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.Arcadia, GFT
22 –22 June,2018 A provocative and poetic exploration of Britain’s relationship with its own land, Arcadia is crafted from BFI National Archive footage spanning 100 years. BAFTA-winner Paul Wright (For Those in Peril) weaves an intoxicating array of material together, following an unnamed protagonist from the future as she travels through metaphorical ‘seasons’; from spring’s romantic agricultural idyll to winter’s political turmoil, as nature […]
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Friday, June 22, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Bright Star, GFT
24 – 27 June, 2018 Campion’s most recent feature film dramatizes the short, chaste and intense romance between the poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and his neighbour, the seamstress Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), in the three years leading up to his death from tuberculosis aged only 25. Campion presents the affair as a Romantic poem brought to life, […]
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Hereditary GFT
15 – 28 June, 2018 When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begin to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry, and soon they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. Writer-director Ari Aster’s debut feature unleashes a nightmare vision of […]
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The Swimmer, GFT
24 – 26 June, 2018 Frank Perry’s strange and stylized adaptation of the John Cheever short story is as affecting as when it was first released 50 years ago. One summer morning in an affluent Connecticut suburb, Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster) decides to “swim” home via the pools of his wealthy friends. Along the way […]
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Spotlight on Cinemas – West End Festival 2018
Monday, 25 June, 20128 – 6.30 p.m. Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Road, G12 8AP Gordon Barr, co-founder of www.scottishcinemas.org highlights the architectural history of cinema, including converted roller-skating rinks, the earliest purpose-built halls, and the peculiarly Scottish ‘back court’ theatres, with a focus on the West End of Glasgow, which has long been famous for […]
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Through Our Eyes screening and Q & A with Samir Mehanovic
Tuesday 19 June, 2018 Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh,EH3 9BZ In sequences filmed over four years, director Samir Mehanovic (The Fog of Srebrenica) gives us a wholly fresh and personal insight into the human catastrophe of the Syrian conflict. A Muslim refugee himself, Mehanovic fled Bosnia in the 1990s and settled in the UK. Drawing […]
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Monday, June 18, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Ghostbusters, GFT
17 June, 2018 If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood – who ya gonna call? Why, the Ghostbusters of course! When three university parapsychologists lose their research grant and credibility, they decide to go into business for themselves, setting up as professional supernatural eliminators. Starting out with only a converted fire station and a beat-up […]
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Friday, June 15, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
That Summer, GFT
19 – 21 June, 2018 Summer, 1972: photographer Peter Beard and Jackie O’s socialite sibling Lee Radziwill work together on a film about her relatives and the sisters’ childhood in the Hamptons. After the project was abandoned, Albert and David Maysles made The Beales of Grey Gardens. Lost for decades, this extraordinary footage, which focuses on a vibrant and profoundly influential creative community […]
Studio 54 GFT
15 – 18 June, 2018 Manhattan’s Studio 54 was the epicentre of ‘70s hedonism – a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolise an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind […]
Take One Action Film Festival Not Without Us, CCA
Sat 16 June 2018 5:30pm, £5 (£4) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 12+ Book Online / 0141 352 4900 A rousing documentary immersing viewers in the moving, personal journeys of seven grassroots campaigners from around the world as they attempt to harness the only force that can prevent catastrophic climate change: the will of the people. […]
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Grey Gardens GFT
19 – 21 June, 2018 Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The eccentric duo manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. An impossibly intimate portrait and widely considered to be a masterpiece of documentary filmmaking, […]
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The Piano GFT
15 – 21 Jun, 2018 Jane Campion’s multi Oscar-winning masterpiece is set in 1851: mute Ada (Holly Hunter) arrives in New Zealand, with her young daughter (Anna Paquin) and piano, for an arranged marriage to wealthy landowner Stewart (Sam Neill). When Stewart sells the prized piano to Baines (Harvey Keitel), Baines agrees to return it to Ada in […]
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Ismael’s Ghosts, GFT
18 and 19 June, 2018 Just before he is about to start shooting his new film, director Ismael (Mathieu Amalric) finds his life turned upside down by the reappearance of his wife Carlotta (Marion Cotillard), who vanished without trace 20 years ago. Carlotta’s presence brings confusion and chaos, throwing Ismael’s tentative new romance with Sylvia […]
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The Ciambra, GFT
31 May – 21 June, 2018 The outskirts of Gioia Tauro, a coastal town in the southern Italian region of Reggio Calabria is the setting for Jonas Carpignano’s second feature, the middle film of a planned trilogy which began with 2015’s Mediterranea. Romani teenager Pio (Pio Amato), one of the supporting characters in the first picture takes centre […]
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Thursday, June 14, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
All The Wild Horses, GFT
8 – 14 June, 2018 The Mongol Derby is the longest, toughest horse race in the world. Riders are expected to cover a thousand kilometres, stopping at twenty-five horse stations and selecting a new mount at each one. Ivo Marloh’s thrilling documentary follows an eclectic group of competitors, from an American firefighter to two Irish jump jockeys, as […]
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Monday, June 11, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
McQueen, GFT
8 – 14 June, 2018 McQueen celebrates the brilliant, unpredictable, designer Alexander McQueen – a radical figure of profound influence in the fashion industry. An exploration of McQueen’s personal and professional world, this documentary is both a dazzling visual album of his ground-breaking collections, and a moving portrayal of the mind behind them. Never-before-seen home movies and a wealth […]
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LusoFilm The Invisible Life, CCA
Sat 9 June 2018 Hugo can’t face going home. The images of the mysterious 8 mm films he found in Antonio’s house after he passed away keep coming back to his mind. 8pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages Book Online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events LusoFilm Fri 8 June — Sun 10 June 2018 LusoFilm The […]
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Thursday, June 7, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Lek and the Dogs followed by Q & A director Andrew Kötting
11 June, 2018 Award-winning artist and filmmaker Andrew Kötting creates a ground-breaking crossover between narrative film and contemporary art piece that contains trace elements of Tarkovsky’s Stalker and Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. Lek and the Dogs is based on the award-winning play by Hattie Naylor, itself inspired by the true story of Ivan Mishukov. […]
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This is Congo, GFT
8 – 11 June, 2018 New York based photographer Daniel McCabe turns documentary filmmaker with this eye-opening insight into decades of violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The focus is on the rebel March 23 Movement and their opposition to President Joseph Kabila’s government. Complex issues are given a human perspective through interviews with four key individuals: National Army Colonel Kasongo, […]
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Industry Spotlight: Andrew Macdonald, GFT
7 June, 2018 National Film and Television School (NFTS) Director, Jon Wardle hosts a session with BAFTA winning Producer, CEO of DNA Films and NFTS board member, Andrew Macdonald (Trainspotting, T2: Trainspotting, Ex Machina, 28 Days Later). Jon will discuss a number of key topics with Andrew including DNA’s contribution to British and particularly Scottish cinema as well as […]
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Wednesday, June 6, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
The Wild Boys, GFT
11 – 14 June, 2018 This intoxicating adventure is loosely inspired by William S. Burroughs’ apocalyptic novel of the same name from the early 1970s. Fantasy, eroticism, violence and mystery engulf a group of privileged teenage boys, cast away from the island of La Réunion for committing a sadistic crime. In a tricksy bit of […]
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Refugee Festival Films at GFT
Refugee Festival Scotland celebrates the contribution refugees make to life in Scotland – the food and drink, music and poetry, dance, visual art and ideas. The festival offers people from different backgrounds the chance to meet and celebrate together: to sample a little of each other’s cultures, listen to each other’s stories and get to […]
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Saturday, June 2, 2018 | Filed under: Calum Maclean – poet and aspiring writer, Cinema
Southside Film Festival 2018
1st – 3rd June 2018 Bringing film back to the Southside For this year’s programme inspiration has been taken from the Scottish Government’s Year of Young People with lots of films for young people, about young people and programmed by young people. Kids can roll out of bed in their PJs and come along to […]
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Friday, June 1, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Southside Film Festival, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Weird Weekend Matchbox Cineclub CCA
2 and 3 June, 2018 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Matchbox Cineclub presents a whole weekend of strange and unseen cinema from around the world. Orphans, outcasts and outliers from across time and space, with a host of special guests, Q&As and events. We’ve scoured the world to bring you some of the […]
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On Chesil Beach GFT
25 May – 3 Jun, 2018 Adapted from Atonement author Ian McEwan’s Booker Prize-shortlisted novella of the same name, On Chesil Beach centres on young newlyweds Florence (Saoirse Ronan) and Edward (Billy Howle). In the early 1960s and deeply in love, the differences between the couple only become truly apparent on their wedding night-when they find themselves with […]
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Best Before Bed, I’m Not There, Cinema Citizen M, Glasgow
10 June, 2018 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. In 2007, a truly impressive crowd of actors (including Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Christian Bale) took on the challenge of portraying different aspects of Bob Dylan’s life and music in the film I’m Not There. A true stand-out among them is Cate Blanchett, who received eight […]
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More on Southside Film Festival 2018
1 – 3 June, 2018 Full programme information is available on Southside Festival Website or on the festival’s Facebook events Faceboo Events Page and advance tickets are available via WeGotTickets.com/southsidefilm Kinning Park Complex The festival kicks off at Kinning Park Complex with music producer and master turntablist Bunty, a veteran of Glasgow’s hip-hop scene and Sapien -fresh off painting […]
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The Rape of Recy Taylor, GFT
2 – 7 June, 2018 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose St G3 6RB Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Such an occurrence was common in Jim Crow South, and few women spoke up in fear for their lives. But Recy Taylor bravely identified her rapists, and the NAACP sent […]
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L’amant Double, GFT
2 – 7 June, 2018 Loosely based on the Joyce Carol Oates novel Lives of the Twins, François Ozon’s gleefully irreverent erotic thriller has distinct shades of Brian de Palma and Alfred Hitchcock. Chloé (Marion Vacth) falls in love with her psychoanalyst Paul (Jérémie Renier), but discovers there’s more to him than meets the eye. […]
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My Friend Dahmer, GFT
2 – 7 June, 2018 Jeffrey Dahmer was one of America’s most notorious serial killers. As a 17-year-old, misfit Dahmer (Ross Lynch) is awkward and nerdy, his erratic behavior unexpectedly attracting friends at school. At home, his parents navigate a hostile divorce, while Dahmer’s fascination with the macabre begins to grow. Adapted from a best-selling 2012 graphic memoir […]
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