“Well you know, we did this to fuck our label” bantered Rodrigo, leaning out over the crowd, apparently jokingly. “But, as the project grew, we decided we wanted to take it on tour.” The project Rodrigo of guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriella is talking about is new album Area 52, produced in conjunction with Cuban [...]
The blurb in the GFF programme on this film sounded exciting: “Two Russian ghosts embark on a surreal, dreamlike journey… to the end of the world”! How could anyone pass up this surreal journey with striking imagery and some comedy thrown in there, just in case a film with no living humans is just a [...]
Markovics’s directorial debut is a claustrophobic exploration of guilt, suffused with the sweet stench of death. The previously unknown Thomas Schubert plays the orphaned Roman Kogler, an inmate at a Viennese juvenile detention centre with an imminent parole hearing. Having been turned down in the past, and given the seriousness of his crime, he’s less [...]
Josh Slater-Williams Lynn Shelton’s follow-up to her mumblecore hit Humpday retains both frequent collaborator Mark Duplass, and a focus on the types of dynamic you can find between a small group of people. In Your Sister’s Sister we meet Iris (Emily Blunt), Jack (Duplass), and Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt). At the heart of Humpday’s character exploration [...]
The prison documentary is a hard one to get right. As charming bumbler Louis Theroux demonstrated perfectly in his 2011 documentary Behind Bars, the incarcerated are among the easiest human subjects in the world to alienate. By merely appearing in the program, Theroux’s documentary immediately presents the prisoner as the other, and try as he [...]
Glasgow filmmaker Simon Arthur’s accomplished first feature was shot, in the long haul, between Fife and the US. The film initially began life as a short film (also Silver Tongues, 2006), which forms the central part of tonight’s feature. This short was used to successfully secure funding for his extremely watchable creation. Arthur’s decision to [...]
Having recently undergone a dramatic rise to stardom, ex University of Glasgow student, Emeli Sande took some time out before her show at the Oran Mor to reflect on the last year, all the exciting developments that it’s brought with it, and the goals she’s aiming to achieve. Glasgow Guardian Miss Sandé, it’s lovely to [...]
There is something about hanging around in a dark, disused railway arch on a Sunday afternoon that feels a bit dirty. Especially when the reason you’re there is to have your ears filled with all sorts of literary filth. But this is exactly what you’ll be experiencing when you come along to the ‘sex’ themed [...]
As students face the possibility of the price of a university education increasing further, you’ve never needed a better excuse to get thrifty – and vintage fashion is the perfect place to start. As we settle back into university life, consider a new way to re-stock your wardrobe for the autumn with a blast from [...]
Situated on Woodlands Terrace is a gallery known as the Common Guild, a handsome building that boasts a magnificent view of Kelvingrove Park. Recently, I met the communications manager Kitty Anderson, who told us about the gallery. I started by asking her how the Common first got started. Firstly, how did the Common Guild first [...]
