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GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL
WEDNESDAY 23 THURSDAY 24
FRIDAY 25
SATURDAY 26 SUNDAY 27
EARLIER
ANIMAL KINGDOM GALA Cineworld, Wed 23 Feb, 3.45pm A DISTANT NEIGHBOURHOOD SUPERHEROES IN GLASGOW Cineworld, Thu 24 Feb, 1pm
KITTY FOYLE GINGER ROGERS GFT, Fri 25 Feb, 11am
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN OUT OF THE PAST GFT, Sat 26 Feb, 1.30pm
Thrilling Australian crime drama starring Jackie Weaver as a grandmother who watches over her family of criminals (and who’s been nominated for an Oscar as a result). ■ Also showing at Cineworld, Thu 24 Feb, 8.30pm. See review, in film. A French graphic artist gets the chance to relive his teenage years in his old home town, with the added benefit of modern day hindsight. Inspired by the manga from Japanese graphic novelist Jiro Taniguchi. ■ Also showing at Cineworld, Wed 23 Feb, 9pm.
Ginger Rogers ditches the dancing shoes and cracks out the Kleenex in this old- school Hollywood tearjerker, for which she won a Best Actress Oscar. She plays Kitty, a poor working-class girl who must overcome the snobbery of her husband’s upper class family to become an independent woman. Newly restored print of the stunt-packed melodrama/ romance, starring a young Ray Milland on board the perilous London to Edinburgh express. Filmed in the days before CG or even a stuntman union, the real life, action-packed set pieces are a triumph.
AGNOSIA EUROPEAN CINEMA GFT, Sun 27 Feb, 11.30am Yet another film, following in the fine tradition of Pan’s Labyrinth and The Orphanage, demonstrating that there’s some element of the Spanish psyche that lends itself to visceral filmmaking with a fantastical undercurrent. ■ Also showing at GFT, Sat 26 Feb, 8.45pm.
LATER
THE LIST SURPRISE FILM GFT, Wed 23 Feb, 8.45pm Last year’s surprise film was the first UK screening of the Ben Stiller-starring Noah Baumbach feature Greenberg. This year – who knows? A sneaky advance peek, a special vintage screening, a forgotten masterpiece – honestly, it’s so secret, even we don’t know what it is.
THE PIANO IN A FACTORY IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD Cineworld, Thu 24 Feb 8.15pm Light-hearted Chinese family comedy about a father who wants to provide a piano for his daughter to practise on, so enlists the help of his steelworker colleagues to find one. ■ Also showing at Cineworld, Fri 25 Feb, 3.30pm.
GRIFF THE INVISIBLE SUPERHEROES IN GLASGOW Cineworld, Fri 25 Feb, 8.45pm ORANGES AND SUNSHINE BEST OF BRITISH GFT, Sat 26 Feb, 8.30pm
True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten shakes off the sex object status he’s earned as neck- biter Jason Stackhouse to become Griff, a nerdy office worker with dreams of becoming a crime-fighting superhero ■ Also showing at Cineworld, Thu 24 Feb, 6.30pm. Jim Loach (son of Ken) directs Hugo Weaving and Emily Watson in the true story of a government programme that relocated thousands of British children throughout the Commonwealth between the Victorian era and the 1970s. ■ Also showing at GFT, Fri 25 Feb, 8.30pm.
THE EAGLE CLOSING GALA GFT, Sun 27 Feb, 8.15pm Kevin Macdonald’s Romans- in-Scotland actioner gets its UK premiere, as Channing Tatum (star of, um, GI Joe) leads a small group of soldiers north of Hadrian’s Wall to find out what happened to an entire legion of their countrymen. Jamie Bell and Donald Sutherland also star.
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