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 [...]
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 [...]
Screens is Glasgow University’s very own society for the appreciation of film, as well as the occasional bit of great television. Each Thursday afternoon sees the society present, on one rather big screen, a cinematic treat for your viewing pleasure. Dedicated to showing an eclectic selection, each semester has screenings of films from a wide [...]
From the great heights of ‘Halloween’ all the way down to the dirge of ‘Ghosts of Mars’, it’s about time John Carpenter made his come back. But perhaps that’s too much to ask from a man who remade ‘Village of the Damned’…
Rosa Downing looks at whether Darren Aronosky’s latest foray into mainstream cinema is something to make a song and dance about.
With a trip to the cinema costing upwards of a fiver these days, is the experience of sitting in a dark room with noisy, chatty, mobile-phone-using strangers still worth it? Sean Greenhorn investigates.
Emma Ainley-Walker takes her pick of French cinema’s rich, and often unsual, history.
Mateusz Zatonski takes us through the history of Russian Cinema, from Eisentein’s hugely influential Battleship Potemkin, through Tarkovsky, up to Bekmambetov, Sokurov and the Russian New Wave.
