GFT Blog

Here you'll find a round up of all the added extras we like to give you to support our year-round programme of great films and events. You can click to read interviews and articles ahead of upcoming events at GFT, programme notes written by local film journalists, academics and post-graduates which support our screenings and seasons and see video and photo coverage of our events. We'll also have staff recommendations and reviews.

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• 18 MayGFT awarded environmental ratingGFT have recently become the first cinema in the UK to be awarded a two-star environmental rating from Julie’s Bicycle.Read this blog post →
• 10 MayProgramme Note: Even the RainIcíar Bollaín takes a socio-realist approach in Even the Rain, highlighting the similarities between her directorial work and that of British director Ken Loach.Read this blog post →
• 4 MayProgramme Note: Goodbye First Love Fifteen year-old Camille falls emphatically for nineteen year-old Sullivan, only for their relationship to crumble from a combination of juvenile thoughtlessness and time’s natural weathering effects. Read this blog post →
• 1 MayProgramme Note: Monsieur LazharFrench-Canadian director Philippe Falardeau describes his film, Monsieur Lazhar, as ‘an ode to teaching, while scratching a little bit at the system.’Read this blog post →
• 26 AprGreen blog: UK Green Film Festival Fringe Events at GFTRead about our fantastic range of free fringe activities and events which will take place at GFT on Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 May as part of the UK Green Film Festival.Read this blog post →
• 25 AprProgramme Note: The MonkDominik Moll’s new movie The Monk is clearly a period adaptation. But which period is being adapted remains open to debate.Read this blog post →
• 20 AprDavid Peat (1947-2012)Everyone at Glasgow Film Theatre and Glasgow Film Festival has been saddened to hear of the death of renowned cinematographer, director and stills photographer, David Peat.Read this blog post →
• 5 AprProgramme Note: Le HavreThe European cinema has not much addressed the continuously worsening financial, political, and above all, moral crisis that has led to the ever-unsolved question of refugees,’ writes Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki in Le Havre’s press kit...Read this blog post →
• 28 MarProgramme Note: Into the AbyssInto the Abyss, the title of Werner Herzog’s latest documentary, might well be a suitable name for many of his films.Read this blog post →
• 26 MarTonino Guerra: Poet of Italian CinemaAnyone who has ever tried to write a screenplay will know how 
difficult it is. Do you have anything original to say? Does it have a 
structure that flows and compels? Are you kidding yourself that you 
will even finish it?...Read this blog post →