Category Archives: Glasgow

Senna (2010)

Posted on December 2, 2016 by SMW

“Everything that happens is real, and I didn’t shoot a frame of it. I didn’t need to. My team and I used the actual footage to create a three-act story of the life of Ayrton Senna.”1 Asif Kapadia “All aspects … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema, Film, GFT, Glasgow, Movies, Programme Note | Tagged Asif Kapadia, Ayrton Senna, Cinema, Documentary, Film, Films, GFT, Hero’s Journey, Joseph Campbell, Manish Pandey, Monomyth, Movie, Movies, Programme Note, Senna, The Hero With A Thousand Faces | Leave a comment

Chi-Raq Programme Note for GFT

Posted on December 2, 2016 by SMW

‘In da year 411 BC, before baby Jesus, y’all, Da Greek Aristophanes penned a play satirizin’ his day. And, in the style of his time, ‘Stophanes made dat shit rhyme…’ Chi-Raq (Spike Lee, 2015) is screening at GFT from Friday 2nd December to Thursday 8th December. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema, Film, GFT, Glasgow, Movies, Programme Note | Tagged 2016, Aristophanes, Chi-Raq, Chicago, GFT, Glasgow, Glasgow Film Theatre, Kevin Willmott, Lysistrata, Nick Cannon, Programme Note, Spike Lee, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes | Leave a comment

Hunt For The Wilderpeople Programme Note for GFT

Posted on September 16, 2016 by SMW

Hunt For The Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, 2016) is screening at GFT from Friday 16th September to Thursday 22th September. 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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Captain Fantastic Programme Note for GFT

Posted on September 9, 2016 by SMW

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross, 2016) is screening at GFT from Friday 9th September to Sunday 18th September. 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. Sean Welsh

Posted in Cinema, Film, GFT, Glasgow, Movies, Preview, Programme Note | Tagged 2016, Captain Fantastic, Cinema, Film, Frank Langella, George MacKay, GFT, Glasgow, Kathryn Hahn, Matt Ross, Movie, Movies, Programme Note, Steve Zahn, Viggo Mortensen | Leave a comment

SKALAHRAHMA GLAZGOHH

Posted on August 13, 2016 by SMW

This September, Scalarama, the DIY Celebration of Cinema, hits Glasgow like never before. From a cozy living room in Bearsden to the epic Planetarium, a wild range of screens across the city will display an even wilder range of films, as independent … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema, Film, Glasgow, Matchbox Cineclub, Movies, Physical Impossibility | Tagged 2016, Analogue Film Scotland, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, BFI, BFI Film Forever, Blood Diner, Blueprint, Braveheart, Bridget Jones, Britannia Panopticon, Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, CCA, CCA Glasgow, Charlie Chaplin, Cinema, Cinema Up Collective, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Despicable Me 2, DOA A Rite Of Passage, Film, Film Hub Scotland, Get Crazy, GFT, Glasgow, Glasgow Science Centre, Home Cinema Day, LightShow Film Club, Matchbox Cineclub, Movie, Movies, Night Of The Creeps, Out Of Print, Physical Impossibility, Planetarium, Pura Sangre, Quentin Tarantino, Scala, Scalarama, Scalarama2016, Scaledonia, Scotland, Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Sloans, Something Weird, Something Weird Film Club, SQIFF, Sunder Cinema, Tarantino, The Old Hairdressers, VHS, VHS Trash Fest | Leave a comment