Film Festivals
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FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2015: The Grump
“It sure ruins my day when the times change.” So begins The Grump, the latest addition to a canon of films in which irritable loners find their h... Read more »| 19 Feb 2015 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2015: White God
Lili loves Hagen, but Lili’s father disapproves. He kicks Hagen out on to the streets of Budapest, where he’s used and abused and thrown in the s... Read more »| 19 Feb 2015 -
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Saluting Hollywood's Maverick: Ron Mann and Kathryn Reed Altman discuss the Nashville director
Altman director Ron Mann and Kathryn Reed Altman discuss the "Indestructible" filmmaking force of nature, Robert Altman Read more »| 19 Feb 2015 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Pale Moon
Set in the mid-1990s, not long after the burst of Japan’s economic bubble, Pale Moon follows Rika (Miyazawa), a demure housewife turned bank employee w... Read more »| 19 Feb 2015 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2015: White Bird in a Blizzard
Closer in spirit to his Mysterious Skin than The Doom Generation, White Bird in a Blizzard sees Gregg Araki adapting a Laura Kasischke novel and applying his... Read more »| 18 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow 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
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Glasgow 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 -
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Glasgow 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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Glasgow 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 -
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Esoteric 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