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Glasgow Film Festival 2012 - programme launch

Glasgow Film Festival 2012 programme announced

Highlights include Your Sister's Sister, The Muppets and Tom Twyker's 3

19 Jan 2012

The programme for the Glasgow Film Festival 2012 was launched today, providing details of the films and events taking place in Cinema City during February. The main branch of the Festival takes place from Thu 16–Sun 26 Feb, and starts off with a gala…

Me and Orson Welles - Richard Linklater interview

Me and Orson Welles - Richard Linklater interview

4 Dec 2009

Richard Linklater’s new film uncovers the ambition and talent of young Orson Welles. Kaleem Aftab meets a director with nothing left to prove.

Me and Orson Welles

Me and Orson Welles

(3 stars)4 Dec 2009

(12A) 113min The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Nobody is greater testament to that than Orson Welles – broadcaster, actor and director who ended his days bloated, impoverished and doing voiceover work on…

O for Orson

O for Orson

4 Nov 2009

Anticipating the release next month of Richard Linklater’s young Orson Welles biopic Me and Orson Welles this ten film season of some of Welles’ best and most frequently overlooked works including The Magnificent Ambersons, Journey into Fear…

Slacker

Slacker

(4 stars)17 Jan 2008

COMEDY/DRAMA (15) 93min (Metrodome rental/retail) Originally released in 1991, Richard Linklater’s fine low-budget second feature may bring to mind one of contemporary cinema’s most over-used storytelling devices: the multiple character tale. But…

Fast Food Nation

(3 stars)23 Apr 2007

Texan filmmaker, vegetarian and activist Richard Linklater’s fictional interpretation of Eric Schlosser’s bestselling non-fiction book exposing malpractice in the America’s fast food industry is an enjoyable and shocking freewheeling satire on consumer…

Fast Food Nation

Food for thought

30 Jan 2007

Eric Schlosser touched a nerve with the public when he exposed the unethical and unhygienic practices of America’s junk food industry in his book Fast Food Nation. It swiftly became an international bestseller and required reading for anyone concerned…

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