Scotland Film Event Highlights – February 2015

Love is in the air this month, with romantic films new and old heading to your cinema screens. And if you look for passion, drama and repetitive sex scenes from your date night movie, look no further than Tommy Wiseau's The Room

Preview by Becky Bartlett | 01 Feb 2015

Oh, hi readers! Fancy watching one of the worst films of all time? If so, visit the Cameo in Edinburgh on 13, 14 or 15 Feb, where The Room is screening. Written, directed by, and starring Tommy Wiseau, this bad movie has been amazing audiences for over ten years. As a bonus, The Room is screening back-to-back with the pilot for Wiseau's proposed TV sitcom, The Neighbours, and the man himself will be in attendance. Bring your plastic spoons and throw a football around with your friends for no reason – these screenings will sell out fast, so get your tickets quick.

Three films are showing at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh, accompanying Christopher Orr's exhibition, The Beguiled Eye, at Talbot Rice Gallery. The season, Darkness Visible, explores some of the themes running throughout Orr's work. On 7 Feb, JJ Abrams' nostalgic alien adventure Super 8 is screening, followed by Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (8 Feb), in which a guide takes clients across the barren Zone to a room that reportedly fulfils people's wishes. The line-up closes with Winter's Bone (9 Feb), for which Jennifer Lawrence received her first of three Oscar nominations.

The GFT in Glasgow is celebrating Valentine's Day with a programme of films all focused on – you guessed it – love. Oscar-winning romantic comedy The Philadelphia Story (13-17 Feb) features Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable vying for Katharine Hepburn's affections, while Brief Encounter and The Graduate (both 14-15 Feb) both explore forbidden love affairs. Also showing is Love is Strange (13-17 Feb), a new film starring Alfred Molina and John Lithgow as a couple finally hoping to tie the knot after 40 years.

The Filmhouse is celebrating one of the finest comedy ensembles to appear on the silver screen, with a series of Marx Brothers films throughout the month. Highly recommended are A Night at the Opera (1-3 Feb) and A Day at the Races (7-8 Feb), both showcasing the impressively diverse talents of Harpo (the silent one), Chico (the Italian one) and Groucho (the one with the moustache). What about Zeppo (the other one), you ask? You can find him in The Cocoanuts (1 Feb).

Blog-turned-studio CinemaAttic offers a platform for Spanish, Iberian and Latin American cinema and, as well as hosting regular short film nights in Edinburgh, is bringing a short film show to the CCA (5 Feb). Featuring a selection of the best Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American short films around, there's sure to be something for everyone here.