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October 2019 Digital OCTOBER 2019 80 YEARS OF CINEMA OCTOBER 2019 OCTOBER GLASGOWFILM.ORG | 0141 332 6535 CINEMASTERS: QUENTIN TARANTINO | SCOTLAND LOVES ANIME 12 ROSE STREET, GLASGOW, G3 6RB BFI MUSICALS! | SQIFF | AFRICA IN MOTION | MONOS | THE DAY SHALL COME CONTENTS Access Film Club: The Farewell 20 EDINBURGH SPANISH SCOTTISH QUEER American Woman 15 FILM FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Chained for Life 16 The Angel 7 A Dog Barking at the Moon 14 The Day Shall Come 15 Carmen and Lola 7 Lemebel + Q&A 14 The Goldfinch 15 EVENT CINEMA Good Posture 16 Bolshoi Ballet: Le Corsaire 17 SOUND & VISION Preview: Michael Hutchence: It's A Wonderful Life 18 Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker 17 8 Mystify + Q&A Judy 15 Bolshoi Ballet: Raymonda 17 Roger Waters Us + Them 8 The Last Black Man in San Francisco 16 Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale 17 Suzi Q + Q&A 8 The Last Tree 15 NT Live: Hansard 17 SPECIAL EVENTS Monos 16 NT Live: A Midsummer Night’s Dream 17 48 Hour Film Project 5 Non-Fiction 16 HALLOWEEN Cielo + Q&A 4 The Peanut Butter Falcon 16 Late Night: Mandy 13 Connect + Q&A 6 Werewolf 15 The Tingler 13 European Arthouse Cinema Day: Visible Cinema: Judy 20 4 The Wicker Man - The Final Cut 13 By the Grace of God AFRICA IN MOTION MOVIE MEMORIES Harry Birrell: Films of Love and War 4 @glasgowfilm Sofia 14 It's A Wonderful Life 19 Her Century: Scottish Women on Film 5 Talking About Trees 14 Judy 19 Lost Lives + Q&A 6 BFI MUSICALS! Singin' in the Rain 19 Malcolm X - 35mm 6 First a Girl 9 SCOTLAND LOVES ANIME Preview: Monos + Q&A 5 Singin' in the Rain 9 12 Preview: Pink Wall + Q&A 5 Birthday Wonderland facebook.com/glasgowfilm Singing Lovebirds 9 Children of the Sea 12 INFORMATION A Star Is Born 9 Mystery Film 12 Accessible Screenings + Tuesday Treats 22 CINEMASTERS: Promare 12 + Pay What You Decide screenings QUENTIN TARANTINO Redline 11 Ticket Prices & About GFT 21 Jackie Brown - 35mm 10 Ride Your Wave 11 Glasgore! Kill Double Bill - 35mm 10 The Relative Worlds + Q&A 11 Horror/Cult Film Discussion Group Pulp Fiction - 35mm 10 Free, Project Room, 18.30, Weathering With You 11 Reservoir Dogs 10 Tuesday 1 October This group meets on the first Tuesday of each 1 month to discuss horror and cult cinema. TAKE 2 & TAKE 2 ACCESS TAKE & 2 TAKE FAMILY-FRIENDLY FILMS TEvery Saturdaya atk 11.30ame – a film for2 all the family at GFT. Full listings at glasgowfilm.org/take2 Free entry for Glasgow Young Scot or Kidz Card holders and an accompanying adult. Free tickets are only available on the day or pick up a leaflet in the foyer from the box office, one free adult ticket per child ticket. All other tickets £5.50. Pick up a leaflet for full listings and details. The Lion King (PG) - captioned Autism Friendly Sat 5 October (11.30) (same ticketing offer applies as Take 2) Mirai (PG) - dubbed in English Take 2 Access: The Lion King (PG) Sat 12 October (11.30) Sat 5 October (12noon) UglyDolls (U) - captioned Access Screenings are in a ‘low sensory’ environment suitable Sat 19 October (11.30) for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their The Addams Family (PG) - captioned families. The films have no subtitles, the volume is turned Sat 26 October (11.30) down, the house lights left on low and audiences can make noise and move around. Take 2 ticketing conditions apply. full listings glasgowfilm.org/whats-on full at You can help support GFT simply by coming to more films. To help you do that, we've made one screening every week Pay What You Decide. Come to the film and you can pay what you like. Screenings will take place every Monday - look out for the logo to see which films are taking part. glasgowfilm.org/supportindiecinema See page 22 for screening times. Tickets must be booked in advance. 2 OCTOBER AT A GLANCE AT OCTOBER 4 - 10OCTOBER - 4 Access Film Club: 17 OCTOBER - 11 OCTOBER 24 - 18 OCTOBER 31 - 25 48 Hour Film Project p5 Good Posture p16 Africa in Motion p14 The Farewell p20 Billy Connolly: The Sex p15 Judy p15 p4 Life of Bandages glasgowfilm.org American Woman By the Grace of God Harry Birrell: Films of p15 Malcolm X - 35mm p6 Chained for Life p16 Love and War + Q&A p4 The Day Shall Come European Arthouse Cinema Judy p15 Day: By the Grace of God p4 Non-Fiction p16 Connect + Q&A p6 Her Century: The Peanut Kill Double Bill: Volumes Mean Girls glasgowfilm.org Scottish Women on Film p5 Butter Falcon p16 1 & 2 - 35mm p10 NT Live Encore: Fleabag Preview: The Last Black Man in Jackie Brown - 35mm p10 glasgowfilm.org Monos + Q&A p5 San Francisco p15 Preview: PWYD: Werewolf p15 Judy p15 Monos p16 Pink Wall + Q&A p5 Movie Memories: Reservoir Dogs p10 Pulp Fiction - 35mm p10 Non-Fiction p16 Judy p19 Roger Waters NT Live: A Midsummer PWYD: PWYD: Good Posture p16 Us + Them p8 Night's Dream p17 Chained for Life p16 @glasgowfilm PWYD: American SPOTLIGHT CineMasters: SQIFF p14 The Tingler p13 Woman p15 Quentin Tarantino p10 Suzi Q + Q&A p8 p20 The Wicker Man p13 Visible Cinema: Judy SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT p15 The Day Shall Come p15 p16 Werewolf Non-Fiction facebook.com/glasgowfilm SPOTLIGHT Some of Quentin Tarantino's Judy p15 best films, including three 35mm screenings concluding with a Kill Double-Bill. Chris Morris returns to the Juliette Binoche shines in this director's chair with this cutting witty and irreverent film from One of cinema's enduring satire of modern times. Olivier Assayas. legends and saddest stories brought to life. 3 SPECIAL SCREENINGS SPECIAL SPECIAL SCREENINGS SPECIAL CINECARD DOUBLE POINTS Cielo + Q&A Harry Birrell: Films of Love European Arthouse Cinema Tuesday 1 October (18.15) and War + Q&A Day: By the Grace of God Wednesday 9 October (17.45) Sunday 13 October (16.00) Director Alison McAlpine, Chile/Canada 2017, 1h18m, N/C 8+ Screening: Fri 25 - Thu 31 Oct Director Matt Pinder, UK 2019, 1h30m, N/C 12+ Cielo is a cinematic reverie on the crazy beauty of the night sky, as experienced in the Director François Ozon Cast Melvil Poupaud, Denis Winner of the GFF19 Audience Award, Harry Ménochet, Swann Arlaud, France 2019, 2h17m, subtitles, 15 Atacama Desert, Chile, one of the best places Birrell: Films of Love and War is a time capsule on our planet to explore and contemplate its of poignant memory. Harry Birrell spent his life François Ozon's gripping true-life drama is an splendour. Director Alison McAlpine’s sublime filming the world. Home movies of family nonfiction film drifts between science and engrossing and topical examination of the events and fine romances now ache with fond Catholic Church abuse scandal, telling the story spirituality, via the arid land, desert shores and nostalgia. Matt Pinder’s beautifully composed lush galaxies. Planet Hunters in the Atacama’s of three men who come together to dismantle documentary plunders the treasure trove of the code of silence and pursue justice for the astronomical observatories and desert Harry’s 400 films to capture a vivid sense of dwellers who work the land and sea share their abuse they suffered as children. Based on real his life. GFF19 events from the 2019 conviction of Cardinal mythic stories and existential queries with Philippe Barbarin of Lyon for concealing the remarkable openness and a contagious sense Followed by a Q&A with director Matt conduct of serial abuser Father Bernard of wonder. A love poem for the night sky, Cielo Pinder and producer Carina Birrell. transports us to a space, quiet and calm, Preynat, By the Grace of God is an urgent within which we can ponder the infinite and portrait of resistance. unknown. Thanks to Curzon. Followed by a Q&A with director Alison McAlpine. Glasgow Film Theatre is a not-for-profit educational charity registered in Scotland No. SC005932. If you would like to support our work and help us continue Cinema For All you can donate in person or at: glasgowfilm.org/donate 4 SPECIAL SCREENINGS SPECIAL 48 Hour Film Project Preview: Pink Wall + Q&A Her Century: Scottish Tue 15 (20.30) & Wed 16 Oct (20.30) Saturday 19 October (18.00) Women on Film Tuesday 15 October (18.15) Scotland's most popular filmmaking event is Director Tom Cullen Cast Tatiana Maslany, Jay Duplass UK 2019, 1h25m, CTBC back! Join us over the 11-13 October weekend to Directors Various, UK 1910-1984, 1h15m, N/C 8+ make a film in just 48 hours and get it screened at the GFT. You could win a free trip to Pink Wall is a modern-day romance, following Scotland’s women lived through major social Filmapalooza in the Netherlands! the six-year relationship of Jenna (Tatiana change in the 20th century, challenging their Sign up today at 48hourfilm.com. Maslany) and Leon (Jay Duplass). Intimately roles in society and fighting for equality: at told through defining moments along their work and at home, from classroom to croft, Book both screenings for £15 / £11 journey together, the film explores how both and from girlhood to motherhood. Discover concessions. Individual tickets £10.50. friendship and resentments grow as the their stories and hear their voices in Her pressures of adult life confront them. Century, a timely collection of archive film Followed by a Q&A with director curated by the National Library of Scotland Tom Cullen.
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