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Arriving at the GFT’s Art Deco bar to meet perhaps our finest indigenous filmmaker, Mike Leigh, I’m greeted warmly by a large fleece pullove... Read more »

Q1. In 2005 The Wire was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing on a Drama Series. Who won? I’d say the West Wing, if it was even still going? A... Read more »

Glasgow Youth Film Festival (GYFF) needs your help. The GYFF is unique among festivals aimed at younger audiences in that at every stage, from curating the p... Read more »

Amer is a glorious celebration of giallo, those feverish Italian thrillers of the 60s and 70s. Stripping away the whodunit plots and violent murders, direct... Read more »

After last year’s riotous opening gala Micmacs, Glasgow Film Festival continues its auld alliance with our cousins across the channel by bring you... Read more »

Potcihe is a perfume scented doodle, as fluffy and pretty as candyfloss, with as little substance. Set in 1977, Deneuve plays the bourgeois trophy wife ... Read more »

For many there’ll be no more tantalising film title this year than this one based on Neil McCormick’s autobiographical tale of his rivalry with h... Read more »

Everyone loves 70s American cinema, right? The scattershot chaos of Altman, the swaggering rock and roll of Scorsese, those DePalma fever dreams; a golden ag... Read more »

Holly Lubbock Director: Fezeka’s Voice Cinema is an immersive experience. Within a couple of hours we can be transported to someone else's ... Read more »

I’m on Woodlands Road, Glasgow. It’s scorching hot and I’m a bit late for an interview, and a bit lost. Despite walking this street many ti... Read more »

Weekend is your atypical (in Movieland) boy meets boy love story. On an impromptu Friday night cruising a cheesy nightclub in unglamorous Nottingham, Russell... Read more »

Between the bittersweet brilliance of A Blonde in Love and the Oscar glory of Cuckoo's Nest, Milos Forman made this riotous 1971 oddity about America’s... Read more »

I experienced a crippling twang of cineaste envy recently while reading Multiglom, the ace blog by film critic Anne Billson. The particular post that induced... Read more »

As I make my way down the spiral staircase of Glasgow’s Malmaison Hotel, I'm apprehensive about the two men I'm about to meet. These are the sick, twis... Read more »

Meryl Streep, wearing what looks to be Jennifer Saunders’ prosthetics from that Absolutely Fabulous episode set in the future, is Baroness Thatcher. It... Read more »

Since 1987’s Le gynécologue et sa secrétaire, German born French filmmaker Dominik Moll has only made five features. It’s a more in... Read more »

For four decades New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham has cruised the Big Apple on his Schwinn bicycle like a fashionista superhero. His batcave ... Read more »

Gorging on art-house cinema, as Edinburgh film-nuts are currently doing at the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival, can sometimes feel like being on a... Read more »

It’s the final day of Glasgow Film Festival 2012 and I’m up with the lark to speak to Welsh director Gareth Evans, the man responsible for the mo... Read more »

What’s the best Scottish film you’ve never heard of? Death Watch is the answer. Almost unseen since its release in 1980, this Glasgow-set s... Read more »

The moving picture element of the Whatever Gets You Through The Night collaboration was born out of necessity. “Because there are so many musicians, th... Read more »

Within the goldfish bowl of Glasgow, is there any question more loaded than “what’s your team, pal?” As far as most taxi drivers are concer... Read more »

Steven Soderbergh has form as a cinematic tease. Films like Full Frontal, the Sasha Grey-starring Girlfriend Experience and Sex, Lies and Videotapes, his Pal... Read more »

On a seven mile sandbank to the south-east of a sinking city, a festival of cinema has taken place for seven decades. Venice’s Mostra del Cinema may be... Read more »

"There are no waves; there is only the ocean." So said Claude Chabrol, a filmmaker who knew a thing or two about filmmaking waves, given that his 1958 debut,... Read more »

Konrad Begg’s debut feature concerns a low-rent songsmith, Sean (Maguire), who inadvertently leaves his bride-to-be, Amy (Lorna Anderson), strande... Read more »

Somewhere between entering through a gravel car park filled with Ford Zodiacs and their quiffed mod owners and eating birthday cake with complete strangers a... Read more »

On 26 June, the US Supreme Court dissolved the country’s Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law that denied benefits to same-sex couples legally marrie... Read more »

It’s late September and Paul Wright is in a wet and blustery London. “Aye, man, no bad,” he says in his soft Scottish brogue when I ask him... Read more »

It’s the 70th edition of the Venezia and maybe the old gal is starting to feel her age. Younger pretenders like Toronto and Telluride, the two festival... Read more »