JULY/August 2012
the hunter Summer of Love
Our favourite arthouse romances to heat up your summer
On Your Marks
Gear up for the Olympics with our sports films
Shadow Dancer
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Contents Diary
3–6
360
12
7 Days in Havana
11
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
14
Back to the Future
26
Cinema Paradiso
23
Dark Horse
22
Dawn of the Dead
29
Day of the Dead
29
Detachment
9
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
23
Don’t Look Now
23
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
16
Electrick Children
10
The Fairy
11
Faust
8
The Forgiveness of Blood
12
The Found Footage Festival
30
Friday the 13th
25
The Genius of Hitchcock: The Lodger
39
The Giants
10
Himizu
8
The Hunter
8
I Do Not Know What it is I Am Like In Your Hands
28 9
Pretty in Pink
25
Searching for Sugar Man
16
Shadow Dancer
13
A Simple Life
13
A Star is Born
24
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
26
Strawberry Fields
13
Swandown
14
The Thing
26
The Turin Horse
7
Total Recall
25
Where Do We Go Now?
7
The Women on the 6th Floor
9
Woody Allen: A Documentary
16
Young Adam
28
Your Sister’s Sister
7
You’ve Been Trumped
15
Zombie Flesh-Eaters
29
NT Live: Frankenstein
31
NT Live: The Count of Monte Cristo
32
NT Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
31
NT Live: The Last of the Haussmans
32
NT Live: Timon of Athens
32
The Athlete
18
Chariots of Fire
18
Personal Best
27
Town of Runners
18
nt live
ON YOUR MARKS
Jackpot
12
Keep Her Lit
17
Keith James: The Songs of Nick Drake
30
Killer Joe
22
King of Devil’s Island
10
The Last Projectionist
15
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
14
Annie Hall
20
My Summer of Love
27
The Apartment
20
New Glasgow Shorts
28
Before Sunrise
21
Nostalgia for the Light
15
Brokeback Mountain
19
Le petit Nicolas
11
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
19
Personal Best
27
I Know Where I’m Going!
19
Ping Pong
17
Jules et Jim
21
Planet of Snail
17
Lost in Translation
20
Practical Electronica
30
My Summer of Love
27
Prometheus 3D
22
William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet
21
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GFT REGULARS Access Take 2
33
Cinema City
28
Film Discussion Group
36
GEEK Film Night
26
The GFT Film Quiz
36
GF Learning
34
Glasgore: Horror/Cult Film Discussion Group Late Night Classics
36 25 & 26
Lock Up Your Daughters
27
Monorail Film Club
30
Silver Screen
35
Take 2: Free Saturday Films for Families
33
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Sunday 1 July
Your Sister’s Sister (15) p7
15.00 / 17.00
Where Do We Go Now? (CTBC) p7
14.20
The Turin Horse (15) p7
16.40
NT Live: Frankenstein (15) p31
19.30
GEEK Film Night: Back to the Future (PG) p26 19.45
Monday 2 July
Your Sister’s Sister (15) p7
14.00 / 16.00 / 20.45
Where Do We Go Now? (CTBC) p7
13.20 / 15.40
Himizu (18) p8
18.05
I Do Not Know What it is I Am Like (N/C 12+) p28 18.00 The Turin Horse (15) p7
20.00
Tuesday 3 July
Your Sister’s Sister (15) p7
15.50 / 18.10
Where Do We Go Now? (CTBC) p7 13.00 / 15.20 / 20.20 Himizu (18) p8
20.10
Faust (15) p8
12.45
Dawn of the Dead (18) p29
17.45
Wednesday 4 July Your Sister’s Sister (15) p7
16.00 / 20.45
Where Do We Go Now? (CTBC) p7 13.30 / 15.50 / 18.10 Himizu (18) p8
13.15 / 18.00
The Athlete (PG) p18
20.30
Glasgore: Horror/Cult Discussion Group p36
18.30
Thursday 5 July
Your Sister’s... (15) p7 14.45 / 16.45 / 18.45
/ 20.45
Where Do We Go Now? (CTBC) p7 13.20 / 15.40 / 20.20 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (15) p19 18.00
Friday 6 July The Hunter (15) p8
Sunday 8 July The Hunter (15) p8
14.50
The Women on the 6th Floor (12A) p9
17.15
Your Sister’s Sister (15) p7
15.15
Faust (15) p8
17.00
Cinema Paradiso (PG) p23
19.30
The Found Footage Festival (N/C 15+) p30 20.00
Monday 9 July The Hunter (15) p8
13.50 / 16.00 / 20.20
The Women on the 6th Floor (12A) p9 Your Sister’s Sister (15) p7
16.15 / 20.30 14.15
The Last Projectionist (12A) p15
Tuesday 10 July The Hunter (15) p8
15.10 / 17.20
The Women on the 6th Floor (12A) p9
13.00 / 18.30
Your Sister’s Sister (15) p7
16.30 / 20.45
Keith James: The Songs of Nick Drake (N/C 15+) p30 20.00 Cinema Paradiso (PG) p23
12.45
Wednesday 11 July The Hunter (15) p8
15.50 / 18.00
13.50
/ 16.00
/ 18.10 / 20.20 / 18.30
Your Sister’s Sister (15) p7
/ 20.45
Saturday 7 July The Hunter (15) p8
16.30
14.00 / 18.10 / 20.20
The Women on the 6th Floor (12A) p9
16.15 / 20.30
Your Sister’s Sister (15) p7
18.30
Faust (15) p8
14.45
Take 2: Johnny English Reborn (PG) p33 11.30
/ 20.20
The Women on the 6th Floor (12A) p9
16.15 / 20.30
Your Sister’s Sister (15) p7
14.15 / 18.30
Film Discussion Group p36
18.30
Thursday 12 July The Hunter (15) p8
13.50 / 16.00 / 20.20
The Women on the 6th Floor (12A) p9
14.15 / 18.30
Your Sister’s Sister (15) p7
16.30 / 20.45
I Know Where I’m Going! (U) p19
18.15
Friday 13 July Detachment (15) p9
16.15
/ 20.40
The Women on the 6th Floor (12A) p9 14.00
/ 18.20
You’ve Been Trumped (N/C 12+) p15
The Women on the 6th Floor (12A) p9 14.15
/ 18.30 18.10
The Hunter (15) p8
13.50
18.10 / 16.00
Friday the 13th (18) p25
Saturday 14 July Detachment (15) p9
13.45 / 18.15
You’ve Been Trumped (N/C 12+) p15 The Women on the 6th Floor (12A) p9 The Hunter (15) p8
/ 20.20 23.00
15.45 16.00 / 20.30
13.35 / 18.10 / 20.20
Take 2: Red Dog (PG) p33
11.30
Access Take 2: Johnny English... (PG) p33 12.30 Special features
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Sunday 15 July
Sunday 22 July
Detachment (15) p9
15.30
You’ve Been Trumped (N/C 12+) p15
20.00
The Giants (15) p10
17.50
The Women on the 6th Floor (12A) p9
16.00
Nostalgia for the Light (12A) p15
15.50
The Hunter (15) p8
13.20 / 17.50
NT Live: Frankenstein (15) p31
19.30
Monday 16 July Detachment (15) p9
13.45 / 18.15
You’ve Been Trumped (N/C 12+) p15
14.00
In Your Hands (15) p9
15.00 / 17.00 / 19.00
LUYD: Personal Best (18) p27
19.45
Monday 23 July In Your Hands (15) p9
15.30 / 20.45
The Giants (15) p10
15.45 / 18.30
Chariots of Fire (U) p18
18.10
The Women on the 6th Floor (12A) p9
16.00 / 20.30
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (15) p23 20.30
The Hunter (15) p8
16.10 / 20.20
Tuesday 24 July
Town of Runners (PG) p18
18.20
Tuesday 17 July Detachment (15) p9
16.15 / 20.40
You’ve Been Trumped (N/C 12+) p15
12.45
The Women on the 6th Floor (12A) p9
14.00 / 18.20
The Hunter (15) p8
20.20
Town of Runners (PG) p18
15.00
Day of the Dead (18) p29
18.10
Wednesday 18 July Detachment (15) p9
13.45 / 18.15 16.00 / 20.30
The Hunter (15) p8
14.10 / 16.20 / 18.30
Town of Runners (PG) p18
20.45
Thursday 19 July Detachment (15) p9
16.15 / 20.40
The Women on the 6th Floor (12A) p15
14.00 / 18.20
The Hunter (15) p8
13.30 / 15.40 / 20.30
Brokeback Mountain (15) p19 In Your Hands (15) p9
15.20 / 18.45 / 20.45 18.30 / 20.30
Chariots of Fire (U) p18
12.45
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (15) p23 15.45
Wednesday 25 July In Your Hands (15) p9
15.30 / 18.15
The Giants (15) p10
15.45 / 20.45
Chariots of Fire (U) p18
20.15
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (15) p23 18.30
The Women on the 6th Floor (12A) p15
Friday 20 July
In Your Hands (15) p9 The Giants (15) p10
17.50 15.30
The Giants (15) p10 Nostalgia for the Light (12A) p15
Saturday 21 July
/ 18.45 / 20.45 15.45
/ 18.30 20.30
In Your Hands (15) p9
15.00 / 17.00
The Giants (15) p10
16.45 / 20.45
Nostalgia for the Light (12A) p15
14.45 / 18.45
The Genius of Hitchcock: The Lodger (PG) p39 19.30 Take 2: Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang (U) p33 11.30
Thursday 26 July In Your Hands (15) p9
15.30 / 18.45 / 20.45
The Giants (15) p10
15.45 / 20.30
Lost in Translation (15) p20
Friday 27 July
King of Devil’s Island (12A) p10 15.20
18.20 / 17.50 / 20.20
Electrick Children (CTBC) p10
15.45
The Fairy (PG) p11
13.40
Pretty in Pink (15) p25
/ 20.45 / 18.40 23.00
Saturday 28 July
King of Devil’s... (12A) p10 13.15 / 15.35 / 18.00 / 20.30 Electrick Children (CTBC) p10
13.15 / 18.40
The Fairy (PG) p11
15.40 / 20.45
Take 2: Judy Moody and the Not Bummer... (PG) p33 11.30
Sunday 29 July
King of Devil’s Island (12A) p10
14.00 / 16.30
Electrick Children (CTBC) p10
14.40 / 19.45
The Fairy (PG) p11 NT Live: Frankenstein (15) p31
17.40 19.30 Continues overleaf
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Monday 30 July
King of Devil’s Island (12A) p10
15.30 / 18.00
Electrick Children (CTBC) p10
16.00 / 20.45
Killer Joe (18) p22
20.30
Cinema City: New Glasgow Shorts (N/C 15+) p28 18.30
Tuesday 31 July
King of Devil’s Island (12A) p10
13.00 / 17.50 / 20.20
Electrick Children (CTBC) p10
15.20 / 20.45
Killer Joe (18) p22 Strawberry Fields (N/C 15+) p13
15.40 12.45
/ 18.15
The GFT Film Quiz p36
20.45
Wednesday 1 August King of Devil’s Island (12A) p10
15.40 / 20.30
Electrick Children (CTBC) p10
16.00 / 18.00
Killer Joe (18) p22
18.10
The Apartment (PG) p20
20.15
Glasgore: Horror/Cult Discussion Group p36
Thursday 2 August
King of Devil’s Island (12A) p10
18.30
15.20 / 17.50 / 20.20
Electrick Children (CTBC) p10
16.00 / 20.45
The Apartment (PG) p20
18.10
Friday 3 August
7 Days in Havana (CTBC) p11 15.00 Le petit Nicolas (CTBC) p11
/ 17.35 / 20.10 14.00
/ 18.20
Woody Allen: A Documentary (15) p16 16.00
/ 20.20
Saturday 4 August 7 Days in Havana (CTBC) p11
14.30 / 17.30 / 20.10
Le petit Nicolas (CTBC) p11
14.45 / 18.20
Woody Allen: A Documentary (15) p16 Take 2: The Muppets (U) p33
11.30
Access Take 2: The Muppets (U) p33
Sunday 5 August
7 Days in Havana (CTBC) p11
20.20 12.30
14.20 / 17.00 / 19.35
Le petit Nicolas (CTBC) p11
17.20
Woody Allen: A Documentary (15) p16
15.00
GEEK Film Night: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (12) p26
Monday 6 August
19.45
7 Days in Havana (CTBC) p11
15.00 / 20.10
Le petit Nicolas (CTBC) p11
15.30 / 18.20
Woody Allen: A Documentary (15) p16
20.20
Don’t Look Now (15) p23
17.50
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Tuesday 7 August
7 Days in Havana (CTBC) p11
15.00 / 17.35 / 20.10
Le petit Nicolas (CTBC) p11
15.30 / 18.20
Marina Abramovic... (N/C 15+) p14
20.20
Don’t Look Now (15) p23
12.45
Wednesday 8 August 7 Days in Havana (CTBC) p11
15.00 / 17.45
Le petit Nicolas (CTBC) p11
16.15 / 20.30
Marina Abramovic... (N/C 15+) p14
14.00 / 18.15
Don’t Look Now (15) p23
20.20
Film Discussion Group p36
18.30
Thursday 9 August 7 Days in Havana (CTBC) p11
15.00 / 17.35 / 20.10
Le petit Nicolas (CTBC) p11
16.30 / 20.30
Annie Hall (15) p20
14.30 / 18.30
Friday 10 August Jackpot (CTBC) p12 14.45
/ 16.45
360 (CTBC) p12
/ 18.45 / 20.45 15.45
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (15) p14
/ 20.15 13.45
Dark Horse (CTBC) p22
18.15
Total Recall (15) p25
23.00
Saturday 11 August Jackpot (CTBC) p12
14.45 / 16.45 / 18.45 / 20.45
360 (CTBC) p12
15.45 / 20.15
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (15) p14
18.15
Dark Horse (CTBC) p22
13.45
Take 2: A Monster in Paris (U) p33
Sunday 12 August Jackpot (CTBC) p12
11.30 15.45 / 17.45
360 (CTBC) p12
14.45
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (15) p14
17.15
Dark Horse (CTBC) p22
19.15
Ping Pong (PG) p17
19.45
Monday 13 August Jackpot (CTBC) p12
15.45 / 20.45
360 (CTBC) p12
15.30 / 18.00
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (15) p14
20.30
Ping Pong (PG) p17
18.45
Tuesday 14 August Jackpot (CTBC) p12 360 (CTBC) p12
15.00 / 18.45 / 20.45 15.45 / 20.15
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (15) p14 Ping Pong (PG) p17
18.15 12.45
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Wednesday 15 August Jackpot (CTBC) p12
15.45 / 18.45 / 20.45
360 (CTBC) p12
15.30 / 18.00
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (15) p14
20.30
14.45 / 16.45 / 18.45 / 20.45
360 (CTBC) p12
15.30 / 20.15
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (15) p14
13.30
Before Sunrise (15) p21
18.00
Friday 17 August
The Forgiveness of Blood (CTBC) p12 15.15
/ 20.30
Searching for Sugar Man (12A) p16
/ 20.45
16.45
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (CTBC) p16 Jackpot (CTBC) p12
18.15
14.45
Saturday 18 August
/ 18.45
The Forgiveness of Blood (CTBC) p12
13.45 / 18.15
Searching for Sugar Man (12A) p16
14.45 / 18.45
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (CTBC) p16 16.00 / 20.35 Jackpot (CTBC) p12
16.45 / 20.45
Take 2: Where the Wild Things Are (PG) p33 11.30
Sunday 19 August
17.15 18.00
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (CTBC) p16
15.00
Jackpot (CTBC) p12
20.00
A Star is Born (U) p24
14.30 19.45
The Forgiveness of Blood (CTBC) p12
15.15 / 20.30
Searching for Sugar Man (12A) p16
14.45 / 18.45
Swandown (12A) p14
18.30
Jackpot (CTBC) p12
16.45 / 20.45
Tuesday 21 August
The Forgiveness of Blood (CTBC) p12
16.00 / 18.20
Searching for Sugar Man (12A) p16
16.15 / 20.30
Swandown (12A) p14
20.45
Jackpot (CTBC) p12
14.00
A Star is Born (U) p24
12.45
Keep Her Lit (U) p17
Swandown (12A) p14
15.15 16.45 / 20.45
Thursday 23 August
The Forgiveness of Blood (CTBC) p12
16.00 / 20.30
Searching for Sugar Man (12A) p16
16.45 / 20.45
Jackpot (CTBC) p12
14.45 / 18.45
Jules et Jim (PG) p21
13.45 / 18.15
Friday 24 August Shadow... (15) p13
13.45
/ 16.00
/ 18.15 / 20.30
15.20
/ 17.50 / 20.15
A Simple Life (CTBC) p13 The Thing (18) p26
23.00
Saturday 25 August
Shadow Dancer (15) p13 14.00 / 16.05 / 18.15 / 20.30 A Simple Life (CTBC) p13
15.20 / 17.50 / 20.15
Take 2: Hugo 3D (U) p33
11.30
Sunday 26 August Shadow Dancer (15) p13
The Forgiveness of Blood (CTBC) p12
Monday 20 August
18.15 / 20.30 14.45 / 18.45
15.00 / 17.15 / 19.30
A Simple Life (CTBC) p13
Searching for Sugar Man (12A) p16
LUYD: My Summer of Love (15) p27
The Forgiveness of Blood (CTBC) p12 Searching for Sugar Man (12A) p16 Jackpot (CTBC) p12
Thursday 16 August Jackpot (CTBC) p12
Wednesday 22 August
18.30
14.15
Zombie Flesh-Eaters (18) p29
17.00
Practical Electronica (N/C 8+) p30
19.45
Monday 27 August Shadow Dancer (15) p13
15.45 / 20.30
A Simple Life (CTBC) p13
15.30 / 20.15
Planet of Snail (N/C 8+) p17
18.15
Prometheus 3D (15) p22
18.00
Tuesday 28 August Shadow Dancer (15) p13
Planet of Snail (N/C 8+) p17
13.45 / 16.00 / 18.15 12.45
Cinema City: Young Adam (18) p28 Prometheus 3D (15) p22
/ 15.45 / 20.45 18.30 20.30
The GFT Film Quiz p36
20.45
Wednesday 29 August Shadow Dancer (15) p13
13.30 / 18.15 / 20.30
Planet of Snail (N/C 8+) p17
15.30 / 18.45 / 20.45
Prometheus 3D (15) p22
Thursday 30 August Shadow Dancer (15) p13
15.45 15.00 / 18.15 / 20.30
Planet of Snail (N/C 8+) p17
15.30 / 20.45
William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (12) p21 18.00 Special features
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Your Sister’s Sister Friday 29 June – Thursday 12 July Fresh from its European premiere at GFF 2012, Lynn Shelton follows up the hysterical Hump Day with an emotionally twisted tale of sibling rivalry, broken hearts and best friends. Distraught after his brother’s death, Jack (Mark Duplass) takes his best friend Iris (Emily Blunt) up on her offer for a reflective week of solitude at her family’s island getaway. Upon arrival, Jack discovers Iris’s half-sister Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt) already in residence. Nursing their respective troubles over a bottle of tequila, Jack and Hannah find themselves sharing a night of passion, only to be rudely awoken by the unexpected arrival of Iris… Programme notes are available in the cinema and online at www.glasgowfilm.org Director Lynn Shelton Cast Mark Duplass, Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt USA 2011, 1h30m, 15
Where Do We Go Now? Et maintenant, on va où?
Friday 29 June – Thursday 5 July Winner of audience awards in Toronto, San Sebastian and Oslo, Where Do We Go Now? is the new feature from Caramel director Nadine Labaki. She brings a typical warmth and compassion to the most sobering of subjects – a land torn apart by violence. A village in the Lebanese countryside is pock-marked with landmines, the legacy of a devastating conflict. As tensions rise once more, women in the village band together to distract their belligerent menfolk by any means necessary – from Ukranian showgirls to hash cookies. A thoughtprovoking crowd-pleaser that represented Lebanon in the 2012 Oscars. Director Nadine Labaki Cast Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Leyla Hakim France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt 2011, 1h40m, Arabic, Russian & English with subtitles, CTBC
The Turin Horse A Torinói ló
Sunday 1 (16.40) & Monday 2 July (20.00) A narrator recounts the story of how Friedrich Nietzsche, while in Italy in 1889, witnessed a cart driver beating a recalcitrant horse and threw himself, weeping, on the animal’s neck. According to legend, this event signalled the onset of a mental breakdown from which Nietzsche never recovered. Béla Tarr’s film imagines what happened to that horse. Somewhere in the countryside of unspecified European wasteland, the cart driver lives with his daughter and the overworked beast. Outside, a windstorm rages. The horse refuses to move, and the man and his daughter struggle through their daily tasks. Food and water grow scarce. The horse stops eating. Slowly, the apocalypse approaches. Immaculately photographed in Tarr’s renowned long takes, The Turin Horse is the final statement from a master filmmaker. A treatise on human existence at its most elemental. Los Angeles Times Directors Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky / Cast János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos Hungary/France/Germany/Switzerland/USA 2012, 2h25m, Hungarian & German with subtitles, 15
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Himizu
Faust
Monday 2 – Wednesday 4 July
Tuesday 3 (12.45), Saturday 7 (14.45) & Sunday 8 July (17.00)
Shion Sono’s (Suicide Club, Cold Fish) masterful adaptation of Minoru Furuya’s popular manga unfolds in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami and subsequent nuclear meltdown that devastated Japan. Fifteen-year-old schoolboy Sumida tries to make a go of the family boat-hire business – he sees himself as a mole (a himizu), living the quiet life – but his drunken father would rather see his son kill himself for the insurance pay-out. In the volatile atmosphere of a ravaged nation, however, a will to survive can soon mutate into hatred towards society. Will the love of a (creepily) selfless girl and the support of a makeshift community of caring outsiders save him? Director Shion Sono Cast Shôta Sometani, Fumi Nikaidô, Tetsu Watanabe Japan 2011, 2h9m, Japanese with subtitles, 18
Faust spends his days dissecting grisly corpses, brooding over the location of the soul and agonising over his extreme poverty. When a demonic pawnbroker offers him riches in exchange for his immortal soul, Faust signs in blood, but soon finds himself drawn from one disquieting encounter to the next as his deal with the devil takes hold. Playing out like a single, seamless, continuously morphing scene, Aleksandr Sokurov’s adaptation of Goethe’s classic tragedy is part bad dream, part music-less opera, captured in the director’s signature soft-focus visual style. Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival 2011. Director Aleksandr Sokurov Cast Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk Russia 2011, 2h14m, German with subtitles, 15
The Hunter Friday 6 – Thursday 19 July The Hunter is the story of Martin, a skilled and ruthless mercenary sent into the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for a tiger believed to be extinct. Hired by an anonymous company that wants the tiger’s genetic material, Martin arrives in Tasmania posing as a scientist. He proceeds to set up base camp at a broken-down farmhouse, where he stays with a family whose father has gone missing. Usually a loner, Martin becomes increasingly close to the family; however, as his attachment to the family grows, he is led down a path of unforeseen dangers, complicating his deadly mission. A mesmerizing central performance by Willam Dafoe and the lushly filmed wilderness landscape combine to poignant effect in this taut drama. The screening on Wednesday 11 July (18.00) will be introduced by Dr Christopher Gow as part of GFT’s Contemporary Cinema Course. Programme notes are available in the cinema and online at www.glasgowfilm.org Director Daniel Nettheim / Cast Willam Dafoe, Sam Neill, Frances O’Connor Australia 2011, 1h42m, 15
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The Women on the 6th Floor Les femmes du 6ème étage Friday 6 – Thursday 19 July In this splendid comedy from director Philippe Le Guay, stockbroker Jean-Louis Joubert (the always marvellous Fabrice Luchini) lives a peaceful yet boring bourgeois existence with his socialite wife (Sandrine Kiberlain) in 1960s Paris. But when a flock of exuberant Spanish maids moves into the sixth floor servants quarters, Jean-Louis’s world is turned upside down, particularly by beautiful Maria (Natalia Verbeke) whose irrepressible passion for life threatens to shake Jean-Louis from his staid foundation. Featuring strong support from veteran Pedro Almodóvar muses Carmen Maura and Lola Dueñas, The Women on the 6th Floor is, in any language, a big-hearted delight. Director Philippe Le Guay Cast Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke France 2010, 1h46m, French & Spanish with subtitles, 12A: contains brief sexualised nudity
Detachment Friday 13 – Thursday 19 July Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody), an educator with a true talent to connect with his students, has chosen to bury his gift. Working as a substitute teacher, he conveniently avoids any emotional attachments by constantly moving on. When a new assignment places him at a public school where a frustrated, burned-out administration has created an apathetic student body, Henry soon becomes a role model to the disaffected youth. In finding an unlikely connection to the students, teachers (including Lucy Liu, James Caan and Christina Hendricks), and a runaway teen he takes in from the streets, Henry realises that he’s not alone in his struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world. A hardhitting and affecting drama. Director Tony Kaye Cast Adrien Brody, Christina Hendricks, Marcia Gay Harden USA 2004, 1h38m, 15
In Your Hands Contre toi Friday 20 – Thursday 26 July An act of revenge takes an unexpected turn in this psychological drama from French writer and director Lola Doillon. Mad with grief, Yann (Pio Marmai) kidnaps brilliant female surgeon Anna (Kristin Scott Thomas) who he holds responsible for his young wife’s death. However, after spending several days together in Yann’s basement, he and Anna discover their contempt for one another gives way to more complex emotions, which complicates both of their senses of justice. The two leads deliver razor sharp performances, traversing a gamut of emotions from the expiation of guilt to the satisfaction of revenge. Doillon’s distinctively accomplished second feature marks her out as one to watch. Director Lola Doillon / Cast Kristin Scott Thomas, Pio Marmai, Jean-Philippe Écoffey France 2010, 1h21m, French with subtitles, 15
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The Giants
King of Devil’s Island
Friday 20 – Thursday 26 July
Friday 27 July – Thursday 2 August
The American coming of age story finds itself transplanted to the Belgian countryside in The Giants, the latest film from actor-turned-director Bouli Lanners. Two teenage brothers and their tag-along friend navigate a summer by themselves in an abandoned country cottage. As they scavenge for food, hunt for pot and pursue harebrained schemes to make money, they find their bravado repeatedly punctured by the rigours of an adult world they cannot comprehend. Shot with a painter’s eye for the lushly wooded landscape, The Giants is a funny yet melancholic ode to the idleness, adventures and fears of adolescence.
1915, Norway. This true story of the infamous Bastøy Boys correctional facility begins with the arrival of seventeen-year-old Erling (magnetic newcomer Benjamin Helstad), a rumoured murderer. He immediately clashes with the island facility’s governor (Stellan Skarsgård), who believes manual labour, rigid discipline and harsh punishment are the only methods that can turn the boys into honourable members of society. Refusing to accept the constant abuse, Erling slowly rouses the rest of the boys out of their resigned existence, and encourages them to fight to lift up their spirits. His plan doesn’t end well – the Norwegian army is called in – but the movie’s glimpse of a life spark in these persecuted kids is both heartening and heartbreaking.
Les géants
Kongen av Bastøy
A joyous heartwarmer with an endearing Mark Twain meets Ken Loach vibe. Screen International Director Bouli Lanners Cast Zacharie Chasseriaud, Martin Nissen, Paul Bartel Belgium 2011, 1h24m, French with subtitles, 15
Programme notes are available in the cinema and online at www.glasgowfilm.org Director Marius Holst Cast Stellan Skarsgård, Benjamin Helstad, Kristoffer Joner Norway/France/Sweden/Poland 2010, 1h56m, Norwegian with subtitles, 12A: contains moderate violence and occasional gore
Electrick Children Friday 27 July – Thursday 2 August On her fifteenth birthday, Rachel, a Mormon girl, discovers a cassette tape of forbidden rock music. Having never heard anything like it, the cover of Blondie’s ‘Hanging on the Telephone’ proves a transcendental experience. Three months later, she announces to her family that she’s pregnant: the music has brought on an immaculate conception. Her parents suspect rape and hastily arrange a marriage, but Rachel runs away to nearby Las Vegas, to search for the man who sings on the tape... This magic realist coming-ofage drama is elegantly shot to accentuate the open vistas of the Utah desert and bright neon landscapes of the urban scenes, and features an endearing performance from impressive newcomer Julia Garner in the central role. Director Rebecca Thomas / Cast Julia Garner, Rory Culkin / USA 2012, 1h36m, CTBC
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The Fairy
7 Days in Havana
Friday 27 – Sunday 29 July
Friday 3 – Thursday 9 August
At once poised and headily anarchic, the visual absurdism of Abel, Gordon and Romy is one of the most distinctive comic styles in today’s cinema. Following Iceberg and Rumba, their new feature takes their laid-back eccentricity into the realms of the magical. Dom (Abel) is a receptionist in a small seaside hotel. One night, a woman named Fiona (Gordon) checks in, announces that she’s a fairy, and grants Dom three wishes – of which he promptly chooses the first two. Romance soon blossoms between a pair clearly made for each other – partners in a series of elaborately crafted, audaciously executed sight gags that showcase the duo’s Keatonesque acrobatic prowess and gawky grace. Jonathan Romney, London Film Festival
This is a contemporary portrait of a vital and forward-looking city, seen through the eyes of seven international filmmakers. Each director focuses on one day, while the narratives and characters intersect in a portmanteau feature which is in turns amusing, passionate, insightful and surprising. Highlights include Pablo Trapero’s segment which stars Emir Kusturica as himself, a drunken Serbian director arriving in Havana for the film festival but instead spending the night at a jam session; Gaspar Noé’s cinematic and sexually charged tale about a lesbian schoolgirl and a santoria exorcism; and Juan Carlos Tabío’s domestic drama that pulls us into the world of a Havana tenement slum with all its humour, poignancy and ever-present musical rhythms.
La fée
7 días en La Habana
Directors & Cast Dominique Abel, Bruno Romy, Fiona Gordon France/Belgium 2011, 1h33m, French with subtitles, PG
Directors Laurent Cantet, Benicio Del Toro, Julio Medem, Gaspar Noé, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabío, Pablo Trapero Cast Josh Hutcherson, Daniel Brühl, Emir Kusturica France/Spain 2012, 2h9m, Spanish with subtitles, CTBC
Le petit Nicolas Friday 3 – Thursday 9 August Based on the comic books of Jean-Jacques Sempé and René Goscinny, the entire family will enjoy this sly and delightful comedy about the misadventures of a mischievous little boy in 1950s France. Eight-year-old Nicolas has a happy existence; doting parents and a colourful group of friends with whom he has lots of fun. When he overhears that his mother is pregnant, Nicolas is horrified and envisions a scenario where a new baby arrives and crowds him out of the house, leaving his parents with no time to care for him. Along with his pals, Nicolas cooks up a series of wild schemes to get rid of the baby… Le petit Nicolas topped the French box office in 2009, becoming a local phenomenon. Director Laurent Tirard / Cast Valérie Lemercier, Kad Merad, Sandrine Kiberlain France 2009, 1h30m, French with subtitles, CTBC
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Jackpot
Arme Riddere Friday 10 – Thursday 23 August At a plastic Christmas tree factory in Norway, three dangerous ex-cons and their supervisor win 1.7 million kroner on the pools. As trust and friendship quickly dissolve, guns are loaded, knives are sharpened, and the division of the money begins... With echoes of Tarantino and the Coen Brothers, Magnus Martens’ Jackpot, (based on a story by popular Norwegian author Jo Nesbø) is a slick, ultra-violent black comedy, with a mischievous plot that twists and turns right up until the final gunshot rings out. EIFF 2012 A savagely funny and brutally stylish pulp thriller. Screen International Director Magnus Martens Cast Kyrre Hellum, Henrik Mestad, Marie Blokhus Norway 2011, 1h30m, Norwegian with subtitles, CTBC
360 Friday 10 – Thursday 16 August Director Fernando Meirelles reunites with his Constant Gardener star Rachel Weisz, who stars opposite Jude Law and Anthony Hopkins in this uncompromising dramatic thriller. Loosely based on the play La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler, 360 examines the interconnected sexual and romantic escapades of a series of individuals from different backgrounds. The film weaves through Vienna, Bratislava, Paris, London, Rio, Phoenix and Denver: an ambitious young woman sees sex as a way to escape her background; a respectable widower wrestles with the conflict between desire and religious principles; a married couple come to see each other with fresh eyes… A stand out in the strong ensemble cast is Anthony Hopkins with his affecting portrayal of a man grieving his long-lost daughter. Director Fernando Meirelles Cast Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins UK/Austria/France/Brazil 2012, 1h55m, English, German, Arabic, French, Portuguese & Russian with subtitles, CTBC
The Forgiveness of Blood Friday 17 – Thursday 23 August Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small Albanian town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to set up his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute that leaves a fellow villager murdered. According to a centuries-old code of law, this entitles the dead man’s family to take the life of a male from Nik’s family as retribution. His uncle in jail and his father in hiding, Nik is the prime target and confined to the home while his younger sister Rudina (Sindi Lacej) is forced to leave school and take over their father’s business. A powerful and richly textured second feature from award-winning director Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace). Programme notes are available in the cinema and online at www.glasgowfilm.org Director Joshua Marston / Cast Tristan Halilaj, Sindi Lacej, Refet Abazi USA/Albania/Denmark/Italy 2011, 1h49m, Albanian with subtitles, CTBC
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Shadow Dancer Friday 24 August – Thursday 6 September From the Oscar-winning director of Man on Wire comes a taut thriller set in 1990s Belfast. Colette McVeigh (Andrea Riseborough) is a mother and spy caught up on both sides of the Troubles. Following a tense journey on the London underground, she becomes a reluctant informant for MI5, putting her life in danger to protect her relationship with her young son. Torn between her passionately Republican family and her MI5 handler (Clive Owen), Colette returns to Ireland to report on local IRA activity. This is a tense exploration of trust, betrayal and loyalty that has drawn comparisons with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. An opaque, slow-burning but brilliant thriller about the compulsions of terrorism. The Guardian Director James Marsh Cast Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Aidan Gillen UK/Ireland 2012, 1h41m, 15
Strawberry Fields Tuesday 31 July (12.45/18.15)
A Simple Life Tao jie
Friday 24 – Monday 27 August Since her teenage years, orphaned Ah Tao (Deannie Yip) has worked as an amah – a servant – for the Leung family, witnessing every aspect of their lives. Now, after sixty years of service, she is looking after Roger, the only member of the family still resident in Hong Kong. When Ah Tao suffers a stroke, she announces that she wants to quit her job and move into a nursing home. As she adjusts to her new life and new ‘family’ at the home, Roger visits regularly and comes to realise how much she means to him. This seemingly simple drama of shifting relationships is deeply human and emotionally resonant. Deannie Yip won Best Actress at Venice Film Festival 2011. Director Ann Hui Cast Andy Lau, Deannie Yip, Lawrence Ah Mon Hong Kong 2011, 1h58m, Cantonese, English & Mandarin with subtitles, CTBC
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Strawberry Fields explores the unbreakable bond held between siblings. Freespirited and mysterious Gillian (Anna Madeley) takes up a casual job picking strawberries, flirts with rugged farmhand Kev (Emun Elliott) and enjoys the heady delights of summer. Her whimsical idyll is punctured when her sister Emily (Christine Bottomley) arrives, whose demanding ways seem to be the reason Gillian wants to escape her past. A battle of wills between the two women ensues, with Kev caught in the crossfire. Seductively filmed in the Kent countryside and featuring outstanding performances from its cast, Strawberry Fields offers a distinct and refreshingly feminine spin on a complex story of lust, rivalry and liberation. The screening at 18.15 will be followed by a Q&A with director Frances Lea. Director Frances Lea / Cast Christine Bottomley, Emun Elliott, Anna Madeley / UK 2012, 1h24m, N/C 15+
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Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Friday 10 – Thursday 16 August
Tuesday 7 (20.20) & Wednesday 8 August (14.00/18.15) Seductive, fearless and outrageous, Marina Abramovic has been redefining what art is for forty years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her physical and mental limits – and at times risking her life in the process – she creates performances that are challenging, shocking and moving. This documentary takes us inside Marina’s world, following her as she prepares for a major retrospective of her work at MoMA in New York in 2010. This is a mesmerizing cinematic journey inside the world of radical performance, and an intimate portrait of an artist who truly deserves to be described as the ‘mother of performance art’. Director Matthew Akers / USA 2012, 1h46m, N/C 15+
Ai Weiwei is China’s most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop of strict censorship and an unresponsive legal system, Ai expresses himself and organises people through art and social media. In response, Chinese authorities have shut down his blog, beaten him up, bulldozed his newly built studio, and held him in secret detention. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is the inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics. First-time director Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai while working as a journalist in China. Her detailed portrait provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figures. Director Alison Klayman USA 2012, 1h31m, Mandarin with subtitles, 15
Swandown Monday 20 – Wednesday 22 August Swandown is a travelogue and odyssey of Olympian ambition; a poetic film-diary about encounter, myth and culture. It is also an endurance test and pedal-marathon in which Andrew Kötting (the filmmaker) and Iain Sinclair (the writer) pedal a swan-shaped pedalo from the seaside in Hastings to Hackney in London, via the English inland waterways. With a nod to Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo and a pinch of Dada, Swandown documents their epic journey, on which they are joined by invited guests including comedian Stewart Lee, writer Alan Moore and actor Dudley Sutton. Cornerhouse Director Andrew Kötting UK 2012, 1h38m, 12A: Contains one use of strong language
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The Last Projectionist
You’ve Been Trumped
Monday 9 July (18.10)
Friday 13 – Tuesday 17 July
The Last Projectionist charts the amazing history of UK independent cinema, taking a tour of some of the most magical picture houses in the world. The story centres on The Electric in Birmingham, the oldest working cinema in Britain. From its silent beginnings in 1909; to a news and cartoon cinema during the Second World War; a porn cinema in the 70s and 80s; then saved from demolition and restored to its art deco glory in 2004… Accompanied by unseen archive and beautifully shot in HD, the film goes on to explore the rapid advance of digital cinema and the likely demise of 35mm film.
Funny, inspiring and shocking in equal measure, this documentary charts the arrival and conquest of Donald Trump’s golf course and hotel development in an area of outstanding natural beauty on Scotland’s Aberdeenshire coast. When first proposed, the local authority decisively rejects the billionaire’s planning application but in an unprecedented move, the Scottish Government overturns the decision, arguing the case for economic development. The stage is set for an extraordinary summer of discontent, as the bulldozers spring into action, water gets shut off and the police descend on the home owners who, in direct homage to Local Hero, refuse to sell their land.
Director Tom Lawes will participate in a Q&A session following the screening. Director Tom Lawes UK 2011, 1h20m, 12A: contains moderate sex references
Director Anthony Baxter UK 2011, 1h35m, N/C 12+
Nostalgia for the Light Nostalgia de la luz Friday 20 – Sunday 22 July One of the most distinctive documentaries in recent years, Nostalgia for the Light is a thought-provoking look at two groups of people at work in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Astronomers scour the sky for clues as to the origins of humankind whilst on the ground relatives of political prisoners, killed in Pinochet’s concentration camps, search for their remains which are believed to be dumped there. The film juxtaposes personal stories and a political backdrop with the wonderment and mystery of outer space to form a fascinating and intelligent mediation on the passing of time and humanity’s relationship to its environment and itself. The screening on Friday 20 July (20.30) will be introduced by documentary filmmaker Nick Higgins. Director Patricio Guzmán / France/Germany/Chile 2010, 1h30m, Spanish with subtitles, 12A: Contains images of dead bodies
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Woody Allen: A Documentary
Searching For Sugar Man
Friday 3 – Monday 6 August
Friday 17 – Thursday 23 August
From the director of Curb Your Enthusiasm comes an affectionate and warmly celebratory profile of Woody Allen’s career from his time as a writer in the 1950s to the contemporary success of Midnight in Paris. Interviews with Allen at home, footage of him on set, and clips from his films (including Sleeper, Annie Hall and Zelig) present a broad overview of his impressive sixty-year career. Allen is in funny, frank, self-disparaging form, and the vast cast of friends and colleagues who review his life and work include Diane Keaton, Martin Scorsese and Sean Penn. A real treat for Woody Allen fans.
Searching for Sugar Man is a tribute to the talent of Detroit-born singer-songwriter Rodriguez and tells the true story of the greatest 70s rock star that never was. After releasing two critically-acclaimed albums in the early 70s, which failed commercially and led to the end of his record contract, Rodriguez disappeared amid rumours that he had committed suicide live on stage. In South Africa, however, it was a different story. The albums were hugely popular, Rodriguez became bigger than The Rolling Stones and his music was the soundtrack to the lives of many, including two men who set out to discover what happened to their hero in this engaging documentary.
I watched this engaging film with a great big smile on my face. Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian See p20 for details of our screening of Annie Hall. Director Robert B Weide / USA 2012, 1h53m, 15
Director Malik Bendjelloul Sweden/UK 2012, 1h25m, 12A: Contains one use of strong language and moderate drug references
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress Friday 17 – Sunday 19 August El Bulli: Cooking in Progress offers a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes at the Spanish restaurant hailed as the most influential eatery in the world. For six months of the year, renowned chef Ferran Adrià closes his restaurant and works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season. During this time they rethink the very idea of fine dining, creating meals that are inventive and odd, part science, part craft and with perhaps just a hint of magic – as Adrià himself puts it, ‘the more bewilderment, the better!’. This is an elegant, detailed study of food as avant-garde art. Director Gereon Wetzel Germany 2011, 1h48m, Catalan & French with subtitles, CTBC
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Planet of Snail
Ping Pong
Monday 27 – Thursday 30 August
Sunday 12 – Tuesday 14 August
Award-winning documentary Planet of Snail takes viewers into the world of Young-Chan, a man who has been blind and deaf since birth. With the help of his wife Soon-Ho he learns to interact with the outside world, the two communicating by touching each others’ fingers as if playing the piano. Yet Soon-Ho cannot always be there for Young-Chan, as she herself suffers from a damaging spinal disability meaning the two must also learn to live alone. From South Korea comes a documentary of great poetry and tenderness, an exploration of the senses that marvels at life’s small wonders.
Welcome to the over-eighties category of the World Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia. Eight pensioners from around the world come together to compete to win the title including Terry (eighty-one) who had been given a week to live, Les (ninety) who also competes in triathlon, weightlifting, shotput and hammer throw, and Dorothy (100), who creates a sensation as the oldest competitor at the championships. This is a heart-warming documentary that marks the universal appeal of sport, celebrates the touching stories of the tenacious competitors and reminds us all that you’re never too old for gold.
Director Seung-Jun Yi South Korea 2011, 1h27m, Korean with subtitles, N/C 8+
Director Hugh Hartford UK 2012, 1h16m, PG
Keep Her Lit Tuesday 21 August (18.30) Roddy Buchanan’s beautiful and playful film Keep Her Lit invites viewers in to the cultural experience surrounding the Olympic Torch Relay, which travelled across Scotland in June 2012, and follows the thousands of people who sang in celebration of Scotland’s ‘Summer of Song’ and the values of the Olympic Flame – peace, unity and friendship. Against a backdrop of stunning natural landscapes and vibrant cities, Keep Her Lit leaps onto islands, charges up hillsides and takes us on a journey into the very heart of communities. This is the public premiere of Keep Her Lit. This screening will be introduced by director Roddy Buchanan. Free tickets are available on the day from GFT’s Box Office. ‘Summer of Song’ supported by Creative Scotland Director Roddy Buchanan / Scotland 2012, 1h approx, U
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ON YOUR MARKS To get you in the mood for the 2012 Olympics we bring you four films that explore what it takes to become a gold medal athlete: dedication, drive and sheer raw talent. See p27 for details of our screening of Personal Best on Sunday 22 July (19.45).
The Athlete
Town of Runners
Wednesday 4 July (20.30)
Monday 16 – Wednesday 18 July
At the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila, the quiet son of an Ethiopian shepherd, became the first African to win a gold medal. Four years later at the Tokyo Olympics he became the first person in history to take the marathon title twice in a row. He returned home a hero, was promoted in the Imperial Bodyguard and given gifts by the Emperor. But soon fate would present this remarkable champion with an even greater challenge; to dig deep within, not just to run the next mile, but to find the will to live. This extraordinary feature blends biopic with documentary – not since Raging Bull has the life of an athlete been rendered with such emotional power and cinematic grace.
Bekoji, a small town in Ethiopia, is home to a string of outstanding Ethiopian Olympic runners including the two current Olympic and World Champions Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele. The children in Bekoji get up at dawn to run with their coach, and are frank about their hopes of becoming famous athletes. Their options are clear: work endlessly in agriculture, or free themselves from that grinding poverty through athletics. We follow a pair of promising runners, Hawii and Alemi, as they work towards the national competitions. At the same time, we witness the creeping modernisation of Bekoji. Town of Runners reveals the real, life-long toil required to be a successful athlete and the hopeful, determined face of an African nation.
Directors Davy Frankel, Rasselas Lakew Cast Rasselas Lakew, Dag Malmberg, Ruta Gedmintas Ethiopia 2009, 1h32m, English & Amharic with subtitles, PG
Director Jerry Rothwell Ethiopia/UK 2012, 1h29m, Amharic & Oromo with subtitles, PG
Chariots of Fire Monday 23 – Wednesday 25 July Winner of four Academy Awards, this modern classic is based on the true story of two British athletes who competed as runners in the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a serious Christian Scotsman, believes that he has to succeed as a testament to his religious faith. Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) is a Jewish Englishman who wants desperately to prove to the world that Jews are not inferior. The film crosscuts between each man’s life as he trains for the competition, fuelled by these very different desires. This sports epic contains one of the most memorable scenes in film history: the iconic slow-motion running sequence to that theme tune must be experienced on the big screen at least once. Director Hugh Hudson / Cast Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Ian Holm / UK 1981, 2h4m, U
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SUMmER OF LOVE We’ve gathered together some of our all-time favourite films on the theme of love – these aren’t your straight-forward romances, they cover love in all its messy, euphoric, complex splendor. If the weather outside disappoints, we can guarantee a long hot summer inside the cinema... See p27 for our screening of My Summer of Love on Sunday 19 August (19.45). Ticket deal – see 5 films in this season for £25. No further discounts apply.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Thursday 5 July (18.00) Repeatedly ranked as one of the top films of the 2000s, this swirling, trippy sci-fi rom-com won Best Original Screenplay at the 2004 Oscars. When Joel (Jim Carrey) discovers that ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had her memories of their relationship erased, he decides to do the same. Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman plays his tricks with narrative, director Michel Gondry does his ‘kindergarten arts and crafts aesthetic’ thing, and the ensemble cast surpass themselves by injecting the film with a heady tenderness that will have you cartwheeling and weeping alternately. Director Michel Gondry / Cast Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet USA 2004, 1h49m, 15
I Know Where I’m Going! Thursday 12 July (18.15) While awaiting access to England’s Technicolor cameras for their upcoming super-production Stairway to Heaven, the producer-director team of Powell and Pressburger dashed off this delightful ‘personal’ project. Famously written – from original story to screenplay – in less than a week, I Know Where I’m Going stars Oscar-winning actress Wendy Hiller as young, middle-class English woman Joan Webster, en route to the Isle of Mull where her future husband lives. It’s a marriage of convenience, however, and when Joan is stranded in a colourful Scottish coastal town, it becomes clear that the forces of nature have something very different planned for her. Directors Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Cast Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Petula Clark UK 1945, 1h31m, U
Brokeback Mountain Thursday 19 July (17.50) E Annie Proulx’s short story is transformed into a beautiful, epic Western and an Oscar-winning classic of gay cinema by director Ang Lee. Young cowboys Ennis (Heath Ledger) and Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) are hired to corral sheep on a remote mountainside. Their newfound friendship develops into a physical relationship, but the two are eventually separated when their job comes to an end. Although they follow different paths – one becoming a father and the other marrying into a successful business – the pair reunite years later. Each is affected profoundly by the rekindling of their old feelings, but what will continuing their hidden relationship cost them? Director Ang Lee / Cast Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal / USA/Canada 2005, 2h14m, 15
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Lost in Translation
The Apartment
Thursday 26 July (18.20)
Wednesday 1 (20.15) & Thursday 2 August (18.10)
Following her striking screen adaptation of The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola directed this Oscar-winning comedy drama, a story of love and friendship blooming under unlikely circumstances. The career of well-known actor Bob (Bill Murray) has gone into a tailspin; needing work, he takes a very large fee to appear in a Japanese whisky commercial. Feeling no small degree of culture shock in Japan, Bob spends most of his non-working hours at his hotel, where he meets neglected twenty-something newlywed Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson). Beyond their shared bemusement and confusion with the sights and sounds of Tokyo, the two share a similar dissatisfaction with their lives. Becoming fast friends, they begin to wonder if their sudden friendship might develop into something more. Director Sofia Coppola Cast Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovani Ribisi USA/Japan 2003, 1h44m, 15
The winner of five Academy Awards and nominated for five more, Billy Wilder’s follow-up to Some Like it Hot is still considered one of the greatest films of all time. Lonely insurance company drone CC Baxter (Jack Lemmon) finally gets his big chance to scale the corporate ladder: by allowing his managers to use his apartment for their extramarital affairs. While uncomfortable with the situation, CC finds the arrangement works to his advantage – until the involvement of charming elevator operator Fran (Shirley MacLaine) throws a spanner in the works. Controversial for its time, The Apartment blends diamond-sharp satire with sorrowful romance, aided by the now-legendary chemistry between its two leads. Director Billy Wilder Cast Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray USA 1960, 2h5m, PG
Annie Hall Thursday 9 August (14.30/18.30) Comedian Alvy Singer is trying to understand why his relationship with girlfriend Annie Hall ended a year ago. What follows is a charming, awkward, honest and hilarious portrait of the relationship (and the woman) that ultimately defines Alvy’s view of the romantic: love is essential, especially if it’s neurotic. With a star-studded cast including Christopher Walken, Shelley Duvall and Carol Kane, ‘just about everyone’s favourite Woody Allen movie’ became the winner of four Oscars, including a well-deserved Best Actress win for Keaton’s star-turn as the endlessly quirky Annie. See p16 for our screenings of Woody Allen: A Documentary (3–6 August). Director Woody Allen / Cast Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Carol Kane USA 1977, 1h33m, 15
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SUMmER OF LOVE cont... Before Sunrise
Jules et Jim
Thursday 16 August (18.00)
Thursday 23 August (13.45/18.15)
Richard Linklater’s third feature is a sweet, intelligent romantic comedy filmed primarily against the stunning backdrop of Austria. Jesse (Ethan Hawke), a young American travelling through Europe, meets French student Celine (Julie Delpy) on a train. Leaving the train together, they begin exploring Vienna, walking and talking into the small hours of the morning and slowly falling in love as the minutes tick away before Jesse’s return to the US. Filled with engaging dialogue, Before Sunrise is a witty, poignant romance, powered along by the natural electricity between Hawke and Delpy.
Based on Henri-Pierre Roché’s semi-autobiographical novel, Jules et Jim is an unconventional love story and one of the seminal products of the French New Wave. Set before, during and after the First World War, the film paints a stylish, ultimately gloomy picture of two best friends – the Frenchman Jim, and the Austrian Jules – who fall in love with the free-spirited, capricious Catherine. Though she marries Jules, Catherine’s affections cannot be tied down, and the three find that over the course of time an unexpected new form of relationship is possible...
Director Richard Linklater Cast Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert USA/Austria/Switzerland 1995, 1h41m, 15
There is joy in the filmmaking that feels fresh today and felt audacious at the time. Roger Ebert Director François Truffaut Cast Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre France 1962, 1h45m, French with subtitles, PG
William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet Thursday 30 August (18.00) Baz Luhrmann transfers Verona to Verona Beach, Florida, in this iconoclastic, flamboyant rendering of the bard’s classic tale of love and tragedy. Here the Montagues and Capulets act like modern gangs with vendettas and blood feuds. Although the swords have become guns, the language remains the same and the tragedy of the star-crossed lovers Juliet (Claire Danes) and Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) is as poignant as ever. Indeed, good as the rest of the cast are (including Pete Postlethwaite as Father Laurence and Miriam Margolyes as Juliet’s nurse), it’s DiCaprio and Danes who steal the show as the innocent and impassioned young couple. A sexy, innovative and memorably sumptuous feast for eye and ear. Director Baz Luhrmann Cast Claire Danes, Leonardo DiCaprio, Pete Postlethwaite USA 1996, 2h, 12
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Dark Horse
Monday 30 July – Wednesday 1 August
Friday 10 – Sunday 12 August
William Friedkin is back with a film that is fullfrontal in every sense. When drug dealer Chris (Emile Hirsch) has to come up with six-thousand dollars quick or he’s dead, he and his father Ansel (Thomas Haden Church) hatch a plan to bump off Chris’s mother and cash in her life-insurance policy. Enter Detective ‘Killer’ Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a hired hit man with the manners of a Southern gentleman, who agrees to do the job but wants a retainer. The scheming pair lack the cash so decide to loan out Chris’ innocent younger sister Dottie (Juno Temple) as sexual collateral instead… Complications ensue in this enjoyably cynical, blood-spattered noir-comedy that is not for the faint-hearted.
Writer/director Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness) examines the irretrievability of youth and the mercilessness of time passing in his new black comedy Dark Horse. Abe (Jordan Gelber) is a blustering thirty-something underachiever, ‘too old for American Idol’ and employed at his father’s company where he spends his days buying Thundercats figures on eBay when he should be working. Miranda (Selma Blair) is a heavily-drugged chronic depressive, still pining for her dashing ex-boyfriend. Abe proposes marriage on their very first date. Miranda, unsurprisingly, turns him down flat. But wait. Can it be that these mismatched lovers have more in common than meets the eye? The fine line between satire and tragedy blur throughout this waywardly endearing film.
Director William Friedkin Cast Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple USA 2011, 1h43m, 18
Director Todd Solondz Cast Jordan Gelber, Selma Blair, Christopher Walken USA 2011, 1h24m, CTBC
Prometheus 3D Monday 27 – Wednesday 29 August In the late 21st century, the crew of the spaceship Prometheus follow a star map discovered among the remnants of several ancient Earth cultures. Led to a distant world and an advanced civilization, the crew seeks the origins of humanity, but instead discovers a terrible threat that could cause the extinction of the human race. Sharing ‘strands of Alien’s DNA’, Ridley Scott’s hugely anticipated Prometheus is the film event of the year, having already grossed over $140 million worldwide and opened to critical acclaim, praised for its ambition, intriguing ideas, haunting visual grandeur and compelling performances – particularly from Michael Fassbender (Shame, X-Men: First Class) as fastidious, soulless android David. £1.50 on top of ticket prices Director Ridley Scott / Cast Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson USA 2012, 2h4m, 15
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Cinema Paradiso Sunday 8 (19.30) & Tuesday 10 July (12.45) The ultimate love letter to cinema. Giuseppe Tornatore’s award-winning comedy drama offers a nostalgic look at films and the effect they have on a young boy who grows up in and around the title village movie theatre. The story begins in the present as a Sicilian mother pines for her estranged son, Salvatore, who left many years ago and has since become a prominent film director. He finally returns to his home village to attend the funeral of the town’s former film projectionist, Alfredo, and, in so doing, embarks upon a journey into his boyhood… The film is heart-warming, escapist and inspiring to armchair filmmakers everywhere. Director Giuseppe Tornatore Cast Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili Italy/France 1988, 2h3m, Italian with subtitles, PG
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Monday 23 – Wednesday 25 July Newly restored for its fortieth anniversary, this sly, slippery comedy of bourgeois manners remains one of the finest achievements of Luis Buñuel’s dazzlingly creative late period. A compelling string of set-pieces is loosely linked by the comic conceit of six well-to-do friends repeatedly frustrated, in one bizarre way or another, in their attempts to sit down and have a meal together. The film observes, with coolly detached amusement, both the group’s insouciance and their absurd concern with conspicuously ‘correct’ behaviour in whatever strange situations chance may throw their way. Discreetly dreamlike, charmingly stylish and quite unrepentantly surreal, it’s clearly the work of a master in his wickedly witty prime. BFI Director Luis Buñuel Cast Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stéphane Audran France/Italy/Spain 1972, 1h41m, French & Spanish with subtitles, 15
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Don’t Look Now Monday 6 – Wednesday 8 August Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie star in Nicolas Roeg’s superbly chilling adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s supernatural novel. Following the death of their daughter, John and Laura Baxter travel to Venice where he is to oversee the restoration of an old church. Here they encounter a pair of elderly sisters: one of them a blind psychic who claims to have been in communication with the couple’s dead child. While Laura is intrigued, John resists the idea, despite the possibility that he is having his own visions that threaten to put his life in danger… Recently voted the Best British Film of all time in a Time Out poll of filmmakers and critics, Don’t Look Now screens here from a digitally restoration print. Director Nicolas Roeg / Cast Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason UK/Italy 1973, 1h50m, 15
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A Star is Born Sunday 19 (14.30) & Tuesday 21 August (12.45) In this classic tale Judy Garland plays Esther, a young aspiring actress/singer who meets movie star Norman (James Mason) when he drunkenly stumbles into her club one night. After a ropey start they become firm friends and then lovers but his self-destructive behaviour and drinking puts them on a road to tragedy as her star ascends and his descends. Director George Cukor / Cast Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson / USA 1954, 3h1m, U
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Friday the 13th
Pretty in Pink
Friday 13 July (23.00)
Friday 27 July (23.00)
Suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia or fear of Friday the 13th? Well, you’d best stay home tonight and hide under the covers while the rest of us enjoy the original slasher movie that spawned twelve sequels and many more imitations. A motley crew of teenagers whose idea of relaxation is a game of strip Monopoly take jobs at a run-down summer camp, but get gorily hacked and sliced to death by a local nutter almost before they’ve had time to unpack. With its heady mix of sex, horror and violent death there’s plenty to satisfy the dedicated gore-hound.
Being young isn’t easy, no sir. The third in a trilogy of John Hughes-penned 80s teen romances starring that ubiquitous red head Molly Ringwald, Pretty in Pink asks the big question: will she/won’t she go to the prom? And who should she go with – Blane the Unbelievably Rich Kid with a BMW, or Duckie her Oddball Best Friend who’s hopelessly in love with her? The wild costumes, wacko hairdos and classic 80s soundtrack (Psychedelic Furs, The Smiths etc) make this a hugely enjoyable nostalgia trip. Of course she ends up with the wrong guy…
Director Sean Cunningham Cast Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor USA 1980, 1h35m, 18
Director Howard Deutch Cast Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, Harry Dean Stanton USA 1986, 1h36m, 15
Total Recall Friday 10 August (23.00) Before Len Wiseman’s remake is released this August, remind yourself of the joys of Paul Verhoeven’s kick-ass original. In the year 2084, a construction worker (Arnie at his best as a vulnerable tough-guy) investigates his strange recurring dream only to uncover a new life, a different personality and foul play aplenty. Inspired by a Philip K Dick short story, this exploration of identity and self-determination is fast and furious: packed with impressive stunts, two great female characters and (literally) eye-popping visuals. A nonstop roller-coaster ride of top-flight action entertainment that isn’t afraid to have a brain or two in its head. Empire Magazine Director Paul Verhoeven / Cast Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside USA 1990, 1h53m, 15
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Back to the Future Sunday 1 July (19.45)
After a time travel experiment goes wrong, Marty McFly ends up in 1955. Being hit by a car sets off a chain of events that put his very existence in jeopardy. He seeks out a much younger version of his friend, the eccentric but brilliant Doc Brown, whose genius got him to the 50s in the first place. But the only way he can get ‘back to the future’ is by ensuring that his mum and dad get together, something that seems unlikely to happen since Marty’s mum thinks he’s a dreamboat... This screening will be preceded by a Q&A with comic book artist Frank Quitely. Chaired by Mark Millar. Director Robert Zemeckis Cast Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover USA 1985, 1h55m, PG
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Sunday 5 August (19.45) In a search of a dead planet on which to test a new matterreorganising and terraforming device called Genesis, the USS Reliant comes to Ceti Alpha V. Upon investigating a strange signal, several crew members unwittingly help Khan, a marooned warlord, escape a fifteen-year exile which Captain James T Kirk had placed him under. Khan butchers everyone after learning of the Genesis device, and lays a cunning trap for the now Admiral Kirk. Easily the greatest of the Trek films, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is an enormously satisfying adventure, made with skill and care. Eye For Film This screening will be introduced by Mark Millar. Director Nicholas Meyer Cast William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley USA 1982, 1h48m, 12
Late Night Classic
The Thing Friday 24 August (23.00) An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing a lone husky by helicopter. When the chopper crashes, only the dog survives, leaving no explanation for the chase. The scientists take the animal in but soon wish they hadn’t... This influential horror sci-fi stars Kurt Russell as a whisky-swigging pilot who unwittingly becomes defender of the planet when his research team comes in contact with a body-invading alien. A peerless masterpiece of relentless suspense, retina-wrecking visual excess and outright, nihilistic terror. Empire Magazine Director John Carpenter / Cast Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David USA 1982, 1h49m, 18
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Lock Up Your Daughters presents
Lock Up Your Daughters presents
Sunday 22 July (19.45)
Sunday 19 August (19.45)
Robert Towne’s Personal Best tells the story of two women who are in competition for pentathlon squad places on the 1980 US Olympics team – the team that ended up not going to Moscow. The women are attracted to one another almost at first sight, and what begins as a tentative exploration develops into a passionate relationship. Endowed with remarkable performances, superb photography, and a clear vision of what matters to its characters, Personal Best is an underappreciated gem.
Set over one summer in the Yorkshire countryside, My Summer of Love explores the relationship between Tamsin (Emily Blunt) and Mona (Natalie Press). Following a chance encounter one afternoon, the pair form an immediate rapport, finding common ground in their equally dysfunctional families despite their vastly different social backgrounds. The film is beautifully shot and perfectly paced, capturing the narcissistic intensity of teenage girls reminiscent of films such as Heavenly Creatures and Fun.
Personal Best
Preceded by short film Loop Planes (13m) by Robin Wilby and Austen Rachlis. This screening will be introduced by a representative from the Equality Network who will speak about the ongoing problem of homophobia and transphobia in sport. Director Robert Towne Cast Mariel Hemingway, Patrice Donnelly, Scott Glenn USA 1982, 2h7m, 18
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My Summer of Love
Preceded by short film Time After Time (4m) by Laurie Thomas. This screening will be introduced by a special LUYD guest. Director Pawel Pawlikowski Cast Natalie Press, Emily Blunt, Paddy Considine UK 2004, 1h26m, 15
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cinema city New Glasgow Shorts
Young Adam
Monday 30 July (18.30)
Tuesday 28 August (18.30)
Glasgow seems to appear more than ever on the big screen, whether playing itself in the likes of Neds and The Angels’ Share, or slapping on some grease paint and tarting up as Philadelphia or San Francisco in World War Z and Cloud Atlas. But the most unexpected, authentic and comic portraits of the city are often found in short films made by emerging local talent. Glasgow Short Film Festival has rounded up a motley crew of recent favourites – some we have already screened at the Festival, others are showing publicly for the first time. From no-frills guerrilla efforts to big budget glossy productions, each of these live-action fiction films captures something unique to Glasgow.
Drifter and aspiring writer Joe (Ewan McGregor) is working on a barge on the Edinburgh-Glasgow canal with his employer Les (Peter Mullan) and his wife Ella (Tilda Swinton). As the film opens, Joe and Les fish a young woman’s body out of the murky Clyde. Did an accident lead her there, or something more sinister? The police do not suspect foul play. However we soon discover Joe had a past with the dead woman making him feel culpable. Meanwhile, tensions run high on the barge. Ella, trapped in a loveless marriage to Les, forms a passionate bond with Joe making the closed quarters of the barge even more claustrophobic. A melancholic and moodily shot Glasgow film told in flashbacks and subtle exchanges with first class turns from McGregor and Swinton.
We expect to welcome several of the filmmakers to the screening to introduce their work and answer questions. Directors Various UK 2011–12, 1h30m, N/C 15+
Director David Mackenzie Cast Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan UK/France 2003, 1h37m, 18
I Do Not Know What it is I Am Like Saturday 30 June (15.40) & Monday 2 July (18.00) Come and meditate on your inner animal at this rare screening of internationally acclaimed video artist Bill Viola’s seminal work I Do Not Know What it is I Am Like. An epic journey in five chapters, Viola describes the film as a ‘personal investigation of the inner states and connections to animal consciousness we all carry within’. Visually exciting, moving and thought-provoking: Viola composes a timeless view of the natural world and our place in it. All tickets are £4 Director Bill Viola / USA 1986, 1h29m, N/C 12+ Produced in association with The Contemporary Art Television Fund, Boston and ZDF, Germany / Photo: Kira Perov
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Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Tuesday 3 July (17.45)
Tuesday 17 July (18.10)
‘When there’s no more room in hell the dead will walk the earth.’ Often imitated but never bettered, George Romero’s thought-provoking, and gruesome, full-colour sequel to his masterful Night of the Living Dead is one of the horror genre’s few epics. When four very different personalities decide to shelter from the zombie apocalypse within the confines of a shopping mall it seems, at first, to be a consumerist dream come true. However, it soon becomes clear that no amount of overflowing shopping baskets can distract from the very real threat of the flesh-eating ghouls that surround them! Intelligent in scope, and featuring enough spilt entrails to keep even the most demanding fear-fan pleased, Dawn of the Dead is a certified carnage-packed classic.
This long-awaited, gruesome sequel to Dawn of the Dead is, perhaps, director George Romero’s most underrated chiller. Here the shambling dead outnumber the human race by 400,000 to one and there is no sign that things are going to improve. Consequently, a small crew of militia and scientists find themselves holed up in a fourteen-mile long underground missile silo. While the doctors experiment on the zombies in order to try and find a way to control them, the soldiers become increasingly impatient with the lack of results. This tension soon spills into sexual harassment, shouting matches and brutal murder – something which is only overshadowed by the increasingly frantic flesh-eating hordes that are eager to find their next lunch…
Director George Romero Cast Ken Foree, David Emge, Gaylen Ross USA 1978, 2h6m, 18
Director George Romero Cast Joe Pilato, Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander USA 1985, 1h42m, 18
Arrow Video presents
Zombie Flesh-Eaters Sunday 26 August (17.00) Lucio Fulci’s horror classic, taking in everything from mad scientists and voodoo to the surreal sight of a zombie fighting a shark, returns to the big screen uncut and mastered in HD. One of the original ‘video nasties’, this atmospheric slice of Italian gothic came hot on the heels of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead and cemented itself as a favourite of fear-fans and filmmakers alike (its most ardent supporters include Guillermo Del Toro, Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino). See it on the big screen before Arrow’s Blu Ray release of the movie later in 2012. Preceded by a short trailer reel of Italian flesh-crunching carnage! GFT is delighted that the film’s legendary composer, Fabio Frizzi, will be in attendance for a Q&A session, hosted by Calum Waddell, following the screening. Director Lucio Fulci / Cast Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Tisa Farrow Italy 1979, 1h31m, 18
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The Found Footage Festival
Keith James: The Songs of Nick Drake
Sunday 8 July (20.00)
Tuesday 10 July (20.00)
The Found Footage Festival, the acclaimed showcase of odd and hilarious found videos, will make its Scottish debut at GFT. Founded in New York City in 2004, the FFF is a one-ofa-kind event featuring VHS tapes discovered at thrift shops and garage sales throughout North America. Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show with David Letterman) host each screening in person and provide their unique observations and commentary on these found video obscurities.
Nick Drake is one of the most revered and loved of all of Britain’s singer/songwriters. He recorded three cherished albums before his tragic death in 1974, aged only twenty-six. Although Drake failed to find a large audience during his lifetime, his work has gradually achieved wider recognition and has gone on to influence artists from Robert Smith to Kate Bush. Since his music has been publicly re-evaluated, he is now considered a national treasure.
Skull-crushingly funny. A.V. Club Tickets £10 full price / £9 CineCard holders 1h30m, N/C 15+
Singer/guitarist Keith James brings his hugely popular concert The Songs of Nick Drake to GFT. This evening of beautiful acoustic music begins with a documentary about Drake’s life and music. Tickets £10 full price / £9 CineCard holders Approx 2h30m (includes film, concert and a 15min interval), N/C 15+
Monorail Film Club presents
Practical Electronica Sunday 26 August (19.45) This experimental documentary from multi-media artist Ian Helliwell examines Fred Judd’s activity with electronics and musique concrete during the 1950s and 60s. Although high profile at that time via the soundtrack for ITV sci-fi puppet series Space Patrol, and regular appearances on BBC radio, Judd’s work has since been overlooked and slipped into obscurity. Exploring the innovative career of this English musician, inventor, engineer, designer and author, the focus is on his experimental sound, filling in a lost chapter in early electronic music history. This screening will be introduced by director Ian Helliwell who will also participate in a Q&A following the film. Director Ian Helliwell / UK 2010, 1h1m, N/C 8+
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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE Pre-recorded screenings
NT Live: Frankenstein Sunday 1 July (19.30): Jonny Lee Miller as the Creature Sunday 15 July (19.30): Benedict Cumberbatch as the Creature Sunday 29 July (19.30): Jonny Lee Miller as the Creature 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. Frankenstein returns to GFT and cinemas around the world in July for a limited season of pre-recorded encore screenings. Tickets: £12 / £10 to CineCard holders, or see any two performances for £20 Director Danny Boyle / Cast Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonny Lee Miller, Naomie Harris / UK 2011, 2h approx (no interval), 15
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NT Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Thursday 6 September (doors open 18.45, curtain up 19.00) Mark Haddon’s celebrated, multi-award-winning novel has been beautifully and imaginatively adapted into a stage play for the first time by Simon Stephens. Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears’ dead dog, Wellington. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in his book to solve the mystery. He has an extraordinary brain, exceptional at maths but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched and he distrusts strangers. But his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that upturns his world. Tickets: £15 / £10 to CineCard holders Director Marianne Elliott Cast Matthew Barker, Niamh Cusack, Rhiannon Harper-Rafferty UK 2012, 2h30m, 12A
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Live broadcast
NT Live: The Last of the Haussmans
NT Live: Timon of Athens
Thursday 11 October (doors open 18.45, curtain up 19.00)
Thursday 1 November (doors open 18.45, curtain up 19.00)
Julie Walters plays Judy Haussman with Rory Kinnear and Helen McCrory as her children in this eagerly-anticipated new play by Stephen Beresford: a funny, touching and sometimes savage portrait of a family that’s losing its grip.
Simon Russell Beale takes the title role in Shakespeare’s strange fable of consumption, debt and ruin, written in collaboration with Thomas Middleton. Tickets: £15 / £10 to CineCard holders
Tickets: £15 / £10 to CineCard holders Director Howard Davies Cast Rory Kinnear, Helen McCrory, Julie Walters UK 2012, 3h
Director Nicholas Hytner Cast Martin Chamberlain, Simon Russell Beale UK 2012, 3h
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NT Live: The Count of Monte Cristo Thursday 17 January 2013 (doors open 18.45, curtain up 19.00) Alexandre Dumas’ classic tale is staged as a thrilling theatrical adventure for family audiences by criticallyacclaimed playwright Richard Bean. Edmond Dantes – an illiterate young sailor from Marseilles – is drawn into conspiring with the exiled Napoleon and then imprisoned for ten years. Holed up in a desolate gaol with no-one but a mad monk for company, Dantes begins an unconventional education. As his enemies become more powerful, all hope of justice and of a reunion with his sweetheart appear to be gone. But he clings onto hope until his chance comes, he escapes his prison and adopts a disguise. The Count of Monte Cristo is born. Tickets: £15 / £10 to CineCard holders Director Timothy Sheader / UK 2013, 3h, 12A
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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
The Muppets U
Johnny English Reborn PG
Saturday 7 July 11.30am (1h41m) The bumbling spy is lured out of retirement to hunt down an international group of assassins plotting to kill the Chinese PM. Audio described and captioned at 11.30am GFT screening only.
Red Dog PG
Saturday 14 July 11.30am (1h32m) A feel-good shaggy dog story from Down Under.
Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang U
Saturday 21 July 11.00am (1h49m) We’ll have clowns and magicians performing tricks followed by a screening of Nanny McPhee at 11.30am. Audio described and captioned at GFT screening only.
Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer PG
Saturday 28 July 11.30am (1h31m) It looks like Judy will be spending the summer holidays by herself. Luckily her bummer summer is saved by the arrival of her eccentric aunt Opal.
Saturday 4 August 11.00am (1h49m) Join us for some family-friendly jokes from local comedians before the screening of The Muppets at 11.30am. Audio described and captioned at 11.30am GFT screening only.
A Monster in Paris U
Saturday 11 August 11.30am (1h29m) There’s a monster on the loose in Paris!
Where the Wild Things Are PG
Saturday 18 August 11.30am (1h40m) Max runs away to a magical realm populated by fantastical creatures that crown him king. Audio described and captioned at GFT screening only.
Hugo 3D U
Saturday 25 August 11.30am (2h5m) Orphan Hugo tries to find bits and bobs for a mechanical man his late father left him. Please note: 3D glasses cost 80p extra at Cineworld Parkhead.
Access Take 2: Autism-Friendly Screenings Next Access Take 2 Screenings:
Johnny English Reborn PG Saturday 7 July, 12.30 (1h41m)
The Muppets U
Saturday 4 August, 12.30 (1h49m)
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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.
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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.
Contemporary Cinema Course
Wednesday 12 September – Wednesday 14 November Course Level: 1 (Introductory / Beginning critical engagement) An ideal beginner’s course for those wishing to broaden their critical understanding of contemporary cinema. Current releases are complemented by engaging discussion around a range of topics. Led by Dr David Archibald. The course comprises five films and five seminars (18.30–20.30) in the GFT Learning space. Films will be in early evening slots but exact times may vary. The course costs £71/£63.
GYFF Seeks New Team Members
Want to take part in Europe’s most innovative film festival for young audiences? Over 9,000 people attended Glasgow Youth Film Festival in 2012, enjoying the films, workshops and special events programmed by the Youth Team. The Team’s other Festival tasks included hosting special Q&A discussions, producing a film trailer, decorating The Arches restaurant and even singing at a concert! Many of the group have become close friends and gone on to work within the arts. Joining the Youth Team can lead to all sorts of great opportunities. We’re looking for new Youth Team members: outgoing Glasgow-based teenagers aged 15–18 who are free on Monday evenings from August onwards. We want to hear from young film fans from diverse backgrounds. All that is required of new members is enthusiasm, regular attendance and most importantly, a passion for film. If you are interested in taking part, please email paul.macgregor@glasgowfilm.org telling us why you’d be a good addition to the GYFF Youth Team and why you love GFT. Places are limited so don’t delay!
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Silver Screen
Every Tuesday at 12.45 GFT programmes films for our more discerning viewers! All tickets are £4
Faust 15
Don’t Look Now 15
Cinema Paradiso PG
Ping Pong PG
You’ve Been Trumped N/C 12+
A Star is Born U
Chariots of Fire U
Planet of Snail N/C 8+
Tuesday 3 July (12.45) – see page 8 Tuesday 10 July (12.45) – see page 23 Tuesday 17 July (12.45) – see page 15 Tuesday 24 July (12.45) – see page 18
Strawberry Fields N/C 15+
Tuesday 31 July (12.45) – see page 13
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Tuesday 7 August (12.45) – see page 23 Tuesday 14 August (12.45) – see page 17 Tuesday 21 August (12.45) – see page 24 Tuesday 28 August (12.45) – see page 17
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Regulars
Glasgore: Horror/Cult Cinema Discussion Group
Wednesday 4 July & Wednesday 1 August (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. Discuss anything from giallo to exploitation to modern independent films!
Film Discussion Group
Wednesday 11 July & Wednesday 8 August (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. Led by film writer Eddie Harrison.
The GFT Film Quiz
Tuesday 31 July & Tuesday 28 August (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. A maximum of four per team. Illustration: Terry Anderson
Seat Dedications
L31: Leo - enjoy with friends & family from Nonna & Pappa Leckie. L32: Max - enjoy with friends & family from Nonna & Pappa Leckie. WS-C1: Ray McKenzie Ushers’ Seat: Ben C G McGuigan
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Useful Information Box Office Opening Hours
Monday to Friday from 12 noon Saturday from 11am Sunday half an hour before first screening 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 deal available (see below)
Gift Vouchers
Available from Box Office.
Mailing List
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Free Enewsletter
Receive regular bulletins of films and activities at GFT, visit www.glasgowfilm.org to subscribe.
Café Cosmo
Café Cosmo is open: Monday to Friday from 12 noon Saturday from 11am Sunday half an hour before first screening 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 up-todate info). 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
BOX OFFICE 0141 332 6535
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.
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. 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.
Forthcoming Accessible Screenings Your Sister’s Sister (15)
Ping Pong (PG)
Friday 29 June – Thursday 12 July, all screenings
Sun 1 (17.00), Thurs 5 (18.45) & Mon 9 July (14.15)
Sunday 12 – Tuesday 14 August, all screenings
Take 2: Johnny English Reborn (PG)
Prometheus 3D (15)
Saturday 7 July (11.30)
Take 2: Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang (U) Saturday 21 July (11.30)
Take 2: The Muppets (U) Saturday 4 August (11.30)
Take 2: Where the Wild Things Are (PG) Saturday 18 August (11.30)
Monday 27 – Wednesday 29 August, all screenings
Due to circumstances beyond our control, occasionally areWhiteout FSC PURE PORwe Green unable to provide these accessible screenings. You are advised to check with Box Office.
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Live cinecast from London
The Genius of Hitchcock: The Lodger Saturday 21 July (Pre-show mini documentaries 19.30, feature programme 20.00) GFT and the CAV Network present a live cinecast of Alfred Hitchcock’s early British masterpiece The Lodger, restored to its former glory by the BFI National Archive and presented here with a live score performed by Nitin Sawhney and the London Symphony Orchestra. The Lodger is a suspenseful thriller shot against the backdrop of fog-shrouded London and featuring matinee idol of the day, Ivor Novello in the title role. Multi-award-winning composer and producer Nitin Sawhney composed the film’s new score and will take part in a Q&A via cinecast following the screening. Tickets: £12.00 full price / £10.00 concession 2h30m, PG