Glasgow Film Festival unveils new strands for 2015
The 2015 Glasgow Film Festival programme is beginning to take shape, with next year’s festival set to feature new segments focussing on nerd culture, Australian cinema and Glasgow’s role in the history of cinema.
The festival’s new Cinema City strand will combine a series of special showings of films set or shot in Glasgow with a major exhibition on the city’s place in cinema history to be held at the Mitchell Library. Strewth! will feature a host of Australian films both past and present, while the Nerdvana strand pulls together the festival’s long-running gaming, comics and cult film programming in one place.
Terry Gilliam talks to The Skinny at GFF 14
Also new to the bill for 2015 is the Ingrid Bergman retrospective Here’s Looking at You, Kid, taking in ten of the best films from across the legendary Swede’s career. The FrightFest horror strand returns, as do the usual mix of gala screenings and showings of work from directors from around the world. This year's screenings will be more spread out than in the past, with organisers Glasgow Film revealing that the GFF will return to the Grosvenor Cinema in the West End for the first time in four years.
Last year’s GFF programme featured the UK premiere of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, and closed with Under The Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson as an alien femme fatale abducting men on the streets of Glasgow. GFF 14 also screened the eventual winner of the 2014 BAFTA Scotland award for best film, David Mackenzie’s gripping prison drama Starred Up.
The 2015 Glasgow Film Festival takes place from 18 Feb to 1 Mar. The full programme will be released on 21 Jan, and tickets go on sale on 26 Jan.
From Glasgow Film Festival 2014:
• The CineSkinny's GFF 14 awards