April 2012
ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL Jiří Trnka
Highlights from the career of the founder of Czech animation
This Must be the Place
A film of staggering beauty and immense heart
Glasgow International
Artists’ film screenings to tie in with the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art
GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
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Contents Diary
2–4
GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL All Divided Selves
13
Albert Nobbs
9
Sculpture on Film: Object, Body, Action
13
Babycall
5
Sculpture on Film: Body & Environment
13
Wise Blood
14
18 Years Later
17
20 Cigarettes
16
Gorbachev
15
Il boom
18
The Immature
18
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
17
The Jewel
18
Our Life
16
Red Desert
16
Summer Games
17
Terraferma
17
Wang’s Arrival
18
We Believed
15
The Czech Year
20
The Good Soldier Švejk
20
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
21
Prince Bayaya
20
Trnka Shorts for Adults
21
Trnka Shorts for Children
21
Access Take 2: Autism-Friendly Screenings
25
Cinema City
13
Film Discussion Group
26
Geek Film Night
10
The GFT Film Quiz
26
GFT Learning
23
Glasgore: Horror/Cult Film Discussion Group
26
Late Night Classics
10
Lock Up Your Daughters
22
Monorail Film Club
14
Psychotronic Cinema
10
Silver Screen
26
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
22
11
Bill Cunningham – New York
6
Blackthorn
8
Bonsái
7
Casablanca
12
Corpo celeste
6
Elles
8
A Gang Story
8
La Grande Illusion
12
Le Havre
7
Into the Abyss – A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life
5
The Island President
22
Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters
11
Khodorkovsky
7
The Kid with a Bike
5
Martin The Monk Monty Python’s Life of Brian
10 9 10
Oliver Sherman
8
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
9
Profondo rosso
10
Re-Animator
10
The Story of Film
22
A Streetcar Named Desire
12
This is Not a Film
6
This Must be the Place
6
Wild Bill
ALTERNATIVE CONTENT
11
The Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream
27
NT Live: Frankenstein
27
NT Live: She Stoops to Conquer
27
THE FILMS OF PEDRO ALMODÓVAR All About My Mother
24
Labyrinth of Passion
24
The Skin I Live in
24
ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL
JIŘÍ TRNKA
GFT REGULARS
Take 2: Free Saturday Films for Families
USEFUL INFORMATION
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Diary Friday 30 March Babycall (15) p5
16.15
/ 20.30
The Kid with a Bike (12A) p5
14.00
/ 18.15
Into the Abyss (12A) p5
16.00
/ 20.15
Bill Cunningham – New York (12A) p6 14.15
/ 18.30
Saturday 31 March Babycall (15) p5
14.00 / 18.15 / 20.30
The Kid with a Bike (12A) p5
16.30 / 20.45
Into the Abyss (12A) p5
14.15 / 18.30
Bill Cunningham – New York (12A) p6
16.15
Take 2: Mr Popper’s Penguins (PG) p25 11.30
Sunday 1 April Babycall (15) p5
12.45 / 17.00
The Kid with a Bike (12A) p5
13.45
Into the Abyss (12A) p5
19.15
Bill Cunningham – New York (12A) p6
15.00
NT Live: She Stoops to Conquer p27
16.00
GEEK FILM NIGHT: Martin (18) p10
19.30
Monday 2 April Babycall (15) p5
The Kid with a Bike (12A) p5
16.40 16.15 / 20.45
Into the Abyss (12A) p5
14.00
Corpo celeste (U) p6
18.45
This is Not a Film (U) p6
14.45 / 21.00
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (12A) p11
18.15
Tuesday 3 April Babycall (15) p5
20.30
The Kid with a Bike (12A) p5 Into the Abyss (12A) p5
18.15 15.20 / 20.15
Corpo celeste (U) p6
13.15
This is Not a Film (U) p6 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (12A) p11
15.30 12.45
Labyrinth of Passion (18) p24
17.45
Wednesday 4 April Babycall (15) p5
The Kid with a Bike (12A) p5
16.40 14.00 / 18.15
Into the Abyss (12A) p5 Corpo celeste (U) p6
16.00 14.30 / 20.30
This is Not a Film (U) p6
18.45
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (12A) p11
20.15
Glasgore: Horror/Cult Discussion Group p26
18.30
Continued...
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Thursday 5 April Babycall (15) p5
14.00 / 18.15 / 20.30
The Kid with a Bike (12A) p5
16.30 / 20.45
Into the Abyss (12A) p5
14.15 / 18.30
Corpo celeste (U) p6
16.00
Friday 6 April
This Must be the... (15) p6
13.20
/ 15.40
/ 20.20
Le Havre (PG) p7
14.45
/ 16.45
/ 20.50
Thursday 12 April
This Must be the Place (15) p6
15.40 / 20.20
Le Havre (PG) p7
13.00 / 18.30
Wild Bill (15) p11
13.30 / 18.15
Khodorkovsky (12A) p7
15.00 / 20.30
Friday 13 April
This Must be the Place (15) p6
13.20 / 15.40 / 18.00
Le Havre (PG) p7
14.45 / 16.45 / 20.45
Casablanca (U) p12
18.00
La Grande Illusion (U) p12
20.20
Bonsái (15) p7
18.45
IFF: Gorbachev (N/C 15+) p15
18.45
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (15) p10
Saturday 7 April
This Must be the Place (15) p6
23.00
13.20 / 18.00 / 20.20
Le Havre (PG) p7
14.30 / 18.35
Casablanca (U) p12
15.40
Bonsái (15) p7
16.30 / 20.45
Take 2: Hop (U) p25
11.30
Access Take 2: Hop (U) p25
Sunday 8 April
Saturday 14 April
This Must be the Place (15) p6
15.40 / 20.20
Le Havre (PG) p7
13.00 / 20.50
La Grande Illusion (U) p12
13.20 / 18.00
IFF: We Believed (N/C 15+) p15
15.00
IFF: 20 Cigarettes (N/C 15+) p16
18.45
Take 2: Five Children and It (U) p25
12.30
11.30
Sunday 15 April
This Must be the Place (15) p6
This Must be the Place (15) p6 Le Havre (PG) p7
17.00 15.45 / 19.45
Casablanca (U) p12
19.20
Bonsái (15) p7
13.45 / 17.45
A Streetcar Named Desire (12A) p12
Monday 9 April
14.00
14.50
Le Havre (PG) p7
16.00 / 18.00
La Grande Illusion (U) p12
19.45
The Czech Year (N/C 8+) p20
13.45
IFF: Red Desert (15) p16
17.10
IFF: Our Life (N/C 15+) p16
20.00
Monday 16 April
This Must be the Place (15) p6
15.40 / 20.20
This Must be the Place (15) p6
13.20 / 15.40 / 18.25
Le Havre (PG) p7
14.45 / 18.45
Le Havre (PG) p7
14.00 / 16.00 / 20.45
Casablanca (U) p12
13.20 / 18.00
Bonsái (15) p7
16.45 / 20.45
IFF: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (18) p17
18.00
IFF: Summer Games (N/C 12+) p17
20.30
Tuesday 10 April
This Must be the Place (15) p6
15.15 / 20.20
Le Havre (PG) p7
13.30 / 18.00
Casablanca (U) p12
12.45
The Island President (N/C 12+) p22
20.00
Wild Bill (15) p11
18.15
Khodorkovsky (12A) p7
15.30
Wednesday 11 April This Must be the Place (15) p6
13.40 / 18.10
Le Havre (PG) p7
16.20 / 20.45
Wild Bill (15) p11
16.00 / 20.30
Khodorkovsky (12A) p7
14.00 / 18.20
Film Discussion Group p26 Special features
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£4.00 tickets
Tuesday 17 April
This Must be the Place (15) p6
15.40 / 20.20
Le Havre (PG) p7
14.00 / 16.00
All About My Mother (15) p24
12.45
/ 18.00
IFF: 18 Years Later (N/C 15+) p17
18.30
IFF: Terraferma (N/C 12+) p17
20.45
Wednesday 18 April This Must be the Place (15) p6
13.20 / 15.40 / 18.25
Le Havre (PG) p7
14.00 / 16.00 / 20.45
IFF: Il boom (PG) p18
18.00
IFF: The Jewel (N/C 15+) p18
20.15
18.30 Free events
Special ticket price
Captioned films
3D films
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Thursday 19 April
This Must be the Place (15) p6
13.20 / 16.00 / 20.20
Le Havre (PG) p7
14.30 / 16.30 / 18.20
Thursday 26 April
Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters (15) p11 16.00 / 18.10 / 20.20 Elles (18) p8
15.45 / 20.30
IFF: The Immature (N/C 15+) p18
18.30
Re-Animator (18) p10
18.30
IFF: Wang’s Arrival (N/C 18+) p18
20.50
Blackthorn (15) p8
13.45
Friday 20 April
Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters (15) p11 13.50 / 16.00
Friday 27 April / 18.10 / 20.20
Elles (18) p8
16.15
/ 20.30
Oliver Sherman (CTBC) p8
14.15
/ 18.30
Profondo rosso (18) p10
23.00
Saturday 21 April Jo Nesbo’s... (15) p11
13.50 / 16.00 / 18.10 / 20.20
Elles (18) p8
14.15 / 18.30
Oliver Sherman (CTBC) p8
16.30 / 20.45
Take 2: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (U) p25 11.30
Sunday 22 April
Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters (15) p11
17.10 / 19.20
Elles (18) p8
12.30
Oliver Sherman (CTBC) p8
14.45
Prince Bayaya (N/C 8+) p20
12.45
All Divided Selves (N/C 15+) p13
15.00
Sculpture on Film: Object, Body, Action (N/C 15+) p13 17.00 LUYD: The Adventures of Priscilla... (15) p22 19.30
Monday 23 April Jo Nesbo’s... (15) p11
13.50 / 16.00 / 18.10 / 20.20
Elles (18) p8
13.30 / 18.00
Oliver Sherman (CTBC) p8
16.00
Monorail Film Club: Wise Blood (15) p14
20.15
Tuesday 24 April
Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters (15) p11 13.50 / 16.00 / 18.10 Elles (18) p8
15.30 / 20.30
Blackthorn (15) p8
12.45
The Story of Film (N/C 15+) p22
20.00
Sculpture on Film: Body & ... (N/C 15+) p13
18.00
The GFT Film Quiz p26
20.45
Wednesday 25 April Jo Nesbo’s... (15) p11 Elles (18) p8
13.50 / 16.00 / 18.10 14.00 / 16.15 / 18.30
Re-Animator (18) p10
20.45
Blackthorn (15) p8
20.30
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The Monk (15) p9
16.10
/ 20.30
Albert Nobbs (15) p9
15.40
/ 20.20
A Gang Story (15) p8
13.20
/ 18.00
Blackthorn (15) p8
14.00
/ 18.20
Saturday 28 April The Monk (15) p9
14.10 / 18.30
Albert Nobbs (15) p9
13.30
/ 18.10
A Gang Story (15) p8
15.50 / 20.30
Blackthorn (15) p8
16.20 / 20.40
Take 2: The Borrowers (U) p25
11.30
Sunday 29 April The Monk (15) p9
19.40
Albert Nobbs (15) p9
14.40 / 19.20
A Gang Story (15) p8
17.00
The Good Soldier Švejk (N/C 8+) p20
14.00
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (15) p9
16.30
The Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream p27 16.00
Monday 30 April The Monk (15) p9
15.15 / 17.30
Albert Nobbs (15) p9
13.30 / 18.10
A Gang Story (15) p8
15.50 / 20.30
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (15) p9
Tuesday 1 May
19.40
The Monk (15) p9
13.00 / 20.45
Albert Nobbs (15) p9
15.40 / 20.20
A Gang Story (15) p8
18.00
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (15) p9 The Skin I Live in (15) p24
15.10
12.45
Wednesday 2 May
/ 18.15
The Monk (15) p9
15.15 / 17.30
Albert Nobbs (15) p9
13.30 / 18.10
A Gang Story (15) p8
15.50 / 20.30
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (15) p9
Thursday 3 May
19.40
The Monk (15) p9
15.20 / 20.40
Albert Nobbs (15) p9
15.40 / 20.20
A Gang Story (15) p8
13.20 / 18.00
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (15) p9
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17.30
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The Kid with a Bike Le gamin au vélo
Friday 23 March – Thursday 5 April Cyril is an eleven-year-old boy left in a children’s home after his father decides he cannot look after him. Angry and defiant, Cyril sets out to find his father and also his beloved missing bike. His path crosses with Samantha, a woman who, in an act of generosity, buys back Cyril’s bike for him after he discovers it has been sold on by his father. The Kid with a Bike follows the relationship between Cyril and Samantha and her endeavours to prevent the volatile boy from going astray. The Dardenne Brothers prove yet again that they are masterful storytellers with this touching, but never sentimental, tale destined to captivate viewers with its impressive performances and quiet honesty. Programme notes are available in the cinema and online at www.glasgowfilm.org Directors Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne Cast Thomas Doret, Cécile de France, Jérémie Renier Belgium/France/Italy 2011, 1h27m, subtitles, 12A: Contains one use of strong language and moderate violence
Into the Abyss – A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life Friday 30 March – Thursday 5 April The latest documentary from Werner Herzog is one of his finest as he explores the human cost of crime and its consequences. Herzog brings a forensic thoroughness to the stories of a wide range of individuals touched by a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas in 2000 that led to the convictions of teenagers Michael Perry and Jason Burkett. Herzog’s interest is much less in the grisly details of what happened and more in the legacy it left for the families of the victims, the convicted killers themselves and their loved ones. He presents his evidence and challenges the viewers to form their own opinion. That is the power and the profundity of this poignant, lyrical film. The screening on Thursday 5 April (18.30) is a GFT Screen Salon event, see p23 for full details. Programme notes are available in the cinema and online at www.glasgowfilm.org Director Werner Herzog Cast Richard Lopez, Michael Perry, Damon Hall USA 2011, 1h46m, 12A: Contains execution theme, crime scene detail and moderate drug references
Babycall Friday 30 March – Thursday 5 April Fast emerging as one of Europe’s most versatile stars, Dragon Tattoo’s Noomi Rapace won the Best Actress prize at the Rome International Film Festival for her intense performance in this gripping psychological thriller. Rapace stars as Anna, a single mother who moves to a secret address in Oslo with her eight-year-old son Anders to escape the boy’s violent father. She buys a baby call to check on her sleeping son but finds that it picks up strange noises hinting at the murder of a child. Meanwhile Anders has a strange new friend and his drawing is stained with blood. Is Anna losing her mind or is there real danger lurking in the building? Director Pål Sletaune / Cast Noomi Rapace, Kristoffer Joner, Henrik Rafaelsen Norway 2011, 1h36m, subtitles, 15
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Bill Cunningham – New York Friday 30 March – Sunday 1 April Bill Cunningham is one of the great unsung heroes of the fashion world. Every week this reclusive photographer contributes two spreads to the Sunday Styles section of The New York Times. ‘On the Street’ captures cutting-edge trends as they develop among the everyday New Yorkers he snaps. ‘Evening Hours’ showcases the latest haute couture statements from the rich and famous around town. This documentary celebrates a life dedicated to fashion photography and includes rousing endorsements of its subject from Anna Wintour and Annie Flanders amongst others. Director Richard Press / USA 2010, 1h24m 12A: Contains one use of strong language
This is Not a Film Monday 2 – Wednesday 4 April In December 2010, renowned Iranian writer/director Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison and a twenty-year ban on filmmaking or giving any form of interview after a conviction for crimes against the Islamic Republic. His crime was supporting the protests over the 2009 re-election of President Ahmadinejad and making beautiful films like The White Balloon and Offside which showed Iran to the world. This is Not a Film has been hailed as an ‘urgent and personal defence of the artist’ and covers a day in the life of a filmmaker; a filmmaker barred from making films but who can still dream, plan and let his imagination run free. Directors/Cast Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi Iran 2011, 1h15m, subtitles, U
Corpo celeste
This Must be the Place
Monday 2 – Thursday 5 April
Friday 6 – Thursday 19 April
Marta has just moved from Switzerland to Calabria, Italy, with her mother and sister. A rebellious teen, she soon falls foul of the straight-laced local church minions who are trying to focus her and a group of girls on the elaborate preparations for their Catholic confirmation... Discovered in the Directors’ Fortnight section at Cannes last year, this winning drama of one girl’s bumpy spiritual journey and coming of age is beautifully observed and laced with irreverent humour.
Paolo Sorrentino has enthralled audiences with films like The Consequences of Love and Il Divo. His first English-language venture is an extraordinary fusion of road movie, revenge drama and touching family history with echoes of Paris, Texas. A fearless Sean Penn stars as reclusive, oddball rock star Cheyenne. When his father falls ill, Cheyenne heads from Dublin to New York and unwittingly embarks upon an epic quest. This is a film of staggering beauty and immense heart.
Director Alice Rohrwacher / Cast Yle Vianello Italy/Switzerland/France 2011, 1h40m, subtitles, U
Director Paolo Sorrentino / Cast Sean Penn, Frances McDormand USA 2011, 1h58m, 15
The screening on 11 April (18.10) will be introduced by Dr David Archibald.
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Le Havre
Bonsái
Friday 6 – Thursday 19 April
Friday 6 – Monday 9 April
Kaurismäki regular André Wilms plays Marcel Marx, a warm-hearted fellow scraping a living as a shoeshine man in an age when everyone favours trainers. Marcel lives contentedly in the French port of Le Havre with his wife Arletty, but when she is hospitalised he befriends a young African immigrant called Idrissa who is on the run from the authorities as personified by man in black, Inspector Monet. The intricately woven tale of hide and seek that ensues is full of priceless poker-faced comedy and heart-rending tenderness. Kaurismäki can break your heart into little pieces and then fix it so that it feels better than ever. Destined for acclaim as one of the best films of the year, Le Havre is Kaurismäki on top form. Programme notes are available in the cinema and online at www.glasgowfilm.org
Chilean director Cristián Jiménez caught the world’s attention with his quirky debut feature Optical Illusions (2009). Bonsái is even better as it juggles love and longing in a hip, funny, slacker romance inspired by Marcel Proust. Julio is obsessed by literature. He is also desperate to impress fellow student Emilia. We are told that they are not destined to be together which does nothing to spoil the pleasure of a film that tiptoes back and forward in time. Eight years later, Julio is intent on becoming a writer and takes his inspiration from his student days’ passion for Emilia. The remembrance of romance past is handled with humour and charm in this adaptation of the Alejandro Zambra novella.
Director Aki Kaurismäki Cast André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin Finland/France/Germany 2011, 1h33m, subtitles, PG
Director Cristián Jiménez Cast Diego Noguera, Nathalia Galgani, Gabriela Aranciba Chile 2011, 1h35m, subtitles, 15
Khodorkovsky Tuesday 10 – Thursday 12 April Khodorkovsky captures the ugly face of Putin’s Russia. Mikhail Khodorkovsky was one of the richest men in the world who founded Russia’s first private bank after the fall of Communism. He has spent the past nine years in a Siberian gulag, convicted of embezzlement and tax evasion. Many people suspect the charges were fabricated as part of a plan to silence his opposition to Vladimir Putin and his ruling party. Khodorkovsky knew the risk he was taking when he spoke out, so what made him do it? That’s what director Cyril Tuschi tries to understand in an eye-opening documentary that includes an exclusive interview with Khodorkovsky recorded behind bars. Director Cyril Tuschi / Germany 2011, 1h54m, subtitles 12A: Contains one use of strong language and moderate images of real violence
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Elles
Oliver Sherman
Friday 20 – Thursday 26 April
Friday 20 – Monday 23 April
Juliette Binoche gives a luminous performance in this compelling exploration of female sexuality from rising talent Malgorzata Szumowska. Binoche plays Anne, a wife, mother and journalist researching an article on student prostitution for ELLE magazine. Her research leads her to Polish student Alicja and Charlotte, a French girl from the housing projects in the Paris suburbs; both have very different reasons for working in the sex trade. As Anne gains their confidence she also acquires an insight into their lives and the sordid work demanded of them and is forced to confront the bourgeois comforts of her own existence.
Lonely veteran Sherman Oliver (Garret Dillahunt) travels to a rural town to reconnect with Franklin Page (Donal Logue), a soldier who saved his life during the war. But an insurmountable gulf has developed between the two men and the disparity in their post-war lives quickly causes tension and reawakens uncomfortable feelings that Page wishes could stay buried. The dramatic tension is steadily built with powerful precision and little relief in this superb independent film.
Director Malgorzata Szumowska / Cast Juliette Binoche France/Poland/Germany 2011, 1h36m, subtitles, 18
Director Ryan Redford Cast Garret Dillahunt, Donal Logue Canada 2010, 1h22m, CTBC
Blackthorn
A Gang Story
Tuesday 24 – Saturday 28 April
Friday 27 April – Thursday 3 May
Imagine that Butch Cassidy did not die in a hail of bullets in 1908. Mateo Gil’s stunningly handsome western is set twenty years later with Cassidy living in South America under the name of James Blackthorn. Yearning to reconnect with America and the man who could be his son, Blackthorn hits the trail and soon encounters slippery stranger Eduardo who seems determined to fill the role vacated by the Sundance Kid and nudge him back into a life of crime. Can history repeat itself amid the social and moral changes of the Roaring Twenties? An old-school western with a modern twist, breathtaking scenery and a performance to savour from Sam Shepard.
As an ex-cop, you’d expect director Oliver Marchal to turn in a good, old-fashioned French gangster film, and you won’t be disappointed. Edmond ‘Momon’ Vidal and the Gang des Lyonnais are famed in France for having committed some of the most daring armed robberies in recent history. Adapted from Vidal’s autobiography, this film jumps between the past, where the young ‘Momon’ makes his climb from impoverished gypsy to gun-slinging thief, and the present day, where, nearing sixty, Vidal is retired. Yet, just when he thinks he’s out… Vidal is asked to help break his old friend and partner out of prison.
Director Mateo Gil / Cast Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega USA 2011, 1h38m, 15
Director Oliver Marchal / Cast Dimitri Storoge, Gérard Lanvin France 2011, 1h42m, subtitles, 15
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The Monk
Albert Nobbs
From Friday 27 April
From Friday 27 April
The road to hell is paved with pious good intentions in this painterly, nerve-shredding version of the notorious 18th century supernatural classic from Lemming director Dominik Moll. Vincent Cassel excels as Ambrosio, an abandoned infant raised by priests who has matured into a powerful and respected soldier of the Lord thanks to his unshakeable faith. ‘Satan only has the power we grant him,’ he argues. Why then is he plagued by blinding headaches and a recurring dream in which a woman in red is seen praying in the sunlight? The answer lies at the heart of a thunderous, torrid gothic tale in which Ambrosio’s convictions are tested to the limit.
In 19th century Dublin, Albert is the headwaiter and butler at a posh hotel. He’s an impeccable servant, but an odd, lonely man who keeps himself to himself. For good reason: he is actually a she, masquerading as a man to improve her prospects for work. Albert’s secret is safe until, one night, the hotel manager insists Nobbs share his bed with a visiting workman. Glenn Close (who also produced, and co-wrote with John Banville) was Oscar-nominated in this role, and it is a terrific performance. But this is hardly a one-man (or one-woman) show: the stellar supporting cast includes Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre), Aaron Johnson (KickAss), and Irish actors Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors). **** A gripping ensemble piece. The Guardian
Programme notes are available in the cinema and online at www.glasgowfilm.org
The screening on Saturday 28 April (13.30) is a GFT Screen Salon event, see p23 for full details.
Director Dominik Moll Cast Vincent Cassel, Sergi López, Geraldine Chaplin France 2011, 1h41m, subtitles, 15
Director Rodrigo García Cast Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson UK/Ireland 2011, 1h53m, 15
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Sunday 29 April - Thursday 3 May The latest triumph from revered Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Distant, Climates) is a haunting, hypnotic tale of a group of men involved in a police investigation in the backwater district of Anatolia. One night they embark on a journey, with a prisoner in tow, to retrieve the body of a murdered man. Yet this is far from your ordinary police drama – Ceylan takes little interest in action, preferring instead to build up a remarkable sense of atmosphere and to examine the shifting internal struggles of his characters. Add to the mix the director’s trademark striking cinematography and it’s easy to see why Once Upon a Time in Anatolia captivated critics at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize. Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Cast Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan,Taner Birsel Turkey/Bosnia/Herzegovina 2011, 2h37m, subtitles, 15
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LATE NIGHT CLASSICS Come along to our informal late night screenings and enjoy a drink from the bar while you watch. 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.
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Profondo rosso
Friday 6 April (23.00)
Missing FrightFest? Here’s a stylish and imaginative giallo masterpiece to soothe your blood-thirsty urges. When music teacher Marcus Daly (David Hemmings) witnesses the gruesome murder of a famous psychic, he attempts to uncover the identity of the killer… and soon becomes the next target. This genuinely thrilling horror offers nightmarish images in spades and boasts a fantastic proggothic soundtrack by Italian rock band Goblin.
What better way to celebrate Good Friday than by watching Eric Idle merrily sing ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’ while nailed to a crucifix? This satirical take on organised religion, released to righteous fury thirty-three years ago, is now regularly voted the greatest comedy of all time. A hilarious tale of mistaken identity, it remains eminently quotable. All together now: ‘He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!’ Director Terry Jones / Cast Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle UK 1979, 1h34m, 15
Friday 20 April (23.00)
Director Dario Argento / Cast David Hemmings Italy 1975, 2h6m, subtitles, 18
GEEK FILM NIGHT: Mark Millar talks to Ian Rankin
Psychotronic Cinema presents
Sunday 1 April (19.30)
Wed 25 (20.45) & Thurs 26 April (18.30)
In 1978 George A Romero, Godfather of the zombie movie, turned his hand to the vampire myth. Ambiguous and socially aware, with outbursts of gore, Romero’s personal favourite of his own films is a gritty character study of a lonely young man who likes to sedate women and drink their blood. This psychological and surreal classic set in stagnant small town Pennsylvania won’t disappoint with its haunting final act.
Stuart Gordon’s astonishing, hilarious mid80s debut seemingly came out of nowhere; an instant classic that catapulted unwitting viewers into a bizarre universe of perverted mad scientists, talking decapitated heads, attacking entrails and oral sex by the living dead. Almost thirty years on, Re-Animator is firmly established as a horror masterpiece – a mind-bending gore-fest for sure, but also a perfectly pitched, perfectly crafted tribute to the classic Universal horror films of the 1930s.
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This screening will be preceded by a Q&A with writer Ian Rankin who has chosen this month’s film. Chaired by Mark Millar. Director George A Romero / Cast John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel USA 1976, 1h35m, 18
Re-Animator
Director Stuart Gordon / Cast Jeffrey Combs USA 1985, 1h26m, 18
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did you miss? The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Wild Bill
Monday 2 – Wednesday 4 April
Actor Dexter Fletcher’s directorial debut is a complete charmer with a very likeable central performance from Charlie Creed-Miles as ‘Wild’ Bill Hayward. Released from prison after an eight-year sentence, Bill returns to a South London estate planning to stay out of trouble, serve out his parole and then head to Scotland. But he cannot easily escape his history with the dodgy geezers and dangerous drug dealers on the estate or his obligations to fifteen-year-old Dean (Will Poulter) and his younger brother Jimmy (Sammy Williams). If he doesn’t stick around the boys will be put in care, leaving Bill with the weight of the world on his shoulders in this surprisingly upbeat and endearing tale.
Forget the misery of broken Britain and head to the glorious warmth of India. That’s the plan adopted by a diverse collection of British pensioners in this delightful adaptation of the Deborah Moggach bestseller These Foolish Things. Shakespeare in Love director John Madden has assembled a once-in-a-generation cast of British actors for a truly heart-warming, captivating tale set amid the wonders of India. Fearing for the future, newly widowed Judi Dench, lonely Tom Wilkinson and grumpy Maggie Smith are among the pensioners attracted to the charms of a luxury Indian hotel run by Dev Patel. Nothing is as they had expected but fresh challenges bring exciting new opportunities. Director John Madden Cast Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson UK 2011, 2h3m, 12A: Contains strong language, moderate sex references and racist remarks
Tuesday 10 – Thursday 12 April
Director Dexter Fletcher Cast Charlie Creed-Miles, Will Poulter, Liz White UK 2011, 1h37m, 15
Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters Friday 20 – Thursday 26 April Jo Nesbo is the new king of Scandinavian crime writing and there is no surprise that Headhunters quickly became Norway’s biggest ever box-office hit. Director Morten Tydlum slams the accelerator to the floor and creates a breathless, twisting thriller that never slackens its grip. Roger Brown is a successful, high-powered headhunter living way beyond his means, lavishing gifts on his stunning blonde trophy wife. He supplements his income by stealing rare artworks from his clients. Handsome Clas Greve and his original Rubens seem like an irresistible target but Clas lives the life of a Bond villain and the two men are soon embroiled in a deadly feud. The screening on 25 April (18.10) will be introduced by Dr David Archibald. Director Morten Tydlum / Cast Askel Hennie / Norway 2011, 1h41m, subtitles, 15
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CLASSICS AT GFT A Streetcar Named Desire
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Casablanca Friday 6 – Tuesday 10 April Second World War Morocco – a viper’s nest of corrupt French police, spies, fleeing émigrés, gamblers and drinkers, it’s the perfect place for weary American expatriate nightclub owner Rick Blaine to hide out. Rick’s Cafe is the gathering place for the good, the bad and the ugly, but he doesn’t care, as long as they spend their money. One day, Rick’s long-lost love Ilsa walks in with her resistance leader husband, Victor, and Rick is pulled into both a love triangle and a web of political intrigue. Ilsa and Victor need to escape from Casablanca, and Rick may be the only one who can help them. Casablanca is the greatest love story ever told and although time may have gone by, its power has not diminished. Director Michael Curtiz Cast Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid USA 1942, 1h42m, U
Sunday 8 April (14.00) Elia Kazan’s classic adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play features Marlon Brando at the height of his powers as the brutally sexy Stanley Kowalski. His bravura performance is matched by that of Vivien Leigh as Blanche, the neurotic, faded southern belle who, having fallen on hard times, comes to live with her sister Stella, Kowalski’s wife, in a rough, working-class quarter of New Orleans. She and Stanley conceive a resentful fascination for each other – part fear, part desire – and their scenes together sizzle with sexual tension. The film won four Oscars – but Brando missed out to Humphrey Bogart for The African Queen. This screening will be introduced by Scottish Ballet and preceded by a ten-minute behind the scenes film looking at how their new production of A Streetcar Named Desire translates the dialogue of the play into movement. Director Elia Kazan Cast Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, Marlon Brando USA 1951, 2h7m, 12A: Contains moderate violence
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La Grande Illusion Friday 13 – Sunday 15 April Director Jean Renoir’s world-view was shaped by the First World War in which he was seriously wounded, and La Grande Illusion has been hailed as the ultimate anti-war film. Yet Renoir shows no ‘war-is-hell’ fighting. The action centres on a group of three French officers – working class Lieutenant Maréchal, nouveau riche Jew Rosenthal, and aristocrat Captain de Boieldieu – and their attempts to escape the POW camp where they are interned. The significance of the film lies not in this action, however, but in the relationships and class dynamics. Renoir examines the fierce bonds that unite the captive French soldiers, even beyond class lines, and highlights the kindness and dignity that develops between them and their captors, specifically between the well-born Boieldieu and the aristocratic German camp commander Von Rauffenstein. Director Jean Renoir / Cast Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim / France 1937, 1h54m, U
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GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL Sculpture on Film In the last few years GoMA has presented several exhibitions that explore the medium of sculpture, highlighting contemporary approaches to material, form and theme. These exhibitions culminate in 2012 with the major exhibition of work by Karla Black as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. ‘Sculpture on Film’ is a collaboration between GoMA and GFT to coincide with this Karla Black exhibition. The film programme has been selected by Ben Harman (Curator of Contemporary Art, GoMA) and Karla Black and will combine rarely seen artworks with archive documentary footage. The films will focus on artists from Europe and North America that have broadened the definition of sculpture over the last fifty years. For more information on Karla Black at GoMA visit www.glasgowinternational.org. Tickets for each Sculpture on Film screening are £4
Sculpture on Film: Object, Body, Action
Sculpture on Film: Body & Environment
Sunday 22 April (17.00)
Tuesday 24 April (18.00)
Following a short introduction by Karla Black, this screening will include rare footage of Eva Hesse and films by artists such as Carolee Schneemann, Bruce Nauman, Cheryl Donegan and Fischli & Weiss.
This screening will include films by artists such as Lawrence Weiner, Ana Mendieta, Gordon Matta-Clark and Robert Smithson.
1h10m approx, N/C 15+, image © Peter Fischli and David Weiss, courtesy of the artists
1h10m approx, N/C 15+, image © Ana Mendieta, courtesy of Galerie Lelong
All Divided Selves Sunday 22 April (15.00) A dense, engaging and lyrical collage – Luke Fowler’s new film All Divided Selves weaves archival material of Glasgow-born psychiatrist R D Laing with his own filmic observations, marrying a dynamic soundtrack of field recordings with recorded music by Éric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Alasdair Roberts. Drawing on an impressive selection of archive material, Fowler builds up a layered collage, juxtaposing a multitude of viewpoints to create an unconventional portrait of a fascinating figure and a thought-provoking exploration of the very nature of documentation. A Glasgowbased artist and filmmaker, Fowler’s work has been exhibited internationally with solo shows at the Serpentine Gallery, London and at Inverleith House, Edinburgh (until 29 April). In 2008 he won the inaugural Derek Jarman Award for experimentation in film. Tickets are free and available on the day only from GFT’s Box Office. Screening presented as part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, 2012 and Cinema City. Director Luke Fowler / UK 2011, 1h33m, N/C 15+
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Monorail Film Club presents
Wise Blood
Monday 23 April (20.15) Adapted from Flannery O’Connor’s Southern Gothic novel, John Huston’s Wise Blood brings the novel’s ‘isolated characters looking for spiritual values’ into the post-Vietnam comedown of 1970s America. Brad Dourif’s Hazel Motes is a newly discharged veteran who angrily denounces Christian orthodoxy through his Church Without Christ where ‘the deaf don’t hear, the blind don’t see, the lame don’t walk and the dead stay that way’. In his journey to a sort of redemption he encounters a bizarre and brilliant range of characters including Harry Dean Stanton’s faux blind preacher, Asa Hawks. An untypical but important part of John Huston’s filmography, it is rightly regarded as a cult classic. Preceded by short film Long Distance Information (8m), directed by Douglas Hart. Selected by Jim Lambie and introduced by Richard Hell. They are currently working in collaboration and will have other events taking place during the Glasgow International Festival. Douglas Hart will also be in attendance. Director John Huston / Cast Brad Dourif, John Huston, Dan Shor / USA 1979, 1h46m, 15
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ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL Benvenuti to the very best of contemporary and classic cinema italiano. The 19th Italian Film Festival returns to GFT in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Scotland, the Italian Ministry of Culture – Film Department, Valvona & Crolla, Vin Caffè, and curators Allan Hunter and Richard Mowe. All films are in Italian with English subtitles. Ticket deal: see 5 films for £25 or 10 films for £45, no further discounts apply
Gorbachev
We Believed
Friday 13 April (18.45)
Saturday 14 April (15.00)
Another superlative performance from Toni Servillo is the driving force behind Gorbachev, a stylish, atmospheric Neapolitan tale of love and loneliness. Servillo’s seedy-looking Marino Pacileo is a haughty cashier at a Naples prison whose prominent birthmark has earned him the nickname of Gorbachev. He is addicted to his poker games in a local Chinese restaurant and to Lily, the beautiful daughter of the restaurant owner. When her father runs into financial difficulties, Gorbachev is all too willing to ‘borrow’ a little money from the prison coffers but that is just the first step on the road to ruin.
Winner of seven David di Donatello Awards, including Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Picture, We Believed offers an account of the forces that shaped the reunification of Italy in the 19th century. Domenico, Salvatore and Angelo are three young men who share a dream of a unified Italy. They are inspired by the ideas and oratory of Giuseppe Mazzini, radicalised by their time in Paris, disappointed by the failure of the short-lived Roman Republic and eventually drawn to the populist movement led by Garibaldi. Sweeping national events are given a very human perspective in this epic mixture of history lesson and costume drama.
Director Stefano Incerti Cast Toni Servillo, Mi Yang, Geppy Gleijeses Italy 2010, 1h25m, N/C 15+
Director Mario Martone Cast Toni Servillo, Luigi Lo Cascio, Anna Bonaiuto Italy 2010, 3h15m, N/C 15+
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20 Cigarettes
Red Desert
Saturday 14 April (18.45)
Sunday 15 April (17.10)
Based on director Aureliano Amadei’s 2003 experiences in Iraq, 20 Cigarettes is the gripping story of a twenty-eight-year-old anarchist and antiwar activist who receives an offer to fly to Iraq as assistant director on a film about the Italian military ‘peace mission’. Thrust into the middle of a military world he doesn’t approve of, Aureliano is surprised to discover a brotherhood amongst the people he meets. Before he has the chance to finish a packet of cigarettes he finds himself a victim of sectarian violence and, as the sole civilian survivor and witness, becomes an unlikely hero. With its ironic humour, this film offers a different take on the war in Iraq than American films.
We mark the centenary of the birth of Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007) with a screening of his haunting first work in colour. Executed with the precision and painterly eye that marks all his work, Red Desert is set in Ravenna, a city defined by its polluted lakes, desolate factories and sense of industrial decay. It is as if the whole planet is stricken with a sickness. Vitti’s Giuliana is a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, oppressed by the tragedies of her life and alienated from the world around her. Richard Harris co-stars as Corrado, a mining engineer passing through the city in this strikingly original, underrated Antonioni work that won the Golden Lion at Venice.
Director Aureliano Amadei Cast Carolina Crescentini, Vinicio Marchioni, Giorgio Colangeli Italy 2010, 1h34m, N/C 15+
Director Michelangelo Antonioni Cast Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Rita Renoir Italy 1964, 1h58m, 15
20 sigarette
Il deserto rosso
Our Life
La nostra vita Sunday 15 April (20.00) Elio Germano won a Cannes Best Actor Prize for his heartfelt performance in this family drama that reunites him with Daniele Luchetti, the director of My Brother is an Only Child. Germano is utterly compelling as a man whose strongest failing is his desire to do the best for the people he loves the most. Cocky building site foreman Claudio (Germano) is devoted to his wife Elena and their two young sons. When she dies in childbirth, the world comes crashing down around him. Determined to provide for his boys, he embarks on a career as a building contractor where the best of intentions soon lead to impossible dilemmas. This is an emotional tale worthy of comparison with the films of Ken Loach. Director Daniele Luchetti / Cast Elio Germano, Raoul Bova, Isabella Ragonese Italy 2010, 1h37m, N/C 15+
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto Monday 16 April (18.00) Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Elio Petri’s masterful political drama is screening in a brand new print courtesy of Glasgow-based distributor Park Circus. Gian Maria Volonté is on chilling form as a police chief who murders his mistress and quietly waits and watches as his colleagues try to solve the killing. He even provides them with clues that might lead to his own arrest in a Kafkaesque drama about the way power corrupts and inspires only hypocrisy and contempt among those who wield it. Director Elio Petri / Cast Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Balkan Italy 1970, 1h50m, 18
18 Years Later Diciotto anni dopo
Tuesday 17 April (18.30) Although masked in typical road trip scenarios (broken down car, hitchhiker etc), the heart of this film is a cross-country cavalcade of emotional discourse. Anger, jealousy, frustration, resentment… pick your emotion. At the dying wish of their father, estranged brothers Mirko and Genziano must drive their father’s antique Morgan from Rome to Calabria in order to place his ashes next to their mother’s grave. Bouncy music adds a light touch throughout a journey that smartly avoids being a postcard expedition through Italy and seduces with its gentle charm. Director Edoardo Leo / Cast Edoardo Leo, Marco Bonini Italy 2011, 1h46m, N/C 15+
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Summer Games Giochi d’estate
Monday 16 April (20.30) Evoking memories of summer holidays — ItaloSwiss director Rolando Colla captures the mood perfectly in his first feature which was the Swiss Best Foreign Film Oscar contender. But Summer Games is not a nostalgic reverie. Instead, it is a tough, no-nonsense film about youngsters who find a common purpose during a few weeks of vacation time. Visually adventurous and determined to capture the exuberance of youth, Colla gleans unaffected performances from his young cast. Supported by the cultural services department of the Embassy of Switzerland Director Rolando Colla / Cast Armando Condolucci Italy 2011, 1h46m, N/C 12+
Terraferma Tuesday 17 April (20.45) Emanuele Crialese (Respiro) returns to Sicily and the beautiful island of Linosa for this magnificent, award-winning tale of a fishing community torn between traditional values and the changing world around them. A stubborn patriarch refuses to believe that the sea will no longer provide a sustainable living even as his children embrace the burgeoning tourism industry. When the family discovers a group of illegal immigrants, they give sanctuary to a pregnant woman, well aware that the law obliges them to report her. Isn’t it in their blood to offer assistance to those in peril on the sea? Italy’s entry for the 2012 Oscars. Director Emanuele Crialese / Cast Filippo Pucillo Italy 2011, 1h28m, N/C 12+
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Il boom Wednesday 18 April (18.00) The great Vittorio De Sica was reunited with screenwriter Cesare Zavattini for this stinging satire on the ‘greed is good’ culture that gripped Italy in the 1950s and 60s. Alberto Sordi’s Giovanni is a struggling businessman who will do anything to shower his exotic wife with expensive gifts and underline his success with extravagant displays of conspicuous consumption. Heavily in debt and contemplating suicide, he hears of a wealthy individual willing to handsomely recompense anyone prepared to sacrifice a specific part of their anatomy. A hilarious, unjustly overlooked comedy sure to strike a chord with contemporary audiences. This film will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh). Director Vittorio De Sica / Cast Alberto Sordi, Gianna Maria Canale Italy 1963, 1h37m, PG
The Jewel Il gioiellino
Wednesday 18 April (20.15) Masterful Italian actor Toni Servillo is reunited with director Andrea Molaioli (The Girl by the Lake) for this sleekly executed financial thriller charting the rise and fall of a food and drink company as its ambitious intentions are corrupted by greed and mismanagement. Amanzia Rastelli has built Leda from a small family deli into a major corporation. His Chief Financial Officer Ernesto Botta has dedicated his life to the company’s success which is why he is willing to bend the law and break all the rules when it is faced with ruin. Director Andrea Molaioli / Cast Toni Servillo, Remo Girone Italy 2011, 1h50m, N/C 15+
The Immature
Wang’s Arrival
Thursday 19 April (18.30)
Thursday 19 April (20.50)
Twenty years after they parted ways, a group of friends (including a child psychologist, a real estate agent and a rehabilitated sex addict) are all on the brink of turning forty. When the Ministry of Education informs them each separately that their exam scores have been voided and they will need to re-take the test, the ex-friends are forced to meet again. A winning comedy about continued immaturity well into adulthood. Nominated for four Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Awards, including Best Comedy and Best Supporting Actor.
An award-winning sci-fi saga from brothers Marco and Antonio Manetti, a potent creative force on the Mondo Italiano art scene. Chineselanguage interpreter Gaia is called up out of the blue by the Italian authorities with a confidential translation assignment. She is whisked away to a secret location and ushered into a pitch black room where she is asked to interpret the harsh interrogation of a mysterious presence, the eponymous Mr Wang... A sinister modern day morality tale which was a big hit at GFF this year.
Director Paolo Genovese / Cast Ambra Angiolini, Raoul Bova Italy 2011, 1h48m, N/C 15+
Directors Antonio & Marco Manetti Cast Ennio Fantastichini, Francesca Cuttica, Li Yong Italy 2011, 1h22m, N/C 18+
Immaturi
L’arrivo di Wang
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JIRI TRNKA Anyone described by Jean Cocteau as ‘a magician who knows how to value childhood dreams’ is clearly very special indeed. The founder not merely of Czech puppet film but of Czech animation in general (all but nonexistent before the Second World War), Jiří Trnka (1912–69) was dubbed ‘the Walt Disney of the East’ both for the excellence of his own work and for his vast and continuing creative influence. Jan Švankmajer worked at his studio, one of Trnka’s colleagues taught the Quay Brothers puppet animation, and his associates Břetislav Pojar and Vlasta Pospíšilová produce stopmotion films like the Fimfárum series (2002–11) to this day. Trnka first established himself as an illustrator and stage designer before co-founding Trick Brothers in May 1945. After a handful of cartoons (initially Disney-influenced, but Trnka’s own personality quickly asserted itself), he took a huge professional gamble by founding a dedicated puppet film studio and making a feature – albeit one comprising six discrete parts, distributable separately if necessary. He needn’t have worried: The Czech Year (1947) opened to an ecstatic domestic reception, not least because it was so proudly Czech from roots to realisation, just two years after the country emerged from Nazi occupation. Trnka developed and refined his art over the next decade, reaching a creative if not commercial peak with his sixth and final feature, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1959). He also adapted Hans Christian Andersen (The Emperor’s Nightingale, 1948), Božena Němcová (Prince Bayaya, 1950), Jaroslav Hašek (The Good Soldier Švejk, 1955) and tales from the dawn of his nation’s cultural and historical memory (Old Czech Legends, 1953), transforming them into exquisitely delicate, often wordless film-ballets, his puppets’ complex vocabularies of gesture and movement effectively rediscovering what the cinema had largely lost since the silent era: a truly international language. Trnka’s 1960s films were sparser and bleaker, culminating in his final masterpiece The Hand (1965), a heartbreaking portrait of the artist under totalitarian oppression that was the closest that Trnka came to his compatriot Franz Kafka’s paranoid universe. Despite this late foray into explicit political criticism, the Czechoslovak Communist authorities honoured Trnka with a full state funeral when he died four years later. Introduction by Michael Brooke In collaboration with BFI Southbank, Czech Centre London and Czech National Film Archive. More information can be found at www.czechcentre.org.uk. Ticket deal: see 3 films for £15/£12 concession (£12/£9 for CineCard holders)
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The Czech Year
Prince Bayaya
Sunday 15 April (13.45)
Sunday 22 April (12.45)
The most ambitious and original animated project since Disney’s Fantasia, Trnka’s first feature grew out of a concept-testing puppet short, Bethlehem, which became the final segment of this six-part rhapsody tracing the passage of a year in the Czech countryside. Bringing folk legends, traditions, songs and dances to vivid life with the aid of superbly rendered puppets and ever-changing landscapes, it established Trnka as a world-class talent.
Adapted from two fables by Božena Němcová, this was Trnka’s first attempt at a full-scale ballad-driven epic, in which a tale of a poor country boy’s heroic exploits (defeating dragons and rivals with the help of his mother’s ghost in the form of a white horse) combined with greater psychological depth than he had previously attempted. It was visually inspired by Czech painters of the Gothic and Renaissance periods.
Preceded by Jiří Trnka’s Puppets (23m), Czechoslovakia 1955, directed by Bruno Šefranka. Director Jiří Trnka Czechoslovakia 1947, 1h15m, subtitles, N/C 8+
Director Jiří Trnka Czechoslovakia 1950, 1h27m, subtitles, N/C 8+
The Good Soldier Švejk (Eps I, II, III) Sunday 29 April (14.00) Adapting Jaroslav Hašek’s raucous satirical novel, and also bringing Josef Lada’s equally famous illustrations to garrulous puppet life, posed Trnka one of his biggest creative challenges. Trnka himself felt that the final episode was the most artistically successful, but there’s much to enjoy in all three, not least the way that the lackadaisical layabout Švejk’s own self-serving anecdotes are realised through cut-out animation. Director Jiří Trnka / Czechoslovakia 1955, 1h28m, English narration, N/C 8+
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Sunday 6 May (13.00) Four years in the making, Trnka’s most celebrated film turned Shakespeare’s play into a multi-layered masterpiece, drawing imaginative contrasts between its very different settings, and giving the ‘rude mechanicals’ a dignity that most productions deny them: Trnka clearly saw these humble craftsmen as kindred spirits. The puppet animation here reaches a peak of balletic perfection: it’s hard to believe that Trnka didn’t literally breathe life into his creations. Director Jiří Trnka Czechoslovakia 1959, 1h16m, English narration, N/C 8+
Trnka Shorts for Children Monday 7 May (13.00) Despite his ‘Disney of the East’ nickname, Trnka was never primarily a children’s animator, though there are several delightful exceptions. Czech folktales fuel his cartoon debut Grandpa Planted a Beet and the puppet-based The Devil’s Mill, while The Merry Circus is a charming cut-out performance. The Trnka-designed Little Umbrella brings toys to life after lights out, and The Midnight Adventure pits a wooden train against its electric rival. The Merry Circus (1951, 12m) Grandpa Planted a Beet (1945, 10m) The Devil’s Mill (1949, 21m) The Little Umbrella (1957, dir Břetislav Pojar, 16m) The Midnight Adventure (1960, dir Břetislav Pojar, 13m)
Family ticket deal available, see p29 for full details Czechoslovakia 1950, 1h27m, subtitles, N/C 8+
Trnka Shorts for Adults Sunday 13 May (13.00) Five shorts spanning almost Trnka’s entire filmmaking career, from the antiNazi proto-Spiderman hero of Springman and the SS to his last masterpiece The Hand, a powerful allegory of the artist labouring under oppressive censorship. Song of the Prairie is a lively tribute to the Western, Passion condemns man’s addiction to high-speed high jinks, and The Archangel Gabriel and Mrs Goose is a surprisingly bawdy take on a Boccaccio story. Song of the Prairie (1949, 23m) The Archangel Gabriel and Mrs Goose (1964, 28m) Passion (1962, 9m) Springman and the SS (1946, 14m) The Hand (1965, 19m) Director Jiří Trnka / Czechoslovakia 1949–65, 1h33m, N/C 8+
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Lock Up Your Daughters presents
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Sunday 22 April (19.30) Felicia (Guy Pearce) and Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) – drag queens Adam and Tick – and Bernadette (Terence Stamp) are invited to play a cabaret engagement at an Alice Springs resort. Each with their own problems, they grab the chance to cross Australia’s red heart and leave their troubles behind. But as their trip unfolds, it seems that reaching their destination will be a new problem all together. Travelling in the lavender tour bus they have christened Priscilla, the girls are in for an adventure that sees them continually colliding with startled outback residents, and swerving from a string of bizarre and sometimes dangerous situations. Screening with short film Ditto (14m), directed by Bicola Barratt-Crane. This screening will be introduced by MENERGY’s drag superstar Lady Guillotina Munter. www.menergy.tv Director Stephan Elliott Cast Terence Stamp, Guy Pearce, Hugo Weaving Australia/UK 1994, 1h38m, 15
The Story of Film: An Odyssey Tuesday 24 April (20.00) The Story of Film: An Odyssey, which is currently playing in festivals and galleries around the world, was described as ‘the cinematic event of the year’ when it screened in the UK. To mark its release on DVD, writer-director Mark Cousins has edited together some of his favourite moments from the fifteen-hour film – including Japanese cinema of the 1930s, The Third Man, Star Wars, the great African film Brightness, and the movies of Gus Van Sant – and will talk about the six year process of making it with Glasgow’s Hopscotch Films, including two years of editing in Scotland. Director Mark Cousins will introduce the film and participate in a Q&A after the screening. Director Mark Cousins UK 2011, 1h12m, N/C 15+
The Island President Tuesday 10 April (20.00) 2,000 Maldive islands are being engulfed by rising sea levels. This visually stunning and politically potent film pits the USA, China and India against one man – former President Nasheed of the Maldives. Single-handedly challenging the international community’s muddled response to reducing global carbon emissions, Nasheed’s campaign methods move from playful underwater publicity stunts to an extraordinary behind-the-scenes climax at the 2009 UN climate conference. This screening will be followed by a discussion with speakers including Ahmed Moosa, former Maldives special envoy and climate change expert, bringing us up to date and asking what more Scotland can do to help. Presented by www.takeoneaction.org.uk with support from Christian Aid and SCIAF. Director Jon Shenk / USA 2011, 1h41m, N/C 12+
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Learning at GFT
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 courses visit www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/courses.
The Films of Pedro Almodóvar Tuesday 3 April – Tuesday 8 May (18.00–20.00)
Course Level 2: (Furthering knowledge / Developing critical engagement) The perfect opportunity for those who have perhaps previously undertaken our Contemporary Cinema Course, and now wish to further develop their critical skills and widen their knowledge of film history. Using the acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar as a case study, this course will examine how his filmmaking style has evolved over the years and the various contexts in which his films can be understood. The course will also engage with key writings on Almodóvar’s body of work. Places limited to sixteen. The course comprises three films and three seminars (18.00–20.00) in the GFT Learning space. Films will be in early evening slots but exact times may vary. Film titles to be announced. The course costs £43/£38. Admission to the course films is included in the price of the course; course films are open to the general public at standard ticket prices. All films introduced by course tutor Dr Christopher Gow. See page 24 (opposite) for details on the films.
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GFT Screen Salons Thursday 5 April (18.30): Into the Abyss (12A)
Saturday 28 April (13.30): Albert Nobbs (15) GFT Screen Salons are a series of illustrated introductions by local film critics or academics, before screenings of films from our main programme. After setting the scene, our speaker stays on to lead a post-screening discussion in our café-bar. The salons are an informal learning initiative, run along the lines of a reading group, but for film. They’re a great way of meeting other film fans, and sharing your love of cinema. GFT Screen Salons are included in the standard film ticket price.
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Labyrinth of Passion
All About My Mother
Tuesday 3 April (17.45)
Tuesday 17 April (12.45/18.00)
Pedro Almodóvar’s second full-length internationally-released feature marked the first appearance of future Hollywood superstar Antonio Banderas. A freewheeling, pop culture screwball comedy, the frenetic action centres on the converging paths of two sex-crazed unfortunates, nymphomaniac pop star Sexilia and Riza, the gay son of the emperor of Tiran. The film also orchestrates a larger cast and a delirious pastiche of hot-button topics ranging from incest to Islamic terrorism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, all coloured with the polymorphous pansexuality found in all the director’s earliest works.
In Almodóvar’s moving, deliciously flamboyant homage to women – and to all men who want to become women – single mother Cecilia Roth watches her only son die on his seventeenth birthday while racing to get a stage actress’s autograph. As Roth embarks on a quest to carry out the boy’s wish and find his transsexual father, she befriends a richly diverse assortment of women, including a transvestite, a pregnant HIV-positive nun, and the actress her son died pursuing. One of Almodóvar’s finest achievements, it earned him an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, plus two gongs at the BAFTAs.
This screening will be introduced by Dr Christopher Gow, University of Glasgow.
The screening at 18.00 will be introduced by Dr Christopher Gow, University of Glasgow.
Director Pedro Almodóvar Cast Cecilia Roth, Imanol Arias, Helga Liné Spain 1982, 1h34m, subtitles, 18
Director Pedro Almodóvar Cast Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth Spain/France 1999, 1h41m, subtitles, 15
Laberinto de pasiones
Todo sobre mi madre
The Skin I Live in La piel que habito
Tuesday 1 May (12.45/18.15) Dr Robert Ledgard is a world famous plastic surgeon who argues for the development of new, tougher human skin; unbeknownst to others, he has been trying to put his theory into practice, keeping a young woman imprisoned in his mansion while subjecting her to an increasingly bizarre regime of treatments. Almodóvar’s latest riffs on ‘mad doctor’ horror films of old, but turns the seemingly familiar material to the director’s own arrestingly personal ends, investigating the corrosive effects of desire and the very foundations of identity. This screening at 18.15 will be introduced by Dr Christopher Gow, University of Glasgow. Director Pedro Almodóvar / Cast Antonio Banderas / Spain 2011, 2h, subtitles, 15
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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 Mr Popper’s Penguins PG
Saturday 31 March 11.30am (1h34m) A bunch of penguins turn Mr Popper’s world upside down. Audio described and captioned at 11.30am GFT screening only.
Hop U
Saturday 7 April 11.30am (1h35m) The Easter Bunny leaves for Hollywood to pursue his dreams. Audio described and captioned at 11.30am GFT screening only.
Five Children and It U
Saturday 14 April 11.30am (1h29m) Five children discover a magical creature that grants them wishes. Audio described and captioned at 11.30am GFT screening only.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules U
Saturday 21 April 11.30am (1h39m) Greg the Wimpy Kid must bond with his big brother! Audio described and captioned at 11.30am GFT screening only.
The Borrowers U
Saturday 28 April 11.30am (1h26m) The famous adventures of the little people who live under the floorboards.
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. Take 2 terms and conditions apply, see above for details. If you have any queries call Paul at GFT Learning on 0141 352 8613.
Next Access Take 2 Screenings:
Hop U
Saturday 7 April, 12.30 (1h35m)
Our Access Take 2 Autism-Friendly screenings are sponsored by The Wee Curry Shop in association with a New Arts Sponsorship Grant supported by the Scottish Government in conjunction with Arts & Business Scotland.
As well as being the proud Sponsor of GFT’s Access Take 2 screenings, The Wee Curry Shop also supports the National Autistic Society Scotland. On the last Sunday of every month The Wee Curry Shop in Byres Road (0141 339 1339) offers an exquisite two-course lunch for £10, the full amount going to the National Autistic Society Scotland. Enjoy traditional Indian home cooking, using the freshest of Scottish ingredients, in a cosy and relaxing family friendly atmosphere with fabulous staff. The Wee Curry Shop is also at 7 Buccleuch Street (0141 353 0777) – very enticing for a trip before or after a film at GFT.
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Silver Screen
Every Tuesday at 12.45pm GFT programmes films for our more discerning viewers! All tickets are £4
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 12A
Blackthorn 15
Casablanca U
The Skin I Live in 15
Tuesday 3 April (12.45) - see page 11
Tuesday 10 April (12.45) - see page 12
Tuesday 24 April (12.45) - see page 8 Tuesday 1 May (12.45) - see page 24
All About My Mother 15
Tuesday 17 April (12.45) - see page 24
Regulars
Glasgore: Horror/Cult Cinema Discussion Group
Wednesday 4 April (18.30), GFT’s Balcony Bar, 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.
Film Discussion Group
Wednesday 11 April (18.30), GFT’s Balcony Bar, Free This group meets on the second Wednesday of each month in the upstairs bar at GFT to discuss both blockbusters and arthouse movies. Come along to chat about recent releases with other film lovers.
The GFT Film Quiz
Tuesday 24 April (20.45), Café Cosmo, tickets are £1.50 per person Test your knowledge of film trivia against our ‘experts’ during a great evening of movie facts and fun. Maximum of four per team.
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Illustration by Helen Macdonald
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ALTERNATIVE CONTENT Pre-recorded encore screening
NT Live: She Stoops to Conquer Sunday 1 April (16.00) Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal’s son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he’s mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid... Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues. One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family. Tickets: £12 / £10 to CineCard holders 3h
Pre-recorded encore screenings
NT Live: Frankenstein Sunday 17 June (19.30): Benedict Cumberbatch as the Creature, Jonny Lee Miller as Frankenstein Sunday 1 July (19.30): Jonny Lee Miller as the Creature, Benedict Cumberbatch as Frankenstein Oscar-winner Danny Boyle (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire) returned to the theatre last year to direct this visionary multi-award-winning production of Frankenstein. Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller who alternated the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature were joint winners of the Evening Standard Best Actor award for their performances. We present both versions as pre-recorded screenings. ***** Thoughtful, exciting, moving. The Times **** A stunning evening. The Guardian Tickets: £12 / £10 to CineCard holders, or see both performances for £20. 2h approx, N/C 15+
Live broadcast
The Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream Sunday 29 April (doors open 15.45, curtain up 16.00) This two act ballet with choreography by Alexei Ratmansky will be beamed in live to GFT. During a harvest festival at a collective farm on the Russian steppe, a Moscow dance troupe arrives to entertain the workers, causing all manner of hilarious trouble in their interactions with the locals. With a sparkling and witty score by the great Dmitri Shostakovitch, The Bright Stream is a rich comedy of errors and a love story with mistaken identities, amusing deceptions and happy resolutions. Tickets: £15 / £10 to CineCard holders 3h30 approx
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Seat Dedications D62 I193 J219 J221 J248 J249 J32 K1 K277 K278 K30 K31
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
L2 L3 L30 L31 L32 L282 L285 L310 M315 M316 M337 M338 N3
Jean Morton, nee Singleton. From her family to Kathryn Mary Singleton Kerr John Gerrard and Margaret Mackay, GFT fans Leo - enjoy with friends & family from Nonna & Pappa Leckie. Max - enjoy with friends & family from Nonna & Pappa Leckie. 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
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N341 N347 N357 N363 N364 O363 O386 O393 O394 WS-C1 WS-C1 WS-C1 WS-C1 Ushers’ Seat
Elsie Freer Robert Innes James McCluskey - chic 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 Box Office Opening Hours
Sunday to Friday from 12 noon Saturday from 11am Box Office closes 15 mins after start of final film.
Ticket Prices
Unless otherwise stated: Full: £7 Concessions: £5.50 CineCard holders £1 off every screening all tickets £4.00 free but ticketed events non-standard ticket price, listed under event £1.50 on top of ticket prices ☺ Family ticket offer available (see below)
Gift Vouchers
Available from Box Office.
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Café Cosmo
Café Cosmo is open: Sunday to Friday from 12noon Saturday from 11am Café Cosmo closes 15 mins after start of final film.
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 and non-transferable. 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. 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
Family Ticket Deal
Comes in combinations of 4 tickets, which should include at least 1 adult and 2 children with the fourth ticket being of either type. Gives you a discount of £1 per ticket on the total price. Full details found online.
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.
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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 ‘take-in’ container.
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 our Manager on (0141) 352 8603 or email dutymanager@ glasgowfilm.org
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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 hearing-impaired (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 dutymanager@glasgowfilm.org 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 hearingimpaired or deaf who rely on subtitling to enable them to follow the film’s dialogue.
Forthcoming Accessible Screenings Take 2: Mr Popper’s Penguins (PG) Saturday 31 March (11.30)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (12A)
Monday 2 – Wednesday 4 April, all screenings Monday 2 (18.15) & Tuesday 3 April (12.45)
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 £1.50. There is limited on street metered parking. Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Glasgow Film Theatre (known as GFT) is a charity registered in Scotland, No. SCO05932.
Take 2: Hop (U)
Saturday 7 April (11.30)
Take 2: Five Children and It (U) Saturday 14 April (11.30)
Take 2: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (U) Saturday 21 April (11.30)
Due to circumstances beyond our control, occasionally we are unable to provide these FSC PURE POR Green Whiteout accessible screenings. You are advised to check with Box Office.
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World Premiere Tour
11–14 April 2012
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