A Look Ahead to the Glasgow Film Festival 2014

After enjoying its most successful year ever in 2013, the Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) has announced some very special developments to complement the programme strands for the tenth annual festival, including pop up cinema installations and a salute to vintage Hollywood glamour. The festival runs from 20 February - 2 March 2014.

1939 was a very significant year for Hollywood cinema, widely regarded as Hollywood’s greatest year ever. A year which saw 365 films released, 80 million tickets a week were sold and the Best Picture award nominees at the 1939 Oscars were Gone With The Wind, Stagecoach, Wuthering Heights, Dark Victory, Love Affair, Goodbye Mr Chips, Ninotchka, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, Of Mice and Men and The Wizard of Oz. Rather than celebrating the achievement of an individual actor in the popular retrospective programme strand, this year, the GFF will be screening all of these films.

GFF’s audience-focused programmes are designed to bring cinema to the whole city, with boutique screenings and cinematic experiences in a huge variety of unusual locations. At GFF13, audiences went underground to watch The Warriors in the bowels of the Glasgow Subway system, witnessed Jaws and Dead Calm from the cargo hold of the Tall Ship Glenlee, encountered the silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc, with live soprano soundtrack, in the vaulted surroundings of Glasgow Cathedral. This year, there will be a themed pop-up event on every night of the Festival apart from the opening and closing galas, taking in more venues across the city than ever before.

The Festival embraces cinema without prejudice or boundaries to create an event that has something for everyone at affordable prices that will be appreciated by all.

The full 2014 programme is available here.

DCM's Film Specialist, Tom Linay, Head of Exhibition, Steven Davis and Exhibition Account Manager, Rebecca Rau will be in stellar company when they attend the upcoming festival. Richard Dreyfuss, star of American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Goodbye Girl, will be attending the UK premiere of his latest film, Cas & Dylan, at the Glasgow Film Festival on Saturday 22 February. Dreyfuss will be accompanied by Cas & Dylan’s debut director, Beverly Hills 90210 star, Jason Priestley.

Richard Dreyfuss and Tatiana Maslany in Cas and Dylan

Terry Gilliam, Python and director of Brazil and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, will also attend the Festival on Thursday 27 February, in support of his new film, The Zero Theorem, which stars Christoph Waltz, Matt Damon and Tilda Swinton.

Director Terry Gilliam on set of The Zero Theorem

The Festival Closing Gala this year is Under The Skin, partly shot in Glasgow and starring Scarlett Johansson. The films directoir, Jonathan Glazier, who also directed  the iconic Surfer ad for Guinness and star Paul Brannigan (The Angel’s Share) will return to Glasgow to walk the red carpet.

Scarlett Johansson in character in Under The Skin