GLASGAY!'s PICK OF THE
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL
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BEAUTY: 17-18 FEB
Fascination turns to obsession this fatal attraction laced with long repressed homosexuality. A disturbing, provocative tragedy with striking performances.
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3479_beauty
A MAN'S STORY: 17-18 FEB
Oswald Boateng, Givenchy creative director, stars in his own American reality series and marries a Russian model. Runways, parties, planes – it’s a glittery blur, with Boateng as its charismatic, hard-working centre.
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3592_a_mans_story
ON THE ICE: 17-18 FEB
Teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq were on a seal hunt with the boy and only they know the truth of what happened. In a claustrophobic, small community, can there ever be closely guarded secrets or will the guilty truth force its way to the surface? A powerful tale of loss and regret set in an unforgettable snowy landscape.
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3623_on_the_ice
ANCHORS AWAIGH: MON 20 FEB, 11AM
Forget the slender plot and savour the joyous energy and dazzling dance numbers in one of Gene Kelly's best-loved musicals. The first of three films Kelly made with Frank Sinatra,Anchors Aweigh set a new benchmark for MGM musicals as it follows the romantic trials and tribulations of two sailors on shore leave
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3355_anchors_aweigh
ELLES: 20-21 FEB
Juliette Binoche gives a luminous performance in this frank, compelling exploration of female sexuality from rising talent Malgorzata Szumowska
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3522_elles
IN THE FAMILY: 20 FEB 
British hit Weekend signalled a new era in gay cinema with a universal emotional appeal. In the Family makes good on that promise with a compelling, beautifully modulated tale of love, devotion and family
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3552_in_the_family
CLOUDBURST: 20 FEB
Imagine Thelma and Louise had lived happily ever after and matured into a loving lesbian couple who take no nonsense from anyone. Then you would have feisty Stella (Olympia Dukakis) and her beloved Dot (Brenda Fricker). In Thom Fitzgerald’s award-winning delight Cloudburst, they have been together for over thirty years when Dot falls ill and her granddaughter dispatches her to a care facility.
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3502_cloudburst
FLASH GORDON: 20 FEB
The clock is ticking as all-American hero Flash Gordon and newshound Dale Arden race to save planet Earth from the evil plot of Ming the Merciless in this extravagantly entertaining Dino De Laurentiis production.
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3530_flash_gordon
THE PIRATE: 22 FEB
Pure Hollywood escapism as Gene Kelly is reunited with Judy Garland in a colourful MGM musical directed by Garland's then husband Vincent Minnelli. The Caribbean village of Calvados is the setting for a larger than life yarn in which Garland's Manuela is expected to marry boring, bullying town mayor Don Pedro (Walter Slezak)
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3354_the_pirate
SUPERMAN: 22 FEB
When Superman was released in 1978 comic book blockbusters were a rare event. Director Richard Donner set himself the task of making the world believe that a man could fly and succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. His first stroke of genius was casting young stage actor Christopher Reeve as the gauche, clumsy reporter Clark Kent and the Man of Steel.
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3603_superman
ON THE TOWN: 23 FEB
The MGM musical escapes the soundstages of Hollywood and bursts on to the boisterous streets of New York, New York in this Oscar-winning landmark. Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin are the three sailors with just one day of shore leave to take a bite out of the Big Apple,
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3353_on_the_town
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD DO IT YOURSELF: 24 FEB
As fashion icons go, you can’t get much more iconic than Dame Vivienne Westwood. When she exploded onto the scene in the 1970s her visionary embrace of punk fashion (safety pins, bondage gear and spiked collars) and love of tartan gave her designs an unequivocal Westwood stamp.
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3652_vivienne_westwood_do_it_yourself
3 : 25 FEB
Revered as the director of Run Lola Run and the forthcoming Cloud Atlas, Tom Tykwer has created a stylish, sophisticated exploration of modern love in 3. Described as ‘straight out of Shakespeare via Lubitsch’, 3 captures long-term Berlin lovers Hanna and Simon at a point in their relationship when they are restless for something new.
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3464_3
HELLO DOLLY: 26 FEB
Hello, Dolly! just keeps improving with age and now looks like the last of the great old school Hollywood musicals. Gene Kelly proves himself a masterful director expertly juggling the pressures of a hefty studio budget, the expectations built by a legendary Broadway show and a volatile star team of Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3349_hello_dolly
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