This November, Glasgow Film Festival, with thanks to Scotland’s Winter Festivals and in the 2016 Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design, will celebrate St Andrew’s Day with Hollywood Dreams of Scotland. On Saturday 26 November in the iconic Mackintosh Queens Cross, GFF present three screenings of Hollywood films that portray Scotland in the very best light! Each screening is accompanied by tailored activities and performances.
Annie Laurie – 4.30 p.m.
This screening forms part of our St Andrew’s Day celebrations – Hollywood Dreams of Scotland. Join us for a day of classic films that portray Scotland in it’s best light, presented in the iconic Mackintosh Queens Cross accompanied by activities and live performance. This event is presented with thanks to funding from Scotland’s Winter Festivals.
This classic Hollywood tale of Highland romance casts the wonderful Lillian Gish as a plucky young woman who comes between the warring Campbell and MacDonald clans. Although Annie Laurie (Gish) and her friend Enid first view the MacDonald clan as savages, they come to love men from the clan after chance encounters, sending ripples throughout their communities.
This screening will be accompanied with a live score by fiddle player Shona Mooney and her band, originally commissioned by Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema.
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Brave – 12 Noon
This screening forms part of our St Andrew’s Day celebrations – Hollywood Dreams of Scotland. Join us for a day of classic films that portray Scotland in it’s best light, presented in the iconic Mackintosh Queens Cross accompanied by activities and live performance. This event is presented with thanks to funding from Scotland’s Winter Festivals.
Princess Merida is a skilled archer and the daughter of King Fergus and Queen Elinor. Determined to carve her own path in life, Merida defies an age-old custom sacred to the uproarious lords of the land but her actions inadvertently unleash chaos and fury in the kingdom, and when she turns to an eccentric old Wise Woman for help, she is granted an ill-fated wish. The ensuing peril forces Merida to discover the meaning of true bravery in order to undo a beastly curse before it’s too late. Pixar’s classic tale of female self-discovery set in an enchanting Scottish past.
This screening will be preceded by an art workshop where you’ll design and make your own Scottish shield, plus learn some Highland dance moves like Merida!
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The Highland – 7.30 p.m.
At 19.30, the final screening of Hollywood Dreams of Scotland will bring the celebrations to a close in spectacular Scottish style, with Highlander (15). Sean Connery as a foppish Spaniard, Christopher Lambert as a French-accented Scotsman and a pulsating score from Queen combine in this classic 1980s fantasy adventure. This screening will be preceded by a live performance – there can be only one Freddie Mercury tribute artist…
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Hollywood Dreams of Scotland takes place Saturday, 26 November at Mackintosh Queens Cross, 870 Garscube Road, Glasgow G20 7EL.
glasgowfilm.org/shows/hollywood-dreams-of-scotland
Publisher of Pat's Guide to Glasgow West End; the community guide to the West End of Glasgow. Fiction and non-fiction writer.
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