Film Opinion
Opinion pieces from our film writers looking at key debates and discussions around films, directors, actors, and cinematic trends. Here you can also find insight to stay current with coverage of booming film festivals.
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FestivalsIn Praise of the visionary Gore Verbinski
Ahead of GFF's screening of A Cure for Wellness, one writer takes a look at the career of its mercurial director, Gore Verbinski, one of the more divisive Hollywood directors regularly handed big budgets Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
FestivalsBerlinale 2017: Beyond the Competition
We take a look at the rich but lesser known cinematic pleasures outside the main competition at this year's Berlin Film Festival Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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O Canada: GFF celebrates New Canadian Cinema
Welcome to Glasgow Film Festival's celebration of New Canadian Cinema, the weirder but much more friendly neighbour of Hollywood Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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Five daring female coming-of-age films
Inspired by All This Panic, Jenny Gage’s spellbinding documentary following seven teenage girls growing up in Brooklyn, we look back at some of cinema'... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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Warren Beatty: New Hollywood survivor
Warren Beatty helped kick off an American cinema renaissance in the late 60s with Bonnie and Clyde, now he's back after two decades with Rules Don't Apply, a... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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Fresh Blood: 5 mindblowing vampire movies
Not all screen vampires wear capes and sleep in coffins. Ahead of GFF's screening of inventive teen vampire tale The Transfiguration, we take a look at five ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017
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Cinema Smackdowns: 5 of the funniest film fights
Glasgow Film Festival’s screening of Catfight, in which two former college friends (Sandra Oh and Anne Heche) fight each other after an awkward encount... Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
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Return 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 -
OpinionGreat queer romances on Netflix
It's LGBT History Month, so whether you're gay, bi, straight or somewhere else on the sexual spectrum, it's the perfect excuse to see more queer cinema. Here... Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
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Femme 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 -
FestivalsIn 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 -
OpinionBlack Movies Matter: breakout black American cinema
Denzel Washington’s Oscar-nominated Fences is in cinemas, the latest in a breakout year for black American film For two years running, the Acade... Read more »| 10 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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Reassessing Martin Scorsese's legacy
Think Martin Scorsese's films are all about gangsters, violence and mayhem? Think again. Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
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Is Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge war porn?
War! What is it good for? Making lots of movies (say it again). Are all war movies – even those about pacifists – war porn? Read more »| 03 Feb 2017