Film Festivals
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FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2015: It Follows
As horror premises go, this one is delicious – a sexually transmitted curse that causes a monster to follow its victims to the death, assuming any form... Read more »| 18 Feb 2015 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Catch Me Daddy
Daniel and Matthew Wolfe's Catch Me Daddy opens to a creation myth recited with childlike naivety over images of a windswept, almost primeval landscape. Thou... Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
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Still Making Sense: why Stop Making Sense is "the Citizen Kane of concert movies"
Even after three decades, Jonathan Demme's Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense feels mint fresh. With Glasgow Film Festival's late night screening coming up, we take the opportunity to sing its praises. Plus: five other great concert films Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2015: The New Girlfriend
Francois Ozon's favourite subject is the fluidity of sexual identity and desire. He's been playing with this theme since early short The Summer Dress ri... Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
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Girls Behaving Badly: Desiree Akhavan on Appropriate Behaviour
It's not in every debut that you find a bisexual Iranian woman angrily brandishing a strap-on in public – but you'll find this and more in Desiree Akhavan's boundary-pushing comedy Appropriate Behaviour. Just don't call her the new Lena Dunham Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
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Love and Death: David Robert Mitchell on horror movie It Follows
David Robert Mitchell tells us how he turned his childhood dream into indelible cinematic nightmare It Follows Read more »| 17 Feb 2015
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FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Appropriate Behaviour
"That was a present," protests Shirin (writer/director/star Desiree Akhavan) when her girlfriend returns a mysterious box to her amidst an acrimonious break-... Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
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EIFF announce TV movie retrospective and Mexico focus for 2015
Some early news of this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival programme was announced today, with the main 2015 retrospective – Little Big... Read more »| 12 Feb 2015 -
FilmEsoteric Horror at GFF 2015
Are we going through a mini horror renaissance? Upcoming releases, including inventive slasher It Follows and allegorical animal-uprising oddity White God, suggest a resounding yes Read more »| 10 Feb 2015 -
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Fifteen of the Best at Glasgow Film Festival
Fifteen films from the Glasgow Film Festival lineup you'd be mad to miss... Read more »| 09 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Short Film Festival unveils 2015 programme
The Glasgow Short Film Festival has revealed the details of its 2015 programme, the first to take place outside the main Glasgow Film Festival. It opens wit... Read more »| 29 Jan 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015 programme announced
With the full line-up for the 2015 Glasgow Film Festival unveiled, we take a look at some of the highlights, from screenings at pop-up roller discos to new films from Ruben Östlund and Noah Baumbach. Read more »| 21 Jan 2015 -
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Dive In: A look ahead to GFF 2015
In ten short years, Glasgow Film Festival has steadily grown to be the third biggest film festival in the UK. Ahead of its 11th edition in February, we speak to its co-director, Allison Gardner, to find out what makes GFF tick Read more »| 15 Dec 2014 -
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Channel Hopping: French Film Festival 2014
From established auteurs to mint fresh greenhorns, the French Film Festival UK returns with another tantalising line-up of contemporary Francophone cinema. Dip your toe in its eclectic programme and you're sure to find a gem – vive le cinéma! Read more »| 05 Nov 2014 -
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Forward Thinking: Africa in Motion 2014
Later this month, Scotland's biggest showcase of African cinema returns to screens in Edinburgh and Glasgow. We unpack some of Africa in Motion 2014's potential highlights Read more »| 07 Oct 2014