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.
September 2010
The Illusionist
As cheeky, boisterous and witty as it is
delicately drawn and beauteous to behold,
Sylvain
Chomet’s second feature film is a winner on
every
level – and a perfect opening act for EIFF
2010.
Our weary hero (more)
Thu 2nd September
2:15pm, 4:15pm, 9:00pm
2:15pm, 4:15pm, 9:00pm
The Girl Who Played With Fire
In "The Girl Who Played With Fire" -- the
second instalment in the "Millennium" trilogy
following "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" --
Mikael Blomkvist is about to run a story that
will expose an extensive sex (more)
Thu 2nd September - Thu 9th September
8:10pm, 5:30pm, 2:45pm, 6:15pm, 4:45pm, 2:00pm
8:10pm, 5:30pm, 2:45pm, 6:15pm, 4:45pm, 2:00pm
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
At the Theatre Des Champs-Elysées, Igor Stravinsky premieres his The Rite Of Spring. Coco Chanel attends the premiere and is mesmerised. But the revolutionary work is too modern, too radical: the enraged audience boos (more)
Thu 2nd September - Mon 6th September
6:30pm, 3:30pm, 5:15pm
, £3.50
6:30pm, 3:30pm, 5:15pm
, £3.50
Certified Copy
Set over the course of one day in the Tuscan countryside, Certified Copy is a playful and provocative two-hander following the intriguing relationship between a man and woman who appear to have just met.
The (more)
Fri 3rd September - Thu 16th September
1:15pm, 6:00pm, 8:20pm, 3:00pm, 7:45pm, 3:30pm, 1:30pm, 6:15pm, 4:00pm, 5:15pm
£3.50,
1:15pm, 6:00pm, 8:20pm, 3:00pm, 7:45pm, 3:30pm, 1:30pm, 6:15pm, 4:00pm, 5:15pm
£3.50,
Black Dynamite
African-American action legend Black Dynamite
goes after 'The Man' for killing his brother
Jimmy, for pumping heroin into local orphanages
and for flooding the ghetto with hopped-up malt
liquor.
Fri 3rd September - Thu 9th September
3:00pm, 9:00pm, 7:00pm, 5:00pm, 1:00pm, 3:30pm, 8:45pm, 6:30pm, 8:30pm
3:00pm, 9:00pm, 7:00pm, 5:00pm, 1:00pm, 3:30pm, 8:45pm, 6:30pm, 8:30pm
Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back
"Space Chimps 2" follows Comet, the techno chimp who longs to be taken as a fully-fledged space chimp. Comet journeys to Planet Malgor where he bonds with the alien Kilowatt, and lives out his ultimate fantasy. However, (more)
Sat 4th September
11:30am, 12:30pm
Free or £3.50
11:30am, 12:30pm
Free or £3.50
Some Like It Hot
Classic comedy about two musicians who flee the mob by disguising themselves as woman and joining an all girls band.
Sun 5th September
7:30pm
7:30pm
The Edge of Dreaming
Amy Hardie dreamed of a death, and it happened.
When another dream then prophesied her own
imminent demise, she was understandably
concerned: did her subconscious know something
she didn’t? A poetic, personal (more)
Mon 6th September - Wed 29th September
6:00pm, 4:15pm, 12:45pm, 8:30pm
, £3.50
6:00pm, 4:15pm, 12:45pm, 8:30pm
, £3.50
Please Give
Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate sales and marking it up at her trendy Manhattan store. And how much markup can she get away with? There's the materialism (more)
Mon 6th September - Wed 8th September
6:10pm, 12:45pm, 8:45pm
, £3.50
6:10pm, 12:45pm, 8:45pm
, £3.50
The White Dove
One of the films that resurrected the poetic tradition in Czech cinema, Vláčil’s first feature tells the simple story of a dove blown off course from the Baltic to Prague, where it is injured by a boy with an (more)
Tue 7th September
6:15pm
6:15pm
Find + Home
In 2008, GFT hosted the sell-out world premiere of Home, a critically and commercially acclaimed mountain bike film. Fast forward to 2010 and Reset Films are back with Find, the eagerly anticipated follow up.
Find is a (more)
Tue 7th September
8:15pm
£8.00/£6.50
8:15pm
£8.00/£6.50
Film Discussion Group
GFT's Film Discussion Group meets on the second Wednesday of each
month to discuss both blockbusters and arthouse movies. Led by film
writer Eddie Harrison, come along and chat about recent releases with
other film (more)
Wed 8th September
6:30pm
Free
6:30pm
Free
Exit Through the Gift Shop
An eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempts to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. Billed as "the world's first street art (more)
Thu 9th September
6:00pm
6:00pm
Metropolis
One of the biggest film events of the century, a ‘Holy Grail’ among film finds, Fritz Lang’s sci-fi epic Metropolis can finally be seen – for the first time in 83 years – as the director originally intended and as seen (more)
Fri 10th September - Thu 16th September
2:30pm, 8:00pm, 5:15pm, 7:00pm, 1:00pm, 7:50pm, 2:00pm
£3.50,
2:30pm, 8:00pm, 5:15pm, 7:00pm, 1:00pm, 7:50pm, 2:00pm
£3.50,
The Maid
Raquel doesn’t want any new servants on her turf. Indeed, she is prepared to discourage new recruits by any means necessary: locking them out of the house, framing them for pet murder... no maid survives. Until one does (more)
Fri 10th September - Thu 16th September
3:45pm, 8:30pm, 1:45pm, 6:15pm, 7:30pm
£3.50,
3:45pm, 8:30pm, 1:45pm, 6:15pm, 7:30pm
£3.50,
The Magic Roundabout
Animation based on the classic children's series from the 1960s and
1970s.
Sat 11th September
11:30am
Free or £3.50
11:30am
Free or £3.50
Steven Fry - Live Via Satellite
Stephen Fry gives an exclusive preview of his autobiography The Fry Chronicles
Mon 13th September
7:15pm
£12.50/£11/£10
7:15pm
£12.50/£11/£10
Adelheid
Set in the aftermath of the Second World War in the Sudetenland, the film charts the relationship between an ex-airman, who is assigned a large mansion in the border area, and Adelheid, the daughter of its previous Nazi (more)
Tue 14th September
12:45pm, 8:20pm
£3.50,
12:45pm, 8:20pm
£3.50,
Winter's Bone
Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her (more)
Fri 17th September - Thu 30th September
1:45pm, 4:00pm, 6:15pm, 8:30pm, 3:00pm, 5:15pm, 1:00pm, 3:15pm, 3:45pm, 1:30pm, 2:45pm, 5:00pm
£3.50,
1:45pm, 4:00pm, 6:15pm, 8:30pm, 3:00pm, 5:15pm, 1:00pm, 3:15pm, 3:45pm, 1:30pm, 2:45pm, 5:00pm
£3.50,
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Fri 17th September - Thu 23rd September
3:45pm, 8:40pm, 2:00pm, 6:00pm, 7:50pm, 4:15pm, 3:00pm, 1:30pm
£3.50,
3:45pm, 8:40pm, 2:00pm, 6:00pm, 7:50pm, 4:15pm, 3:00pm, 1:30pm
£3.50,
Mother (Madeo)
A devoted mother desperately searches for the killer
who framed her easily-led son for a horrific murder.
Fri 17th September - Mon 20th September
1:15pm, 6:00pm, 8:15pm, 5:45pm, 1:00pm, 8:00pm
£3.50,
1:15pm, 6:00pm, 8:15pm, 5:45pm, 1:00pm, 8:00pm
£3.50,
My Uncle (Mon Oncle)
In Tati’s second feature film and first film in colour, we find him contrasting the bohemian provincial home life of his gangling alter ego Monsieur Hulot with the modern, contraption-filled concrete and glass home (more)
Sat 18th September
11:30am
Free or £3.50
11:30am
Free or £3.50
Sirius
František Vláčil re-established his career with this lyrical, award-winning children’s film. The best friend of 12-year-old František is his wolfhound Sirius. Every day the dog waits for him on a hill and they play (more)
Sun 19th September
4:00pm
£3.50
4:00pm
£3.50
Doors Open Day at Glasgow Film Theatre
GFT is one of the UK's most successful independent cinemas and the home of the Glasgow Film Festival. Its predecessor, The Cosmo, opened in May 1939 in this modernist European building which still boasts much of its Art (more)
Sun 19th September
10:00am
Free
10:00am
Free
The Bigger Picture at Glasgow Film Theatre
The Bigger Picture gives people the chance to meet the team behind the cinema, the Glasgow Film Festival and the learning programmes. GFT invites people to get a behind the scenes glimpse into the running of the (more)
Sun 19th September
2:00pm
Free
2:00pm
Free
My Night With Maud (Ma nuit chez Maud)
A devout Catholic engineer, who has his mind set on marrying a nice girl he sees at church, spends a chaste night with a liberated divorcee named Maud. Consequently, the encounter forces him to reassess his own moral (more)
Sun 19th September - Tue 21st September
7:30pm, 6:15pm, 12:45pm
, £3.50
7:30pm, 6:15pm, 12:45pm
, £3.50
Ivul
Ivul is the third fiction feature film by Andrew Kötting. In this intimate and eccentric family story a brother and sister are caught playing taboo games by their father. In his fury, the father tells his son, Ivul, (more)
Mon 20th September - Tue 21st September
3:45pm, 8:40pm
3:45pm, 8:40pm
South of the Border
There's a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn't know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream (more)
Tue 21st September - Thu 23rd September
2:30pm, 1:15pm, 8:45pm, 3:45pm
2:30pm, 1:15pm, 8:45pm, 3:45pm
The Valley Of The Bees
A young boy is vouchsafed to the Order of Teutonic Knights. On reaching manhood, he deserts the Baltic coast for his homeland in Bohemia, pursued by the handsome fundamentalist knight, Armin von Heide, who is intent on (more)
Tue 21st September
6:30pm
6:30pm
Made In Dagenham
From the director of Calendar Girls comes Made in Dagenham, the new feel-good film of the Autumn with an all-star British cast. The film stars Sally Hawkins as Rita O’Grady, the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike (more)
Wed 22nd September
6:00pm
6:00pm
Screen Debates - Playground
The Women’s Support Project, in conjunction with GFT and The Nest Foundation, Los Angeles, presents Playground.
Playground is about the sexual exploitation of children and young people; we see first-hand interviews (more)
Wed 22nd September
5:45pm
5:45pm
To the Sea (Alamar)
A gently-told blend of documentary and fiction, this highly acclaimed and already multi-award-winning work follows the last summer little Natan will spend with his father in Mexico before a move to Rome. Off the coral (more)
Fri 24th September - Thu 30th September
4:45pm, 8:45pm, 2:15pm, 9:00pm, 6:30pm, 1:00pm, 5:30pm, 3:30pm, 4:15pm
£3.50,
4:45pm, 8:45pm, 2:15pm, 9:00pm, 6:30pm, 1:00pm, 5:30pm, 3:30pm, 4:15pm
£3.50,
Donnie Darko
Highschool kid Donnie is plagued by visions of a giant evil rabbit who
orders him to commit acts of violence and predicts the end of the
world is nigh.
Fri 24th September
10:45pm
£6/£4.50
10:45pm
£6/£4.50
Rapt
Inspired by a 1978 kidnapping, Rapt tells the story of a French industry captain (Attal) who is held hostage for ransom and suffers both the torture of his abductors and, on the outside, the tortures of an equally (more)
Fri 24th September - Sat 25th September
6:30pm, 2:15pm, 8:15pm, 1:00pm
, £3.50
6:30pm, 2:15pm, 8:15pm, 1:00pm
, £3.50
Team America: World Police
Satirical comedy from the creators of South Park, about a team of
marionette superheroes combatting terrorism.
Sat 25th September
10:45pm
£6/£4.50
10:45pm
£6/£4.50
Furry Vengeance
A real estate developer moves his family from
Chicago to Oregon when his job calls for him to
oversee the building of a major housing
development. But, when his latest project
threatens the homes of the local (more)
Sat 25th September
11:30am
Free or £3.50
11:30am
Free or £3.50
Climate Refugees
If global warming is our planet’s most pressing issue, large-scale population displacement is the human consequence. This visually epic and shocking documentary captures testimony from victims, politicians, scientists, (more)
Sat 25th September
3:30pm
3:30pm
One Way Pendulum
Arthur Groomkirby (Sykes) needs a hobby and his latest fancy is to rebuild the Old Bailey's court no.7 in the family living room. His wife Mabel complains of the increase in housework and, in any case, already has her (more)
Sun 26th September
7:30pm
7:30pm
The Garden
At the largest community garden in the US, Latin American families grow their own food and create a community. But bulldozers are poised to level their oasis... This dramatic Academy Award-nominated documentary follows (more)
Sun 26th September
3:00pm
3:00pm
From Here to Eternity
Classic romantic drama set on Hawaii, in which an army captain's
wife and his second-in-command fall in love.
Fri 24th September - Mon 27th September
2:30pm, 7:15pm, 3:45pm, 6:00pm, 1:15pm
, £3.50
2:30pm, 7:15pm, 3:45pm, 6:00pm, 1:15pm
, £3.50
Powaqqatsi
Following Take One Action’s sell-out re-presentation of Koyaanisqatsi in 2009, they’ve teamed up with www.tentracks.co.uk to bring you the second instalment in Godfrey Reggio’s cult series. Original live music played by (more)
Mon 27th September
8:30pm
8:30pm
Hunger
The urban poor in Haiti eat pies that consist mostly of mud. In one region of Kenya, half the children die of undernourishment. Hunger gives five people the chance to speak, for whom not a day passes when they get enough (more)
Mon 27th September
5:45pm
5:45pm
The Shadow Of The Fern
Two youths, caught poaching a deer, shoot a gamekeeper and go on the run. Naively imagining a future life of escape and adventure, they are ultimately destroyed by their own contradictions. Inspired by Josef Čapek’s (more)
Tue 28th September
6:00pm
6:00pm
Persona Non Grata
In Venezuela they call him Francisco: the Belgian whose professions included priest, labourer and artist. From a small house in the La Vega slums, he led creative protests against the government that systematically (more)
Tue 28th September
8:15pm
8:15pm
Film Camp 10 (Glasgow)
With a line-up of leading speakers and presentations from programme and filmmakers, game developers and web designers and people behind emerging creative digital media technologies, this event explores the future of (more)
Tue 28th September
2:00pm
Free
2:00pm
Free
World Vote Now
Would it be possible to organise a worldwide referendum, applying the principle of ‘one person, one vote’, to create a global democracy? In this thought-provoking film, director Joel Marsden looks for the answer in 26 (more)
Wed 29th September
6:00pm
6:00pm
Map Magazine
MAP presents a special artists' film screening, in association with GFT, to mark the magazine's dynamic redesign in September and to celebrate the work of the many artists who have featured in the publication since its (more)
Thu 30th September
6:30pm
6:30pm
Nero's Guests
Over the past ten years, more than 200,000 farmers in India have committed suicide. Little explanation is sought until reporter P Sainath – winner of Asia's equivalent to the Nobel prize – makes it his business to ask (more)
Thu 30th September
6:00pm
6:00pm