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 Gaelic King, Scots Brothers’ Budget Braveheart On Sale Worldwide
THE Gaelic King, is a historical fantasy action film set in Scotland – made by five brothers from two Scots families – it goes on sale worldwide next month (July 10, 2017). The 90-minute-long film was shot entirely on location in Scotland, including scenes in the brothers’ parents’ manse home in Stirlingshire. It is being […]
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Friday, June 16, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema
Dance Explosion: a film by Ripple Arts & Goat Media CCA Sun 18 June 2017
The Work Room & Dance House Glasgow Dance Explosion: a film by Ripple Arts & Goat Media Sun 18 June 2017 3pm, £4 (£2) + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages / F-Rated Book online / 0141 352 4900 This documentary celebrates Scotland as a world leader in community dance. Structured around the 12 violin […]
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The Birds, GFT, 18 and 21 June, 2017
Loosely based on the 1952 du Maurier novelette, Hitchcock’s 49th film is one of his most enduringly strange and expertly constructed. Wealthy San Francisco socialite Melanie (Tippi Hedren) follows love interest lawyer Mitch (Rod Taylor) to a small Northern California town to play out a practical joke. Soon after her arrival, a seagull attacks her. The situation in the sleepy town slowly takes […]
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The Blind Chist, GFT, 21 June, 2017
Michael believes he is Christ, everyone else thinks he’s a fool; only a miracle can repair their faith. Hearing of an old friend in desperate need, he embarks on a barefoot pilgrimage through the Atacama Desert, an area blighted by an exploitative mining industry and in dire need of faith in something. Chilean-born filmmaker Christopher […]
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The Match Factory Girl, GFT, Monday 19 and Wednesday 21 June, 2017
Iris works a dead-end job in a match factory, a mindless cog in the industrial machine, supporting her forbidding mother and step-dad in their small two-bedroom apartment. A tragic social life offers a glimmer of hope when she meets a man in a local dance club, whom she desperately falls for. However as with everything […]
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Stockholm, My Love, GFT, 16 – 20 June, 2017
Mark Cousins and cinematographer Christopher Doyle follow I Am Belfast with a heartfelt love letter to the Swedish capital that blurs the boundary between documentary and drama. Stockholm, My Love marks the acting debut of Neneh Cherry as Alva, an architect gripped by PTSD. Alva wanders the streets of Stockholm, reflecting on her relationship with her father, the city’s history as a refuge […]
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Once Upon A Time In The West, GFT, 18 June, 2017
Treat your dad to a special screening of the greatest western in all cinema this Father’s Day. Sergio Leone’s monumental tale of the changing West, centring on widowed landowner Jill McBain (Claudia Cardinale) and the three men who want a piece of her, is epic, iconic, and giddily cinematic. Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson are […]
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Thursday, June 15, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Last of the Mohicans (1920) with Live Score from David Allison Websters Theatre, 17 June, 2017
Websters Theatre (Lansdowne Church), 416 Great Western Road, G4 9HZ Saturday 17 Jun 8:00pm Tickets £8 in advance and £10 at the door (includes booking fee). www.webstersglasgow.com Adapted from James Fenimore Cooper’s famous novel, this 1920s silent film of “The Last of the Mohicans” is the story of two sisters at the fort commanded […]
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Father’s Day Crafternoon Tea Grosvenor Cinema, 24 Ashton Lane 18 June, 2017
Father’s Day Crafternoon Tea Grosvenor Cinema, 24 Ashton Lane, G12 8SJ Sunday 18 June, 2017 2:00pm £25 per person Celebrate Father’s Day with a special screening of “Shaun of the Dead”, a movie where a man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and […]
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Matchbox Cineclub The Name of the Game is Kill, CCA, Thu 15 June 2017
CCA 8.30pm, £5 + £1 booking fee, Cinema 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 This month our guest programmers – Something Weird Film Club – present one of the most elusive shockers of the late 1960s, Joe Soloman’s psychological thriller The Name of the Game Is Kill. The film has held a certain mystique […]
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Daughters of the Dust, GFT, 9 – 11 June, 2017
In 1902 South Carolina, at a pivotal moment in American history, three generations of women in the Pezant family grapple with the decision to migrate north, leaving behind their well-preserved Gullah culture inherited from their West African slave ancestors. An avowed influence on Beyoncé’s album Lemonade, Daughters of the Dust broke new ground in its representation of black women on screen and continues to […]
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Friday, June 9, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
La Strada, GFT, 9 – 11 June, 2017
Winner of the first Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1957, Federico Fellini’s heartbreaking tale of broken outsiders has lost none of its power to move audiences. Innocent young Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina) is sold by her poverty-stricken mother to brutish travelling strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), to assist him as a street performer. Despite enduring terrible abuse from Zampanò, […]
UKJF The New Man, CCA, Wednesday 14 June, 2017
7.30pm, £8 + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 London-based fiction director Josh Appignanesi (The Infidel, Song of Songs) turns the camera on himself and his wife, Devorah, as they undergo the ordeal of becoming parents. Faced with fatherhood, Josh spirals comically into an envious career funk. Their relationship is […]
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The Red Land, GFT, 14 June, 2017
This screening will be introduced by Laura Allen, a postgraduate student whose research has been about the pressures on South American Rainforests. A contemporary environmental western set in the remote region of Misiones, bordering Paraguay and Brazil. Pierre has settled in well to the community, coaching the local rugby team and falling for school teacher […]
Rebecca, 11 – 15 June, GFT
Rebecca was Hitchcock’s first American project and one of three du Maurier adaptations he filmed (The Birds is also screening this month). Starring Laurence Olivier as the brooding widower Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as his naïve new wife, the 1940 film won two Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and was nominated for nine more. The self-conscious […]
Phase IV, 12 – 15 June, 2017 GFT
One of the most iconic and influential designers of the 21st century, Saul Bass is best known for his unique work for Alfred Hitchcock, coming up with immortal title sequences for North by Northwest, Vertigo and Psycho. His sole feature film is a warning about mankind’s treatment of the species we share this planet with; a terrifying glimpse of nature run amok that […]
Destiny, GFT, 12 – 15 June, 2017
GFT, 12 Rose St, G3 6RB In this influential early work from Fritz Lang, a young woman confronts Death in an effort to save the life of her fiancé. Death weaves three romantic tragedies and offers to unite the girl with her lover, if she can prevent the death of the lovers in at least one of the episodes. Thus begin […]
West End Festival:Film screening: Local Landmarks – Loved & Lost, 14 June, 2017
6-7pm Free entry but please book in advance www.movingimage.nls.uk West End born and bred film curator, Liam Paterson, will take you on an adventure through the old streets of Glasgow with specially selected films from the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. See Scottish landmarks, both loved and lost, on the big screen in […]
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Whitney, GFT, 11 June, 2017
Dogwoof proudly present the UK premiere of WHITNEY ‘Can I Be Me’, followed by a Q&A with acclaimed director Nick Broomfield and a tribute performance by Michelle John from The Voice, brought to the big screen at GFT live via satellite. Broadcast live from Sheffield Doc/Fest, this exclusive event creates the ultimate Whitney moment with […]
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Thursday, June 8, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Franco-German Film Series Dans la cour, CCA, Thu 15 June 2017
CCA Thu 15 June 2017 6.30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 The Goethe Institute and the Alliance Française are delighted to present this year’s Franco-German film series, which focuses on different facets of comedy from both countries. 40-year-old musician Antoine suddenly decides to end his career. After several days’ […]
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Safety Last! Southside Film Festival, 4 June, 2017
Safety Last! 4 June, 2017 – 3 p.m. Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, 2025 Pollokshaws Road, G43 1NE (Cert U, 67 mins, 1923) **WITH LIVE WURLITZER CINEMA ORGAN** £10/£8 Come see this rarely screened silent film classic starring the comic genius of Harold Lloyd with live musical accompaniment on the Wurlitzer cinema organ in Pollokshaws Burgh Hall […]
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Saturday, June 3, 2017 | 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
My Cousin Rachel, GFT, 9 – 22 June, 2017
Based on the Daphne du Maurier novel, this eerie period drama from Roger Michell (Persuasion, Notting Hill) is the inspiration for our du Maurier season this month. When Phillip (Sam Claflin) hears of his cousin Ambrose’s death from an apparent brain tumour, he believes Ambrose’s strange wife Rachel is to blame and determines to find out what really happened. However, […]
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Friday, June 2, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Southside Film Festival, ‘It Follows’, Govanhill Baths, 3 June, 2017
Saturday 3 June, 2017 – 22.15 p.m. Govanhill Baths, 99 Calder St, Glasgow G42 7RA A seemingly innocent sexual encounter leads to a living nightmare for 19-year-old Jay when she begins to experience supernatural visions and the unshakable feeling that she is being followed. Lauded as one of the most original horror films of recent […]
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CinemaAttic: Spanish and Latin American Short Film Night, CCA, Sat 3 June 2017
CCA Sat 3 June 2017 8pm (doors 7.30pm), £5 (£4 students) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 CinemaAttic’s back with the best independent films from Spain, Argentina and Colombia in short film format. You can expect first class movies, warm atmosphere, provocateurs among the audience and a hell of […]
My Cousin Rachel, 4 – 5 June, 2017 – GFT
Marking both Olivia de Havilland’s return to film after a string of theatre roles, and Richard Burton’s first starring role in an American production, the original adaptation of My Cousin Rachel was something of a movie event in 1952. Nominated for four Oscars, including for Burton’s performance and for Joseph LaShelle’s moody black and white cinematography, it is […]
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Thursday, June 1, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Ariel, GFT 5 and 7 June, 2017
Aki Kaurismäki’s fifth film in as many years is often seen as the title that really thrust the director into the international film spotlight, after several years of festival praise. A drolly existential crime drama that loosely mirrors a 1940s B-movie, the story follows the bad luck of Finnish miner Taisto, who loses his job […]
After The Storm, GFT, 2 – 8 June, 2017
Prolific Japanese auteur Hirokazu Koreeda’s sensitive melodrama follows divorced father Ryota (Hiroshio Abe) as he dwells on past glory and wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling. After the death of his father, his aging mother and ex-wife seem to be moving on with their lives while Ryota struggles to take back control of his existence and find a […]
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Southside Film Festival 2017: We’re All Fae Somewhere, Special Refugee Screening, Kinning Park Complex, 2 June, 2017
Friday 2 June, 2017 Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall St, Glasgow G41 1BA An evening of film, discussion, food and music with this special refugee event presented in partnership with Refuweegee and Plantation Productions that puts a spotlight both on the refugee crisis and the resettlement of refugees and asylum seekers, particularly in Govan in […]
Franco-German Film Series Fack ju Göhte, CCA, 2 June, 2017
Fri 2 June 2017 6.30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 12+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Franco-German Film Series Dans la cour Thu 15 June 2017 The Goethe Institute and the Alliance Française are delighted to present this year’s Franco-German film series, which focuses on different facets of comedy from both countries. […]
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My Life As A Courgette, GFT, 2 – 8 June, 2017
My Life As A Courgette GFT, 12 Rose St G3 6RB 2 – 8 June, 2017 Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 2017 Oscars, this stop-motion animation brims with melancholy emotions and an appeal that spans all ages. Courgette is the nickname of a 10-year old boy. When his alcoholic mother dies, he […]
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