our films are monthly at the beautiful glasgow film theatre. come and join us in cafe cosmo afterwards to talk music, cinema and life in an informal and random way.
gft, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, Scotland. 0141 332 8128. we recommend booking tickets in advance!
www.gft.org.uk
radio on
sunday 21st june 2009, 7pm
Shot in melancholic monochrome, Christopher Petit’s sombre British road movie follows morose factory worker DJ Robert, who drives from London to Bristol to investigate the apparent suicide of his brother. Travelling through desolate urban and rural landscapes, he encounters a number of fellow lost-souls, including an army deserter, a garage mechanic (Sting), and a young German woman, Alice, seeking to be reunited with her daughter.
Radio On was selected and will be introduced by photographer Neil Davidson. Neil was the stills photographer on Young Adam, Hallam Foe and The Last Great Wilderness amongst many others.
wild strawberries
sunday 24th may 2009, 7.30pm
Ingmar Bergman's allegorical 1957 road movie slips between present and past, dream and reality to explore the external and internal worlds of its ageing central character. Professor Isak Borg (played by silent cinema actor/director Victor Sjöström) is a 78-year-old widower. He embarks on a car journey from Stockholm to Lund, where he is to receive an honorary degree from his old university. He is accompanied by his daughter-in-law Marianne, who although pregnant, is planning to separate from her husband. En-route she and Isak meet a squabbling married couple and a trio of hitch-hikers. One of them, Sara, reminds the old man of his long-lost childhood love.
Wild Strawberries was selected and will be introduced by Stevie Jackson from Belle and Sebastian.
tuvalu
sunday 26th april 2009, 8pm
Monorail Film Club this month features Tuvalu by Veit Helmer, an intriguing looking film set in the public baths of Sofia, Bulgaria. Shot in black and white, then tinted, the film has been described as a decaying storybook cityscape and has been compared to Eraserhead and Delicatessen.
It is the selection of GFT director, Jaki McDougall: 'I had been in my job at GFT for a week when I saw this movie on my first visit to Cannes. I planned a whole season around it, then discovered that not all festival films get into distribution. Hopefully it’s as good as I remember.'
morvern callar
sunday 29th march 2009, 7.30pm
Based on the novel by Alan Warner, Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar is the story of a young working class woman from a small port in western Scotland, who uses the suicide of her boyfriend as the means of escaping from her small town existence. She empties his bank account, appropriates his unpublished novel, and flies off to Spain with her best girl friend.
Chosen and introduced by Roddy Woomble of Idlewild.
the wrecking crew
sunday 22nd february 2009, 6.30 and 8.30pm
Our February film club is in collaboration with the Glasgow Film Festival and features Denny Tedesco's The Wrecking Crew, a loving portrait of the amazing musicians who worked through the golden age of 1960s west coast Beach Boys / Phil Spector / Goffin & King pop symphony.
There are two screenings of the film, at 6.30 and 8.30pm, and both will be introduced by long-term Monorail supporter and garage punk fanatic, Lindsay Hutton of Next Big Thing.
monks the transatlantic feedback
sunday 25th january 2009, 7.40pm
The Monks were 5 American GI’s in cold war Germany who billed themselves as the anti-Beatles; they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical banjo. They had strange haircuts, dressed in black, mocked the military and rocked harder than any of their mid-sixties counterparts while managing to basically invent industrial, punk and techno music. This documentary not only illustrates the pop music phenomenon in its political, social and cultural historic contexts, but also reveals The Monks project as the first marriage between art and popular music. For more than thirty years they were not able to talk about their strange experience. In the film they recount for the first time their adventure.
Monks The Transatlantic Feedback was selected by John Cooper who will also introduce the film.
sling blade
and
who i am and what i want
sunday 14th december 2008, 7pm
Karl Childers, now a grown man, is released from a psychiatric hospital where he has been hospitalised since the age of 12 for the murder of his mother and her lover. Karl settles in his old, small hometown, occupying himself by fixing motors. Directed by Billy Bob Thornton, this character study of several Southern misfits possesses the remorseless inevitability of a Greek tragedy.
We are also screening short film, Who I Am And What I Want (7 minutes), a David Shrigley and Chris Shepherd animation.
Selected and introduced by monorail's tallest customer, Glasgow-based artist, David Shrigley. myspace.com/shrigley
the battle of algiers
sunday 16th november 2008, 7.30pm
Ali La Pointe is a petty thief from the Casbah, enraged at the French colonialist treatment of his countrymen he joins the FLN (National Liberation Front) and soon finds himself engaged in a guerilla campaign. In charge of the French forces is Colonel Mathieu a rational and intelligent man who resorts to ruthless tactics in order to crush the revolt. Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers is a graphic, realistic re-enactment of the events that led to the birth of a free Algerian nation that is rightly renowned for its great sense of political even-handedness.
Chosen and intoduced by Jackie McKeown of 1990s. 1990s
that sinking feeling
sunday 12th october 2008, 8.15pm
Bill Forsyth's iconic first feature film, set in a fictitious town called Glasgow, lays down a winning, slightly awkward style which paved the way, only one year later for the much better known Gregory's Girl. That Sinking Feeling, which has a very similar cast to Gregory's Girl, is perhaps slightly clunkier, but is still a brilliant document of a late 70s / early 80s Glasgow which already looks very different to the city we now know. But it's still raining and the character types are familiar enough - Ronnie (Robert Buchanan) and his pals are on the lookout for a brilliant scam to get rich quick, only to hit upon the idea of stealing 90 stainless steel sinks. It sounds slightly unplotted and gauche, and really it is, but somehow it totters forward with brilliant performances and excellent dialogue, into something completely life-affirming and magical.
That Sinking Feeling was selected by Dep Downie from Monorail Music and will be followed by a conversation between actor, Robert Buchanan and Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian.
is that all there is?
and o dreamland
sunday 21st september 2008, 7.45pm
Lindsay Anderson is surely near the very top of any canon of British film-makers and we're extremely proud to present two slightly less well know films which almost bookend his brilliant career. O Dreamland is a wry look at the British seaside resort of Margate in the 1950's, when it was a shining beacon in the world of British theme parks. This detached, impressionistic exploration of a British funfair in the 1950s becomes a detached, impressionistic record of his own life 40 years later in Is That All There Is?, his dark but funny autoportrait for BBC Scotland.
Screening selected by Gerard McInulty and Carolyn Allen of 12 Stars theatre company and the Occasional Keepers, a beguiling pop collective. It will be introduced by Gerard McInulty.
my best fiend
sunday 27th july 2008, 7.30pm
This screening is introduced by Davy Henderson of the Sexual Objects, who previously played in influential post-punk groups the Fire Engines and The Nectarine No.9.
play time
sunday 18th may 2008, 3.40pm
Play Time will be preceded by a short (12m) KH-4, a strange film about a Glasgow artist (played by a young Bill Forsyth) who uses the city as a source of inspiration.
Selected and introduced by Glasgow artist, Toby Paterson.
two-lane blacktop
sunday 20th april 2008, 8.15pm
The screening will be presented by Mark Hillier from Monorail Music, a cult film obsessive who considers it his duty to attend any screening of a horror film which takes place in a Glasgow cinema.
harold and maude
sunday 16th march 2008, 8pm
This month we're really looking forward to seeing Hal Ashby's 1971 classic, Harold and Maude, as introduced by our good friends Norman And Krista Blake. Norman is one third of Teenage Fanclub and Krista runs the wonderful Hitherto shop in the Merchant City.
hitherto teenage fanclub
a life in the death of joe meek
sunday 24th february 2008, 6.30pm
This screening will be introduced by broadcaster, musician and collector of vintage analogue equipment, John Cavanagh.
part of glasgow film festival
the holy modal rounders: bound to lose
and silver jew
sunday 23rd september 2007, 6.45pm
this month, two generations of american underground music. introduced by the director of the holy modal rounders film, paul c lovelace.
kickintheeye 014 kickintheeye.podomatic.com a monthly music podcast produced by John Kennedy & Ian Clark
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We are very excited to announce our first 'real world' photograph exhibition at the 13th Note in Glasgow. To launch this exhibition, we are putting on a show on the opening night - the 6th July.
Tickets are £4 and all profits of the gig will be given to Yorkhill Childrens Foundation.
You can also bring along a mixed cd which you can swap with someone else. Please include a tracklist and have fun with the cover. This is a great opportunity to promote all the bands you love (or your own band) and show your creative side. Please come along, get some new music & badges, view photos, enjoy amazing bands & say hello. :)
kickintheeye 013 kickintheeye.podomatic.com a monthly music podcast produced by John Kennedy & Ian Clark
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