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Glasgow's original independent cinema and home of @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social 🛠️ Built in 1939 📽️ Founded in 1974
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.socialWho was Toni Cade Bambara? Through archival footage, personal testimonies and a propulsive jazz soundtrack this formidable warrior for social justice blazes back into consciousness in The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organising. 🍿Part of Black History Month at GFT 🗓️ Saturday 27 October, 3pm
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.socialAlmost 50 years on, indisputable champ of the bathroom fixture heist genre and the film that launched Bill Forsyth's career, That Sinking Feeling, remains a hilarious debut that put Scottish cinema on the map.📍
🤘Part of our BFI Rip It Up season
🗓️ Tue 18 October
🎟️ https://loom.ly/OL1Bmgo
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.socialHorace Ové’s PRESSURE (1976), the first full-length Black British film, offers a pin-sharp snapshot of 1970s Britain that feels as relevant now as it did 50 years ago. Don't miss a rare a chance to catch it in 4K as part of Black History Month at GFT. 🗓️ Thursday 15 October, 7.40pm
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social🍿 Also on sale today:
🎥 Essential and devastating documentary NAZA arrives 16 October
🎬 Scotland Loves Anime returns from 6–8 November
✨ A special preview of La Bola Negra on 24 October
🎞️ And catch Robert Altman’s sprawling Short Cuts on 35mm, 20–22 November
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.socialIt's Chriiiiiiiisssma—okay, not quite yet, but time to start planning some festivities at GFT. Tickets for our It's A Wonderful Life screenings from 18 until 24 December are now on sale!
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.socialWed 30 Sept, 5.30pm: a special preview of Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, plus a recorded Q&A with Alex Gibney, Salman Rushdie and Rachel Eliza Griffiths 🎬 Gibney's unflinching account of Rushdie's recovery after the 2022 attack. 🎟️ Book now, link below
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.socialMissed SENSE AND SENSIBILITY at our GYFF Opening Gala? Not to worry 🎀 The latest Austen adaptation is back on the big screen with more dates, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles. 🎟️ Book now, link below
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.socialThree films in one rewarding programme. 🎬 Our Black History Month season with CRER: Bill Gunn's PERSONAL PROBLEMS, Horace Ové's PRESSURE (the first feature by a Black British director, newly restored in 4K), and TCB, a portrait of Toni Cade Bambara. 🎟️ Book now, link below
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.socialWhat happens when being an influencer is the family business, and your child has never known anything else? 📱 BABYSTAR is a quietly frightening look at what family channels do to the children in them. Luca has everything except a life she chose. 🎟️ Book now, link below
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.socialThe last one 🕯️ Tarkovsky's final film, THE SACRIFICE, in 4K, closes our CineMasters season tonight. 28 Sept, 7.40pm. 🎟️ Book now, link below
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.socialCome and see what our Young Programmers have done with the place 🎬 GYFF is on now, 25–27 September. 🎟️ Book now, link in below 🔗
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.socialQuite a week, and it isn't even October yet 🍿 SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, MANHUNTER in 4K for its 40th, LE BOUCHER, and BABYSTAR. All on the big screen now. 🎟️ Book now, link below
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