'Lunch atop a Skyscraper’ is undoubtedly a potent photograph, securely stitched into New York’s rich iconography. The oft-reproduced shot of eleven steelworkers posing precariously above the city’s streets continues to...
A Life in Progress, a portrait of a Scottish institution Alasdair Gray, is set to offer fresh insight into the iconic artist's work
Sonic Cineplex promises one of the most diverse and innovative lineups of the 2013 Glasgow Film Festival. Co-curated by Cry Parrot, aka promoter and DJ Fielding Hope, who is joined...
The Fifth Season is one of those films that borrows from everyone – there are shades of Bergman, Tarkovsky, von Trier, and a generous sprinkling of The Wicker Man –...
Derek is an outsider. Not the mysterious gunslinger type who rolls into town, but a strange oddball full of ticks and frowns. Sitting somewhere between Travis Bickle and Napoleon Dynamite,...
We anticipates good things from François Ozon's latest confection
Sarah Gavron and cinematographer David Katznelson take their camera to a dying community on the icy fringes of the arctic circle for this extraordinary doc. We spoke to Gavron
Directors Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn explore the life of Belfast record shop owner Terri Hooley (Dormer), whose career was inextricably linked to the explosion of punk and set...
The wounds left behind by colonial Europe are still taking their time to heal and it’s arguable whether cinema has soothed or aggravated them. France in particular seems pushed to...
We make much of ado about Joss Whedon ahead of his visit to Glasgow Film Fest for the UK première of his latest film, Much Ado About Nothing
Stoker marks the English language debut of contemporary South Korean cinema poster child Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Thirst), and the film is full of the striking compositions and sweeping camera movements...
The long-maligned Heaven's Gate has seen a critical resurgence in recent years, now aided by a stunning restoration from Park Circus
Based on a 2008 short by the same director, Mama is a ghost story with clear roots in Spanish cinema, twisting the classic story of lost children to focus on the...
Wadjda is the simple tale of a ten year-old girl whose only desire is to buy a bicycle so she can race with her friends. This précis admittedly suggests a...
Cloud Atlas, which has its first UK public screening at GFF, isn't the only big release this year to have used Glasgow as a filming location
Fresh from his triumphant opening Gala, we spoke to Populaire director Régis Roinsard about the making of the film
A sustained and intimate portrait absent of cameras or crew, Pablo’s Winter is a documentary posing as fiction. This considered, some of the pithy exchanges between grumpy old man Pablo...
Konrad Begg’s debut feature concerns a low-rent songsmith, Sean (Maguire), who inadvertently leaves his bride-to-be, Amy (Lorna Anderson), stranded at the alter after a night of hedonism with his gormless band-mates....
This unassuming documentary from Glasgow Women’s Library is a short and sweet introduction to Scottish filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait. Since her death in 1999 at the age of 80,...
For a teenager to do anything other than get smashed all day and draw their name on bus stops is pretty impressive. Writing, directing and shooting a feature by 18,...
