Category Archives: Glasgow
Pasolini Programme Note for GFT
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
Matchbox Cineclub #9: House (Scalarama 2015)
Matchbox Cineclub’s September screening, part of Scalarama 2015, will be Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House (1977). House is a Japanese film about a group of schoolgirls terrorised by a haunted house, which is also the very least of it. It was a struggling Japanese film industry’s … Continue reading
Scalarama 2015: Scaledonia | Glasgow
Scalarama is a month-long homage to the spirit of London’s dearly departed Scala Cinema, celebrating independent cinema by promoting DIY events, pop-up screenings and generally making no distinction between high and low art, all in the name of a borderline-worrying obsession … Continue reading
La Disparation d’Adèle Bedeau (Claude Chabrol, 1989)
Matchbox Cineclub recently presented Claude Chabrol’s Les Noce Rouges (1973), at a special screening introduced by Graeme Macrae Burnet. For the screening I was able to source a trailer for Chabrol’s rarely-seen (indeed, barely made) adaptation of La Disparation d’Adèle Bedeau (see above). An … Continue reading
Matchbox Cineclub #8: Wedding In Blood
Matchbox Cineclub’s August screening, presented in association with Alliance Française de Glasgow, will be Claude Chabrol’s Wedding In Blood (Les Noces Rouges, 1973). It’s a rare chance to see Claude Chabrol’s classic portrait of an amour fou with deadly consequences in provincial France, starring Stéphane Audran and Michel Piccoli. The … Continue reading
Physical Impossibility 