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“Potholing Expedition Seeks Recruits,” read an ad in Glasgow Film Festival’s 2014 brochure. “Recruits must be ready for anything, hav... Read more »

It’s a dark and stormy night, and I’m heading into the cinematic equivalent of a haunted house – Islington's Vue – to speak to indie ... Read more »

Stephen Fry was back on full luvvie-presenter mode last night for British film’s annual celebration of cinema and the award results were as tepid as hi... Read more »

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 »

Consider the coming-of-age movie for a second. Cast your mind through cinema's history and what titles flash before your eyes? Chances are there’ll be ... Read more »

Society is part of the long tradition of horror as social commentary. Initially, however, Brian Yuzna's 1989 debut, with its flat cinematography and wooden p... Read more »

“I look like Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast crossed with Moby… Any bald man, basically… Mark Strong?” This is how Jason Wood, new artis... Read more »

Twilight (Juan Pablo Daranas Molina) Throughout the festival, audiences were treated to some delightful words from 'Andrei Tarkovsky' in the GSFF trailer:... Read more »

“She looks like a dog, she comes across as a dog, but... she’s no'.” Somewhere between this tantalising opening and its mysterious horror e... Read more »

There’s reason to celebrate this week. John Boorman, the great director of Point Blank, Deliverance and Arthurian epic Excalibur, has a new film out. E... Read more »

Another year, another Edinburgh Film Festival, and another artistic director steps into the breach. Enter Mark Adams, taking the AD baton from Chris Fujiwara... Read more »

She’s the star of the New York film scene, she was the toast of Berlin Film Festival last year, and now Josephine Decker comes to Glasgow Film Theatre ... Read more »

Andrew Haigh, director of Weekend and creator of HBO series Looking, is discussing Charlotte Rampling, the leading lady in his latest film, 45 Years. "I was ... Read more »

Two pivotal periods in Brian Wilson’s life collide in Bill Pohlad's dizzying study of the former Beach Boy. One concerns the creation of 1966‘s P... Read more »

Colin Kennedy’s adaptation of Ewan Morrison’s novel about a couple’s experience of the Glasgow swingers' scene opens with a limp joke about... Read more »

We’re indoors, sat beneath a cherry blossom in full bloom. The air is heady with incense and we’re eating what looks to be a plate of the most be... Read more »

Great screen actors need iconic moments; the images that cement them in the public’s consciousness. Rhys Ifans has one, and it was achieved while weari... Read more »

“I’m charting the correlation between what characters say and what they mean,” says a film buff while watching Sunset Boulevard in Todd Hay... Read more »

Tangerine is not your typical Christmas movie. You’ll probably realise this while watching the scene in which a hyperactive transgender prostitute drag... Read more »

Allan Hunter (Festival co-director) What does your job entail? Mostly watching films, shaping the programme, deciding the annual country focus, choosing th... Read more »

When we interviewed filmmaker Mark Cousins back in 2011 ahead of the broadcast of A Story of Film: An Odyssey, his epic 15-part history of the moving image, ... Read more »

Room Joy (Brie Larson) and her five-year-old son, Jack (Jacob Tremblay), live in Room. To the mother, it's a prison cell barely two meters square; for the s... Read more »

Bryan M Ferguson has wanted to make movies since the age of four. “I was the only kid in my primary class that wanted to be a filmmaker and not a footb... Read more »

There’s a tension at the heart of Terence Davies’ work. From his autobiographical trilogy of shorts (Children, Madonna and Child, Death and Trans... Read more »

Scotland’s most disreputable film festival, Dead By Dawn (21-24 Apr), returns to spill guts and gore across Filmhouse’s screens this month. Top o... Read more »

The inaugural Nespresso Talents 2016 vertical film contest comes to a close, with three great filmmakers receiving 6,000€ as well as a trip to the world... Read more »

Another year, another awards season and another Oscars at which no women filmmakers were nominated for best director. Well, quite frankly, fuck the Oscars. I... Read more »

Where are films made? The romantics out there might say, “In the imaginations of artists.” The more practical answer, however, is, “within ... Read more »

We all know the stories from the Hollywood casting couch of yesteryear, where young stars, both male and female, were expected to do more than just give a go... Read more »

We’re speaking to Eva Husson on the day the world saw Justin Bieber's penis. As we sit down to talk to the 39-year-old French filmmaker, paparazzi long... Read more »