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International Women's Day 2012 events
29 Feb 2012
Round-up of talks, exhibitions and events surrounding Thursday 8 March
In Glasgow, Scottish Women’s Aid will be running an all-day seminar to discuss perceptions of domestic abuse (Thu 8 Mar, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow, 9.30am). Talk of the Steamie, a new series of talks at the People’s Palace, are…
M_nus: Hobo & Heartthrob
29 Feb 2012
The two techno DJs discuss working on Richie Hawtin's label and their upcoming Glasgow shows
You’re an emerging electronic producer and your label boss is Richie Hawtin aka Plastikman – so do you get star-struck when you talk to him? ‘Why not?’ laughs Joel Boychuk aka Hobo. ‘I don’t usually think so, but I guess the fanboy part of me will never…
Clubbers' Decktionary: Ballroom
29 Feb 2012
A guide to the myriad genres of clubbing, from Trouble's DJ Hobbes
Ballroom aka ballroom house, or Ha, proper noun: house sub-genre, which, much like Chicago Footwork/Juke and Detroit Jit, owes its lifeblood to the highly expressive dancers (‘voguers’) who dominate the scene. Also similar to B-more, the music is raw…
Construct
29 Feb 2012
Group show of work by Barbara Kasten, Alan Michael, Daniel Sinsel and Ricky Swallow
Construct brings together four artists, Barbara Kasten, Alan Michael, Daniel Sinsel and Ricky Swallow, in a study of manipulation and alteration as the method for constructing new images. Swallow’s quirky sculptures, which open the show, display…
Interview: Stewart Francis
28 Feb 2012
The Canadian comedian discusses Bill Hicks, Ricky Gervais and the other Stu Francis
When he first arrived in the UK, there was a recurring subject that would crop up around any discussion of Canadian comic Stewart Francis: was he aware of the iconic 80s kids show presenter who shared that name and boasted a catchphrase about his…
First Writes: Lisa O'Donnell, author of The Death of Bees
28 Feb 2012
The first-time writer on Glasgow set tale of young orphaned girls
Give us five words to describe The Death of Bees? Contemporary. Dark. Comic. Social. Loud. Name one author who should be more famous than they are now? Katherine Dunn who wrote the amazing Geek Love. She’s written other things, mostly about boxing…
Craig Hill talks about his comedy hero Victoria Wood
28 Feb 2012
'It’s all about delivery, tight writing and use of language'
There are a few comedians who inspire me because I like their style. One of them is Ross Noble who I think is an off-the-cuff genius; the first time I saw him I thought how is he able to do this, he’s connecting all these subjects as though he knew them…
Team Girl Comic #4
28 Feb 2012
Ragtag Glasgow-based publication providing feminist balance in the world of comics
Team Girl Comic is a Glasgow collective of artists and illustrators breathing fresh feminist air into the underground comic scene. A lo-fi zine featuring a pic’n’mix of cartoons and drawings by women of all backgrounds and ages, TGC was set up as a…
John O'Farrell - The Man Who Forgot His Wife
28 Feb 2012
Mildly diverting rom-com novel from the Spitting Image writer
(Doubleday) What would we make of our partners if our memories were wiped and we spied them anew? This question loiters, doe-eyed, at the heart of John O’Farrell’s retrograde amnesia rom-com, The Man Who Forgot His Wife. It’s a light-hearted…
Carancho
22 Feb 2012
Argentinean neo-noir explores car crash insurance scams
(15) 107 min Beginning and ending with visceral images of car crashes, this slice of contemporary neo-noir, from Argentinean writer and director Pablo Trapero, unites two of his country’s finest actors. The titular vulture (‘carancho’) is an…
Revisiting: Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me
17 Feb 2012
David Lynch and his troubled relationship with television
In May 1990, David Lynch controversially stormed the Cannes Film Festival with his adaptation of Barry Gifford’s Wild at Heart, picking up the prestigious Palme d’Or. Two years later, when he premiered Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me – the feature length…
Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema 2012
17 Feb 2012
Programme includes The First Born, Another Fine Mess, The Black Pirate and Safety Last!
Shhh...! Whisper it quietly, but it’s fair to say that 2012 is likely to be the biggest year in silent cinema for nearly eight decades. The global success of Michel Hazanavicius’ glowing tribute The Artist means that silent films currently have their…
Interview: Sally Phillips - writer of The Decoy Bride
17 Feb 2012
Ex-Smack the Pony performer on fish pie, Narnia and Rear of the Year
First record you ever bought ‘A New England’ by Kirsty MacColl. Last extravagant purchase you made A much larger than necessary Mac desktop. First film you saw that really moved you The Decoy Bride. Last lie you told See above. First…
GFF 2012 - Opening Gala: Your Sister's Sister
17 Feb 2012
Mumblecore director Lynn Shelton introduces her latest film at the opening of the Glasgow Film Fest
Director Lynn Shelton was at the Glasgow Film Theatre last night to introduce her opening gala feature, Your Sister's Sister. She seemed ecstatically happy to be there, hugging co-director Allison Gardner ahead of the screening. Then, after the usual…
West End eaterie Delizique re-invents itself
17 Feb 2012
Snacks, desserts and gourmet pizzas on offer at the Hyndland street deli
There’s one guaranteed way to get the proprietors of delicatessens snapping their grissini in fury – and that’s to open a branch of Waitrose nearby. The upscale chain acts like Kryptonite on proximate independent operations, its economies of scale…
Profile: Markus Schleinzer - writer and director of Michael
17 Feb 2012
Debut film based on Madeleine McCann and Josef Fritzl cases
Born 8 November, 1971, Vienna Background Schleinzer has spent 17 years in the Austrian film industry as a casting director, working for filmmakers such as Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher, The White Ribbon), Jessica Hausner (Lovely Rita…
Luke Fowler (with Toshiya Tsunoda and John Haynes)
17 Feb 2012
Film installation references RD Laing
‘We are actors in a play... whose plot we don’t know... and whose end I dare not imagine.’ These words, delivered by iconoclastic Glasgow-born ‘anti-psychiatrist’ RD Laing, not only form the opening gambit of ‘All Divided Selves’, Luke Fowler’s latest…
Trishna
17 Feb 2012
Michael Winterbottom's bold re-imagining of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles
(15) 113 min Roman Polanski filmed Tess of the D’Urbervilles back in the late 1970s as Tess, with his then partner Nastassja Kinski in the lead role of Thomas Hardy’s heroine-cum-personification-of-nature. Here Michael Winterbottom, who’s previously…
Collins Gallery curator Laura Hamilton picks her favourite exhibitions
17 Feb 2012
Selections from the gallery’s 40-year history
As Strathclyde University’s Collins Gallery prepares to unveil its final exhibition, curator Laura Hamilton picks her favourite exhibitions from the gallery’s 40-year history Impossible to select only five top shows from over 250 curated for the…
Crime books round-up – March 2012
17 Feb 2012
Doug Johnstone, Alex Gray and Mari Jungstedt deliver new crime novels this month
As if to show that fiction readers love a good bit of murder and mystery, death and deceit, blood and booze, there’s acres of it about to be scattered around the nation’s book shelves. Doug Johnstone (of this parish) parks his Hit and Run (Faber) at our…
Roger Ackling
17 Feb 2012
Assemblage of garden tools from alumnus of late 1960s St Martin’s School of Art scene
It’s hard, at first, to see just what Roger Ackling has created here. An alumnus of the late 1960s St Martin’s School of Art scene that also produced Richard Long, Ackling’s ideas of what constitutes sculpture are unique to say the least. In this case…
Bollywood: The Coffee Box
17 Feb 2012
Takeaway curry stand situated on Edinburgh's Bruntsfield Links
Inspired by the street food culture she grew up with in India, Nutan Bala left her job as a support worker and opened the hatches on Edinburgh’s first curry and coffee stand. Except for a mixed vegetable dhal, which has proven so popular that it has…
The Raven
17 Feb 2012
Thriller hypothesing final days of Edgar Allan Poe falls prey to genre cliches
(15) 111min As the opening titles to The Raven tell us, until he was found near death on a park bench in October 1849, Edgar Allan Poe’s final days remain a mystery. Spinning a macabre tale that might feel at home in one of Poe’s stories, this…
Bill Cunningham New York
17 Feb 2012
Illustrates how New York Times photographer’s significance extends beyond fashion
(12A) 84min You don’t need to be a fashionista to fall for Richard Press’ feature debut, an exuberant, occasionally intimate portrait of Bill Cunningham, a former milliner and New York Times photographer specialising in street fashion and society…
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
17 Feb 2012
OTT second outing for Nicolas Cage's flaming-skulled anti-hero
(12A) 95mins Nicolas Cage’s latest stab at lending Ghost Rider mainstream credibility suffers from the decision to employ Crank duo Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor as co-directors. For while certainly high on manic energy, Spirit of Vengeance lacks…
