Glasgow Film Theatre

Before Midnight

• 2013
• US
• 108 min

• Directed by: Richard Linklater
• Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
• UK release: 21 June 2013

The third part of Linklater's long-running saga examines the couple's feelings as they face early middle age.

Before Sunrise

• 1995
• US
• 101 min
• 15

• Directed by: Richard Linklater
• Written by: Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan
• Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy

American Inter-Railer Hawke and French student Delpy are the strangers on a train who strike up a chance conversation and spend a night wandering around Vienna. The actors give career best performances while director Linklater veers into Eric Rohmer territory with a funny, sweet and fundamentally wise movie.

Before Sunset

• 2004
• US
• 80 min
• 15

• Directed by: Richard Linklater
• Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff

Following on from 1994's Before Sunrise, this second part of Linklater's saga reunites the pair in Paris.

Beware of Mr Baker

• 2012
• US
• 100 min
• 15

• Directed by: Jay Bulger
• Written by: Jay Bulger
• UK release: 17 May 2013

Warts-and-all portrayal of the excess of former Cream drummer Ginger Baker, considered by some to be the world's best drummer.

Braindead

• 1992
• New Zealand
• 104 min
• 18

• Directed by: Peter Jackson
• Cast: Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody

A delirious zombie splatter-comedy from Lord of the Rings director Jackson, back before anyone would give him a budget.

Chronicle of a Summer

• 1961
• France
• 85 min
• U

• Directed by: Jean Rouch

Sociologist Edgar Morin and anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch ask a cast of real life individuals to discuss topics on the theme of French society and happiness in the working class. Structurally innovative, Paris and Saint-Tropez-set documentary.

The Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn

• 
• 1987
• US
• 84 min
• 18

• Directed by: Sam Raimi
• Written by: Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel
• Cast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry

Bruce 'fastest axe in the West' Campbell and another selection of hardy citizens gird their loins and set their chainsaws running for another ding-dong battle with the evil forces in the woods.

The Great Gatsby

• 1974
• US
• 144 min
• 15

• Directed by: Jack Clayton
• Cast: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Sam Waterston, Karen Black

Classic literary tale starring Redford as Gatsby and Farrow as the fickle Daisy.

The Great Gatsby

• 
• 2013
• US/Australia
• 143 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
• Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton
• UK release: 16 May 2013

Luhrmann's typically exuberant take on the novel by F Scott Fitzgerald features DiCaprio as the titular millionaire.

The Guns of Navarone

• 1961
• UK/US
• 158 min
• PG

• Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
• Cast: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn

A British task force is sent to destroy the titular Nazi cannons in this classic war thriller.

A Hijacking

• 
• 2012
• Denmark
• 99 min
• 15

• Directed by: Tobias Lindholm
• Written by: Tobias Lindholm
• Cast: Pilou Asbæk, Roland Møller, Søren
• UK release: 10 May 2013

Thriller about the hijacking of a freighter in the Indian Ocean, as experienced by both the desperate ship's cook (Asbæk) and the ice-cool CEO (Malling), who negotiates with the pirates from his boardroom. Negotiations drag on for months, making for commendable realism and fine performances but also slowing the pace to a…

I Am Breathing

• 2012
• Denmark/UK
• 72 min

• Directed by: Emma Davie/Morag McKinnon

Documentary about a man facing the onset of Motor Neurone Disease.

I'm So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros)

• 
• 2013
• Spain
• 90 min
• 15

• Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
• Cast: Javier Cámara, Pepa Charro, Cecilia Roth
• UK release: 3 May 2013

In Almodovar's oddball comedy, a passenger plane suffers technical failure threatening mortal danger to all onboard. As the cockpit crew try to put things right, the cabin crew decide to make the rest of the journey as enjoyable as possible.

The King of Marvin Gardens

• 
• 1972
• US
• 103 min
• 15

• Directed by: Bob Rafelson
• Written by: Jacob Brackman, Bob Rafelson
• Cast: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn

1970s Atlantic City: David (Nicholson) is a depressive talk radio DJ and brother of excitable crook Jason (Dern), who plans to open a Hawaiian resort. Rafelson's 1972 film was a flop on release but it's laid-back, sad and wonderfully strange, an unforgettable reminder of the diversity and dynamism of New Hollywood.

Life of Pi

• 
• 2012
• US
• 127 min
• PG

• Directed by: Ang Lee
• Written by: Yann Martel, David Magee
• Cast: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall
• UK release: 21 December 2012

Ravishing version of Yann Martel’s 2001 novel, in which Indian boy Pi (Sharma) is lost at sea on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. A beautiful and faithfully-adapted adventure story, demonstrating that Lee hasn’t lost his knack for turning literary subjects into cinematic gold.

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

• 
• 2012
• US
• 93 min
• PG

• Directed by: Eric Darnell
• Written by: Eric Darnell, Noah Baumbach
• Cast: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer
• UK release: 19 October 2012

Alex (Stiller), Marty (Rock), Melman (Schwimmer) and Gloria (Pinkett Smith) are pining for New York so they escape across Europe, only to find animal-hating Captain DuBois (McDormand) on their tails. Easily the best family film of 2012 so far, it’s a superb return to form after the lacklustre Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa.

The Moo Man

• 2013
• UK
• 98 min

• Directed by: Andy Heathcote/Heike Bachelier

Stephen Hook runs a small organic farm. This documentary looks at the modern day struggles of running such an enterprise.

Much Ado About Nothing

• 
• 2012
• US
• 107 min

• Directed by: Joss Whedon
• Written by: William Shakespeare, Joss Whedon
• Cast: Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz, Nathan Fillion
• UK release: 14 June 2013

Shakespeare's spiky, witty, problematic play is the grandparent of the modern romcom, and Whedon's version is no stunt: he's been conducting private readings of it for years. The actors are experienced and adept (with Acker a particular pleasure as Beatrice) and it's realised with simplicity, elegance and emotional…

National Theatre Live: The Audience

• 2013
• UK

• Directed by: Stephen Daldry
• Written by: Peter Morgan
• Cast: Helen Mirren

Mirren puts on a crown once more to play at being the Queen. Broadcast live from London's West End, The Audience finds HRH taking audiences with each of the twelve Prime Ministers of her reign in a play written by The Queen screenwriter Morgan.

National Theatre Live: This House

• 2013
• UK
• 180 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Jeremy Herrin
• UK release: 22 May 2013

James Graham's acclaimed new political comedy set in Westminster during the hung parliament of 1974.

Pom Poko (Heisei tanuki gassen ponpoko)

• 1994
• Japan
• 119 min
• PG

• Directed by: Isao Takahata
• Cast: Shinchô Kokontei, Makoto Nonomura, Yuriko Ishida

Studio Ghibli comedy about a community of shapeshifting raccoons desperately protecting their forest home from urban development.

Pompeii Live from the British Museum

• 2013
• UK
• 85 min

This live screening, hosted by British Museum director Neil MacGregor and others, looks at the Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition, and features films depicting how these Roman cities look today.

Populaire

• 
• 2012
• FR
• 111 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Regis Roinsard
• Written by: Regis Roinsard, Daniel Presley, Romain Compingt
• Cast: Deborah Francois, Romain Duris, Berenice Bejo
• UK release: 31 May 2013

France, 1959: insurance company secretary Rose (Francois) is hopeless at her job except for an uncanny gift for speed-typing. Her boss (Duris) enters her in a competition and romance strikes up. A kooky romcom, heavy on period style and references to vintage Hollywood cinema but low on content.

Promised Land

• 
• 2012
• US/UAE
• 106 min
• 15

• Directed by: Gus Van Sant
• Cast: Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski, Hal Holbrook
• UK release: 19 April 2013

A gas salesman (Damon) and his partner (McDormand) arrive at a run-down rural town to make what they think is an easy sale. However, a schoolteacher (Holbrook) leads a campaign to stop the pair.

Quadrophenia

• 
• 1979
• UK
• 117 min

• Directed by: Franc Roddam
• Written by: Dave Humphries, Martin Stellman
• Cast: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Philip Davis

Mods and rockers live it up on Brighton beach by swapping buckets and spades for chains and sticks. Lively first half has enough energy, music, violence and period flavour to carry it along, but all too soon it degenerates into some sort of treatise on the morality of youth, set to tunes by The Who.

The Room

• 
• 2003
• US
• 99 min
• 18

• Directed by: Tommy Wiseau
• Written by: Tommy Wiseau
• Cast: Tommy Wiseau, Juliette Danielle, Greg Sestero, Philip Haldiman, Kyle Vogt, Carolyn Minnott, Robyn Paris

'So bad it's good' cult film that has suffered some very harsh criticism but is loyally defended by its mysterious director Wiseau.

Sammy's Great Escape

• 
• 2012
• Belgium
• 92 min
• U

• Directed by: Vincent Kesteloot/Ben Stassen
• Cast: Voices of Wesley Johnny, Isabelle Fuhrman, Billy Unger
• UK release: 8 February 2013

This charmless sequel to 2010's forgettable A Turtle's Tale would be better titled Sammy's Painfully Long Incarceration, as leatherback turtle Sammy and pal Ray are kidnapped by employees of a restaurant. A truly disturbing scene in which a lobster watches a pal being cut up and eaten makes this suitable only for the…

Scarecrow

• 1973
• US
• 112 min
• 18

• Directed by: Jerry Schatzberg
• Written by: Jerry Schatzberg
• Cast: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan
• UK release: 26 April 2013

The 1973 existentialist flick gets a re-release, featuring Pacino and Hackman as two drifters who partner up to head east together.

Something in the Air (Après mai)

• 
• 2012
• France
• 122 min
• 15

• Directed by: Olivier Assayas
• Cast: Clément Métayer, Lola Créton, Felix Armand
• UK release: 24 May 2013

In early 70s France, teenager Gilles (Métayer), a lycée student, is in love with bohemian Laure (Combes), but then he becomes involved with politically committed Christine (Créton). Assayas' bittersweet portrait of countercultural youth is credible because of its detail and its refusal of either nostalgia or cynicism.

The Stoker (Kochegar)

• 
• 2010
• Russia
• 87 min
• 15

• Directed by: Aleksey Balabanov
• Cast: Mikhail Skryabin, Yuriy Matveev, Aleksandr Mosin
• UK release: 17 May 2013

A minimalist black comedy about a war veteran who works as a stoker while writing a novel in his spare time.

The Stone Roses: Made of Stone

• 
• 2013
• UK

• Directed by: Shane Meadows
• UK release: 5 June 2013

Meadows' documentary charts the eagerly anticipated return of the seminal Madchester band.

Theorem

• 1968
• Italy
• 98 min
• 15

• Directed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Written by: Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Cast: Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti
• UK release: 12 April 2013

Pasolini's twin obsessions, Christianity and Marxism, are brought searingly to life in this intense fable, featuring Tel as a mysterious Christ figure who creates spiritual, sexual and emotional upheavals within a wealthy family when he stays for a short time in their home. Enigmatic and powerful.

Thérèse Desqueyroux

• 
• 2012
• France
• 110 min

• Directed by: Claude Miller
• Written by: Claude Miller, Natalie Carter, Francois Mauriac
• Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anais Demoustier
• UK release: 7 June 2013

When Thérèse (Tautou) finds herself stifled by her marriage to Bernard (Lellouche), she begins to plot her way out. Miller's adaptation of Mauriac's 1927 novel works best as a character study, with Tautou impressive as a shrewish, unhappy woman who finds that her fate is frustratingly beyond her control.

Trashed

• 
• 2012
• US
• 100 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Candida Brady
• Written by: Candida Brady
• Cast: Jeremy Irons
• UK release: 1 March 2013

Documentary in which narrator/presenter Irons travels the world examining the impact and problems of waste disposal. The problems are real but the film takes a bland approach, with Irons learning about the benefits of composting instead of conducting penetrative interviews or asking difficult questions.

Valley of Saints

• 2012
• India/US
• 82 min

• Directed by: Musa Syeed
• Cast: Mohammed Afzal, Gulzar Ahmed Bhat, Neelofar Hamid

A boatman longs to leave town with his best friend for a better life but a curfew ruins their plan. When he falls in love with a young woman he is forced to choose between his new life or her love.

Whose Story?

• 2013
• UK
• 90 min

Featuring contributions from filmmaker Chris Leslie and work from the Making It Home project, this film examines the issues faced by people forced to leave their homes.

The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom

• 2011
• Canada
• 95 min

• Directed by: Tara Johns
• Cast: Macha Grenon, Gil Bellows, Julia Stone

When a young girl finds out she's adopted she travels across America to meet her birth mother.