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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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BAD ROMANCE at Glasgow Film Festival

Posted on February 4, 2016 by SMW

As a counterpoint to GFF 2016’s Dream Teams of the Silver Screen theme, Physical Impossibility presents an event dedicated to the very worst cinematic couplings. A roster of special guests has scoured the history of cinema to present to you their takes … Continue reading →

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Matchbox Cineclub presents ALTERED STATES in IMMERS-O-SOUND!

Posted on January 21, 2016 by SMW

In the basement of the Harvard Medical School, Dr Edward Jessup floats naked in total darkness. The most terrifying experiment in the history of science is out of control and the subject is himself! Ken Russell’s cult classic was originally … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema, Film, GFF 2016, Glasgow, Matchbox Cineclub, Movies, Preview | Tagged 1980, 2016, Altered States, Cinema, Film, GFF, GFF16, Glasgow, Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival 2016, Immersosound, Ken Russell, Matchbox Cineclub, Movie, Movies | Leave a comment

Matchbox Cineclub #11: The World’s Greatest Sinner

Posted on October 22, 2015 by SMW

Matchbox Cineclub‘s November screening will be the original punk rock movie – Timothy Carey’s The World’s Greatest Sinner (1962), a masterpiece of outsider art, DIY cinema and maverick midnight madness – and a sizzling tincture of sex-death-rocknroll, politics, religion and ssSIN! Timothy Carey … Continue reading →

Posted in Glasgow, Matchbox Cineclub, Preview | Tagged 1962, Absolute Films, Cinema, cult film, DIY Cinema, Film, Glasgow, Matchbox Cineclub, Midnight Movie, Movies, Outsider Art, The Old Hairdressers, The World's Greatest Sinner, Timothy Carey | Leave a comment

9999 | Document Film Festival 2015

Posted on October 14, 2015 by SMW

For me, Ellen Vermeulen’s 9999 (2014) is the key film of Document – International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2015. That’s perhaps a less grand claim than it seems, so let me explain why. This was my first year on … Continue reading →

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Matchbox Cineclub #10: NIGHTBREED The Director’s Cut

Posted on September 19, 2015 by SMW

Matchbox Cineclub‘s October screening is the director’s cut of Cliver Barker’s Nightbreed (1990). Nightbreed was intended to be the Star Wars of horror movies. Directed by Barker (Hellraiser) from his novel Cabal, it’s a creature feature where the many, many … Continue reading →

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Matchbox Cineclub #9: House (Scalarama 2015)

Posted on September 10, 2015 by SMW

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 →

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