the only […]
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Scotch: The Golden Dram
Thursday, 7th March, 2019 at 6.30pm Grosvenor Cinema Hillhead with Q&A with Andrew Peat, Director Andrew Peat’s handsomely crafted feature documentary tells the story of the Scotch whisky industry through its most ardent enthusiasts. Shot entirely on location in Scotland, Scotch: The Golden Dram tells the story of Uisge beatha, Gaelic for “water of life.” Scotch […]
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Saturday, March 2, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Metal Heart Glasgow Film Festival
Saturday 2 (12.30) & Sunday 3 March,2019 (14.40) Director Hugh O’Conor will attend the screening on Sat 2 Mar Actor turned director Hugh O’Conor has created the kind of cheering, warm-hearted teen comedy that would have made John Hughes proud. Emma (Jordanne Jones) and Chantal (Leah McNamara) are chalk-and-cheese sisters living in Dublin. Goth-loving Emma is the guiding spirit […]
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Friday, March 1, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Beats Closing Gala Glasgow Film Festival 2019
3 March, 2019 The much-anticipated screen version of Kieran Hurley’s award-winning play is a gallus, bittersweet coming-of-age rollercoaster: imagine Fellini’s I Vitelloni set to a throbbing techno beat. It is 1994 and new legislation effectively outlaws raves or “public gatherings around amplified music characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats”. The party is well and […]
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Thursday, February 28, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Living the Light CCA
Friday 1 (20.45) & Saturday 2 March, 2019 (12.45) Director Claire Pijman will attend the screening on Fri 1 Mar. One of the most inventive and influential cinematographers to ever put his eye to a viewfinder, Robby Müller shot Paris, Texas, Down by Law, Breaking the Waves, and countless other classics. His use of natural light and colour earned him […]
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Love Movie CCA
CCA / Friday 1 (16.15) & Saturday 2 March, 2019 (20.45) Writer/director Emma Rosa Simon and actor Lana Cooper will attend the screening on Fri 1 Mar. Lenz (Eric Klotzsch) is a 30-something drifter, stumbling from party to party, unsure of his place in the world. After a chance meeting with the passionate and carefree Ira […]
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At Eternity’s Gate, Glasgow Film Festival
Everyman / Friday 1 March (18.00) | CCA / Saturday 2 March, 2019 (16.05) 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. […]
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Sam Spiegel: Conquering Hollywood GFT
Sunday 3 March, 2019 (13.30) Producer Sam Spiegel was the epitome of the larger than life, cigar-chomping movie tycoon. His Oscar-winning career included classics from The African Queen to On the Waterfront and Lawrence of Arabia. The makers of Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches (GFF18) bring us the first documentary on his colourful life, telling an irresistible rags-to-riches story, profusely illustrated with clips from his finest […]
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Zombieland, GFT
Friday 1 March, 2019 (23.15) Be sure to stock up on Twinkies and remember to follow the rules for survival to make it to our special screening of Zombieland, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Join Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Tallahasee (Woody Harrelson), Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) as they navigate the undead in a bid to […]
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Special Guests at Glasgow Film Festival 2019
We host some stellar guests for Q&A sessions throughout the festival, giving you the chance to find out more about their inspiration, process and future projects. Bring your finest questions! Thu 21 February, 2019 18.00 – Director James Cullingham will attend Jim Galloway – A Journey in Jazz 18.00 – Director John Butler and actors Matt Bomer and […]
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Arctic, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Cineworld / Wednesday 27 (18.15) & Thursday 28 February, 2019 (15.30) Director Joe Penna will attend the screening on Wednesday 27 February, 2019 Stranded in a bleak, unforgiving frozen wilderness would you have what it takes to survive? Joe Penna’s intense, slow-burning adventure yarn tells of endurance against impossible odds and is all the more chilling for virtually dispensing […]
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Dirty God, GFT
Saturday 2 March (18.00) & Sunday 3 March, 2019 (10.45) Director Sacha Polak and actor Vicky Knight will attend the screening on Saturday 2 March. Fresh from its world premiere at Sundance, Dutch writer-director Sacha Polak’s English language debut emerges as a powerful, haunting tale of the vast divide between surface beauty and internal worthiness. A vicious acid […]
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Belgian Cinema ‘Both Sides Now’, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Belgium is a small country with an immense cinematic heritage. National treasures range from Chantal Akerman, Yolanda Moreau, the Dardenne Brothers and Felix van Groeningen to Man Bites Dog’s Benoît Poelvoorde, and Hergé’s eternally rousing adventures of Tintin. This year’s country focus celebrates the best of contemporary Belgian cinema in an outstanding year that has brought […]
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Glasgow Film Festival Launch 2019 + announcement Scottish Premiere Wild Rose
Glasgow Film Festival announce the Scottish Premiere of Wild Rose, starring Jessie Buckley, plus a special performance after the screening The 15th annual film festival opens Wednesday 20 February, 2019 with Jonah Hill’s Mid90s and runs until 3 March, 2019 Tom Harper’s film Wild Rose, which was filmed in Glasgow, will have its Scottish premiere […]
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FrightFest Week-End 1 and 2 March, 2019
1 and 2 March, 2019 It’s full scream ahead as FrightFest returns to Glasgow Film Festival for a 14thfearful year! Currently at its most vibrant and popular, the horror fantasy genre is constantly garnering critical acclaim, topping charts and even winning Oscars: not simply through cheap scares or graphic gore but by pushing boundaries, reflecting […]
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