SEPTEMBER 2019 80 YEARS OF CINEMA SEPTEMBER 2019 GLASGOWFILM.ORG | 0141 332 6535 CINEMASTERS: PEDRO ALMODÓVAR | GLASGOW YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL 12 ROSE STREET, GLASGOW, G3 6RB MRS LOWRY AND SON | TAKE ONE ACTION! | THE SOUVENIR | THE GOLDFINCH CONTENTS Access Film Club: Blinded by the Light 20 Volver 12 Contemporary Cinema Course 7 16 Ad Astra EVENT CINEMA Crossing the Line: LUX Scotland 7 presents: Under Mud Aniara 14 NT Live: A Midsummer Night’s Dream 17 The Game Changers + Q&A 5 Bait 14 NT Live Encore: One Man Two Guvnors 17 Preview: For Sama + Q&A 4 Die Tomorrow 15 GLASGOW YOUTH Preview: The Last Tree + Q&A 5 The Farewell 16 FILM FESTIVAL The Third Man - 70th Anniversary 7 For Sama 15 BAFTA Scotland presents: A Day in the 11 6 The Goldfinch 17 Director’s Life Velvet Goldmine - 35mm + Discussion Hail Satan? 15 The Biggest Little Farm + recorded Q&A 10 Vincent Price: Master of Menace, Lover 4 of Life + The Abominable Dr Phibes Hotel Mumbai 17 Closing Gala: Scott Pilgrim vs The World 11 Women's Support Project: 16 Code Geass: Lelouch of the 5 Ladyworld 9 Abused: The Untold Story The Last Tree 5 Re;Surrection 10 TAKE ONE ACTION! Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love 17 Drag Kids FILM FESTIVAL Family Gala: Fantastic Mr Fox 11 Mean Girls 6 Anbessa 13 GFF Presents: Finding Your Feet in Film 11 Memory: The Origins of Alien 14 Ghost Fleet 13 GYFF: ShortListed 9 Midnight Cowboy - 50th Anniversary 15 Midnight Traveler 13 9 Mother 16 Late Night: Heathers Preview: Sorry We Missed You 13 @glasgowfilm Opening Gala: The Farewell 9 Mrs Lowry and Son 15 Scheme Birds + Q&A 13 Phoenix + Q&A 10 Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 17 INFORMATION 10 Pain and Glory 14 Stars by the Pound Accessible Screenings + Tuesday Treats 22 Phoenix 16 MOVIE MEMORIES + Pay What You Decide screenings 15 Judy 19 21 Rojo Ticket Prices & About GFT facebook.com/glasgowfilm The Shiny Shrimps 14 Mamma Mia! 19 The Souvenir 14 SOUND & VISION Glasgore! Horror/Cult Film Discussion Group 8 Sprinter 16 Hitsville: The Making of Motown Free, Project Room, 18.30, Visible Cinema: For Sama 20 Roger Waters Us + Them 8 Tuesday 3 September Suzi Q + Q&A 8 This group meets on the first Tuesday of each CINEMASTERS: month to discuss horror and cult cinema. PEDRO ALMODÓVAR USA 1982 - Koyaanisqatsi Live Score 8 All About My Mother 12 For updates, newly programmed titles and SPECIAL EVENTS events, sign up to our The Skin I Live In 12 The Big Meeting + Q&A 4 weekly enewsletter at: 12 1 Talk to Her Cielo + Q&A 6 glasgowfilm.org/enewsletters 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. Horrible Histories (PG) Autism Friendly Sat 31 August (11.30) (same ticketing offer applies as Take 2) Toy Story 4 (U) - captioned Take 2 Access: Toy Story 4 (U) Sat 7 September (11.30) Sat 7 September (12noon) Coraline (PG) Sat 14 September (11.30) Charlotte's Web (U) Access Screenings are in a ‘low sensory’ environment suitable Sat 21 September (11.30) for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their families. The films have no subtitles, the volume is turned (PG) Charming down, the house lights left on low and audiences can make listings glasgowfilm.org/whats-on full at Sat 28 September (11.30) noise and move around. Take 2 ticketing conditions apply. 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 30 AUG - 5 SEP - 30 AUG 12 SEPTEMBER - 6 19 SEPTEMBER - 13 26 SEP - 20 3 OCT - 27 SEP SEPTEMBER AT A GLANCE SEPTEMBER AT Access Film Club: Aniara p14 Blinded by the Light p20 Ad Astra p16 Ad Astra p16 Cielo + Q&A p6 All About My Bait p14 p15 p16 The Farewell p16 Mother p12 Die Tomorrow The Farewell BlacKkKlansman The Big Meeting + p15 p16 The Goldfinch p17 glasgowfilm.org Q&A p4 For Sama Ladyworld Marianne and The Game NT Live: One Man, Hitsville: The Making Hail Satan? p15 Leonard p17 Changers + Q&A p5 Two Guvnors p17 of Motown p8 Memory: Origins of Movie Memories: Glasgow Youth Mother p16 Hotel Mumbai p17 Alien p14 Mamma Mia p19 Film Festival p9-11 Once Upon a Time... Midnight Cowboy p15 Pain and Glory p14 in Hollywood p17 Phoenix p16 The Last Tree p5 Preview: Take One Action! LUX Scotland presents: Pain and Glory p14 Mrs Lowry and Son p15 For Sama + Q&A p4 Film Festival p13 Under Mud p7 Once Upon a Time... Velvet Goldmine Rojo p15 Mean Girls p6 The Souvenir p14 in Hollywood p17 - 35mm + discussion p6 SPOTLIGHT Preview: The Last Roger Waters The Souvenir p14 The Shiny Shrimps p14 Tree + Q&A p5 Volver p12 Us + Them p8 SPOTLIGHT @glasgowfilm The Souvenir p14 The Souvenir p14 The Farewell p16 The Skin I Live In p12 Vincent Price: Master Sprinter p16 Preview: Sorry of Menace p4 We Missed You p13 SPOTLIGHT Joanna Hogg's personal CineMasters: Talk to Her p12 The Third Man - memoir is stunningly Pedro Almodóvar p12 70th Anniversary p7 facebook.com/glasgowfilm crafted, with moving central performances USA 1982 - Koyaanisqatsi Audience Award-winner SPOTLIGHT The Goldfinch p17 and an intricate plot that Live Score p8 at Sundance, this is a sweeps you up. poignant and moving Visible Cinema: story, based on a real lie. For Sama p20 Master of colour and Women's Support emotion, we celebrate Project p5 Pedro Almodóvar's career with this CineMasters Adapated from Donna season. Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize- winning bestselling novel. 3 SPECIAL SCREENINGS SPECIAL SPECIAL SCREENINGS SPECIAL CINECARD DOUBLE POINTS Preview: For Sama + Q&A Vincent Price: Master of The Big Meeting + Q&A Q&A: Wednesday 4 September (18.10) Menace, Lover of Life + The Q&A: Wednesday 11 September (18.00) Screening: Fri 13 - Thu 19 Sep Abominable Dr Phibes Screening: Mon 9 & Wed 11 Sep Sunday 8 September (13.00) Directors Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts, UK 2019, 1h39m, Director Daniel Draper, UK 2019, 1h31m, 12A: infrequent subtitles, 18 Director Robert Fuest Cast Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, strong language. Terry Thomas, UK 1971, 1h33m, 15 For Sama is an intimate, urgent documentary Total event running time 3h20m Every second Saturday in July, the city of about the female experience of war. A love Durham is taken over by miners, trade-unions letter from a young mother to her daughter, Author and inspirational speaker Victoria Price and the public for the Durham Miners’ Gala, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life presents ‘Master of Menace, Lover of Life’ - an known locally as “The Big Meeting”. This through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, intimate glimpse at her famous father’s life and people-centred documentary goes behind the Syria as she falls in love, gets married and career. As Vincent Price’s daughter and scenes of this annual celebration of noise, gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic biographer, Victoria will share rare photos and colour and solidarity, of class culture, creativity conflict rises around her. Her camera captures stories about the King of Horror, who was a and endeavour. A huge gathering of 200,000 incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival true Renaissance man. Victoria will have people parade through the streets, honouring as Waad wrestles with whether or not to flee copies of her biography as well as her father’s their heritage with banners and brass bands. the city to protect her daughter’s life. But famous cookbooks for sale - and will be The Big Meeting reflects the past, present and leaving would mean abandoning the struggle available for photographs and signings with future of the Gala and labour movement, whilst for freedom for which she has already fans. She will also take questions from the following four protagonists over the course of sacrificed so much. The film is the first feature audience. this impressive working-class occasion. documentary by Emmy award-winning The talk will be followed by a screening of The Followed by a Q&A with director Daniel filmmakers, Waad al-Kateab and Edward Abominable Dr Phibes, featuring one of Draper and producer Christie Allanson. Watts. Vincent Price’s most memorably over-the-top Content warning: this film contains detailed performances. He plays Anton Phibes, a real-life war footage that may distress some doctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar, viewers. who seeks gruesome revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for his wife’s Followed by a Q&A with co-directors death. Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts. 4 SPECIAL SCREENINGS SPECIAL The Game Changers + Q&A Women’s Support Project: Preview: The Last Tree Monday 16 September (20.20) Abused: The Untold Story + Q&A Wednesday 18 September (17.50) Q&A: Thursday 19 September (20.15) Director Louie Psihoyos, USA 2019, 1h32m, CTBC Screening: Fri 27 Sep - Thu 3 Oct Director Olly Lambert, UK 2016, 1h30m, N/C 15+ Directed by Oscar-winner Louie Psihoyos, The Game Changers follows the story of James Director Shola Amoo Cast Tai Golding, Sam Adewunmi, This powerful documentary was produced in Denise Black, UK 2019, 1h39m, 15 Wilks - elite Special Forces trainer and winner the wake of recent ‘celebrity child abuse of The Ultimate Fighter - as he travels the world scandals’.