Category Archives: GFT

Dheepan Programme Note for GFT

Posted on April 7, 2016 by SMW

Last year’s Palme d’Or winner Dheepan (Jacques Audiard, 2015) is screening at GFT from Friday 8th April to Thursday 21st April. My accompanying programme note will be available at screenings and there’s an online version at GFT’s blog here. GFT archives all its programme notes online here. If … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare On Film Programme Note for GFT

Posted on April 1, 2016 by SMW

The new, 4K restoration of Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985) is screening at GFT from today, Friday 1st April, to Thursday 7th April. It’s part of GFT’s Shakespeare on Film season, for which they’ve also programmed screenings of Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood (1957), West Side Story (Jerome … Continue reading →

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Hail, Caesar! Programme Note for GFT

Posted on March 3, 2016 by SMW

Hail, Caesar! (Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 2016) is screening at GFT from Friday 4th March to Thursday 17th March. My accompanying programme note will be available at screenings and there’s an online version at GFT’s blog here. GFT archives all its programme notes online here.

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Hail, GFF!

Posted on February 4, 2016 by SMW

Glasgow Film Festival is here again, hip-fucking-hooray. Right away, you can tell it’s another good year for good-gets. Hail, Caesar! and Anomalisa are both highly-anticipated releases and even if their bookend appearances at GFF’s opening and closing galas are kind of glorified advance … Continue reading →

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Pasolini Programme Note for GFT

Posted on September 11, 2015 by SMW

Pasolini (Dir. Abel Ferrara, 2014) is screening at GFT from today, Friday 11th September, to Thursday 17th September. GFT have also programmed single screenings of Pasolini’s The Gospel According To St Matthew (1964) and Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975). My accompanying programme note will … Continue reading →

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