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19 Dec 2011

Fluffy slippers that can be heated in the microwave. Mobile phone holders in the shape of endangered species. Socks bearing the legend ‘world’s best grandad’. Ned Corbett-Winder promises that his gift-a-month website notanotherbill.com will most…

The Empty Plinth Project call for artists to exhibit at GFT

Every week a different artist is chosen to fill the plinth

5 Aug 2010

The Empty Plinth Project offers artists the chance to take part in summer themed mini-exhibitions at GFT. Every week throughout August, a different artist will be chosen to fill the empty plinth in the entranceway to the GFT with an artwork of their own…

Life of Brian

Monty Python classic comes back to the big screen

27 Aug 2009

Has it really been that long? Find out what the Romans really did for us in this special thirtieth anniversary screening of Monty Python’s most contentious and complete film. GFT, Glasgow from Sun 6-Tue 8 Sep.

Religulous

2 Apr 2009

DOCUMENTARY The Richard Dawkins offensive has a powerful new ally in Borat director Larry Charles and comedian Bill Maher’s new film about faith and its associated idiocies. Beginning with the premise that religion is detrimental to the progress…

Cherry Blossoms (Kirschbluten-Hanami)

2 Apr 2009

DRAMA Who would be a parent? Unloved, unthanked and ultimately abandoned. The eternal story of ageist betrayal gets a fresh Germanic twist in this new film. On finding out that her husband is gravely ill, elderly Trudi (Hannalore Eisner) decides…

Il Divo

19 Mar 2009

BIOPIC/DRAMA With Il Divo, the Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino (The Consequences of Love, The Family Friend) has spectacularly reinvented the genre of the political biopic. The subject of this darkly amusing and often exhilarating film is…

In the City of Sylvia

19 Mar 2009

DRAMA Twenty five years ago the philosopher Gilles Deleuze said that if we see very few things in the image, it’s that we don’t know how to read it properly. Recently, cognitive psychologists have proved the point through rigorous testing: ‘these…

Wenders season offers insight into world of major film figure

10 Jun 2008

The GFT's Wim Wenders season consists of five of the director's most well known films: Kings of the Road, The American Friend, Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire and tonight’s film Alice in the Cities made in 1974.