Five to see at GFF, 25 Feb: Wild at Heart & more
Today at Glasgow Film Festival, join Nic Cage and Laura Dern on the run in Wild at Heart and Kate Dickie and Paul Higgins in a cave in Couple in a Hole, plus head to Tramway for an ace new exhibition
This is Now
Tramway, until Sun, 12-6pm
Subtitled Film and Video After Punk (1978-85), this is a celebration of that moment in the early 80s when punk inspired a new generation of artists.
The GFF programme promises films that explore the "blurred lines between images and identity, creating new dialogues between the self and the world in an uncertain and politically contentious time." The exhibition features work from artists such as John Maybury, Cerith Wyn Evans, Isaac Julien, Grayson Perry and artists from Scratch Video, among many others. The majority of the films on show have been digitally remastered from Super 8 and 16mm films that have been out of circulation for decades.
Couple in a Hole
GFT, 6pm
We’re intrigued by this mysterious portrait of a Scottish couple living feral in the French countryside. Why are they there? The weather’s not that bad here, is it? The film stars Scottish film stalwarts Kate Dickie and Paul Higgins, who’ll be around to answer questions after the screening. We’re sure you’ll have many.
Wild at Heart
St Luke’s, 6.30pm
David Lynch takes a familiar ‘lovers on the lam’ story, then adds references to The Wizard of Oz and some batshit performances (Willem Dafoe even outdoes Nic Cage) for one of the greatest films of the 90s. Get down early for ‘Elvis’.
Inspired by GFF's screening of David Lynch's Wild at Heart, we look back at the director's trio of collaborations with the beating heart of that film, Laura Dern.
Laura Dern: David Lynch's favourite collaborator
The Ones Below
GFT, 8.45pm
Stage and screen veteran David Farr makes his movie debut (although he did co-write Joe Wright’s Hanna) with this thriller that’s reportedly on the right side of creepy. It centres on a London couple getting to know their new downstairs neighbours, and we’re told things quickly head into Polanski territory. Farr will be around to answer questions after the screening, so you can also quiz him about the BBC’s current prestige series The Night Manager, which Farr adapted from the John le Carré novel of the same name.
Cain’s Children
GFT, 8,30pm
Our reviewer loved Cain's Children, the follow-up to a controversial 1984 documentary from Hungary. This new film's thesis is that capitalism has proven just as oppressive to the people of Eastern Europe as communism. Our reviewer wrote that “what makes Cain's Children such a compelling watch is the way it illuminates social ills that have persisted following the westernisation of eastern Europe. Director Gerö tracks down and profiles three of the original piece's subjects, and finds that, just as a communist regime let them down, capitalism proved no saviour.”
Read our full Cain’s Children review
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