Glasgow Film Festival 2014 – some highlights
Opening Gala: We Are the Best!
Monday 3 February 6.16 p.m.
Swedish master Lukas Moodysson (Show Me Love, Lilya 4-Ever) adapts his wife Coco’s comic book. It’s Stockholm, 1982, and thirteen-year-old anarchists Bobo and Klara are ignored by their parents and…
UK premieres at Gff14
The Oscar nominated 20 Feet from Stardom, current French box office king Yves Saint Lauren, a fantastic adaptation of Jonas Jonasson’s global bestseller The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, and a selection of the best new Chilean films in the CineChile strand.
World Premieres
Include: Iboga Nights, the feature film directorial debut of Burnistoun’s Robert Florence and The House of Him.
Scottish Premieres
There will be fifty-seven Scottish premieres, from Starred Up to Half of a Yellow Sun and the eagerly awaited Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson.
Special Guests
Include: John Sessions, fashion icon agnes b., lead singer of Glasgow’s latest world-conquering band CHVRCHES Lauren Mayberry and director of Dark Blood George Sluizer, as well a return for the horror-maestros of FrightFest.
Pop up Cinema
The festival’s biggest ever pop-up cinema event Monster Mash will take place at Kelvingrove on 28 February with a monster-themed party and screening of the classic Gene Wilder comedy Young Frankenstein. Other venues participating in the Festival, apart from Kelvingrove and Glasgow Film Theatre, include the city’s Central Station and a former glue factory set to be transformed into a giant amusement arcade.
There will be a screening of The Steamie at Glasgow Green.
Special Events
Will take place at the new Reid Building, Glasgow School of Art, the Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, the old fishmarket at the Briggait, the Chinatown district and Glasgow Green.
This section: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2014
Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2014
Prevous page or post | Next page or post
Written by : Pat Byrne
Related Pages
- The Odyssey at GFT
- Everbody to Kenmure Street at GFT
- Take 2: Muppet Treasure Island at GFT
- Wildlife Watch at The Saltings: An Introduction to Wildlife Recording
- Shoot the People at GFT
- Rosebush Pruning at GFT
- The Last One For The Road at GFT
- Taxi Driver – 50th Anniversary at GFT
- Birds of War at GFT
- The Invite at GFT
- My Father’s Island at GFT
- Take 2: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
- Chicago! The Drag Along at OranMor
- Take 2: Arco (Dubbed) at GFT
- An Tír úd Thoir : Immigrants from Donegal to Glasgow share their stories
- Bleak Week at GFT: Grave of the Fireflies
- Bleak Week at GFT: Twin Peaks S3 – Episode 8
- Threads plus intdroduction to Bleak Week at GFT
- Take 2: Young Sherlock Holmes
- Nino at GFT
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.