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 Happy Prince, GFT
3 – 9 August, 2018 Rupert Everett’s directorial debut is a poignant dramatization of Oscar Wilde’s final years, and the ghosts that haunted him. In late 19th Century Paris, Wilde is out of prison but a pariah. He swings between grief and a determination to wrest whatever pleasure he can from the time he has left. His body ailing and heavy, his […]
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Thursday, August 2, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Cafe Flicker, Glasgow Open Screen for Indie Filmmakers
(Image: ‘Bridge’, Iain Robertson, prizewinner July, 3018) Thursday 2 August, 2018 – 7 p.m. GMAC Films, 103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Submissions are now open for August’s Cafe Flicker! If you’d like to submit a film, please send it over via wetransfer.com to cafeflicker@gmacfilm.com including a submission form Come along to the next Café Flicker! Glasgow’s open […]
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Monday, July 30, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Kissing Cousins, GFT
Aoife McArdle makes an eye-catching feature debut with a stylish, seductive drama poised between harsh realities and inviting escapism. 17-year-old Candice (an impressive Ann Skelly) feels trapped in a gloomy seaside town riven with violence, and a life defined by chronic seizures. Everything brightens when she meets a handsome young man who is the spitting image of […]
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Iceman, GFT
27 July – 2 August, 2018 5000 years ago: A man lives with his woman and their children in the Ötztals Alps. Coming back to his hut after hunting one day, he finds his family murdered, the shed burned down and a holy amulet stolen. Full of rage, he decides to challenge the freezing mountains […]
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Generation Wealth, GFT
27 – 29 July, 2018 In The Queen of Versailles (2012), director Lauren Greenfield documented how an American billionaire family faced the economic crisis. Her fascination with materialistic, image-obsessed culture continues to bear rich fruit in Generation Wealth. Simultaneously photographic journey, memoir, and historical essay, the film bears witness to the global boom–bust economy, the corrupted American Dream […]
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Apostasy, GFT
27 July – 2 August, 2018 Daniel Kokotajlo’s intelligent, gripping drama is set among a close-knit community of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Oldham. Ivanna (Siobhan Finneran) is a true believer and has raised two teenage daughters to follow her values. Luisa (Sacha Parkinson) is at college and facing bad influences and irresistible temptations. Fears for her […]
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Summer, 1993 at GFT
22 – 26 July, 2018 In Carla Simón’s touching autobiographical film, six-year-old Frida looks on in silence as the last objects from her recently deceased mother’s apartment in Barcelona are placed in boxes. Although her aunt, uncle, and younger cousin Anna welcome her with open arms, it’s only very slowly that Frida begins to get […]
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Sunday, July 22, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Rear Window, GFT
29 and 31 July, 2018 James Stewart plays L.B. Jeffries, a photographer confined to his apartment with a broken leg. Whilst recuperating he spends his time observing his neighbours across the courtyard and believes he witnesses a murder. Enlisting the help of his girlfriend and nurse he begins to investigate in spite of the fact […]
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The Receptionist, GFT
23 – 26 July, 2018 Jenny Lu’s directorial feature debut is based on a true story. Unable to find a job, Tina, a Taiwanese recent graduate living in London, starts working in an illegal massage parlour as a receptionist. As she gets to know the women who work there, she sees how they struggle to […]
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Princess Mononoke, GFT
26 July, 2018 Subtitles One of Miyazaki’s finest works, Princess Mononoke is brimming with imagination, beauty and tragedy on an epic scale. Afflicted by a deadly curse, a young warrior named Ashitaka sets out for the forests of the west in search of the cure that will save his life. He becomes entangled in a vicious conflict […]
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The Secret of Marrowbone, GFT
27 July – 2 August, 2018 A thrilling new Gothic horror film from the writer of The Orphanage, The Secret of Marrowbone centres on Jack (George McKay) and his younger siblings. After the death of their mother, the family live in isolation in a sprawling but poorly maintained mansion. Haunted by a sinister presence, it slowly becomes clear […]
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer Festival, Burnt Church Film Club Glasgow
Two days, 20 episodes, all the BTVS! 4th and 5th August, 2018 Saturday 4th August Doppelgangland, Lover’s Walk, Band Candy, Bothered Bewitched & Bewildered, The Wish, Innocence, Suprise, Halloween & Graduation Day pt. 1/2 Sunday 5th August Once More With Feeling, Hush, Normal Again, A New Man, Tabula Rasa, Hell’s Bells, Something Blue, Dead Things, […]
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Cabaret, GFT
2 August, 2018 GFT, 12 Rose St, G3 6RB Adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s novel Goodbye To Berlin, Cabaret provides a snapshot of Berlin cabaret during the Weimar Republic when the growing presence of the Nazi party was becoming increasingly evident. Reserved English teacher Brian Roberts arrives in the city and embarks on a relationship with […]
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Saturday, July 21, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Con Air, GFT
13 July, 2018 Newly-paroled Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage, at peak Nicolas Cage) is headed back home to his wife and daughter, but must fly home aboard prison transport flight “Jailbird” with some of America’s most dangerous criminals. Serial killer Cyrus ‘The Virus’ Grissom (John Malkovich) and his gang unleash a violent escape plot, taking control […]
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Thursday, July 12, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Pin Cushion, GFT
13 July, 2018 Deborah Haywood’s heartbreaking debut confronts all the misery of being targeted by bullies. Teenager Iona (Lily Newmark) and her mother Lyn (Joanna Scanlan) have moved to a Midlands town seeking a fresh start. Nobody is willing to look beyond Lyn’s physical disabilities and eccentric ways to offer her the hand of friendship […]
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Whitney GFT
4 Jul, – 19th 2018 7.50 p.m. GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB With over 200 million album sales worldwide, and remaining the only artist to chart seven consecutive US No. 1’s, Whitney Houston was the voice of a generation. She inspired a generation of singers from Mariah Carey to Beyoncé and had the voice […]
In Bed With Madonna GFT
15 July, 2018 Screening to coincide with Pride Glasgow 2018. This documentary chronicles Madonna’s controversial 1990 ‘Blonde Ambition’ international tour, kicking off in Japan during its rainy season, then traveling to North America with significant stops in Los Angeles, Detroit, Toronto, and New York. The film is a behind-the-scenes look at Madonna’s relationships with her […]
Scottish Short Film Festival, 21 July, 2018
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD The 2018 Scottish Short Film Festival is a unique once-in-a-lifetime blend of the best recent short Scottish films. We’ve painstakingly shaved down sixty-three great entries this year to three hours of the most amazing and original short cinema, produced both locally and worldwide, with some relation to Scotland, […]
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Betty: They Say I’m Different, GFT
12 July, 2018 Betty Davis changed the landscape for female artists in America. From an early age, Betty freed herself from social rules traditionally imposed on women and insisted on complete control of her image and recordings, and in the case of her turbulent marriage to Miles Davis, her personal life as well. At the […]
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Friday, July 6, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Leaning into the Wind, GFT
11 July, 2018 This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Andy Goldsworthy. An award-winning, globally celebrated artist, Andy Goldsworthy OBE is known for creating unique work that combines materials from everyday surroundings. Some of his pieces are monumental works of land art, others exist only briefly before being altered or erased by natural […]
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Mary Shelley, GFT
7 – 12 July, 2018 The tempestuous romance that inspired one of Gothic literature’s most influential works is brought to life in Mary Shelley, a luscious and moving period drama starring Elle Fanning as the radical young writer. Young and passionately in love, at first 16-year-old Mary relishes life amongst the radical Romantics, but as […]
Yellow Submarine, GFT
8 July, 2018 An icon of psychedelic pop culture and an exhilaratingly joyful cinematic experience for all ages – filled with visual invention, optical illusions, word play, and glorious, glorious music. Once upon a time there was a paradise called Pepperland, 80,000 leagues under the sea it lay, a place where beauty, happiness, and music […]
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Thoroughbred, GFT
10 July, 2018 6 p.m. GFT, together with The National Autistic Society Scotland is delighted to provide Access Film Club, which includes a film screening and post-film chat in a friendly and welcoming environment. Read FAQs Dubbed ‘American Psycho meets Heathers’, Thoroughbreds follows teenagers Amanda (Olivia Cooke) and Lily (Anya Talyor-Joy), reunited after years apart. The girls seem […]
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Shadow of a Doubt, GFT
8 and 10 July, 2018 Celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, Shadow of a Doubt follows Charlie Oakley, a killer just one step ahead of the law, as he travels to Santa Rosa under the pretense of visiting his relatives. But his niece and namesake, Young Charlie, soon begins to suspect that her uncle is the […]
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Thursday, July 5, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Sicario 2: Soldado, GFT
29 Jun – 12 July, 2018 In the drug war, there are no rules – and as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) calls on the mysterious Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), whose family was murdered by a cartel kingpin, to escalate the war in […]
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Leave No Trace, GFT
29 June – 2 July, 2018 Directed by Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone), Leave No Trace follows Will and his teenage daughter, Tom, who have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, they are forced into traditional housing. After clashing with their new surroundings, Will and Tom set […]
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Thursday, June 28, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
The Deerhunter, GFT
4 July, 2018 Michael Cimino’s ground-breaking classic marked the moment when American cinema finally started to address the emotional and psychological legacy of the war in Vietnam. This epic follows the harrowing and heartbreaking story of three ordinary steel workers who leave behind the strong bonds of their community to fight in a desperate foreign […]
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Time Trial, GFT
29 Jun – 5 July, 2018 Time Trial gives us an exhilarating and terrifying place in the race, providing an immersive experience as close to actually competing as you will ever see on film. Scottish cyclist David Millar, shrouded in darkness, declares an intention to rise again. This is a sensory ride through the thrill and hardship of professional cycling. We are hurtled […]
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David Bowie Is, Documentary at The Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema
6th July, 2018 ‘Taking us on a journey through Bowie’s remarkable career by an interactive tour through the award winning V & A Exhibition.’ The Seamore, Community Central Halls Maryhill, 292-316 Maryhill Rd, Glasgow G20 7YE The Seamore on Facebook www.theseamore.org/
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Roald Dahl Film Festival at The Seamore, West End Festival 2018
Saturay 30 June, 2018 at 10.30 a.m. Come along and celebrate the works of the most phizz-whizzing children’s writer of our lifetime! The Seamore will be showing two Roald Dahl film adaptations over the festival period – the original Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and Fantastic Mr. Fox. With a buffet breakfast for the kids, […]
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