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GFT celebrates 100 Years of Technicolour

April, 2015 – GFT celebrates 100 Years of Technicolor, plus special Easter screenings, and live satellite Q&A with Ryan Gosling

GFT April brochure
 
This April, GFT looks forward to the Easter weekend with screenings of Life of Brian, Hop, Frozen Sing-A-Long, and Easter Parade.
Easter Listings
 
GFT also celebrates 100 years since the invention of Technicolor this April with Technicolor Dreams, a short season of classic films, which includes screenings of Easter Parade, The Red Shoes, All That Heaven Allows and The Man From Laramie.

Technicolour Dreams Season
 

Glasgow Film Festival’s Sound & Vision strand has been incorporated into GFT’s year-round programming, with major events and screenings taking place throughout April and May, including live performances from Mercury Prize nominees Field Music and legendary 90s synth-pop pioneers Saint Etienne. As part of Record Store Day, GFT will also team up with Monorail Music to host a special late night cult classic screening of Empire Records, with 90s dress-up encouraged. A full Sound & Vision press release is available on request.
Sound and Vision Season
 
GFF15’s experimental visual art strand ‘Crossing the Line’ also features in April’s programme, with a screening of George Kuchar’s ‘The Thursday People’, presented by LUX Scotland.
 

A number GFF15 titles return to GFT in April, including While We’re Young, Force Majeure, A Little Chaos, and the winner of Critics Choice Award at GFF15 It Follows.
The full Glasgow Film Festival presents titles can be viewed here.

Glasgow Film Festival Titles
 
Other highlights in April include a screening of Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut Lost River, which will be followed by a live satellite Q&A with Ryan Gosling, and a reissue of John Schlesinger’s 1967 adaptation of Far From the Madding Crowd ahead of Thomas Vinterberg’s adaptation later this year.

Full Season Details

Technicolour Dreams

It is 100 years since the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation developed the process that introduced vivid colour to the monochrome world of the movies. GFT celebrates this important centenary with a short season of classic films revealing the way a little Technicolor magic could enhance dramatic intensity and emotional impact across all the genres. The season comprises Oscar-winning MGM musical Easter Parade (1948), co-starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire; Powell and Pressburger’s exquisite dance classic The Red Shoes (1948), photographed by the legendary Jack Cardiff; the glorious Douglas Sirk melodrama All That Heaven Allows (1955), co-starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson; and the thrilling Anthony Mann revenge western The Man from Laramie (1955) starring James Stewart which is screening from a stunning 4K restoration that premiered at the 2014 Venice Film Festival.

GFT April Screenings

Access Film Club: The Black Balloon                            Tuesday 14 April (19.40)
BAFTA Shorts 2015                                                           Thursday 9 April (17.40)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut                                           Friday 3 – Thursday 9 April
Blind                                                                                      Friday 3 – Thursday 9 April
Bypass                                                                                   Friday 24 – Sunday 26 April
Cobain: Montage of Heck                                                 Friday 10 – Thursday 16 April
The Dark Horse                                                                   Friday 3 – Thursday 9 April
Dr Jekyll et les femmes                                                      Monday 20 April (20.20)
Empire Records                                                                   Friday 17 April (23.00)
The Falling                                                                           Friday 24 – Thursday 30 April
Far from the Madding Crowd                                          Tues 28 (19.15) & Wed 29 April
Force Majeure                                                                     Friday 10 – Thursday 23 April
Frozen Sing-a-long                                                             Sat 4, 11 & Sun 5, 12 April
Gente de bien                                                                      Friday 17 – Thursday 23 April
Hop                                                                                        Saturday 4 April (11.30)
It Follows                                                                             Wednesday 15 April (20.00)
Jauja                                                                                      Friday 17 – Thursday 23 April
A Little Chaos                                                                      Friday 17 – Thursday 30 April
Lost River                                                                             Thursday 9 April (19.15)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian                                           Friday 3 April (23.00)
My Name Is Salt                                                                  Tuesday 28 – Thursday 30 April
Planetary                                                                               Wednesday 22 April (18.15)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence      Friday 24 – Thursday 30 April
Steel Upon the Sward: The Films of Murray Grigor    Sat 9, Sun 10 & Sat 30 May
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya                                      Friday 10 – Thursday 16 April
The Thursday People                                                          Sunday 5 April (20.15)
Visible Cinema: Selma                                                       Wednesday 22 April (18.00)
Warsaw Uprising                                                                Monday 13 April (20.45)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape                                            Sunday 19 April (13.00)
While We’re Young                                                             Friday 3 – Thursday 16 April
Whisky Galore!                                                                    Sunday 12 April (16.30)
Wild Tales                                                                             Until Thursday 9 April

Sound and Vision

Empire Records                                                                   Friday 17 April (23.00)
Field Music Live: Drifters                                                  Sunday 31 May (20.00)
My Secret World: The Story of Sarah Records              Sunday 26 April (19.45)
St Etienne Live: How We Used to Live                           Tuesday 19 May (19.30)
 
TECHNICOLOR DREAMS
All That Heaven Allows                                                       Sunday 19 April (14.15)
Easter Parade                                                                        Sunday 5 April (15.15)
The Man from Laramie                                                       Sunday 26 April (15.00)
The Red Shoes                                                                      Sunday 12 April (13.00)

Event Cinema   

Bolshoi: Ivan the Terrible                                                   Live: Sunday 19 April (16.00)
Glyndebourne: Die Entführung                                         Sunday 19 July (16.45)
Glyndebourne: Ravel Double Bill                                      Sunday 21 June (18.45)
Glyndebourne: The Rape of Lucretia                                Sunday 9 August (17.45)
NT Live: Everyman                                                               Live: Thursday 16 July (18.45)
NT Live: Hamlet                                                                    Live: Thurs 15 October (18.45)
NT Live: The Hard Problem                                                Live: Thursday 16 April (19.00)
NT Live: Man and Superman                                              Live: Thursday 14 May (18.45)
RSC: Henry V                                                                          Live: Wed 21 October (18.45  
RSC: The Merchant of Venice                                             Live: Wednesday 22 July (19.00)
RSC: Othello                                                                            Live: Wed 26 August (18.45)

Regulars

Glasgore! Horror/Cult Film Discussion Group               Wednesday 1 April (18.30)
Film Discussion Group                                                         Wednesday 8 April (18.30)
The GFT Film Quiz                                                                Tuesday 28 April (20.45)

Take 2: Family Friendly Films

Hop                                                                                            Saturday 4 April (11.30)
Chicken Run                                                                             Saturday 11 April (11.30)
Fantastic Planet                                                                       Saturday 18 April (11.30)
Annie                                                                                          Saturday 25 April (11.30)

Access Rake 2: Autism Friendly Screenings

Hop                                                                                             Saturday 4 April (12.30)
 

GFT April Brochure
 

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