Film Festivals
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FilmFive great boxing movies
Inspired by the release of trio of Johnny Harris' powerful and unflinching boxing film Jawbone, we consider the best boxing movies cinema has to of... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
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Chloé Robichaud on political satire Boundaries
Three smart women find themselves surrounded by chauvinistic mansplainers in this wry political fable from Québécois talent Chloé Robichaud. The 29-year-old writer-director explains how the film she wrote feels even more vital in a post-Trump universe Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
FilmReturn to form: The Stop Motion animation revival
Why the palpable reality of stop motion animations like My Life as a Courgette – which screens at this year's Glasgow Film Festival – are essenti... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
FilmEnter David Lynch's Factory Photography with HEXA
A GFF17 highlight looks to be HEXA's sonic response to David Lynch's Factory Photographs, the legendary director's collection of black-and-white st... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
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The Road to Mandalay
Burmese director Midi Z's vivid new film follows a pair of illegal immigrants in Bangkok. Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
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My Life as a Courgette
Swiss stop-motion animation following a young orphan from the pen of Girlhood director Céline Sciamma After debuting at the Cannes Film Festival last... Read more »| 14 Feb 2017
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FilmFemme fatales, Dangerous Dames & female film archetypes
Ahead of Glasgow Film Festival's celebration of the femme fatale in its Dangerous Dames strand, we consider what's required for the job, along with some of the other movie archetypes offered up to women Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
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The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Trollhunter director André Øvredal's first English-language feature begins as a cerebral thriller before losing its way towards the finishing line Read more »| 13 Feb 2017 -
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In Praise of Toshiro Mifune, the last samurai
Toshiro Mifune is a film icon – we take a look at what made him so special. Read more »| 13 Feb 2017 -
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What Fifty Shades can learn from Secretary
Inspired by GFF’s screening of Steven Shainberg’s Secretary and this month’s release of the Fifty Shades sequel, we look at the lessons the modern spankbuster could learn from the 2002 cult classic. Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
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John Waters on bad taste & Multiple Maniacs
John Waters' little-seen sophomore feature Multiple Maniacs is getting a revival. Despite its new polish, it's as outrageously grotesque as ever. The filmmaker takes us back to its making at the tail end of the 60s Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
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Hippodrome Silent Cinema Fest shares 2017 lineup
HippFest is back for its seventh celebration of silent cinema Read more »| 07 Feb 2017 -
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First look at David Tennant as RD Laing
The first Mad To Be Normal trailer drops ahead of its world premiere at Glasgow Film Festival On 26 February, Glasgow audiences will be the first to see new... Read more »| 02 Feb 2017 -
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Alex Kapranos on Glasgow music doc Lost in France
Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos discusses his recollections of Glasgow's vibrant indie music scene of the 90s ahead of the release of Niall McCann&rsq... Read more »| 01 Feb 2017 -
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Glasgow Short Film Festival reveals 2017 programme
The tenth edition of Scotland's largest celebration of short film reveals its lineup, from a Virtual Reality strand to a retrospective of Norwegian filmmaker Gunhild Enger to a programme all about vaginas Read more »| 01 Feb 2017