The Oscar-nominated Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015) is screening at GFT from Friday 13th May to Sunday 22nd May. 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 you have any thoughts on Mustang or my note, I’d love to hear them – post a comment here or on GFT’s blog (or you can even email me here).
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 you have any thoughts on Dheepan or my note, I’d love to hear them – post a comment here or on GFT’s blog (or you can even email me here).
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 Robbins, Robert Wise, 1961) and one of Richard III (Richard Loncraine, 1995), which is followed by a live satellite discussion with Loncraine and screenwriter/star Sir Ian McKellen.
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 you have any thoughts on GFT’s Shakespeare on Film season or my note, I’d love to hear them – post a comment here or on GFT’s blog (or you can even email me here).
Sean Welsh
I made this for everyone who enjoyed Henry Cavill’s recent press tour more than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. I’m unjustifiably proud of having coming up with this*, so I guess that’s at least one emotion I have in common with Zack Snyder.
Sean Welsh
*with apologies to Christopher Guest
Matchbox Cineclub‘s March screening, in association with Glasgow International Comedy Festival, is the world premiere of Double Take In Outer Space (Des Mangan, 2016) on Thursday 17/03/16 at the Old Hairdressers, Glasgow. Based on Starcrash (Luigi Cozzi, 1978), it’s a dub parody pseudo-sequel to Hercules Returns (David Parker, 1993), which Physical Impossibility screened last September during Scalarama. As the story goes:
In 1992, Australian comedy duo Double Take recorded one of their live shows. That recording has been lost for 20 years. By deleting the original dialogue and replacing it with their own, Double Take turn this shocking film into a story of interstellar Russian supermodel Elle Freezezova and her manager, Lou Spowels as they try to stop the evil overlord Dag Velour from sabotaging the Intergalactic Fashion Awards. Double Take’s Des Mangan has painstakingly edited the original soundboard recording to a brand-new, HD version of Starcrash and Matchbox’s screening is the world premiere. Double Take In Outer Space – The Farce Awakens!
That about covers it, but for an even better idea what it’s all about, check out this vintage TV interview with Mangan and his Double Take partner Sally Patience, in which they discuss the live show Double Take In Outer Space is based on:
And you can read my exclusive interview with Double Take’s Des Mangan here.
Sean Welsh
Limited tickets are available here. Keep up-to-date with the Facebook event page here.
The screening is by arrangement with Pegasus Entertainment and Double Take.
Physical Impossibility 