Jeff, Who Lives at Home
By Jamie Dunn. Published 08 May 2012
Through a haze of marijuana smoke we’re introduced to Jason Segel’s Jeff, a 30-year-old galumph who makes the actor’s earlier man-child characters from Knocked Up and I Love You, Man...
Film > Glasgow Film Festival 2012
The Monk
By Chris Fyvie. Published 24 April 2012Legendary orator and pillar of the church Ambrosio (Vincent Cassel) has his devotion to God thrown into question by the arrival of Valerio (Déborah François), a young woman masquarading as...
Breathing
By Jac Mantle. Published 20 April 2012Non-professional actor Thomas Schubert excells as Roman Kogler, a sullen youth in a juvenile detention centre who must succeed in his new day-release job as an undertaker in order to...
GFF 2012: Bonsái
By Nicola Balkind. Published 02 April 2012Chilean directing talent Cristián Jiménez's second feature film is one for the bookish. Bonsai's protagonist Julio (Diego Noguera) is more of a leader-on than a leading man, using his cultural...
Deadpan Poet: Director Aki Kaurismäki in interview
By Philip Concannon. Published 02 April 2012Finnish master of deadpan Aki Kaurismäki discusses his new film, Le Havre, and his future as a filmmaker
GFF 2012: This Is Not a Film
By Chris Buckle. Published 29 March 2012In 2009, Iranian director Jafar Panahi was arrested for supporting anti-Ahmadinejad protests; in 2010, he was arrested a second time, sentenced to six years imprisonment, and banned from making films...
GFF 2012: Babycall
By Chris Fyvie. Published 27 March 2012Noomi Rapace (Millennium Trilogy) turns in another ferociously intense performance as Anna, a traumatised mother relocated with her young son to escape an abusive husband. Under the unnecessarily sinister watch...
GFF 2012: Wild Bill
By Nicola Balkind. Published 22 March 2012Treading the line between gritty social realism and slick gangster action, Wild Bill brings drugs, guns and family drama to Stratford, London. This directorial debut from actor Dexter Fletcher follows...
GFF 2012: The Kid With a Bike
By Philip Concannon. Published 22 March 2012All you really need to know about the Dardenne brothers' new film is that it concerns a kid and his bike. Watching the work of this extraordinary filmmaking team with...
Bill Cunningham New York
By Jamie Dunn. Published 12 March 2012For four decades New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham has cruised the Big Apple on his Schwinn bicycle like a fashionista superhero. His batcave is a studio in Carnegie Hall that...
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
By Philip Concannon. Published 12 March 2012Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a film of two halves, and regrettably, one half is so much richer than the other, which leaves Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest picture...
GFF 2012: Death of a Superhero
By Chris Fyvie. Published 02 March 2012A refreshingly unsentimental account of a teenager dealing with terminal cancer, Death of a Superhero sees Donald (Thomas Brodie-Sangster, in an excellent turn) retreat into a dark comic-book fantasy as...
GFF 2012: Herzog at the Festival
By Becky Bartlett. Published 27 February 2012Werner Herzog's films have become a staple of GFF's programme. We examine why the man who once ate his own shoe continues to excite festival-goers everywhere.
GFF 2012: CineSkinny Awards
By Jamie Dunn. Published 24 February 2012GFF doesn't go in for awards, but we do. Here are The CineSkinny's awards for GFF 2012
GFF 2012: Weimarvellous
By Phil Gatt. Published 24 February 2012Weimarvellous attempts to recall the heady decadence of 1920s Berlin through a programme of burlesque, readings and cabaret karoake. The Blue Angel, which is opening the event, launched Dietrich's career and reflects the carnivalesque...
GFF 2012: Omar Killed Me
By Chris Buckle. Published 24 February 2012It’s obvious Omar Killed Me is based on fact; no fictional equivalent would make its central injustice so glaring. The film presents the murder conviction of Moroccan gardener Omar Rassad...
GFF 2012: Bel Ami
By Becky Bartlett. Published 24 February 2012Bel Ami, based on a Guy de Maupassant novel, marks the feature debut of directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod. The quality of the sets, costumes and cast belies the...
GFF 2012: Livid
By Chris Fyvie. Published 24 February 2012Bustillo and Maury’s follow-up to their delightfully twisted Inside sticks to a similar recipe of awkward laughs and chills, but with less inspired results. Lucie (Chloe Coulloud) is on the...
GFF 2012: Urban Decay – Death Watch unearthed
By Alan Bett. Published 24 February 2012As the long forgotten Death Watch returns to the big screen at GFF, we examine its connection with Glasgow
GFF 2012: Cry Parrot presents Umberto
By Chris Buckle. Published 24 February 2012With the contents of Umberto's special performance still shrouded in mystery, we talk to Cry Parrot's Fielding Hope about their collaboration for GMFF
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