GFT April 2011 brochure

april 2011

little white lies Italian Film Festival in Scotland Oranges and Sunshine

Jim Loach’s impressive feature debut

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Contents Diary

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Alien

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Aliens

24

Armadillo

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Ballast

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Before the Revolution

9

The Brood

24

Desire

7

Essential Killing

5

Honeymooner

6

How I Ended This Summer

9

Inside Job

6

Keith James – The Songs of Leonard Cohen

23

Little White Lies

8

Meek’s Cutoff

8

NT Live: Frankenstein

20

Oranges and Sunshine

5

Pina

10

Stella Dallas

5

The Tin Drum – Director’s Cut

6

Walk Me Home You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

9TH POLISH FILM FESTIVAL KINOTEKA IN GLASGOW

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Glasgow / Nothing Personal

21

Mother Teresa of Cats

22

Venice

22

American Torso

14

Daniel Takes a Train

14

Hunky Blues – The American Dream

13

The Last Report on Anna

14

Somewhere in Europe

13

A Quiet Life

18

The Double Hour

15

The First Beautiful Thing

16

The Four Times

17

General Della Rovere

18

The Girl by the Lake

17

The Girlfriends

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Kiss Me Again

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The Man Who Will Come

17

One Man Up

19

Passione

19

The Passion Play

18

The Sicilian Girl

18

We Can Do That

17

What a Beautiful Day

16

LA NOUVELLE VAGUE The 400 Blows

11

Breathless

12

Silken Skin

12

Two in the Wave

11

NT Live: The Cherry Orchard

20

Jamie Cullum: Solo

20

Access Take 2

25

Film Discussion Group

28

GFT Learning

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Horror/Cult Film Discussion Group

28

Late Night Classics

24

Monorail Film Club

23

Psychotronic Cinema

24

The GFT Film Quiz

28

Silver Screen

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Friday 1 April

Oranges and... (15) p5 Essential... (15) p5

13.45

14.30

/ 16.00

/ 20.30

/ 16.30

/ 18.45 / 20.45

IFF: The Double Hour (N/C 15+) p15

18.20

Saturday 2 April

Oranges and Sunshine (15) p5

16.00 / 18.15 / 20.30

Essential Killing (15) p5

16.30 / 20.45

IFF: The Girlfriends (N/C 8+) p16

14.20

IFF: What a Beautiful Day (N/C 12+) p16

18.30

Take 2: Despicable Me (U) p25

11.30

Access T2: Despicable Me (U) p25

Sunday 3 April

Oranges and Sunshine (15) p5

12.30 12.45 / 20.15

Essential Killing (15) p5

19.30

Thursday 7 April

Oranges and Sunshine (15) p5

13.45 / 16.00

Essential Killing (15) p5

14.15 / 16.15

IFF: The Man Who Will Come (N/C 15+) p17 Mother Teresa of Cats (N/C 15+) p22

18.15

NT Live: Frankenstein (CTBC) p20

Friday 8 April

18.45

Oranges and... (15) p5

13.30

/ 16.00

/ 20.30

Essential Killing (15) p5

13.45

/ 15.45

/ 17.45

IFF: A Quiet Life (N/C 15+) p18

18.15

The Tin Drum – Director’s Cut (N/C 15+) p6

19.45

Saturday 9 April

Oranges and Sunshine (15) p5

13.45 / 18.15 / 20.30

Essential Killing (15) p5

16.30 / 18.45 / 20.45

Stella Dallas (U) p5

14.00

IFF: The Passion Play (N/C 12+) p18

Glasgow / Nothing Personal (N/C 15+) p21

17.00

The Tin Drum – Director’s Cut (N/C 15+) p6

IFF: The Four Times (N/C 8+) p17

18.15

Take 2: Wombling Free (U) p25

NT Live: Frankenstein (CTBC) p20

Monday 4 April

15.30

20.30

16.00 13.15 11.30

Sunday 10 April

Oranges and Sunshine (15) p5

15.15 / 19.45

Oranges and Sunshine (15) p5

13.30 / 15.45

Ballast (15) p7

Essential Killing (15) p5

15.45 / 17.45

IFF: General Della Rovere (N/C 8+) p18

17.30 15.45

IFF: The First Beautiful Thing (N/C 8+) p16

18.00

Venice (N/C 15+) p22

13.30

The Tin Drum – Director’s Cut (N/C 15+) p6

19.45

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (12A) p7

13.00

Inside Job (12A) p6

20.30

Keith James – Songs of Leonard Cohen p23 19.30

Tuesday 5 April

Oranges and Sunshine (15) p5

15.00 / 18.15

Essential Killing (15) p5

13.30 / 15.30

IFF: The Girl By the Lake (N/C 15+) p17

20.30

The Tin Drum – Director’s Cut (N/C 15+) p6

19.45

Inside Job (12A) p6

12.45

Hunky Blues – The American... (N/C 15+) p13 17.30

Wednesday 6 April

Oranges and Sunshine (15) p5

13.45 / 16.00

Essential Killing (15) p5

16.30 / 20.45

IFF: We Can Do That (N/C 15+) p17 Inside Job (12A) p6

20.30 18.15

Honeymooner (15) p6

18.30

Horror / Cult Film Discussion Group p28

18.30

Monday 11 April

Oranges and Sunshine (15) p5 Ballast (15) p7

IFF: The Sicilian Girl (N/C 18+) p18

20.30

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (12A) p7

18.15

Desire (15) p7

18.00

Tuesday 12 April

Oranges and Sunshine (15) p5

16.00 / 18.15 / 20.30

Ballast (15) p7

13.30 / 15.45

IFF: One Man Up (N/C 15+) p19

20.15

Somewhere in Europe (N/C 15+) p13

18.00

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (12A) p7

12.45

Wednesday 13 April

Oranges and Sunshine (15) p5 13.45 / 16.00 / 18.15 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (12A) p7

20.30

IFF: Kiss Me Again (N/C 15+) p19

18.00

Ballast (15) p7

13.30 / 15.45 / 20.45

Film Discussion Group p28

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13.45 / 16.00 13.30 / 15.45 / 20.45

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Thursday 14 April

Oranges and Sunshine (15) p5 Ballast (15) p7

13.45 / 16.00 / 20.30

14.00 / 16.15 / 18.30 / 20.45

IFF: Passione (N/C 8+) p19

18.15

Friday 15 April

Little White Lies (15) p8

14.30

/ 19.50

Before the Revolution (12A) p9

17.30

Meek’s Cutoff (CTBC) p8

13.45

/ 18.15

Armadillo (CTBC) p8

16.00

/ 20.30

Alien (18) p24

23.00

Little White Lies (15) p8

14.30 / 19.50

Before the Revolution (12A) p9

17.30

Meek’s Cutoff (CTBC) p8

16.00 / 20.30

Armadillo (CTBC) p8

13.45 / 18.15

Take 2: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole (PG) p25

11.30

Sunday 17 April Little White Lies (15) p8

Before the Revolution (12A) p9

19.15

Meek’s Cutoff (CTBC) p8

12.45

Armadillo (CTBC) p8

15.00 / 19.30

Daniel Takes a Train (N/C 15+) p14

17.15 14.30 / 19.50

Before the Revolution (12A) p9

17.30

Meek’s Cutoff (CTBC) p8

16.00 / 20.30

Armadillo (CTBC) p8

13.45 / 18.15

Tuesday 19 April Little White Lies (15) p8

15.15 / 19.50

Before the Revolution (12A) p9 Meek’s Cutoff (CTBC) p8

12.45 13.45 / 16.00 / 20.30

American Torso (N/C 15+) p14

Wednesday 20 April Little White Lies (15) p8

18.30 14.30 / 19.50

Two in the Wave (12A) p11

17.45

Meek’s Cutoff (CTBC) p8

13.45 / 16.00 / 18.30

The Brood (18) p24

20.45

Thursday 21 April Little White Lies (15) p8

16.45 / 19.50

Two in the Wave (12A) p11 Meek’s Cutoff (CTBC) p8 Special features

/ 20.15

Pina (CTBC) p10

13.15

/ 18.00

Little White Lies (15) p8

14.45

/ 19.50

The 400 Blows (PG) p11

12.40

/ 17.45

Saturday 23 April

How I Ended This Summer (CTBC) p9

15.30 / 20.15

Pina (CTBC) p10

13.15 / 18.00

Little White Lies (15) p8

16.30 / 19.50

The 400 Blows (PG) p11

14.15 11.30

Sunday 24 April

How I Ended This Summer (CTBC) p9 Pina (CTBC) p10

17.00 12.30

Little White Lies (15) p8

13.30 / 18.50

Breathless (PG) p12

13.15 / 16.15

Little White Lies (15) p8

How I Ended This Summer (CTBC) p9 15.30

Take 2: Playtime (U) p25

Saturday 16 April

Monday 18 April

Friday 22 April

16.45

The Last Report on Anna (N/C 15+) p14

14.45

Monorail: Walk Me Home (N/C 15+) p23

19.30

Monday 25 April

How I Ended This Summer (CTBC) p9

13.15 / 18.00

Pina (CTBC) p10

15.45 / 20.30

Little White Lies (15) p8

14.30 / 19.50

Breathless (PG) p12

Tuesday 26 April

How I Ended This... (CTBC) p9

17.45 15.30 / 18.00 / 20.30

Pina (CTBC) p10

12.45

Little White Lies (15) p8

14.15 / 19.50

Silken Skin (PG) p12

17.30

The GFT Film Quiz p28

20.45

Wednesday 27 April

How I Ended This Summer (CTBC) p9 13.15 / 18.00 Pina (CTBC) p10

15.45 / 20.30

Little White Lies (15) p8

16.45 / 19.50

Silken Skin (PG) p12

Thursday 28 April

14.15

How I Ended This Summer (CTBC) p9

15.30 / 20.15

Pina (CTBC) p10

13.15 / 18.00

Little White Lies (15) p8

14.15 / 19.50

Silken Skin (PG) p12

17.30

14.30 13.00 / 15.30 / 18.00 £4.00 tickets

Free events

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Oranges and Sunshine

Essential Killing

Friday 1 – Thursday 14 April

Friday 1 – Saturday 9 April

Talent is clearly woven into the fabric of the Loach family DNA as Jim Loach (son of Ken) makes an immensely impressive, emotionally devastating feature debut with Oranges and Sunshine. Scots screenwriter Rona Munro has skillfully adapted Margaret Humphreys’s 1994 book Empty Cradles and Loach secures a powerhouse performance from Emily Watson in the lead role. In 1986, Humphreys became aware of a government programme that ran from the Victorian era until 1970 and relocated thousands of British children throughout the Commonwealth. It was the beginning of a tireless campaign to expose the truth, investigate the past and reunite dozens of broken families.

Polish artist, poet and filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski follows Four Nights with Anna with his stunning new film Essential Killing. Vincent Gallo stars as Mohammed who is captured in Afghanistan by American soldiers and transported to an unidentified Eastern European location. He subsequently escapes and attempts to survive in sub-zero temperatures with the military close on his heels.

Politics are put aside in favour of exploring one man’s relentless pursuit of freedom. Breathtaking cinematography captures the beautiful yet hostile landscape whilst Gallo’s wordless performance is remarkable, and won him the Best Actor award at this year’s Venice Film Festival.

The screening on Wednesday 13 April (18.15) will be introduced by Dr Christopher Gow.

Essential Killing won four Polish Film Academy Awards (The Eagles) for best music, best editing, best film and best director. See pages 21–22 for more Polish films.

Programme notes are available in the cinema and online at www.glasgowfilm.org

Programme notes are available in the cinema and online at www.glasgowfilm.org

Director Jim Loach Cast Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham UK/Australia 2010, 1h45m, 15

Director Jerzy Skolimowski Cast Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner Poland/Norway/Ireland/Hungary 2010, 1h24m, subtitles, 15

Mother’s Day Screening

Stella Dallas Sunday 3 April (14.00) Sprightly and ambitious Stella (Stanwyck) marries wealthy, but rather staid Stephen Dallas (Boles) and they have a daughter Laurel (Shirley). As they move in high society, their differences of background and personality become accentuated, and they drift apart. Wanting what’s best for Laurel, Stella realises that she must make the ultimate sacrifice if she wants her to integrate into her father’s world. This is a classic tear-jerker with an unforgettable ending.

Be sure to have two boxes of tissues on hand if you choose this movie – one for you, and one for mum!

Director King Vidor / Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Anne Shirley, John Boles / USA 1937, 1h46m, U

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The Tin Drum – Director’s Cut Die Blechtrommel

Monday 4 – Saturday 9 April (excluding Wednesday 6 & Thursday 7 April) Volker Schlöndorff’s bravura adaptation of the Günther Grass novel won the Cannes Palme d’Or and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Thirty years ago, Schlöndorff was contractually obliged to deliver a film that did not exceed a specific running time and was forced to cut thirty minutes of footage. The remastered director’s cut offers his full vision of a remarkable story and an amazing performance from David Bennent as Oskar, the precocious infant who stops growing at the age of three. Armed with a tin drum and a piercing shriek that can shatter glass, he becomes an eyewitness to the grotesque madness that surrounds him as the adult world embraces the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany.

Director Volker Schlöndorff Cast David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler West Germany 1979, 2h44m, subtitles, N/C 15+

Inside Job Monday 4 – Wednesday 6 April Inside Job, Charles Ferguson’s Oscar-winning documentary, is the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry. Witty, lively, accessible and bracingly intelligent, this is a film that will leave you outraged at a crime that has, so far, gone largely unpunished.

Director Charles Ferguson Narrator Matt Damon USA 2010, 1h49m, 12A: Contains brief sight of implied hard drug use & moderate sex references

Honeymooner Wednesday 6 April (18.30) Our eponymous honeymooner is the dumbfounded Fran, piecing together his now very ordinary existence after the unexpected departure of his fiancée. Col Spector deftly pokes fun at the modern metropolitan menagerie of relationships, where the support network of friends and neighbours is seen as an almost unattainable ideal. Aided by the understated performance of lead actor Gerard Kearns (C4’s Shameless), alongside a uniformly smart supporting cast, Honeymooner is a gentle and articulate gem. EIFF 2010 Director Col Spector will introduce the screening and participate in a Q&A session after the film.

Director Col Spector / Cast Gerard Kearns, Daisy Haggard, Chris Coghill / UK 2010, 1h14m, 15

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Ballast

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Sunday 10 – Thursday 14 April A bold and penetrating American drama that won the Best Director award at Sundance Film Festival. Set in the Mississippi Delta, using a cast of unknown actors, the film approaches its story and themes – bereavement, isolation, fragile family ties – in such a way that tone and texture take the place of conventional drama. Director Lance Hammer starts from a place deep inside his characters and their surroundings; what emerges is the story of two young men who have both withdrawn from society in different ways and the cautious mutual connection that brings them out of themselves.

Poetic and profound… Rolling Stone Director Lance Hammer Cast Michael J Smith Sr, Jim Myron Ross, Tarra Riggs USA 2008, 1h36m, 15

Sunday 10 – Wednesday 13 April Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger follows a pair of married couples, Alfie and Helena, and their daughter Sally and husband Roy, as their passions, ambitions and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds.

An elegant return to form.

Jason Solomons, The Observer Director Woody Allen Cast Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts USA 2010, 1h38m, 12A: Contains infrequent strong language, moderate sex references and violence

Desire Monday 11 April (18.00) Writer Ralph sits alone at the top of his London house, crippled by agoraphobia, emasculated by the success of his soap-star wife Phoebe, unable to complete the screenplay that will rescue his reputation and his family. With a deadline looming, he invites French West African student Néné to look after the children, but is she carer, muse, lover or thief? As Ralph succumbs to his desire, Néné embarks on a passionate relationship with both husband and wife that leads all three into areas of emotional and creative trangression. Who is using whom? Who is writing the film called Desire? And where will it end?

Director Gareth Jones will introduce the screening and participate in a Q&A session after the film.

Director Gareth Jones / Cast Oscar Pearce, Tella Kpomahou UK 2010, 1h31m, 15

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Little White Lies Les petits mouchoirs

Friday 15 – Thursday 28 April Actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet follows the hugely successful thriller Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne) with a smartly cast, acutely observed ensemble piece about the ties that bind a group of old friends and the tensions that might just tear them apart. Each year, the group escape for a cherished summer holiday at a beautiful beach house on the southeast coast of France. This year everything changes.

One of them is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.

The others reluctantly head to the beach where loyalties are tested to the limit, trust is betrayed, old loves are rekindled and surprising new liaisons are tinged with danger. A Gallic Big Chill with a stellar cast and a blinding soundtrack.

Director Guillaume Canet Cast François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoît Magimel, Gilles Lellouche France 2010, 2h34m, 15, subtitles

Meek’s Cutoff Friday 15 – Thursday 21 April The Portland-Oregon Trail, 1845. When stranded settlers meet a Native American wanderer, they are torn between trusting their own guide and taking a leap of faith.

Award-winning director Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy) combines devastating desert landscapes with an intimate survival drama. This stark, original take on the American Western won acclaim at its Venice premiere, with gripping performances by Shirley Henderson and Michelle Williams.

Programme notes are available in the cinema and online at www.glasgowfilm.org Director Kelly Reichardt Cast Michelle Williams, Shirley Henderson USA 2010, 1h54m, CTBC

Armadillo Friday 15 – Monday 18 April Armadillo is the name of a heavily fortified UK-Danish army base in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Here documentarist Janus Metz and his crew were embedded in 2009, following a group of young Danish recruits as they adjust to the realities of conflict, in and outside their secure camp. The result is a work of powerful immediacy: observational in style, its close-quarters view of the inexperienced soldiers is at once a vivid dispatch from an ongoing conflict and a sobering investigation into the impact of battle on its young combatants. Metz remains sympathetic to his recruits: from their teary farewells to their families at home to the boredom of camp routine, the film offers a richly detailed portrait of army life... Armadillo avoids polemic, leaving you certain only of the confusion and brutality of war. BFI London Film Festival Director Janus Metz Pedersen / Denmark 2010, 1h40m, subtitles, CTBC

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Before the Revolution Prima della rivoluzion

Friday 15 – Tuesday 19 April The story centres on the emotional and political conflicts within a young man, Fabrizio, who is contemplating joining the Communist Party. But his personal life is even more unresolved, as he breaks away from his planned marriage to a perfect bourgeoisie and becomes incestuously involved with his alluring aunt (Adriana Asti).

Bertolucci’s obsession for politics and cinema is openly expressed through this alter-ego and in the extraordinary freedom of his camerawork and editing. There are heartfelt allusions to the history of filmmaking – a cinephile friend cries out ‘One cannot live without Rossellini’, while an erotic love scene echoes Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante – as well as to the city of his youth, with a climactic sequence at the opera that is breathtaking in its sweep and intensity. David Thompson, BFI Director Bernardo Bertolucci Cast Francesco Barilli, Adriana Asti, Allen Midgette Italy 1964, 1h51m, subtitles 12A: Contains infrequent moderate sex and language

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How I Ended This Summer Kak ya provyol etim letom Friday 22 – Thursday 28 April One of the exciting new names in the resurgence of Russian cinema, Alexsei Popogrebsky has created a truly compelling tale set in some of the most inhospitable landscapes on the planet. You can almost feel an icy chill sting your face as he transports us to an isolated meteorological station in the Arctic Circle. The station is run by grizzled veteran Gulybin (Sergei Puskepalis), assisted by the callow Danilov (Grigory Dobrygin). When bad news is transmitted from the mainland, it sparks an extraordinary adventure. The film tightens its grip and grows as nail-biting as anything in 127 Hours or Touching the Void as Gulybin is pushed to the edge of madness and Danilov makes heroic efforts to redeem himself.

The screening on Wednesday 27 April (18.00) will be introduced by Dr Christopher Gow. Director Aleksei Popogrebsky Cast Grigory Dobrygin, Sergei Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich Russia 2010, 2h4m, subtitles, CTBC

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Pina Friday 22 – Thursday 28 April A visual love song from director Wim Wenders to his friend legendary choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in 2009. This dance film features exhilarating performances by the Tanztheater Wuppertal ensemble of some of Bausch’s finest work – taking dance from the stage out into the city and the surrounding industrial landscape of Wuppertal, the place that was the home and centre of Bausch’s creative life for more than thirtyfive years. A real treat for dance fans as Bausch’s inimitable fusion of radical theatre, surreal art and sexual drama comes alive on the big screen.

Screening in 2D. Director Wim Wenders Germany/France/UK 2011, 1h46m, some subtitles, CTBC

LA NOUVELLE VAGUE Two in the Wave Wednesday 20 (17.45) & Thursday 21 April (14.30) A fascinating, informative and at times gossipy cinematic essay looking at the formation of the French nouvelle vague at the end of the 1950s and the friendship of its two most famous figures – Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard – featuring excerpts from interviews given at the time and clips from the films themselves; the directors’ early shorts, their revolutionary debuts (The 400 Blows and Breathless) and the many films that followed. The increasing politicization of Godard post-1968 finds the pair growing apart, with the film casting actor Jean-Pierre Leaud – a favourite of both filmmakers – as the child torn between divorcing parents. ICA Director Emmanuel Laurent / France 2010, 1h36m, subtitles, 12A: Contains infrequent moderate violence and sex references

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The 400 Blows

Les quatre cents coups Friday 22 (12.40/17.45) & Saturday 23 April (14.15) Truffaut’s semi-autobiographical first feature stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, an unruly young Parisian whose unhappiness leads him into trouble. Frequently running away from school and home, Antoine spends much of his time playing with his friends on the streets of the city; but events take a more serious turn when an accusation of plagiarism leads him to quit school and the theft of a typewriter lands him in trouble with the police.

Director François Truffaut Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud France 1959, 1h39m, subtitles, PG

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Breathless

A bout de souffle Sunday 24 (16.45) & Monday 25 April (17.45) ‘Après tout, je suis con.’ So states petty thief Michel at the start of Godard’s film in which a dash of flair and subversive Gallic insouciance are added to the language of American B-movies. Belmondo plays the thief on the run, Seberg his New York Herald Tribune-selling lover. An iconic example of the nouvelle vague that is still sharp and exciting cinema.

Director Jean-Luc Godard / Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg / France 1960, 1h30m, subtitles, PG

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Silken Skin La peau douce

Tuesday 26 (17.30), Wednesday 27 (14.15) & Thursday 28 April (17.30) One of Truffaut’s subtlest and most richly rewarding films, this account of an extra-marital affair displays the influence of two of the director’s idols: Renoir and Hitchcock. The former’s compassionate understanding of human motivation is reflected in the astute psychological and emotional insights into the at times perverse actions of lecturer Pierre, his volatile wife Franca, and Nicole, the air-stewardess he first encounters on a trip to Lisbon. But as Pierre begins to sink deeper into a relationship regarded quite lightly by Nicole, the taut editing and the sense of things getting out of control, not to mention the exhilarating precision of the direction, reveal just how much – and how well – Truffaut had learned from ‘the master of suspense’. Geoff Andrew, BFI Director François Truffaut / Cast Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, Nelly Benedetti France 1964, 1h57m, subtitles, PG

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CHECK THE GATE - HUNGARIAN FILM FESTIVAL The Hungarian Cultural Centre invites you to explore border crossing, displacement, migration and exile through exceptional features, documentaries and experimental film.

Seasons at GFT Ticket Deal: any 4 tickets from this season for £22/£18.

Tickets must be purchased in one transaction.

Hunky Blues – The American Dream Az amerikai álom

Tuesday 5 April (17.30) Have you heard of Ellis Island? Péter Forgács explores the fate of Hungarian men and women who immigrated to the United States between 1890 and 1921. The documentary reveals the difficult moments of arrival, integration and assimilation, which eventually fed the happiness of the later generations and their fulfilment of the American Dream.

The season will be introduced by Dr Judit Molnar, Marie Curie European Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow’s Department of Central and East European Studies.

Director Péter Forgács Hungary 2009, 1h40m, subtitles, N/C 15+

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Somewhere in Europe Valahol Európában Tuesday 12 April (18.00) This groundbreaking, powerful postwar film captured the painful plight of Hungary’s desperate war orphans.

A group of young street scavengers settle into a seemingly abandoned castle and bond with the traumatized conductor who’s been living there – only to have their fragile peace destroyed once again by the ‘civilized’ world. If you like your movies black-and-white and bittersweet, this is the one for you.

Director Géza Radványi Cast Artúr Somlay, Miklós Gábor, Zsuzsa Bánki Hungary, 1947, 1h44m, subtitles, N/C 15+

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Daniel Takes a Train

American Torso

Sunday 17 April (17.15)

Tuesday 19 April (18.30)

In 1956 two teenage boys, one an army deserter whose unit turned against the government when the Russians rolled in, the other an apolitical youth who aims to follow his girlfriend and her family to the West, take one of the last, overcrowded trains from Budapest to Vienna during the brief period when emigration was allowed.

The atmosphere of panic and moral dilemma (whether to stay loyal to Hungary or escape to ‘freedom’) is keenly sustained, and the period reconstruction well bolstered by Elemér Ragályi’s clever camerawork.

Collaged excerpts from authentic diaries, a text by Karl Marx and poems by Walt Whitman combine in a narrative about three Hungarian officers serving as land surveyors during the American Civil War. This enchanting, poetic experiment in form

by Gábor Bódy, the master of post-modern Hungarian filmmaking, is described by Béla Tarr as ‘one of the highest mountains in Hungarian film history!’

Director Pál Sándor Cast Péter Rudolf, Gyula Bodrogi, Sándor Zsótér, Katalin Szerb Hungary 1983, 1h35m, subtitles, N/C 15+

Director Gábor Bódy Cast Sándor Csutoros, György Cserhalmi Hungary 1975, 1h37m, subtitles, N/C 15+

Szerencsés Dániel

Amerikai Anzix

The Last Report on Anna Utolsó jelentés Annáról Sunday 24 April (14.45) Behind the Iron Curtain in Hungary, the secret police task Péter, a literary critic turned informant, with convincing exiled politician Anna Kéthly to return to her homeland to face her accusers. Anna’s stalwart belief in her principles and her history with Péter’s family cause him to question his allegiances in this based-on-true-events story from award-winning auteur Márta Mészáros (Diary for My Children).

This screening will be introduced by Hungarian Studies scholar Dr Zsuzsanna Varga from the University of Glasgow.

Director Márta Mészáros Cast Enikő Eszenyi, György Cserhalmi, Ernő Fekete Hungary, 2009, 1h43m, subtitles, N/C 15+

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ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL IN SCOTLAND Benvenuti to the Italian Film Festival in Scotland (1–14 April), curated by Glasgow Film Festival co-director Allan Hunter and Richard Mowe and supported by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Edimburgo, and the Consolato Generale d’Italia, as well as sponsors Vin Caffè. Our 2011 edition includes a focus on actor Toni Servillo, and also highlights a diverse line-up of new and classic Italian cinema including comedies, dramas, thrillers and classics from award-winning directors and actors, as well as spotlighting debut films from exciting new talent.

Viva il cinema Italiano!

Allan Hunter & Richard Mowe Festival directors, Italian Film Festival in Scotland www.italianfilmfestival.org.uk Buy a GFT Festival Ticket to get best value for your money – 10 tickets for £45/£40.

The Double Hour La doppia ora

Friday 1 April (18.20) A fiendishly clever thriller, The Double Hour is recommended to anyone who has warmed to the mindbending mysteries at the heart of Christopher Nolan films like Memento and Inception. Sonia has recently arrived in Italy from Slovenia. She works as a chambermaid in a plush hotel and meets security guard Guido at a speed dating club. Out to impress his new girl, Guido takes her to a remote country mansion filled with priceless art treasures. Robbers burst into the room, Guido is attacked, Sonia barely escapes with her life and it is the beginning of a gripping nightmare thriller filled with ingenious twists.

Director Giuseppe Capotondi / Cast Kseniya Rappoport, Filippo Timi, Antonia Truppo / Italy 2009, 1h35m, subtitles, N/C 15+

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The Girlfriends

What a Beautiful Day

Saturday 2 April (14.20)

Saturday 2 April (18.30)

Italian maestro Michelangelo Antonioni was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for this early triumph in his lengthy career. The elegant Clelia returns from Rome to her native Turin to open a fashion salon. She discovers Rosetta near death in the next room of her hotel after taking an overdose of sleeping pills. The two women become friends and Clelia finds herself drawn into the lives of Rosetta’s wealthy female friends as they struggle with careers, romance and the pursuit of elusive happiness.

TV comic Checco Zalone stars as a Southerner who dreams of joining the military police. Instead, he works as a security guard at Milan cathedral.

He is not the sharpest knife in the cutlery drawer, which makes him the perfect dupe for a brother and sister team of Islamic terrorists who are planning to bomb the cathedral rooftop. The stage is set for a politically incorrect comedy of pride and prejudice, church and state and all the cultural divides inside Italy and between West and East.

Outrageous fun.

Director Michelangelo Antonioni Cast Eleonora Rossi-Drago, Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux Italy 1955, 1h44m, subtitles, N/C 8+

Director Gennaro Nunziante Cast Checco Zalone, Nabiha Akkari, Mehdi Mahdloo Italy 2011, 1h37m, subtitles, N/C 12+

Le amiche

Che bella giornata

The Four Times Le quattro volte

Sunday 3 April (18.15) The circle of life lies at the heart of a virtually wordless film shot in the countryside of Calabria and focusing on an elderly shepherd who will eventually become a baby goat, a giant tree and a lump of coal as his soul undergoes a journey from human to animal, vegetable and mineral. A work of great originality and poise, The Four Times is also playful, tender and surprisingly poignant.

Director Michelangelo Frammartino / Cast Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano Italy 2010, 1h28m, subtitles, N/C 8+

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The First Beautiful Thing

The Girl by the Lake

Monday 4 April (18.00)

Tuesday 5 April (20.30)

Paolo Virzì’s bittersweet comedy The First Beautiful Thing was selected as Italy’s candidate for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. Set both in 1971 and the present day, the film focuses on a young man played by Valerio Mastandrea returning home to say good-bye to his mother, a former beauty queen who is now dying of cancer. Reminiscent of Denys Arcand’s The Barbarian Invasions, it re-creates the past with picture-perfect precision, and the family of characters in both the present-day scenes and the flashbacks inhabits worlds of honesty. The First Beautiful Thing is a wonderful, colourful, evocation of trouble and vulnerability, strength and hope.

Based on the Norwegian novel Don’t Look Back by Karin Fossum, this film unfolds amidst the rugged beauty of the Italian Dolomites. A peaceful, provincial town is shocked by the murder of a beautiful young woman whose body is found naked on the shore of a lake. There are no signs of struggle or sexual assault but also there is no shortage of potential suspects including the dead girl’s boyfriend Roberto and her father Davide. Inspector Giovani Sanzio (Servillo) is sent to investigate the murder but as he digs deeper into the girl’s life and death he uncovers more questions than answers. A subtle, absorbing tale handled with supreme confidence.

Director Paolo Virzì Cast Micaela Ramazzotti, Stefania Sandrelli Italy 2010, 2h4m, subtitles, N/C 15+

Director Andrea Molaioli Cast Toni Servillo, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Gifuni, Marco Baliani Italy 2007, 1h35m, subtitles, N/C 15+

We Can Do That

The Man Who Will Come

Wednesday 6 April (20.30)

Thursday 7 April (20.30)

Nello is a former trade unionist appointed to care for a group of former mental patients released back into the community after the government closed down a succession of psychiatric hospitals under the notorious Basaglia Law. Two of the men have an amazing talent for installing parquet flooring and soon Nello has established a cooperative flooring company for rich clients. Nominated in nine categories at the David di Donatello awards, We Can Do That is a clever, caustic comedy with echoes of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

In the fall of 1944, on the slopes of Monte Sole, south of Bologna, Fascism showed its face in one of the worst massacres on Italian soil. As a reprisal against local villagers for support of partisan activity, German SS troops systematically murdered nearly 800 people, most of them women, children and elderly. Director Giorgio Diritti illuminates the incident in a very specific way: he creates an almost elegiac portrait of peasant life as seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old child. The film won the audience prize at the Rome Film Festival.

Director Giulio Manfredonia Cast Claudio Bisio, Anita Caprioli, Giuseppe Battiston Italy 2008, 1h51m, subtitles, N/C 15+

Director Giorgio Diritti Cast Alba Rohrwacher, Maya Sansa, Claudio Casadio Italy 2010, 1h57m, subtitles, N/C 15+

La prima cosa bella

Si può fare

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L’uomo che verrà

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A Quiet Life

The Passion Play

Friday 8 April (18.15)

Saturday 9 April (16.00)

Tony Servillo gives another masterful, awardwinning performance in this gripping, expertly executed thriller. Servillo stars as Rosario, an Italian hotelier who now runs a quiet roadside inn near Wiesbaden with his German wife Renate.

One day two young Neapolitan men check in to the hotel. It quickly becomes clear that they have business with Rosario and issues with his son Mathias. Shot in the pale light of winter dawn, A Quiet Life gradually assumes the intensity of Greek tragedy as the suspense tightens and Rosario is confronted with the ghosts of his past and the consequences of a long abandoned life.

Silvio Orlando stars as Gianni, a filmmaker who hasn’t completed a project in four years. When a flat he rents out in Tuscany suffers a major plumbing malfunction, destroying a historic fresco in an adjacent church, Gianni is forced by the local judge to direct the upcoming annual amateur production of the Passion of Christ. The comedy primarily comes from Orlando’s central performance, as an artist in crisis, but also from a wonderful array of supporting actors who comprise the amateur troupe. With its Capra-esque miracle ending and its bucolic setting this is a feast for the senses.

Una vita tranquilla

Director Claudio Cupellini Cast Toni Servillo, Juliane Köhler, Leonardo Sprengler Italy 2010, 1h43m, subtitles, N/C 15+

La passione

Director Carlo Mazzacurati Cast Silvio Orlando, Kasia Smutniak, Stefania Sandrelli Italy 2010, 1h45m, subtitles, N/C 12+

General Della Rovere

The Sicilian Girl

Sunday 10 April (15.45)

Monday 11 April (20.30)

Set in wartime Genoa, Roberto Rossellini’s classic is based on true events and features a noteworthy performance from Vittorio De Sica as ‘the colonel’, an inveterate gambler, charmer and consummate swindler who preys on the vulnerable. When his crimes and betrayals begin to catch up with him, a Nazi officer offers him a chance of freedom if he will perform the most dangerous deception of his career.

One morning in 1991, seventeen-year-old Rita Atria approached the chief prosecutor of Palermo, intent on vindicating her father and brother’s mafia-related deaths. Rita’s testimony was the linchpin for securing convictions of many figures in the Sicilian mob – testimony which ultimately led to her death at their hands. Interweaving the detailed observation of a court procedural with the drama and intrigue of a genre crime film, the convergence of fiction and reality becomes a metaphor for the heroine’s metamorphosis from self-involved schoolgirl to social activist.

Il generale della rovere

This screening will be introduced by Pasquale Iannone, film lecturer, writer and broadcaster, University of Edinburgh.

Director Roberto Rossellini / Cast Vittorio De Sica Italy 1959, 2h11m, subtitles, N/C 8+

La siciliana ribelle

Director Marco Amenta / Cast Veronica D’Agostino Italy 2008, 1h47m, subtitles, N/C 18+

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One Man Up

Kiss Me Again

Tuesday 12 April (20.15)

Wednesday 13 April (18.00)

In the early 1980s, Tony and Antonio have each risen to the peak of their chosen professions. Tony is a nightclub singer who after years of struggle has achieved nationwide fame, and Antonio is a soccer player who becomes a star after scoring the winning goal in a European championship match. However, a few years down the line both men are experiencing a sharp reversal of their good fortune. Tony has a devastating cocaine addiction, and after it’s revealed he’s become sexually involved with an underage girl, it doesn’t seem likely that the public will ever forgive him. Meanwhile, a leg injury has put an end to Antonio’s career as an athlete, and he finds himself starting from zero.

Set ten years after the box-office hit The Last Kiss (L’ultimo bacio), Gabriele Muccino’s sequel Kiss Me Again returns to the lives of Carlo and his friends as they enter their forties and reflect on their disappointments with life, love and relationships. Older but clearly no wiser, they still act like adolescents frantically searching for a happiness that remains elusive, whilst everyone else is longing for change or paying dearly for their past mistakes. This is a lushly filmed soap opera filled with bitter home truths, regrets and sentimental lessons straight from the heart.

Director Paolo Sorrentino Cast Andrea Renzi, Toni Servillo, Ninni Bruschetta Italy 2001, 1h43m, subtitles, N/C 15+

Director Gabriele Muccino Cast Stefano Accorsi, Vittoria Puccini Italy/France 2010, 2h19m, subtitles, N/C 15+

L’uomo in più

Baciami ancora

Passione Thursday 14 April (18.15) John Turturro is devoted to the city of Naples and the unique musical culture that it has inspired. In Passione, Turturro is tour guide, narrator and seductive enthusiast as he walks the cobbled streets of the city, chatting to the locals about their favourite singers and paying tribute to a vast range of musical greats from Angela Luce to Sergio Bruni and Massimo Ranieri. A band lurks around every corner, a crooner’s voice caresses the air, a dance routine brings a courtyard to life in a lush documentary that is a must for all lovers of both Neopolitan song and of Turturro.

Director John Turturro Cast John Turturro, Lina Sastri, Fiorello, Peppe Barra, Peppe Servillo Italy/USA 2010, 1h30m, subtitles, N/C 8+

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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE Frankenstein

The Cherry Orchard

Sunday 3 April (15.30) & Thursday 7 April (18.45)

Thursday 30 June (18.45)

GFT is delighted to offer audiences two opportunities to see a recorded transmission of Danny Boyle’s stage version of Frankenstein, featuring Jonny Lee Miller as the Creature and Benedict Cumberbatch as Victor.

Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard will be beamed in live to GFT. This new adaptation is directed by NT Associate Director Howard Davies, whose recent productions of Russian plays (including Philistines, Burnt by the Sun and The White Guard) have earned huge critical acclaim, and stars Zoë Wanamaker as Madame Ranevskaya.

Tickets are £15 and £10 to CineCard holders.

SPECIAL LIVE BY SATELLITE EVENT Jamie Cullum: Solo Sunday 1 May (20.30) Experience the magic of Jamie Cullum’s solo concert at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, live via satellite and on the big screen. Jamie will perform an exclusive set, playing new material alongside classics from his bestselling albums. He will also communicate with fans across the country via Twitter. Jamie Cullum is not touring in the UK this year so this is a rare chance to catch the musician in action.

Tickets are £15 full price, £13 concessions and £12 CineCard holders.

1h50m (including 20 minute interval)

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9TH POLISH FILM FESTIVAL KINOTEKA IN GLASGOW KINOTEKA in Glasgow presents highlights from the Festival of New Polish Cinema, including dark psychological drama Mother Teresa of Cats, inspired by shocking true life events, and Locarno’s Golden Leopard recipient Nothing Personal, the tale of two self-professed loners testing the limits of solitude and companionship. The New Polish Cinema programme ties in with the publication of Polish Cinema Now!, a book of essays commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and edited

by Mateusz Werner, focusing on the last twenty years of contemporary Polish Cinema since the fall of the ‘iron curtain’ in 1989. www.kinoteka.org.uk Jerzy Skolimowski’s Essential Killing, the winner of four Polish Film Academy Awards (The Eagles), is also screening at GFT (see page 5).

Glasgow Sunday 3 April (17.00) Glasgow is the story of a twelve-year-old boy who is convinced that his father is a well-known Celtic football player. During the holidays, the boy tries to earn enough money to afford a trip to Scotland by helping a retired man with his household repairs. But there is much more awaiting the boy…

Director Piotr Subbotko / Cast Rafał Garnecki, Sandra Korzeniak, Zygmunt Malanowicz / Poland 2010, 30m, subtitles, N/C 15+

followed by

Nothing Personal A young female rebel and an old sage challenge each other in a story about personal freedom and attachment. She is a young Dutch woman who, after throwing away all her possessions, becomes a vagabond and finds the solitude she was looking for in the austere landscape of Irish Connemara. He is an old man who lives a solitary life in a secluded house. What connects them is the solitude they both see as freedom. The old man offers the woman a deal: food in exchange for work. But there is one condition: no personal contact, no questions. As their mutual curiosity grows, who will be first to break the deal?

Director Urszula Antoniak / Cast Stephen Rea, Lotte Verbeek / Netherlands/Ireland 2010, 1h25m, subtitles, N/C 15+

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Mother Teresa of Cats Thursday 7 April (18.15) A shocking story inspired by true events. Two brothers, twenty-two-year-old Artur and twelve-year-old Marcin, are arrested for the murder of their mother, Teresa. What could have possibly brought this seemingly normal family to ruin? The answer is hidden in the twelve months preceding the brothers’ arrest. With each retrospective sequence the director constructs accurate portraits of the brothers and their future victim, and brings us closer to understanding the psychology of this horrible crime and motherly love.

Director Paweł Sala / Cast Ewa Skibińska, Mateusz Kościukiewicz / Poland 2010, 1h34m, subtitles, N/C 15+

Venice Sunday 10 April (13.30) Venice is a magically beautiful adaptation of three short stories by Wlodzimierz Odojewski. It is summer, 1939. Following family tradition, eleven-year-old Marek is about to visit Venice for the first time, but when the conflict between Poland and Germany intensifies, he is sent to a small village to live with his aunt in a vast mansion.

There, in a flooded basement, they recreate Venice which becomes a backdrop for their emotional transformation. Somewhere between his dreams, Venice, and the impending war, Marek must prematurely transform from a boy into a man.

Director Jan Jakub Kolski Cast Magdalena Cielecka, Agnieszka Grochowska Poland 2010, 1h54m, subtitles, N/C 15+

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Monorail Film Club

Walk Me Home Sunday 24 April (19.30) A professional woman and a much older man from different backgrounds share a few hours together. In their imaginations, that time becomes exaggerated into a lifetime. The man’s sudden death returns them harshly to reality.

After last year’s triumphant screening of Play Me Something, we’re delighted to have director Timothy Neat back for conversation and questions after the film.

Join the film club after the screening in Café Cosmo.

Director Timothy Neat / Design Keith Mcintyre / Music Jim Sutherland / Director of Photography Vadim Youssof Cast Angela Winkler, John Berger, Norman Maclean UK 1993, 1h27m, N/C 15+

Keith James: The Songs of Leonard Cohen Sunday 10 April (19.30), 1h10m Join singer and acoustic guitarist Keith James for a live concert of Leonard Cohen’s music. For four decades now Cohen has been one of the most important and influential songwriters of our time, a figure whose body of work achieves greater depths of mystery and meaning as time goes on. Here Keith James gives a sensitive interpretation of Cohen’s music – stripping back each song so that it’s desolate, naked and sensual.

The evening includes a short documentary about the life and music of Leonard Cohen.

Certainly the UK’s most celebrated and evocative interpreter of golden music.

The Guardian All tickets are £10

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late night classics All tickets cost £5 for students and £7 for everyone else.

Plus FREE entry to NICE N SLEAZY on presentation of your ticket after each film.

35mm Screening

25th Anniversary Screening in 70mm

Friday 15 April (23.00)

Friday 29 April (23.00)

While investigating a strange transmission from an uncharted planet, the crew from the spaceship Nostromo are attacked by an aggressive parasite. After a creature gruesomely hatches from inside one of the group, it’s left to Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) to destroy it before it slaughters everyone on board. Combining H R Giger’s disturbing art direction with Jerry Goldsmith’s haunting score, Ridley Scott’s masterpiece Alien has lost none of its power to shock despite countless imitations.

The unstoppable Ripley returns in James Cameron’s critically acclaimed all-action sequel. Awakened from hyper-sleep fifty years after escaping the alien that murdered her crew on planet LV-426, no one on Earth believes Ripley’s story until contact is lost with the recently colonised terrain. She reluctantly agrees to accompany some gung-ho marines on a reconnaissance mission, only to discover that she’ll have to battle a whole colony of aliens this time around.

Fiercely debated as superior to the original, Aliens firmly established the phenomenal Sigourney Weaver as a sci-fi legend and feminist icon.

Director Ridley Scott Cast Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm USA/UK 1979, 1h56m, 18

Director James Cameron Cast Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen USA/UK 1986, 2h17m, 18

Alien

Aliens

Psychotronic Cinema

The Brood Wednesday 20 April (20.45) The current season of Psychotronic Cinema concludes with a rare screening of an early period David Cronenberg masterpiece. Unconventional therapy techniques abound and psychotic children run amok as the Canadian auteur concocts a typically outlandish brew. Nobody combines schlock horror and fierce intelligence better than Cronenberg at his best. And there’s a strong argument to be made that The Brood is his very finest film.

Director David Cronenberg Cast Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle Canada 1979, 1h32m, 18

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Glasgow Young Scot or Kidz Card holders and an accompanying adult get in FREE! All other tickets at GFT are £4.00. Each child’s ticket admits one adult free of charge. Take 2 screenings are held at both GFT and Cineworld Parkhead. Children under the age of 8 must be accompanied.

For full film details, please pick up a leaflet in the foyer. Take 2 screenings start promptly at 11.30am. Free tickets are only issued on the day of the screening.

Free Family Films Despicable Me U

Saturday 2 April 11.30 (1h34m) An evil genius ends up looking after three adorable children.

Audio described and captioned at 11.30 GFT screening only.

Wombling Free U

Saturday 9 April 11.30 (1h32m) The Wombles are back to pick up all your litter!

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole PG

Saturday 16 April 11.30 (1h36m) The Owls of Ga’Hoole fight to defeat the sinister Metal Beak.

Audio described and captioned at GFT screening only.

Playtime U

Saturday 23 April 11.30 (2h5m) Mr Hulot stumbles through a confusing city of gadgets.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 12A (12A - contains moderate fantasy violence and threat)

Saturday 30 April 11.30 (2h25m) Will Harry Potter be strong enough to defeat Lord Voldemort?

Audio described and captioned at GFT screening only.

Access Take 2: Autism-Friendly Screenings

Access Take 2 screenings are for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their families, and are also suitable for any child with any disability who would enjoy seeing a film in a ‘low sensory environment’. The films have no subtitles, the volume is turned down, the house lights left on low, and children can make noise and move around. The screenings will take place on the first Saturday of each month at 12.30pm.

Next Access Take 2 Screening:

Despicable Me U

Saturday 2 April, 12.30 (1h34m)

Glasgow Young Scot or Kidz Card holders and an accompanying adult get in FREE! Take 2 terms and conditions apply. Admission to Access Take 2 screenings is at the discretion of GFT managers.

Take 2 leaflets are distributed through Glasgow Local Authority primary schools. Please let us know if you don’t receive your copy!

If you have any queries (not bookings) about Access Take 2 contact Paul at GFT Learning on info@gft.org.uk or call 0141 352 8613.

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We offer regular courses and events at GFT for people who want to discover more about film. If you’d like to be kept up to date, register online at www.glasgowfilm.org to receive the GFT enewsletter. For more information about Glasgow Film Learning visit www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/information/gft_learning.

Youth and Schools

GFT has a dedicated Learning Projects Coordinator for Children and Young People. Paul Macgregor is available at info@gft.org.uk or 0141 352 8613. Visit www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/schools for information on forthcoming events, news and special offers.

Glasgow Film Learning’s programme for children and young people is supported by The Robertson Trust and Glasgow City Council.

Coming soon...

Refugee Week for Schools

Refugee Week 2011 (20–26 June) celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Refugee Convention. A schools film programme will take place at GFT in May. Please sign up for the schools enewsletter at www.glasgowfilm.org/enewsletter to receive details as soon as they are announced.

School Hires and Group Discounts GFT is the perfect venue for all kinds of school trips – we can supply a choice of suitable films to screen along with projection box tours and catering facilities. To discuss the possibility of hiring the GFT please contact Angela Freeman, Senior Front of House Manager, on 0141 352 8601 or email manager@gft.org.uk.

Schools can also book group places for public screenings at GFT. We offer schools a discounted rate of £4 per pupil on all screenings, accompanying teachers go free. To make a group booking please call GFT Box Office on 0141 332 6535.

From left to right: Martin Gray (collaborating artist for Mother India/The Wee Curry Shop), Jaki McDougall (GFT Director), Monir Mohammed (Mother India/ The Wee Curry Shop), Liana Marletta (GFT Festival Development Exec).

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Monir Mohammed of Mother India provided cash sponsorship of the ‘Beyond Bollywood’ strand at Glasgow Film Festival in February. This secured a £5,000 New Arts Sponsorship Grant supported by the Scottish Government in conjunction with Arts & Business Scotland. This grant enables The Wee Curry Shop to sponsor GFT’s Autism-friendly film screenings. Mr Mohammed’s sponsorship was singled out for praise by the Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Culture, Fiona Hyslop MSP at the recent New Arts Sponsorship Grants Reception in Edinburgh.

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Learning

Learning at GFT

Silver Screen

Every Tuesday at 12.45 GFT programmes films for our more discerning viewers!

All tickets are £4

Inside Job 12A

Before the Revolution 12A

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger 12A

Pina CTBC

Tuesday 5 April (12.45) - see page 6 Tuesday 12 April (12.45) - see page 7

Tuesday 19 April (12.45) - see page 9 Tuesday 26 April (12.45) - see page 10

8½ Foundation

8½ is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to introducing world cinema to children. It celebrates the power of cinema to expand children’s horizons and welcomes children into the wider world of movies by encouraging them to celebrate their Movie Birthday!

We are offering children who attend GFT’s Take 2 and Access Take 2 screenings the opportunity to get involved with the 8½ Foundation. If you are a parent or carer of a child aged seven or eight and would like your child to experience their Movie Birthday with 8½, please get in touch. Contact Emily Munro (Head of GFT Learning) at education@gft.org.uk to register your interest.

Find out more at www.eightandahalf.org.

Supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland

Horror/Cult Cinema Discussion Group

Wednesday 6 April (18.30) Free Meet on the first Wednesday of each month to discuss horror and cult cinema. Meet other genre fans in a friendly atmosphere to exchange thoughts and opinions about your favourite flicks. Discuss anything from giallo to exploitation to modern independent films!

Film Discussion Group

Wednesday 13 April (18.30) Free This group meets on the second Wednesday of each month in the Balcony Bar at GFT to discuss both blockbusters and arthouse movies.

Led by film writer Eddie Harrison. Come along to chat about recent releases with other film lovers.

The GFT Film Quiz

Tuesday 26 April (20.45) in Café Cosmo Test your knowledge of film trivia against our ‘experts’ during a great evening of movie facts and fun. Paul Gallagher is a freelance film critic in print, radio and online and is far too interested in useless film trivia.

Paul Greenwood is the film critic for the Evening Times and he’s even worse. Keir Hind is the other guy. Maximum of four in a team.

All tickets are £1.50

Seat Dedications D62 I193 J219

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John Brown Inksters Solicitors In Loving Memory of Andrew, Nan and Anne Crawford Willie & Isabel Morrison “Tokyo Olympiad” 1965 In Memory Of Miriam Gerber, film enthusiast at GFT Vera Livinstone A Film Lover In loving memory of Patsy Leishman.

She loved Glasgow.

Jacqueline Hilley, our ever shining star Robert G Tedford Ronni Richards In memory of Nancy Dangerfield, film enthusiast.

Helen and Laura Antebi

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Jean Morton, nee Singleton.

From her family to Kathryn Mary Singleton Kerr John Gerrard and Margaret Mackay, GFT fans Stuart Wilson In loving memory of Mary Spence In loving memory of Stewart Maclean, filmgoer at the Cosmo Kenny Macleod For my father, Matthew Harvie National Pop League Marguerite and Desmond Morrow Drew Scott Elsie Freer Robert Innes James McCluskey - chic

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N363 N364 O363

O386 O393 O394 WS-C1

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WS-C1 Ushers’ Seat

Derek Fletcher Yours Always, C John McDonald Miller John McDonald Miller Park Film Society Park Film Society In memory of Alice Atkinson, founding member of the Glasgow Group of the Humanist Society of Scotland.

For Willy Slavin a.k.a Barry Norman From the McCormick Family and Mary In loving memory of Dan Buglass “We’ll always have Paris” June xxx Ray McKenzie Ben C G McGuigan

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Useful Information

Café Cosmo

Box Office Opening Hours

Café Cosmo is open: Sunday to Friday from 12noon Saturday from 11am

Sunday to Friday from 12 noon Saturday from 11am Box Office closes 15 mins after start of final film.

Café Cosmo closes 15 mins after start of final film.

Ticket Prices

Unless otherwise stated: Full: £7 Concessions: £5.50 CineCard holders £1 off every ticket all tickets £4.00 free but ticketed events Concessions apply to Children (under 16), full-time students, over-60s, Jobseekers Allowance or Income Support recipients, and registered disabled people. Please produce proof of eligibility when purchasing or collecting tickets.

Tickets are non-refundable. Please note that late entry to the cinema for ticket holders is at the discretion of the manager.

Cinema management reserve the right of admission and their decision is final. Please note programme may be subject to change.

CineCard

For a single annual payment of £30, receive 4 free tickets and £1 off every screening. Join at Box Office or visit www.glasgowfilm.org.

Saver Tickets

See 5 films for £32.50 / £25 Tickets valid for 3 months

Advance Booking

Online: www.glasgow.film.org Phone: during Box Office hours call (0141) 332 6535 (at busy times you will be asked to leave a contact number). A £1.50 booking charge is made for each transaction online or by phone.

Gift Vouchers

Available from Box Office.

Mailing List

Join our mailing list for £6.50 per year and receive this guide delivered to your home.

GFT’s licensed bar serves excellent home made soup, sandwiches and snacks until 5pm.

Drinks may be taken into the cinema – just ask for a plastic glass.

Website

www.glasgowfilm.org Features further information on the programme and ticket booking along with ‘Extras’ including programme notes, trailers, and footage of GFT events.

Certification

Films awaiting BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) certification are marked ‘CTBC’ (check the website or call the box office for upto-date information). Films not being certified by the BBFC are marked N/C and accompanied by an age recommendation i.e. N/C 15 + (suitable for ages 15 and older, no-one under 15 will be admitted).

Events, Conferences & Private Hires

A unique venue for a large variety of events.

Contact Angela on (0141) 352 8601 or send an email to: manager@gft.org.uk

Free E-List

Receive regular bulletins of films and activities at GFT, visit www.glasgowfilm.org to subscribe.

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Access Information

GFT accepts the CEA Card (www.ceacard.co.uk). With the exception of the Balcony Bar and Education Room all public areas of the GFT are fully accessible to people using wheelchairs. Toilet facilities for wheelchair users are available on the ground floor. We have a lift to Cinema 1 for customer use. We can offer an infrared sound facility for the hearingimpaired (please ask at Box Office for a head set). There is disabled badge holders’ parking to the rear of the building in Cambridge Street. If you are a wheelchair user, please inform Box Office when booking. Guide dogs are welcome at GFT. Please contact our Manager (0141) 352 8603 or email tickets@gft.org.uk with your specific access enquiries.

GFT Accessible Programme

GFT offers both Audio Description and captioning on selected titles and selected screenings in Cinema 1 only. Audio Description is a service for partially sighted or blind people (AD headphones are available to collect from Box Office when you pick up your tickets prior to the film screening).

Captioning is a service for the hearing-impaired or deaf who rely on subtitling to enable them to follow the film’s dialogue.

This Issue’s Accessible Screenings Take 2: Despicable Me (U) Saturday 2 April (11.30)

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (12A) Sunday 10 – Wednesday 13 April, all screenings Monday 11 April (18.15)

Take 2: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole (PG) Saturday 16 April (11.30)

Due to circumstances beyond our control, occasionally we are unable to provide these accessible screenings. You are advised to check with Box Office.

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Getting Here

It’s easy to find us. We’re right in the city centre just off Sauchiehall Street.

By Subway: Nearest subway is Cowcaddens. Leave the station and turn right, then right again turning left onto Rose Street. The GFT is a short walk from here. www.spt.co.uk/subway

By Bus: Local bus services stop close to the cinema. www.spt.co.uk

By Train: Glasgow city centre is served by both Central and Queen Street Stations. www.nationalrail.co.uk Car Parking: Closest public parking is the supervised 24 hour multi-storey car park in Cambridge Street. Parking after 6pm costs £1. There is limited on street metered parking.

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