8th March 2019 - The Glasgow Guardian



Glasgow Film Festival 2019: Of Fish and Foe

8th March 2019

Manon Haag Deputy Culture Editor – Film & TV Editor Of Fish and Foe opens on the natural beauty of Scotland’s coastline, peaceful and undisturbed, like the stuff of tourist brochure. But the mask falls off five minutes in. Of Fish and Foe is not a documentary about nature, it is not even really about ...


Glasgow Film Festival 2019: Eighth Grade

8th March 2019

Axel Koch Music columnist Coming in the second week of the Glasgow Film Festival, Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade forms a neat continuation to Jonah Hill’s Mid90s, which opened the festival. Where Hill made a coming-of-age film about a 13-year-old boy in that name-giving era, this is a coming-of-age film about a 13-year-old girl (Elsie Fisher’s ...


Glasgow Film Festival 2019: Another Day of Life

8th March 2019

Zuzanna Filipiuk Writer Another Day Of Life is an adaptation of a book by Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski on the Angolan war for independence. This film is a cinematic masterpiece which swift use of visuals, sound and documentary footage imposes on the viewer a lasting feeling of oppression. As soon as the credits start rolling, ...


Review: Sappho’s Stung with Love

8th March 2019

Mary Horner Writer “Regardless of if she was commenting on heterosexual or homosexual relationships, she advocates love for and towards women” Sappho’s poetry, although in fragments, has survived approximately 2599 years of celebration, controversy and interpretation. The countless translations made of her work present a slightly different reading of what she originally meant to convey. ...