APRIL 2019 APRIL 2019 APRIL GLASGOWFILM.ORG | 0141 332 6535 CINEMASTERS: STANLEY KUBRICK | THE SISTERS BROTHERS | MID90s 12 ROSE STREET, GLASGOW, G3 6RB EIGHTH GRADE | HAPPY AS LAZZARO | ¡VIVA! | YULI | LORO | STYX CONTENTS 3 Faces 12 The Killing 9 Preview: Last Breath + Q&A 4 Access Film Club: Lolita 10 Preview: Styx + Q&A 5 16 Can You Ever Forgive Me? Paths of Glory 10 UK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL Access Film Club: Eleven 16 The Shining 9 Kaifinama + Q&A 6 A Deal with the Universe 5 EASTER AT GFT Pinky Memsaab 6 Eighth Grade 13 Beth Gibbons/Henryk Górecki - ¡VIVA!: SPANISH AND LATIN 12 7 The Fight Symphony No 3 AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL Happy as Lazzaro 11 The Gospel According to St Matthew 7 Jean-Francois and the Meaning of Life 8 The Journey 4 Monty Python’s Life of Brian 7 Miriam Lies 8 Last Breath 11 Ordet 7 Petra 8 Loro 12 EVENT CINEMA Quién te cantará 8 Maborosi 13 Bolshoi Ballet: The Golden Age 14 INFORMATION Mid90s 12 NT Live: All About Eve 14 Accessible Screenings & Tuesday Treats 18 Pond Life 13 NT Live: All My Sons 14 Ticket Prices & About GFT 17 Rafiki 12 Margaret Atwood: Live in Cinemas 14 Scotch: The Golden Dram 11 GFF ON TOUR @glasgowfilm The Sisters Brothers 11 Harry Birrell: Films of Love and War 6 Styx 13 The Merger 6 Wild Rose 11 Mothers’ Instinct 6 For updates, newly programmed The World Is Yours 13 titles and events, sign up to our MOVIE MEMORIES Yuli 12 weekly enewsletter at: A Night to Remember 15 facebook.com/glasgowfilm Visible Cinema: Wild Rose 16 glasgowfilm.org/enewsletters Rebel Without a Cause 15 CINEMASTERS: Rebecca 15 STANLEY KUBRICK SPECIAL SCREENINGS 2001: A Space Odyssey 10 Being Frank: 9 4 A Clockwork Orange The Chris Sievey Story + Q&A Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to 10 Beyond the River 5 Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb A Deal with the Universe + Q&A 5 Full Metal Jacket 10 The Journey + Q&A 4 Killer’s Kiss 9 1 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 Kid Who Would Be King (PG) The Lego Movie 2 (U) Sat 6 April - captioned Sat 20 April To be a Knight of the Round Table you need courage, chivalry Help us to celebrate 80 years by decorating and a shield! Come and design your own from 11.05am before Glasgow Film’s birthday card before the film! the film. Harvie and the Magic Museum (U) Alice in Wonderland (U) Sat 27 April full listings glasgowfilm.org/whats-on full at Sat 13 April Autism Friendly (same ticketing offer applies as Take 2) Take 2 Access: The Kid Who Would Be King (PG) Sat 6 April (12noon) Full screening times will Glasgore! Horror/Cult Film Discussion Group Accessible Programme be available every Tuesday via a weekly print-out from GFT offers Audio Description, BSL, GFT box office, also Free, Project Room, 18.30, Tue 2 April Captioning, Autism Friendly and downloadable online at: This group meets on the first Tuesday of each Dementia Friendly screenings on glasgowfilm.org/whats-on month to discuss horror and cult cinema. selected titles. See p18 for full details. 2 5 - 11 APRIL - 5 12 - 18 APRIL - 12 25 APRIL - 19 2 MAY - 26 APRIL APRIL AT A GLANCE AT APRIL Access Film Club: Can Access Film Club: p9 p12 You Ever Forgive Me? p16 The Killing 3 Faces Eleven p16 Bolshoi Ballet: Beth Gibbons/Henryk Mid90s p12 Beyond the River p5 The Golden Age p14 Gorecki - Symphony No 3 p7 A Clockwork Monty Python’s A Deal with the Eighth Grade p13 Orange p9 Life of Brian p7 Universe + Q&A p5 Happy as Lazzaro p11 Quién te cantará p8 The Fight p12 Lolita p10 Jean Francois and the The Gospel According Rafiki p12 Maborosi p13 Meaning of Life p8 to St Matthew p7 Harry Birrell: Films p4 p9 Petra p8 The Journey + Q&A The Shining of Love and War p6 Visible Cinema: Kaifinama + Q&A p6 Loro p12 p13 Wild Rose p16 Pond Life Killer’s Kiss p9 Wild Rose p11 The Merger p6 Styx p13 Last Breath p11 Yuli p12 Miriam Lies p8 The World Is Yours p13 SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT @glasgowfilm Movie Memories: p12 p6 p13 A Night to Remember p15 Mid90s Mothers’ Instinct Eighth Grade NT Live: All About Eve p14 Ordet p7 Scotch: Paths of Glory p10 The Golden Dram p11 facebook.com/glasgowfilm The Sisters GFF19 Opening Night film, Bo Burnham’s coming-of-age Preview: Styx + Q&A p5 Brothers p11 Jonah Hill’s directorial debut awkward teen drama is a returns to GFT. special piece of cinema. SPOTLIGHT CineMasters: Wild Rose p11 Stanley Kubrick p9/10 SPOTLIGHT Wild Rose p11 The season begins with A Clock- work Orange and Killer’s Kiss. A heart-warming Glasgow 3 crowd-pleaser. SPECIAL SCREENINGS SPECIAL Being Frank: The Chris Preview: Last Breath + Q&A The Journey + Q&A Sievey Story + Q&A Preview + Q&A: Thursday 4 April (18.05) Q&A: Thursday 11 April (17.35) Monday 1 April (20.05) Friday 5 - Thursday 11 April Wed 10 (15.30) & Thu 11 April (13.20) Friday 29 March – Thursday 4 April Directors Richard da Costa, Alex Parkinson, UK 2018, 1h28m, Director Mohamed Al-Daradji Cast Zahraa Gandour, Ameer 12A: moderate threat, infrequent strong language Ali Jabarah, Iraq/UK/France/Qatar/Netherlands 2017, 1h22m, Director Steve Sullivan, UK 2018, 1h40m, 15 subtitles, N/C 15+ Frank Sidebottom is a name familiar to anyone In 2012, diver Chris Lemons lay trapped under the North Sea. His umbilical cable was Baghdad, 2006. Sara enters the train station with even a passing interest in the Manchester with sinister intentions for its reopening music scene. A mischievous cult comedy star completely severed, leaving him without breathing gas or any connection to the dive ceremony. As she braces to commit an who took over the airwaves, he was a product unthinkable act, her plans are drastically of the reclusive artist and comedian Chris bell. Alone in the dark waters without any means of communication, his chances of altered by an unwanted and awkward Sievey. Chris toiled away for a decade trying to encounter with Salam, a self-assured and break into the music scene, until in 1984 he survival were slim. Docu-drama Last Breath flirtatious salesman. With Salam now hostage listings glasgowfilm.org/whats-on full at subverted it with his manic and hilarious cross recreates his story, placing the viewer at the heart of desperate attempts to reach him. to Sara’s confused and deluded plan, he between comedy-pop and performance art. battles desperately to appeal to her humanity Yet, as Frank’s fame rose, Chris’ creativity Filled with emotional testimony, archive footage and fascinating technical detail, it is an and sway her decision. In a moment of faltered, and the line between the two became consideration and with her convictions harder to distinguish. A funny and moving tale edge-of-the-seat true story on a par with anything that James Cameron might have crumbling before her, Sara is given the of an extreme split personality. GFF19 devised. GFF19 opportunity to witness the life and innocence she was so willing to destroy. This is a sharply “[an] effective study of the uneasy Followed by a Q&A with co-director Alex relevant and powerfully acted moral drama. relationship between genius and insanity” Parkinson and special guests. - The Skinny Followed by a Q&A with writer/producer Isabelle Stead. Followed by a Q&A with director Steve Sullivan. 4 SPECIAL SCREENINGS SPECIAL A Deal with the Universe + Preview: Styx + Q&A Beyond the River Q&A Preview + Q&A: Thursday 25 April (20.15) Sunday 28 April (16.50) Q&A: Tuesday 23 April (20.15) Friday 26 April - Thursday 2 May Director Craig Freimond Cast Lemogang Tsipa, Grant Tuesday 23 - Thursday 25 April Swanby, Emily Child, South Africa 2017, 1h47m, CTBC Director Wolfgang Fischer Cast Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa, Germany/Austria 2018, 1h34m, subtitles, Director Jason Barker, UK 2018, 1h30m, 15 12A: moderate threat Set in post-Apartheid South Africa, Beyond the River tells the true story of two men, separated This is the debut feature from transgender by everything except their determination to win filmmaker Jason Barker, documenting the true A determined and confident doctor, Rike gold in one of the world’s toughest river races: story of a very different kind of pregnancy. (played with utter conviction by Susanne the Dusi Canoe Marathon. One man yearns to Made entirely from personal archive footage Wolff) attempts to escape the pace of her escape the grinding poverty of township life, and home video diaries, the film follows Jason everyday life with a well-deserved solo sailing the other, a former champion canoe racer, and his partner Tracey’s incredible story of trip to the volcanic island of Ascension. struggles in the aftermath of tragedy. Only by how he came to give birth to his child, charting However, her plans are scuppered when she pulling together can they triumph over adversity over 15 years of the highs and lows of their discovers a sinking fishing boat, with hundreds in this nail-biting and inspiring adventure.