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 Big Sick, GFT until 17 August, 2017
Pakistan-born Chicago Uber driver Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani) is struggling to get his career as a comedian off the ground when he meets grad student Emily (Zoe Kazan) and the two immediately fall for one another. However, their blossoming relationship soon comes under threat from Kumail’s traditional parents, who want to arrange a Pakistani bride for […]
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Friday, August 11, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Matchbox Cineclub Scalarama Glasgow 2017 Programme Launch , CCA, Thu 17 August 2017
Thu 17 August 2017 7pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema 15+ 0141 352 4900 Matchbox Cineclub host the launch of Scalarama Glasgow’s 2017 programme. Scalarama is an annual DIY celebration of cinema, in venues all across Glasgow through the whole month of September. In 2016, Glasgow exhibitors screened documentaries, shorts, cult films, concert films, arthouse, action and […]
England Is Mine, GFT, 4 – 13 August, 2017
Friday 4 – Sunday 13 August Selected as Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017 Closing Gala, England is Mine is an evocative portrait of one of Britain’s most iconic artists. Set in 1970s Manchester, the film focuses on a young Steven Patrick Morrissey, an alienated teenager desperately trying to find his place in the world. The […]
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The Levelling, GFT, Deaf and hard of hearing friendly film, 14 August, 2017
Game of Thrones’ Ellie Kendrick is compelling as Clover, a young vet who returns to the family farm in Somerset in the wake of tragedy. The family are forced to confront past bitterness as her bad-tempered father, Aubrey, attempts to carry on with business as usual. All tickets £5.50. Director and writer Hope Dickson Leach will […]
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Tom of Finland, GFT, 12 – 17 August, 2017
The latest from Finnish director Dome Karukoski (The Grump, Heart of a Lion), this beautifully shot biopic pays homage to Touko Laaksonen and his alter ego Tom of Finland, one of gay culture’s most important icons. The film follows changing attitudes to sexuality through the decades, moving between Touko’s repressive home in Finland and the […]
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The Godfather Part II, GFT, 15 August, 2017
One of the best sequels ever created and one of the greatest American films ever made, Francis Ford Coppola’s follow-up to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, is at once prequel and sequel. Continuing the story of Michael Corleone in 1950s New York, the film simultaneously shows us early 20th century Sicily where Michael’s father, […]
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Land of Mine, GFT, 4 – 10 August, 2017
Inspired by real events, and nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2017 Academy Awards, Land of Mine follows the little-known story of the young German prisoners of war who were handed over to Danish authorities in the days following Germany’s surrender in May 1945. Tough veteran Sergeant Carl Rasmussen is assigned by Lieutenant […]
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Friday, August 4, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, GFT, 7 August, 2017
This screening will be preceded by a short introduction and followed by an accessible and informal post-screening discussion hosted by James Mooney, lecturer in film and philosophy (Centre for Open Learning, University of Edinburgh). Imagine a procedure whereby you could rid yourself of troubling memories. Suppose that you could have particular people or traumatic events erased […]
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Maudie, GFT, 4– 10 August, 2017
Based on a true story, Maudie is an unlikely romance set in 1930s Nova Scotia in which the reclusive Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke) hires a fragile yet determined woman named Maudie (Sally Hawkins) to be his housekeeper. Aspiring artist Maudie spends her life battling rheumatoid arthritis, but when discovered, her colourful paintings establish her as […]
Movie Memories Programme, Glasgow Film Theatre, Launch October, 2017
Movie Memories programme The Movie Memories programme will launch with a special screening of the 1949 Ealing classic Whisky Galore! at GFT on Thursday 19 October in partnership with Luminate, Scotland’s creative ageing festival. In September 2016, Glasgow Film Theatre, in partnership with the Dundasvale Community Involvement Group, held a Movie Memories Event at Dundasvale Residents […]
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Thursday, August 3, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
What’s on in Glasgow: Cinema
Glasgow loves its cinema and offers a wide selection of big screen entertainment to film goers and movie buffs alike. You can see all the latest general releases, catch an art house movie and enjoy special screenings with special guests and questions and answer sessions. Glasgow Film listings are regularly updated. Latest Cinema […]
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Edge Effects FiR Artist Film Programme Carl Giffney, Janne Nabb & Maria Teeri, Mirko Nikolić, CCA Sun 30 July 2017
CCA Sun 30 July 2017 1pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 12+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Scottish Sculpture Workshop Frontiers in Retreat: Edge Effects Thu 27 July — Sun 30 July 2017 Scottish Sculpture Workshop presents a selection of artist films that were produced at various sites across Europe during the […]
Thursday, July 27, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Merchant City Festival 2017, Watch Bad Movies with Great Comedians, Brunswick Hotel, 30 July, 2017
Joe Heenan & Stuart Murphy : Watch Bad Movies with Great Comedians Come & join award winning comics Stuart Murphy & Joe Heenan as they rip the shreds out of the Michael Caine/Roger Moore clunker Bullseye. The best & worst hour & half of your life Watch Bad Movies with Great Comedians. Come & join […]
Björk Biophilia Live, GFT, 3 August, 2017
Biophilia, the eighth studio album by pioneering avant-garde Icelandic musician Björk, was part of a wider project unlike any other in modern music. Released on a series of apps, the project contained educational elements to be included in school curriculums, and culminated in a multi-dimensional concert at London’s Alexandra Palace, filmed by Nick Fenton and […]
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Scribe, GFT, 21 – 27 July, 2017
François Cluzet (Tell No One, Untouchable) stars us an unassuming everyman at the centre of this paranoid thriller with echoes of ’70s classic The Conversation. Duval (Cluzet) finds work hard to come by until a mysterious businessman offers him a well-paid position within his security firm. All he has to do is transcribe intercepted calls. […]
Cinemasters: Sofia Coppola, GFT, 9 July – 1 August, 2017
15-18 July Lost in Translation – 35mm (15) Part of a Season CineMasters: Sofia Coppola 22-25 July Marie Antoinette – 35mm (12A) Sofia Coppola’s punk re-telling of the life of France’s doomed queen Part of a Season CineMasters: Sofia Coppola Sofia Coppola’s La Traviata (U) Acclaimed director Sofia Coppola and designer Valentino combine their talents […]
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City of Ghosts, GFT, 31 July – 3 August, 2017
Academy Award-nominated director Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land) exposes a new type of modern warfare in powerful documentary City of Ghosts. Following a group of activists and citizen journalists – named Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently – Heineman explores the atrocities faced by those living in the shadow of ISIS, including life undercover, on the run […]
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Richard Linklaker’s Before Trilogy, GFT, 28,29,30 July, 2017
A unique collaboration between innovative indie filmmaker Richard Linklater and actors Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, the Before trilogy follows the relationship of Jesse and Celine, across three 9-year intervals. From their meeting as travelling students in Vienna in 1995, through an unplanned reunion in Paris in 2004, to a key point in their long-term […]
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Summer in the Forrest, GFT, 31 July – 2 August, 2017
Directed by Randall Wright (Hockney), Summer in the Forest beautifully captures the story and the passion of philosopher and Templeton Laureate, Jean Vanier. Vanier inspired a quiet revolution when he established L’Arche in 1964, a new community for those living with disabilities, on the edge of a beautiful forest near Paris. Without his vision, hundreds […]
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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Hounds of Love, GFT, 28 July – 3 August, 2017
In the mid 1980s, 17 year-old Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed serial-killer couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors, Vicki quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive. Inspired by real life crimes, this is a superbly acted and powerful […]
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Water and Sugar, GFT, Carlo Di Palma, The Colours of Life, 28 – 30 July, 2017
The remarkable career of cinematographer Carlo Di Palma included working with legendary directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni and Woody Allen, and his craft on the screen shaped the way that films were made for decades. This loving documentary, produced by Di Palma’s wife, features interviews from the many luminaries who admired his work, from Ken […]
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States of Disunion, GFT, 4 – 21 July, 2017
As the US celebrates its Independence Day on 4 July, GFT take the opportunity to present a selection of American films that celebrate, question and confront the virtues and contradictions of the Land of the Free. American History X – 35mm (18) Race divisions remain as pressing an issue in America today as they […]
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Thursday, July 20, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Victim, GFT, 21 – 24 July, 2017
1960s Soho: a world where homosexuality is illegal, gossip spreads through whispered conversations, and compromising photographs circulate in anonymous envelopes. Enter Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde), a top barrister who is drawn into a murder enquiry involving a former acquaintance, putting his career on the line as he refuses to be a victim of blackmailing. Reissued […]
Glasgow’s Food Chain on Film, Merchant City Festival, City Halls, 24 July, 2017
Glasgow’s Food Chain on Film Join us to explore Glasgow’s food chain through the 20th century from the collections of the Moving Image Archive Join us to explore Glasgow’s food chain through the 20th century from the collections of the Moving Image Archive, from grain being unloaded at Meadowside to sausage making in Maryhill, large-scale […]
Team America World Peace GFT 21 July, 2017
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone write, direct and star in a bonkers, hilarious, ridiculous take on the American action movie. A swipe at Hollywood, American foreign policy and the war on terror, Team America is a parody like no other. Complete with cutting dialogue, marionette action and a theme song that everyone […]
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The Beguiled, GFT, 19 – 27 July, 2017
Oscar-winner Sofia Coppola became the second woman in history to win Best Director at Cannes Film Festival for this atmospheric period thriller. Adapted from Thomas Cullinan’s novel of the same name, The Beguiled unfolds during the American Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school whose sheltered young women take in an injured enemy soldier […]
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Edge Effects I really don’t feel them Carl Giffney, CCA, Fri 28 July 2017
Fri 28 July 2017 7pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 12+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Scottish Sculpture Workshop Frontiers in Retreat: Edge Effects Thu 27 July — Sun 30 July 2017 I really don’t feel them is a feature length documentary shot in The Netherlands, Scotland and Finland. It documents the […]
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Transition Network Tomorrow, CCA, Tuesday 25 July 2017
Tue 25 July 2017– 6.30 p.m. £5 + £1 booking fee, Cinema 12+ / F-Rated Book online / 0141 352 4900 Already viewed by over 1.5 million people in France alone, and winner of Best Documentary at the Cesar Awards (the French Oscars), ‘Tomorrow’ has been hugely impactful. Produced by activist and writer Cyril Dion […]
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The Boy and The Beast, GFT, 23 July, 2017
This exquisitely crafted, action-packed fable from Wolf Children director Mamoru Hosoda, one of the true masters of Japanese animation, follows nine-year-old Kyuta. After the death of his mother, Kyuta stumbles into a parallel world inhabited by supernatural creatures. The bear-like warrior Kumatetsu decides to accept Kyuta as his apprentice, and their bond grows as they […]
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Wednesday, July 19, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Proof, GFT, 24 July, 2017
This screening will be preceded by a short introduction and followed by an accessible and informal post-screening discussion hosted by James Mooney, lecturer in film and philosophy (Centre for Open Learning, University of Edinburgh). Martin (Hugo Weaving) is a blind photographer who uses his camera to attempt to establish that the world really is as […]
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