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GFT

12 Rose Street,
Glasgow
G36RB
0141 332 6535

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The Glasgow Film Theatre (or the GFT as it is affectionately known) is located on Rose Street, just of Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow's City Centre. The GFT is an independent cinema situated in a listed Modernist building. A cinema has existed in this building since 1934, but was opened as the Glasgow Film Theatre in 1974 but the Scottish Film Council. Showing a wide variety of international, art house and documentary films each year, the GFT is an essential part of cultural life in Glasgow.

March 2010

The Boy From Mercury

An eight year old boy escapes the drabness of life in 1960s Dublin by convincing himself he's a visitor from another planet.

Sat 13th March
11:30am

The Beyond (E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldila)

In 1927, a band of angry townsfolk travel deep into the Louisiana Bayou to destroy an Satanic painter named Schweik. In an isolated Gothic hotel basement, they chain-whip, crucify, and shower the warlock in a (more)

Sat 13th March
6:45pm

The Father of my Children

Grégoire has everything a man could want – a loving wife, adorable children and a job as a film producer. Yet as the debts continue to pile up and his future projects begin to look uncertain, all seems lost for Grégoire. (more)

Sat 13th March - Sun 14th March
1:00pm, 5:45pm

City of the Living Dead

The suicide of a clergyman makes an old curse come true. The gate to hell opens and the dead goes up from her tombs as zombies.

Sat 13th March
6:45pm

The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy has been one of the publishing sensations of the past decade. The keenly awaited screen version of the bestselling first novel is a violent, brooding whodunnit that exposes the ugly (more)

Sat 13th March - Wed 31st March
1:45pm, 4:45pm, 7:45pm, 1:15pm, 6:30pm, 2:45pm, 1:00pm, 4:00pm, 2:30pm, 5:45pm, 5:30pm, 4:30pm, 2:15pm, 5:15pm

Lucio Fulci Double Bill

A pair of timeless terror tales from the undisputed master of pasta plasma.

Sat 13th March
6:45pm

Take 2: The Boy From Mercury

Crafty eight year-old Harry escapes from the boredom of 1960s Dublin by convincing himself he is in fact an alien from the planet Mercury, Harry's confused granny isn't so sure...

Sat 13th March
11:30am

St. Patrick's Day: Jigs on Reels

Sun 14th March
8:15pm

Mother's Day: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe are the infamous “Two Little Girls from Little Rock"; Dorothy looking for true love, and Lorelei, the blonde hoping to marry a millionaire. When the girls take a cruise to Paris, a (more)

Sun 14th March
4:15pm

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell make wonderful sparring partners in this glorious Technicolor adaptation of the Anita Loos Broadway musical that has been lovingly restored to the big screen by Glasgow distributor Park (more)

Sun 14th March - Tue 16th March
5:45pm, 12:45pm, 4:15pm

Adoration

When his high-school French class is asked to translate a news article about a terrorist who planted a bomb in his pregnant girlfriend’s luggage, Simon (Devon Bostick) starts digging into his own family’s murky past. His (more)

Mon 15th March - Tue 16th March
1:45pm, 6:15pm, 4:00pm, 8:30pm

Gallivant

Documentary road movie in which director Andrew Kotting travels around Britain with his grandmother and his daughter.

Sun 14th March - Tue 16th March
6:10pm

Busting

The efforts are two LA vice cops are hampered by the realisation that their superior officer – indeed, most of the force – is controlled by the very crimelords they're trying to bring down.

Wed 17th March - Thu 18th March
8:30pm, 6:30pm

Micmacs

The latest dazzlingly cinematic outing from Jean- Pierre Jeunet is a satire on the arms trade which grounds this director's cinema of fantasy firmly in reality. Dany Boon leads a terrific cast in a (more)

Sat 13th March - Thu 18th March
8:30pm, 4:00pm, 1:30pm, 6:15pm, 1:45pm, 3:30pm

The Scouting Book For Boys

Teenager David helps his runaway friend Emily disappear.But,as the police close in, their relationship becomes more complicated. We hope that actor Thomas Turgoose (THIS IS ENGLAND, SOMMERSTOWN)and director Tom Harper (more)

Fri 19th March - Fri 26th March
2:30pm, 4:30pm, 6:30pm, 8:30pm, 2:00pm, 3:15pm, 7:45pm, 4:00pm, 4:15pm, 12:00am

Oil and the City Symposium

A day of key debates and lectures discussing the relationships between the arts, the oil indusrty and the city of Aberdeen in the past, present and furture.

Sat 20th March
4:00pm

Take 2: Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

Nanny McPhee returns to sort out a chaotic farmhouse from being destroyed by five squabbling kids who refuse to get along.

Sat 20th March
11:30am

Oil City Confidential

Julien Temple's Oil City Confidential is the last film in his trilogy on British music of the 1970s. It is a prequel to his landmark films about punk figureheads the Sex Pistols in The Filth & the Fury (2002) and (more)

Sat 20th March
4:00pm

Nanny McPhee

Family fantasy comedy about a nanny with magic powers.

Sat 20th March
11:30pm

Trucker

Michelle Monaghan gives the performance of her career in this enormously likable melodrama. Monaghan’s Diane is a harddrinking, independent truck driver who lives life according to her own set of rules. When her (more)

Sun 21st March - Wed 24th March
1:15pm, 5:45pm, 12:45pm

Late Autumn

Three greying salarymen conspire to find husbands for their late friend's widow and his daughter, while admitting that their own marriages have hardly been happy affairs. Old but not wise, they scheme behind both women's (more)

Sun 21st March - Tue 23rd March
5:15pm, 6:00pm, 8:15pm

Monorail: Anna May Wong- Frosted Yellow Willows

With disarming sensuality and commanding presence, Anna May Wong defined the role of the “Dragon Lady.” Narrated by Nancy Kwan, Anna May Wong ~ Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Times, and Legend is a story about a (more)

Sun 21st March
7:00pm

Sorry, I Love You

Chie Tanaka (star of GFF09 hit Cape No 7) comes to Taiwan to study Chinese but is unexpectedly cast as the leading actress in a movie. Wu Huai-Jhong wants to be a filmmaker but he can only find a part-time projectionist (more)

Tue 23rd March
6:15pm

Sorry I Love You

Tue 23rd March
6:15pm

A Place of One's Own

Set against the cold competitive landscape of Taipei City, A Place of One's Own is a dark comedy, richly emotional and visually stunning. The film is a multilayered tale of a struggling musician, Mozi once famous but now (more)

Tue 23rd March - Wed 24th March
6:00pm

Monty Python's: He's not the Messiah

Join the worldwide digital cinema event of 2010, as the cast Monty Python perform a comic oratorio based upon The Life of Brian. Performed at the Royal Albert Hall as past of the 40th Anniversary celebrations of the (more)

Thu 25th March
8:45pm

The Last Station

After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya, the devoted wife, passionate lover, muse and secretary of Leo Tolstoy, suddenly finds her entire world turned upside down. In the name of his newly created (more)

Fri 26th March - Sat 27th March
2:45pm, 5:30pm, 8:30pm

Lourdes

Lourdes is a magnet for Christian pilgrims in search of a miracle. It has the second largest number of hotels in France after Paris. Jessica Hausner's features follows the longings and yearnings of one particular (more)

Fri 26th March - Wed 31st March
2:00pm, 4:15pm, 6:30pm, 8:40pm, 1:00pm, 3:15pm, 7:40pm

The Warriors

After the most powerful gang leader of NYC is assassinated, rival gangs accuse The Warriors of the murder. To clear their name, they must brawl all the way across Manhattan and the Bronx until they reach the safety of (more)

Fri 26th March
10:45pm

Take 2: Alvin and the Chipmunks

Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are back! When the singing rodents discover that their school's music programme is going to be closed, they sign up to win $25,000 in a battle of the bands. But high school is never easy, (more)

Sat 27th March
11:30am

Yang Yang

“Do you speak French?” Eurasian adolescent Yang-Yang cannot bear to hear that question anymore. Having a French father whom she never met, she is an outsider in Taiwan, always considered to be different, often envied for (more)

Sun 28th March
5:20pm

Crazy Heart

Crazy Heart is a story of redemption which has been told a thousand times before, but is infused with energy here by director Scott Cooper’s dialogue and his work with the actors. Jeff Bridges is sensational as (more)

Sun 28th March - Tue 30th March
2:00pm, 7:30pm, 5:15pm, 8:15pm

Step Step

At an old people's home in a small Taiwan town, Xiao Liu, a dashing male nurse who does things his own way, has his hands full taking charge of a group of quirky old folks. That is until a gorgeous but reserved woman, Ru (more)

Tue 30th March
12:45pm, 6:30pm

The Skinny Film Quiz

Tue 30th March
8:45pm

How Are You Dad?

How Are You, Dad? is composed of over 10 short stories. The project is Chang's present as a son to his father, and a gift to everyone who can relate to these stories, either as a child or a parent. From drunken fathers (more)

Wed 31st March
6:15pm

Mugabe and the White African

Michael Campbell is one of a handful of white farmers still left in Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe began enforcing his controversial land seizure programme, an initiative intended to reclaim white-owned land and (more)

Wed 31st March
3:45pm, 8:45pm

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